1 - General Information
WHOIS is a protocol that allows you to view certain information about a domain – for example, the domain owner, the registrar, the domain status, the nameservers, or the last modification date.
This data, or some of it, can be viewed publicly via a WHOIS query. However, because the WHOIS protocol is managed decentrally and has not been implemented uniformly by registries, there are sometimes significant differences depending on the top-level domain (TLD).
You can find more information about TLDs, ccTLDs, and gTLDs in the following article: Technical Information about Domains
You can perform a WHOIS query via our website:
Simply enter your desired domain name and click "jetzt Domain prüfen". If the domain is already registered, you can click "Whois" next to the domain name to perform a WHOIS query.
The more modern RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) has been standardized as the official successor to WHOIS. Many registries now offer both WHOIS and RDAP in parallel, with RDAP expected to eventually replace WHOIS. RDAP queries can already be performed for some generic top-level domains (gTLDs) via the ICANN website:
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, no personal data of natural persons (private individuals) is published for European country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).
For example, for .at domains, only the domain name, the registrar, the nameservers, and the last modification date appear if the domain owner is a private individual.
If the owner is a legal entity (company), company data such as company name, address, telephone number and email address will be published.
2 - Hiding Data
Whether data can be hidden for your domain depends on several factors.
Generally, the TLD determines whether a WHOIS privacy service is available. This is possible with most gTLDs (such as .com, .org, .net) or nTLDs (such as .tech, .online, .best).
If you would like to use internex's free WHOIS Privacy Protection for your domain, please send us an email to our support address, [email protected], and we will gladly activate the service for you!
For country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), a privacy service is generally not possible. European registries, in particular, do not offer this service, as personal data is not published for individuals anyway.
Company data must always be displayed in the WHOIS database – this requirement cannot be circumvented.
Please note that the domain owner is legally liable for the domain! Therefore, the data should always be accurate and kept up to date.