It often happens that you want to know the name of the owner of a particular domain or website or; it might seem strange but it is not at all, that you have lost your data used during registration.
Although this data is important and should be kept carefully by the owner of the domain, I have repeatedly come across cases in which the manager of the company has no idea who registered the domain and what data was used.
Do not worry, if you find yourself in this situation there is a function called “whois” from the English “who is” which means “who is” that can come to your aid.
The easiest way to use it is to connect to one of the many free online services that allow you to retrieve the data of our interest.
Here is what I use on a daily basis:
This is a service that I have been using for several years; simple and intuitive, it can also provide additional information such as Whois History, Hosting History, Monitor Domain Properties, Reverse IP Address Lookup and more.
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How to use it:
Use is very simple; once connected to the site just enter in the search field, where the description “Enter a domain or IP address …” appears, our domain:
domainname.extension
The result will give us the following data:
Domain: domain name
Status: the domain status (ok)
Created: creation date
Last Update: last renewal
Expire Date: the domain’s death date if not renewed
Registrant
Organization: Name of the registrant
Address: street, postcode, city, province and nationality of the registrant
Created: creation date
Last Update: change since creation date
Admin Contact
Name: Administrator name
Organization: Company name
Address: street, postcode, city, province and nationality of the administrator
Created: creation date
Last Update: change since creation date
Technical Contacts
Name: Name of the responsible engineer
Organization: Company of the responsible technician
Address: street, postcode, city, province and nationality of the administrator
Created: creation date
Last Update: change since creation date
Registrar
Organization: Company that maintains the domain
Name: Company name
Web: Link to the website of the maintaining company
Nameservers
DNS pointing
Exception
It may happen that some of the above data is not displayed.
This can happen because during the registration phase the Registrant has activated the “Privacy Whois” which allows the obscuring of a part of the data entered and which also varies according to the extension of the registered domain.
For example, in the .it domains, according to the provisions of the Italian Authority, at least the “name” and “organization” fields of the Registrant, Admin and Tech contacts must be visible.
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