Who owns the domain?
The need to clarify the owner of the domain arises often: the entire Internet is literally "buzzing" from those who want to buy a domain name (as well as from those who want to sell it). Often it is not easy to clarify the situation: it is not always possible to immediately contact the owner. This is where Whois becomes useful.
Whois - a service that provides contact information on the domain at a particular domain registry, which is regularly used by a huge number of people for legitimate purposes. Each domain registry has its own sub-service, which accounts for the popularity of this system around the world. A simple example of practical application: the obtained information about the domain (contacts, domain expiration date) allows to clarify possible malfunctions, violations of trademark rights, check the age of the domain and registration and even compliance of the domain name with legal requirements.
One of the main functions of the system is the fight against spam and fraud: with the help of the service you can find people who publish illegal materials or participate in fraudulent schemes. The latter is becoming more and more widespread every year: there is hardly any need to talk about how many malicious people there are on the Internet today.
Another important point: agreements with the corporation for the management of domain names serves as protection for the owners of domains: sending data for marketing or spam is prohibited.
As you can see from the interface of this page, Whois is very easy to use. All that is required from the user is to enter the domain name, information about which you want to get. Immediately after entering, you will be able to find out the owner of the domain, the date of registration and registration period, as well as availability.
At first glance, it seems that there is nothing special about it. However, at the moment Whois is practically the only system that determines the data in the modern (huge) Internet space in such coverage with high accuracy. The latter is worth talking about separately.
Naturally, you should not allow excessive idealism in relation to even such a famous system as Whois. It is simply impossible to exclude the possibility of error completely - given the breadth of the modern Internet space. However, registrars every year give domain owners the opportunity to check and edit data.
According to the existing rules, unwillingness to provide up-to-date information in most cases has the consequence of termination of service domain. In addition, ordinary Internet users can also provide information; then registrars will be obliged to double-check and, if necessary, change the available information. Also take into account the fact that some people may be concerned about the privacy of their data and pay for a company that will "protect" them in terms of information.
Our company offers you to use the tool built into the interface of our website. We hope that this feature (as well as this accompanying description, which serves as an educational tool) will be useful to you!
