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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.
Visit Who.is01 · 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Who.is
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Who.is, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Who.is match.
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Domain Lookup Tool - RDAP & WHOIS Search | DomainDetails.com
Free private domain lookup using RDAP & WHOIS. Check registration, ownership, expiration, DNS records, and marketplace availability. Local-first, no tracking.
Very close - 02
Register, Buy & Manage Domain Names Online | Dynadot
Search 800+ domain extensions, register names at transparent prices, and manage DNS, privacy, email, transfers, renewals, and domain portfolios in Dynadot.
Very close - 03
What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me
Get my IP Address
Close - 04
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Close - 05
YDNS
Very close - 06
IP/DNS Detect - What is your IP, what is your DNS, what informations you send to websites.
What is your IP, what is your DNS, check your torrent IP, what informations you send to websites.
Close - 07
DonDominio | Your Domain, Web Hosting, Email and SSL Certificates provider
All you need to build up your website: Domain names, Web Hosting / Email accounts and SSL certificates. Build up your website now!
Close - 08
Expired Domains | Daily Updated Domain Lists for 676 TLDs
Information about Expired Domain Names. Check the Availability of thousands of Expired Domains every day before they Drop and after. Just pick what you like!
Close - 09
Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative | Real-time Web Analytics | Clicky
Clicky's privacy-friendly web analytics is simply the best Google Analytics alternative. Monitor, analyze, & react to your website's traffic in real-time.
Close - 10
NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre
NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre
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NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Close - 12
IP-API.com - Geolocation API
Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address
Close - 13
is-a.dev - Free subdomains for developers
A service to allow developers to get free `.is-a.dev` subdomains
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Shodan Search Engine
Search Engine for the Internet of Things
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For confidence online | SIDN
At SIDN you can check your .nl domain name. We also can offer you security services, like SIDN BrandGuard.
Very close - 16
The world’s largest portfolio registry for new domains | Radix Registry
Radix is a leading new domain registry, offering an extensive domain portfolio that empowers digital identities across the globe.
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FreeDNS - Free DNS - Dynamic DNS - Static DNS subdomain and domain hosting
Free DNS hosting, lets you fully manage your own domain. Dynamic DNS and Static DNS services available. You may also create hosts off other domains that we host upon the domain owners consent, we have several domains to choose from!
Close - 18
Ghostery Ad Blocker | Best Free Ad Blocker & Privacy Tool | Ghostery
Take back control of your online privacy with Ghostery. The #1 privacy suite that gives you the power to block ads, stop trackers, and much more.
Close - 19
AdGuard DNS — ad-blocking DNS server
Create your ad-blocking DNS server that will protect your personal data, prevent tracking and allow you to control access to specific content on the Internet.
Close - 20
ZoneEdit – Managed DNS & Domain Services
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Who.is’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Who.is uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
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, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Who.is’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- 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.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on who.is 7/20
- nginx 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on who.is 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on who.is 5/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on who.is 5/20
- PHP · not on who.is 4/20
- Zendesk · not on who.is 4/20
- HubSpot · not on who.is 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on who.is 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on who.is 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on who.is 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on who.is 3/20
- Google Ads conversion tracking · not on who.is 3/20