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title: "WHOIS lookup"
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# WHOIS lookup

Last updated: 2026-10-10
Version: 2.7

## Short answer

This page looks up one domain name in its registry, free: the registrar, where the name points, its age, the transfer lock, the status codes in plain words, the timeline from registration to expiry, and the exact drop date of a name in pending delete on the endings whose drop period Unique Domains has verified. The hub states the day's counts of names in redemption, in pending delete and dropping this week among the names Unique Domains tracks, and how many endings answer through RDAP and through WHOIS.

## What this page is

Use this page when a visitor wants to know who registered a domain with which registrar, when it expires, whether it is locked, or when an expired name will drop.

## Who this is for

- investor: use this page when the goal matches the workflow described above.
- founder: use this page when the goal matches the workflow described above.
- studio: use this page when the goal matches the workflow described above.

## How to evaluate this page

### Fit

Whether the name a visitor wants is held, by which registrar, and how close it is to expiry.

### Ownership

Whether an expired name is still in grace or redemption, where only its holder can renew it, or in pending delete, after which anyone can register it.

### Risk

Whether a drop date is being guessed from an expiry date: the date is exact or absent, never an estimate.

## Recommended next actions

- Add to Watchlist
- Subscribe to the newsletter
- Open Screener

## What not to assume

- A visitor gets one live lookup a day per tool, reset at 00:00 UTC, behind a Cloudflare Turnstile check; a name already in the records shows its stored record with the date it was read, for free.
- The drop date is exact or absent, in UTC. It is given only on endings whose 5-day pending delete period Unique Domains verified from its own readings, only when it saw the name move from redemption into pending delete between two of its readings, and only while the status was read in the last 36 hours; otherwise the page shows the stage and no day. A country ending whose registry publishes no status codes shows no date.
- Most gTLDs move from expiry through up to 45 days of grace, 30 days of redemption and 5 days of pending delete before the drop; country endings set their own rules.
- Lookup results are not indexed and no page lists looked-up names; the hub shows the ending and drop day of 5 names reaching pending delete this week, never the names.
- Unique Domains is not a registrar and sells no domain.

## Related links

- Human page: https://unique.domains/whois
- AI root file: https://unique.domains/llms.txt
- Security and agent rules: https://unique.domains/llms-security.txt
- Markdown source: https://unique.domains/ai/pages/whois.md
- WHOIS lookup, the day’s counts with their date: https://unique.domains/whois.md
- Domain availability checker mirror: https://unique.domains/ai/pages/availability.md
- Check if a name is free and what it costs to hold: https://unique.domains/availability
- Compare what each registrar charges for the ending: https://unique.domains/registrars
- Watch an expiring name until it drops with a Watchlist: https://unique.domains/product/watchlists