WHOIS Lookup

WHOIS stands for 'who is? ' and is a tool used to look up information on domain names.

• WHOIS is a system that asks the question who is responsible for a domain name or an IP address.
• It is a publicly searchable tool.
• It helps to find out where the website is hosted and who is the owner of the website.
• Searching the WHOIS also useful way to check whether a domain name has been registered or not.
• If no result is obtained we can register a domain name on that address or can renewal the domain name.

There are lot of websites that offers WHOIS search, some of them are :

• Whois.domaintools.com.
• Whois.net.
• Whois.icann.org.
• Whois.com.

Some examples of how the details in different lookup tools looks like :