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
Category: Managing your .au domain name