Find out WHOIS the owner of the domain you’re interested in

Dear Readers,

As a member of Webnames.ca’s Corporate Services team I often receive requests from customers who want to find information on registered domain names. Customers may want to know who owns a domain, how to contact the owner, how long it has been registered for, among other things.

These questions stem from the fact that many domain registrars make it hard to find WHOIS data on their websites; in some cases, I even find our own WHOIS lookup tool (http://www.webnames.ca/whois) is unable to pull the specific information customers are looking for. When this happens I sometimes find it easier to go to the root – in other words, the WHOIS lookup provided by the registry of a specific domain extension. I have put together the following links to help you find the precise WHOIS data you are looking for too.

For .CA searches I suggest using CIRA’s WHOIS lookup – http://whois.cira.ca/public – as it is always up to date and very efficient.

The links listed below are the registry WHOIS lookup’s for .org, .biz, .info, .mobi, .cn and .us – domain extensions that are all available here at Webnames.ca.

• .ORG – http://www.pir.org/ (The WHOIS search is located on the right hand side of the website)
• .BIZ – http://www.whois.biz/
• .INFO – http://www.afilias.info/cgi-bin/whois.cgi
• .MOBI – http://mtld.mobi/domain/whois
• .CN – http://ewhois.cnnic.net.cn/
• .US – http://www.whois.us/

I really hope you find these links useful and  look forward to your feedback.

Thanks for reading,

Nick