What is a whois look up
A whois look up is a search that anyone can do for any domain name at Whois.net
When you perform a whois search on a domain you will get the following information, see below the results for: google.co.uk
Domain Information
Domain: google.co.uk
Registrar: Markmonitor Inc. t/a MarkMonitor Inc. [Tag = MARKMONITOR]
Registration Date: 1999-02-14
Expiration Date: 2019-02-14
Updated Date: 2018-01-13
Status: Registered until expiry date.
Name Servers:
ns2.google.com
ns3.google.com
ns4.google.com
REGISTRANT CONTACT
Name:Google Inc.
Address:
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA
94043
United States
RAW WHOIS DATA
Domain name: google.co.uk
Registrant: Google Inc.
Registrant type: Non-UK Corporation
Registrant’s address:
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA
94043
United States
Data validation: Nominet was able to match the registrant’s name and address against a 3rd party data source on 10-Dec-2012
Registrar:Markmonitor Inc. t/a MarkMonitor Inc. [Tag = MARKMONITOR]
URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 14-Feb-1999
Expiry date: 14-Feb-2019
Last updated: 13-Jan-2018
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns1.google.com
ns2.google.com
ns3.google.com
ns4.google.com
The whois information can be set to private or hide your whois information
This can be done when your register a domain select whois privacy or hide whois information these options will be available from your domain registrar, once you have selected hide your whois option with your registrar for your domain check your details are hidden or not.
Note if you have multiple domains with the same registrar you will have to select hide your whois information for each domain within your account
Who is Nominet.?
Nominet UK is the .UK and .CO.UK domain name registry who look after and maintain all the domains that are registered for the UK Top Level Domains (TLD) read more about nominet.org
