Where to check if a domain name is taken. WHOIS services - information about the domain (whose it is, what is its age and history, when it is released) or IP address
Want to play spy? Today we will learn how to get comprehensive information about any site. Let's learn about the best way to find out everything about the domain owner. But first you need to understand why this information may be needed.
Why do you need domain information?
It is not appropriate to look into someone else's garden, but situations may arise when this is necessary. Why do you need to know who the domain owner is:
- If you are going to purchase a domain, you need to make sure that the domain name belongs to to an individual or the organization that sells it;
- Check that you are the owner of the domain - after registering the site name, you need to check that the information you entered about yourself is correct;
- To avoid becoming a victim of deception, if you are going to establish any business relationships through an unfamiliar resource, then it is better to double-check the domain data;
- If you're just interested.
Now let's figure out how you can find out whose domain it is. There are several ways to do this:
1. Using whois domain history - there are a number of services on the Internet that allow you to view the history of any domain.
WHOIS refers to network protocols application level. Its work is based on one of the main Internet protocols, TCP. Information about a domain is entered into the whois history immediately after its registration procedure. This information then goes to public databases registrar data.
Whois history services provide the visitor with user interface to access such registration data. Besides all the others useful information information about the domain owner is indicated here.
Let's look at the results of a whois request made on the website nic.ru. Besides that this service allows you to receive data for free, it has a simple Russian-language interface:
The admin-contact field indicates email address, where you can contact the resource administrator. The org field contains the name of the organization that owns the requested domain.
Whois history also allows you to find out who the domain is registered to. Special fields can display the owner's contact phone number and email address. And also his last name, first name and patronymic.
Now many resource owners hide their data. This opportunity is available to both individuals and legal entities. Enabling and disabling the Private Person function is done through the profile interface on the domain registrar's website.
When the function is enabled, the inscription “Private Person” is displayed instead of the owner’s first and last name. And in the field contact phone number The answering machine number will be indicated.
2. Using web archive data - this method does not provide a 100% guarantee of success. Before you can find out who owns a domain, you'll have to look through a lot of cached pages. And hope that the owner published his data on the site at some point.
The archive is located at archive.org
What else can you learn from a whois history?
As you can see, the main way to find out information about a domain is whois history data. Among other things, you can find out from it the start and end dates of registration. This information is displayed in the created and free-date fields. In addition, the name of the domain registrar is indicated here.
Information about the registrar is reflected in the value of the registrar field. This information may be required when checking a website domain before purchasing it:
But to obtain all the comprehensive data, it is not necessary to know the name of the site. Whois history services allow you to view information about a domain not only by address, but also by IP:
Some more ways to get information
1) You can find out the IP of a site by domain using special services. One of them is 2ip.ru. To do this, you just need to enter the desired domain name in a special search field. Reverse search order is also supported ( searching for a domain name by IP address):
2) How to find out if a domain is free - obtaining this information may be required before going through the domain registration procedure and when selecting a site name.
Most domain name registration services already have similar built-in tools in their functionality.
Many of the whois services also provide the ability to check domain names for occupancy. For example, the site 24whois.ru:
3) How to find out the website domain - the domain name is reflected in the very first field of the whois history.
4) Obtaining information about a domain via IP - for this you can use the IPNetInfo program. After launching the application, you need to enter one or more IP addresses to search in a special window:
After this, the program will perform a whois query and return all known information associated with these IPs. Including the domain owner and all contact information:
5) Determining IP by domain name - can be set using command line computer connected to the network. For this purpose it is used ping command. Its recording format is shown in the screenshot.
Typically, choosing a domain begins with the site name and domain zone. The name is the part of the domain before the first dot, and the domain zone is after it. The cost of annual domain use directly depends on the domain zone.
Domain occupancy check is carried out through a special WHOIS service, which checks the availability of its registration. To use it, you need to come up with a name for your site. Just use your imagination: choose one word that accurately characterizes the name and theme of the future site. In the ru zone, almost all one-word domains are already occupied. Therefore, try to create a domain name using various prefixes, for example, super, pro, giga, mega and others, or select several domain zones.
Enter your invented domain in the form below without www and without indication http protocol:// , tick the required domain zones to check and click on the button Check. As a result, you will receive a list of domains in different zones indicating their employment status. You can immediately register free domains on our website or directly with the registrar.
