Paste a domain and read the registrar, the dates, the name servers, and the status codes over HTTPS. This page fetches the record once. A free account keeps it and emails you when something changes.
No credit card. If a country domain comes back empty, use the WHOIS check, then add it to the account.
You are not looking up a different kind of domain. You are reading the registration in a format a person and a program can both follow.
Registrar, created and expiry dates, name servers, and status codes. Contact names are often hidden, the same as in WHOIS.
WHOIS is plain text, and the layout changes by registrar. In RDAP the expiry date is in the same place every time.
The lookup travels over HTTPS. A classic WHOIS query travels as plain text.
Run the lookup here. Create a free account if you want the next one to run itself.
No credit card. Add the domain and the watch starts.
On this page, yes. Create a free account and the domain stays on a schedule. You get an email when the registrar, the name servers, or the expiry date change. No credit card.
Registration Data Access Protocol. It is the modern way to read who registered a domain, when it expires, and which name servers it uses.
WHOIS returns plain text, and each registrar formats it differently. RDAP returns the same fields in a consistent structure, over HTTPS.
Generic domains such as .com, .net, and .org answer over RDAP. Some country domains still answer only over WHOIS. If the result is empty, run the WHOIS check.
No. One lookup shows the record as it is now. A saved WHOIS monitor stores registrar and name-server changes and does not alert on them. It does not spot a hijack. The alert is the expiry reminder.
Use WHOIS if a country domain comes back empty. Use the account when you want the record checked again without coming back.
The domain stays on a schedule. Email when the registrar, the name servers, or the expiry date change.
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Explore builder →This page fetches RDAP when you ask. Create a free account and the domain stays on a schedule. You get an email when the registrar, the name servers, or the expiry date move.
After that the account fetches the record. You do not return to this form.
New name servers, a new registrar, or an expiry that moved.
A saved WHOIS monitor has its own allowance of 10 on the free plan. It is not an uptime check every 10 minutes. Team alerts start at $5 a month.
No credit card. Add the domain and the watch starts.
