Using the WHOIS

The WHOIS service allows you to query a domain name to find the identity and contact details of the registrant. The public WHOIS service is a standard feature of domain name systems around the world.

Afilias Australia operates the public WHOIS service for asn.au, com.au, edu.au, gov.au, id.au, net.au and org.au.

WHOIS provides the following information:

• registrar of record for the domain name
• registrant of the domain name
• registrant contact name and email address
• technical contact name and email address
• computers for the domain name.

The service will also respond on port-43 of whois.auda.org.au using the WHOIS protocol  (RFC 3912 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3912 ).

 

WHOIS does not provide the following information:

• creation or expiry dates for the domain name
• registrant telephone, facsimile or postal address