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Who.is

Who runs Who.is, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest WHOIS and domain lookup alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: DomainDetails.com

Measured from Who.is’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Who.is

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Find information on any domain name or website. Large database of whois information, RDAP, DNS, domain names, name servers, IPs, and tools for searching and monitoring domain names.

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Who.is tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Who.is

Fewer trackers than Who.is No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Who.is match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Who.is adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 7 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 71 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks: Next.js header x-powered-by: Next.js
React implied by Next.js (header x-powered-by: Next.js)
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: gtag('config', 'G-
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx/1.30.6
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1741.awsdns-25.co.uk
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=oLW2qDgn-fqfI5FbmSTvDUXCLVKWL85jSwCJ3dRgSBM

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.