What Is The WHOIS Data Of A Domain Name? - Article by AccuWebHosting.Com

What Is The WHOIS Data Of A Domain Name?

WHOIS data is the information of a domain, which consists of ownership details of the domain, date of creation, date of expiry, status of domain, registrar of domain, etc… For example, you can check yourself, open the below mentioned URL (which is one of the URL to get WHOIS information of the domain) and place the domain accuwebhosting.com:

http://whois.directi.com

Sample WHOIS data of the domain AccuWebHosting.com:

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Domain Name: ACCUWEBHOSTING.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS5.ACCUWEBHOSTING.COM
Name Server: NS6.ACCUWEBHOSTING.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 12-dec-2005
Creation Date: 13-jan-2003
Expiration Date: 13-jan-2007

Registrant:
   AccuWebHosting.com
   48 Bi-State Plaza, #185
   Old Tappan, New Jersey 07675
   United States

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com
   Domain Name: ACCUWEBHOSTING.COM
      Created on: 13-Jan-03
      Expires on: 13-Jan-07
      Last Updated on: 12-Dec-05

   Administrative Contact:
      Vaghasia, GC webdesign@AccuWebHosting.com
      AccuWebHosting.com
      48 Bi-State Plaza, #185
      Old Tappan, New Jersey 07675
      United States
      877767      Fax -- 877767

   Technical Contact:
      Vaghasia, GC webdesign@AccuWebHosting.com
      AccuWebHosting.com
      48 Bi-State Plaza, #185
      Old Tappan, New Jersey 07675
      United States
      877767      Fax -- 877767

   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS5.ACCUWEBHOSTING.COM
      NS6.ACCUWEBHOSTING.COM
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You can get the WHOIS URL from any of the Registrar’s website. Below mentioned are some of the registrars and the WHOIS URL for the same:

Go Daddy:
http://registrar.godaddy.com/whois.asp

Network Solutions:

http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml

Tucows:

http://resellers.tucows.com/whois

http://www.register.com/whois_lookup.cgi

Dotster.com:

https://secure.registerapi.com/services/whois.php?siteid=4798

Internic.net:

http://www.internic.net/whois.html

Melbourneit:

http://whois.melbourneit.com.au/

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Definations:

Registrant: The registrant is an individual or business who registers a domain name.

Registrar: A domain name registrar is a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to sell Internet domain names. Registrars compete with each other to provide the best support and services at the lowest price. . E.g. Directi (http://directi.com), GoDaddy (http://godaddy.com), network solutions (http://networksolutions.com) etc.

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(Posted By Nici on Thursday, May 04, 2006)

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