WHOIS, read properly.
Who holds a name, when it was registered, when it lapses, where it points, and what those status codes on the record actually mean.
The terms of this tool
- We keep no recordThis lookup writes nothing to any table and no audit entry. It is a query, and then it is over.
- No account, no emailThere is no form here and there will not be one. A free tool that harvests an address is not a free tool.
- Ten lookups a minutePer address, so one person cannot spend the budget everybody else is sharing. If you need more than that, the panel does bulk lookups.
- Why .nz is differentMost extensions answer over RDAP. There is no RDAP entry for .nz, so those go to the registry's own service instead. Without that, every .nz domain would look unregistered here.
- Redacted is not hidingMost registrant fields are masked by default now. On domains we hold, WHOIS privacy is free and on by default wherever the registry allows it, and we do not sell it back to you.
Behaviour read from the lookup endpoint's own source on 11 August 2026.