Our WHOIS service checks the most common domain zones, including employment in the Russian Federation, as well as IDN domains(Russian-speaking) in the com and net zone. All attempts to check Russian-language domains in other zones will be incorrect due to their absence, even though the domains will appear free.
Checking a domain for WHOIS availability |
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| .ru | .su | .rf | .com | .info | .org |
| .net | .name | .biz | .eu | .us | .mobi |
| .in | .bz | .ws | .me | .tv | .tel |
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If the domain you are interested in is taken, then try to create another using the following prefixes:
Almost every search engine has its own website ranking algorithm. So Yandex has it Thematic Index Citations ( TIC), for Google it is PageRank ( PR), others have different ones. We will only talk about the first two, because they are the most important. Each of these indicators has its own numerical range, so the TIC can vary from 0 to 900,000 on different sites, and PR from 0 to 10. For simplicity of the concept TIC and PR- determines the weight and significance of the site in the relevant search engines Oh.
These indicators are very important, because the attitude of search engines to your site depends on them. A bad site will never receive any weight.
Sometimes it happens that you register a domain that already belonged to someone else before. Therefore, you are lucky if the domain not zero indicators, because their growth largely depends on the number of sites linking to yours, citation rates, and other things. It’s worse if the site is no longer indexed.
Available premium domains with TIC and PR can be registered using our service, but before registering, check these indicators using the form below. Important! Upon registration releasing domains- don't forget about domain gluing when the main site's metrics are duplicated on mirror domain.
You can also check just for fun.
Another manual for novice scouts.
Information about the domain owner is confidential and is provided by the registrar only at the request of the authorities. But there are several possible ways to find her out. We will talk about them in this article.
Why is this needed: find justice for a person who brazenly steals your content, assess the solvency of the site owner before making him an offer to purchase, find a specialist in a narrow field who writes sensible articles for his blog, but signs with an impersonal nickname, etc.
1. Look at the whois history
You should start by checking the site on who.is. The screenshot shows an example when, with the help of this service, not only email, but also mobile phone and the address of the owner (this happens if you are very lucky). I'm shocked by my hoster's privacy policy! In most cases, only a link is displayed that allows you to send a message to the domain owner through the registrar. And with its help there is a chance to learn a lot of interesting things.
2. We try to contact him in an official way
The result depends on luck. It is unknown whether a person checks the email that he specified when registering a domain and how reliable the data he provided is. Your social engineering skills are also important. You can offer investments, introduce yourself as Yuri Milner’s assistant :-), convince them that they definitely need to call by phone or Skype, ask about the possibility of a personal meeting. The main thing is to convince the person that fate has given him a real chance to earn money and to beg for as much data as possible that can be used in further exploration.
It is advisable to add the phrase: “Please let me know that you are not interested in the offer.” This increases the chance that a person will drop a few lines out of politeness, exposing his email, name and IP address.
Knowing the email of the former owner (and his nickname), you can find his advertisement for the sale of a site/domain on a specialized forum and a list of users who responded to it. From these, you can create a circle of possible current domain owners.
3. We are looking for sites registered in the name of the owner
Knowing the address email person, you can find out which domains are registered to him. You can do this at domainiq.com. It is possible that one of these sites will be personal blog, by which a person’s identity can be established.
4. Contact the hoster
12. Reading comments in the source code
We go to the site, click Shift + Command + U(or select from the menu the item Show program code pages). First, we look through the HTML code for fake comments with names and nicknames. For example: “BigFatNagibator, please check this place!” Along the way, we are looking for js scripts that were written by the site owner specifically for this resource. It is possible that they may contain the solemn inscription “Created by Sasha Petrov. Irkutsk" and a link to his Github profile.
The starting stage of website publication is checking the availability of the domain name. A correctly selected online name largely determines the time of its initial indexing search engines, the rate of growth of visitors and, in general, the entire future success of the Internet resource.
Things to consider when checking your address:
- First of all, the domain name must be free: this can be checked using any WHOIS service. If the domain was previously occupied, it is important to look at the history - how exactly former owner used the domain, what information was posted.
- The website address on the Internet should be short (preferably no longer than 7-10 characters), easy to read and remember by users. In order to check how convenient the chosen domain will be for visitors, try dictating it to someone over the phone. The interlocutor must be able to write it down without errors.
- Domain name should contain an emphasis on the topic of the site or the type of activity of the services offered.
- Use only those foreign words that are widely known and will be understood by all visitors (shop, auto, top, etc.). Not everyone knows a foreign language and the rules for writing certain words perfectly.
