Whois

You have found the perfect name for your business, typed it into a registrar search box, and seen the message every founder dreads: "This domain is t

Ask a small business owner who owns their domain and they will usually say "we do." Ask them to prove it, and things get murky. The domain might have

The moment you register a domain, your registrar records your name, address, phone number, and email address. For many years, all of that was publish

For decades, the answer to "who registered this domain?" came from WHOIS, a plain-text protocol that predates the web. It worked, but every server fo

Sooner or later, almost everyone who works with websites needs to answer a simple question: who owns this domain? Maybe you want to buy a name that i

You have a name in mind, and the only question left is whether you can have it. Checking domain availability sounds trivial, and for a single name in