{"id":3936,"date":"2025-10-04T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/what-is-a-whois-lookup\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:56","slug":"what-is-a-whois-lookup","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/what-is-a-whois-lookup\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a WHOIS Lookup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WHOIS lookup is a way to check public registration information for a domain name.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the domain extension and registry, a lookup may show details such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The registrar<\/li>\n<li>The domain status<\/li>\n<li>Registration and expiry dates<\/li>\n<li>Nameservers<\/li>\n<li>Limited registrant or contact information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the past, WHOIS often showed more personal contact details. This has changed significantly because of privacy rules and newer registration-data systems such as RDAP.<\/p>\n<p>For many domains, personal registrant details are now hidden from public lookup results. Business or technical information may still be visible depending on the domain type, registrar and registry rules.<\/p>\n<p>You can use lookup tools to check which registrar manages a domain, whether a domain is active and which nameservers it is using.<\/p>\n<p>If your domain is registered through 4UHosting and you believe private details are showing publicly when they should not be, contact support and we can check it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WHOIS lookup is a way to check public registration information for a domain name. Depending on the domain extension and registry, a lookup&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[6],"class_list":["post-3936","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-domains-and-dns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3936\/revisions\/4093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}