Whois Domain Lookup

RDAP is the modern replacement for traditional Whois. It returns machine-readable JSON about a domain — who registered it, when, where it's hosted, and when it expires. We use RDAP because it's faster, more consistent, and doesn't get rate-limited like raw Whois.

GDPR. Since 2018, most personal registrant data is hidden by default. You can still see the registrar (the company that sold the domain) and the tech/admin contacts if they're public.

Some TLDs (especially country-code ones like .it, .br, .fr) have strict privacy rules or don't expose RDAP data publicly. If you see "Domain not found", the data may just be unavailable rather than the domain not existing.

Older domains tend to rank better in Google — not because age itself matters, but because older domains usually have more backlinks, content, and signals of legitimacy. A 10-year-old domain coming back to life is worth more than a freshly-registered one.