WHOIS database records
The WHOIS database is a database repository of information pertaining to domain registrations on the internet. It contains details about domain owners, their contact information, registration and expiration dates, and the domain’s associated name servers. This database is maintained by domain registrars and overseen by international governing bodies such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). While WHOIS data has historically been publicly accessible, evolving privacy concerns have led to changes where some domain registrars allow for the protection of the registry information of domain owners by offering privacy protection, where the data either isn’t available or the provider uses their information instead of the actual registrant. There is still a great deal of information available.
To gather more detailed information about a domain, we can look it up using lookup services or directly access one of several WHOIS...