What is domain whois?

Regardless of whether we are squatting domain names or want to buy domain names in other people's hands, we need to know the information of this domain name in advance, but many people still don't know how to query domain name information. Xiaobian tells you that if you want to query domain name information, you can You can use whois to query. The following editor will introduce to you in detail what is domain name whois?

What is domain whois?

whois is a transmission protocol used to query domain name IP and owner information. whois query is a database used to query whether a domain name has been registered and the detailed information of the registered domain name, mainly including: domain name owner, registration agency, registration time, contact number, domain name status, etc.

With the development of network communication technology and the rapid popularization of web applications, querying domain name information through the web system has become the current mainstream. Basically, every website that provides domain name registration services can perform whois query.

When you register a domain name, if you want to check whether the domain name is registered, you need to use whois query. When you find a high-quality website and want to contact the other party and exchange resources, but you can't find any contact information, you can also use the domain name whois query to try to obtain the owner's information. Of course, the premise is that the domain name holder has not adopted strict privacy protection measures.

Because some registrars block the whois information of international domain names, if you want to inquire, you can only contact the corresponding registrar. This protection mechanism is to prevent someone from maliciously using the whois information to expose the customer's private information.

The above is the introduction about domain name whois, I hope it can help you.