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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
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Who.is

Who.is who.is

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Who.is

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Who.is, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than Who.isNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

18 of the 60 sites closest to Who.is match.

  1. 01
    DomainDetails.com domaindetails.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare DomainDetails.com with Who.is →
  2. 02
    Dynadot dynadot.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Dynadot with Who.is →
  3. 03
    ifconfig.me Top 10K English No trackers

    What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me

    Get my IP Address

    Compare ifconfig.me with Who.is →
  4. 04
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

    Compare ICANN with Who.is →
  5. 05
    YDNS ydns.io English No trackers

    YDNS

    Compare YDNS with Who.is →
  6. 06
    ipleak.net English No trackers

    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.

    Compare ipleak.net with Who.is →
  7. 07
    DonDominio dondominio.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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!

    Compare DonDominio with Who.is →
  8. 08
    Expired Domains expireddomains.net English No trackers

    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!

    Compare Expired Domains with Who.is →
  9. 09
    Clicky clicky.com English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Clicky with Who.is →
  10. 10
    NIC.IO nic.io Top 10K English No trackers

    NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre

    NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre

    Compare NIC.IO with Who.is →
  11. 11
    checkdomain.de German No trackers

    Domain Check & Domains prüfen! Kostenlos!

    Weltweiter Domain-Check ✓ über 750 Domainendungen ✓ Webhosting ✓ Wordpress ✓ Baukasten und kostenlose SSL-Zertifikate.

    Compare checkdomain.de with Who.is →
  12. 12
    257.cz Top 10K No trackers

    257.cz - Domény, expirované domény

    Expirované domény .cz

    Compare 257.cz with Who.is →
  13. 13
    NextDNS nextdns.io Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare NextDNS with Who.is →
  14. 14
    IP-API.com ip-api.com Top 1K English No trackers

    IP-API.com - Geolocation API

    Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address

    Compare IP-API.com with Who.is →
  15. 15
    17ce.com Chinese No trackers

    17ce.com - 网站测速_网站速度测试_网速测试_在线ping检测_DNS查询_路由追踪_网络监控_网络延迟检测

    17ce.com通过全球分布式网络探测节点为用户提供实时网站速度测试、网络质量监控、在线Ping检测、路由追踪、DNS查询、CDN测速、DNS污染查询等服务来快速、精准的定位网站、IP、API等应用在全球网络运行情况,并及时对网络质量进行诊断和调整。

    Compare 17ce.com with Who.is →
  16. 16
    is-a.dev English No trackers

    is-a.dev - Free subdomains for developers

    A service to allow developers to get free `.is-a.dev` subdomains

    Compare is-a.dev with Who.is →
  17. 17
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with Who.is →
  18. 18
    SIDN sidn.nl English No trackers

    For confidence online | SIDN

    At SIDN you can check your .nl domain name. We also can offer you security services, like SIDN BrandGuard.

    Compare SIDN with Who.is →

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

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
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
35 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

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