- If a website represents a brand, the domain must reflect this and be recognizable. In this case, you should not perform ordinary transliteration for complex multi-component names. So, for example, it is better for the organization “Western Heat Generating Company” to choose the abbreviated address z-teplo.ru rather than full name Latin characters.
- If all suitable domains are already taken, try checking the domain by including numbers. Thus, the address okna24.ru is in no way inferior to the domain okna.ru.
- Experts advise registering domains in several zones at once (RU, SU, COM) and “gluing” them together by setting up redirection to the main site. This increases the resource’s position and protects against the risk of cybersquatting. Therefore, before you take over a domain, do mass verification names for other zones: perhaps a similar brand already exists.
The most recognizable domain zones
- RU. Regional zone of the Russian Internet region. The most common option for sites aimed at Russian-speaking audiences. Suitable for all areas: commercial resources or personal online blogs. The area to check first.
- RF. Cyrillic equivalent of RU. Less busy, but may cause difficulty navigating to sites in browsers outdated versions. A website address like “namesite.rf” is easy to remember.
- COM. Initially, only commercial websites of organizations were included in the zone, but now anyone can choose it. It is recommended to check for multilingual platforms and resources operating internationally.
On Majordomo you can check a domain for availability in all zones - RF, RU, COM, ORG, NET, RUS, SU, TECH, ONLINE, STORE, SITE and others.
In this article I will describe all the current at the moment methods for determining the owner of a domain. I want to warn you right away that there is no one hundred percent chance that we will accurately determine the owner of the domain. This is due to the fact that some webmasters indicate fake (erroneous) information about themselves when registering domains - nothing can be done about this circumstance. I can only say that such people are in the minority, which means that the chances of finding the owner are greater than not finding them.
The owner of a domain can be determined in several ways. Let's look at each of them in detail:
1. Via Whois data
Of course, this is the simplest and reliable way(see what is Whois). At the same time, probably everyone knows about it or has at least heard of it. There are quite a lot of services that provide complete domain data, and I would not be surprised if you know an even more convenient service than I will offer below. I would recommend using the following sites to determine Whois:
For example:
After receiving Whois data It is worth paying attention to the “Domain Administrator” column (sometimes it is called person). It contains the full name of the domain owner. If this column contains Private Person, then this indicates that the owner of the domain has decided to remain anonymous. This can be done by enabling the Private Person option in the domain properties, which hides the full name. However, even in this case there is a way to calculate it. I suggest two ways to do this:
a) If you know the e-mail, then there is a chance of finding the owner through this data. To do this, log in to the service http://2ip.ru/domain-list-by-email/, enter the address mailbox and he gives you all the domains of this person. Perhaps in some domains the Private Person option will be disabled and in this indirect way the owner can be determined.
b) View the history of the domain. I recommend using the following paid services that allow you to do this:
- http://who.is/ (does not show the whole history, but only from 2011-2012)
- http://whoishistory.ru/ (also works with domains.рф, but requires authorization to work)
- http://whoistory.com/ (works only with domains.ru, excellent service, below is a screenshot just from this service)
For example:
Finally, I would like to say that if using all the above methods did not suit you, then, for example, in reg.ru it is possible to find out for a fee the entire history of the domain owners (if the domain has changed its owner). To be honest, I have never used such a service, so I can’t say anything about its effectiveness. By the way, many registrars have paid services for identifying the owner.
Below will be listed all the remaining methods, or rather the signs by which you can find out at least something about the owner of the domain. However, the chances of success are much lower than the considered method of determination through Whois.
2. Through WebArchive
Visit the WebArchive website: http://archive.org/web/web.php. Enter the site you need into the search and see the history. If it is, then try to find some contacts on the site. Perhaps they contain a solution or at least something useful in your case.
For example:
3. Try to contact the domain owner
I see only two ways to contact the owner:
a) or write a letter to the address indicated in whois (but it may not be indicated);
b) or write to the address: admin@DOMAIN.
By the way, if you don’t know where to write, then try searching through some search engine for the following phrase: “@DOMAIN”. Perhaps somewhere in the index there is information about existing postal addresses this domain.
As a last resort, you can call by phone if it is on the site (or on other sites of this owner) or in Whois.
Lastly, I want to talk about one interesting service that allows you to identify all sites of one owner (though only in the domain zones.ru and.рф). This can be done on the website: http://2ip.ru/domain-list-by-email/.
For example:
