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Look up any domain. Read it in plain English.

Every status code on the record is translated into the sentence it actually means, right beside the code itself.

Your details stay out of the public record.

WHOIS privacy replaces your name, address, phone number and email with a protected entry, free on every extension that allows it.

.com: US$11.30 for the first year.

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What stays public

The registrar, the dates, the nameservers and the DNSSEC state stay public, which is what a working name needs.

The renewal price, up front

You see the renewal price before you register, and it changes only if the registry changes its price, with 30 days' notice.

How this lookup works.

Every field you see is read from the registry that holds the name, at the moment you ask.

Every code, in a sentence

24 registry codes are translated here, and the ones that hold a transfer say which side clears them so you know who to ask.

The dates as one line

Registered, last changed and expiring, in order, with the age of the name and the days left worked out for you.

Open to anyone

Type a name and read its record. The lookup is free and it stays free. Your search stays between you and the registry, and the only thing this page needs from you is the name.

Ten a minute

Ten lookups a minute per address, which is enough to work through a shortlist in one sitting.

New Zealand names too

A .nz name is read from the New Zealand registry's own service, so the record you see is the registry's.

WHOIS, answered plainly.

Six things people ask about WHOIS records and privacy, answered in full.

Ways To Reach Us

It is the entry a registry publishes about a domain name: who holds it, which registrar manages it, when it was registered, when it lapses, where it points and what state it is in. Every registered name has one and anybody can read it.

Because the owner has WHOIS privacy on, which replaces their personal contact details in the public record. We include it free with every name we sell, on every extension that allows it.

It is a transfer lock set where the name is managed now, and it is the usual protection against a name being taken. The owner turns it off at their registrar and the name becomes movable.

The registrar is published on every record, and they will pass a message to the holder. The registrar, the dates, the nameservers and the DNSSEC state are always public, which is what a working name needs.

Anyone can use it, free. Ten lookups a minute per address, and your search stays between you and the registry.

The name itself, DNS records you can edit from the panel, WHOIS privacy on every extension that allows it, DNSSEC on a switch and forwarding. All of it is free and switched on the day the name is registered.

Found a name you can take? Let's go.

  • WHOIS privacy and DNSSEC free where the extension allows them
  • A renewal price you see before you buy