Glossary

WHOIS

The legacy protocol and databases for looking up a domain's registration record: registrar, dates, status codes and (often redacted) contacts.

Post-GDPR, most personal data in WHOIS is hidden. The protocol is being replaced by RDAP, which serves the same data as structured JSON.

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