See who's behind any domain: registrar, registration date, expiry date, nameservers. Works for .com.bd and other Bangladeshi extensions too, and it's free — no account needed.
A WHOIS record uses the same handful of fields no matter which registry it comes from.
The company the domain is registered through. Not necessarily who owns it — for hostyxo.com that's HostyXo; elsewhere it might say MarkMonitor or GoDaddy.
Who the domain is actually registered to. Most domains hide this behind the registrar's own contact info now, since privacy protection is on by default.
The date the domain was first registered, full stop. Doesn't reset on renewal, doesn't reset if it changes hands.
When the current registration period ends. Miss it, and the domain drops into a grace period before eventually being released.
The last time anything changed on the record: a renewal, a nameserver swap, whatever it was.
Which DNS provider is actually running the site right now. Honestly, often more useful to know than the registrar.
The EPP codes for what's currently locked or allowed on the account. Full breakdown right below.
Whether the domain signs its DNS records against spoofing. Most domains still come back "unsigned."
The "Domain Status" field uses standardized EPP codes instead of plain English, so results can look scarier than they actually are.
clientTransferProhibited / serverTransferProhibitedBlocks a transfer to another registrar. Client-set codes come from the registrar, usually to stop accidental or malicious transfers; server-set ones come from the registry itself.
clientDeleteProhibited / serverDeleteProhibitedProtects the domain from being deleted, whether that's by accident or on purpose.
clientUpdateProhibited / serverUpdateProhibitedLocks contact and nameserver changes while it's active.
okMeans exactly what it sounds like: no restrictions, normal standing.
redemptionPeriodShows up once a domain expires and isn't renewed in time. The original owner can usually still get it back during this window, often for an extra fee.
pendingDeleteThe last stop before a domain goes back into general availability — already past redemption at this point.
Most of the "Prohibited" codes are protective, not a warning sign. HostyXo sets clientTransferProhibited and clientDeleteProhibited by default on active domains, same as most registrars do, just to stop unauthorized changes from going through.
This tool queries each domain's real WHOIS server based on its extension, so it isn't limited to a fixed list.
Checking a name to register it, not one that's already taken? Search availability and pricing instead — a WHOIS lookup only returns results for domains someone already owns.
It's a query against the public record every domain registry keeps: who registered a domain, which registrar it's with, when it was created, when it expires. Same database that's been public since the early internet, just easier to read here than through a command line.
Yes. No account, no sign-up, no catch. Use it as often as you want within normal rate limits.
Most registrars turn on WHOIS privacy protection by default now, HostyXo included, so personal contact details get swapped out for the registrar's own. Seeing something like "Registration Private" instead of a person's name just means privacy protection is doing its job, not that the lookup failed.
Yes. The tool queries whatever WHOIS server a domain's extension actually uses, so .com.bd and other Bangladeshi extensions work the same way as .com, .net, .io, or anything else.
Check the Expires field after running a lookup — that's the exact date the current registration runs out. Domains registered with HostyXo also get renewal reminder emails before that date arrives.
Yes, and it always has been. WHOIS has been a required, public part of domain registration since the 1980s. Checking a domain's record is no different from looking up a business's trade license.
This shows you a domain that's already taken: who holds it, its key dates. If you're checking whether a name is free to register instead, use domain search — an available result here links you straight there anyway.
Because it's querying the domain's real WHOIS server live, not pulling from a cache. Some lookups have to follow a referral from the main registry over to the domain's actual registrar first, which adds a second or two.
It comes straight from the domain's official WHOIS server, the same source every registrar pulls from. Nothing here gets edited or added by HostyXo.
Run a WHOIS lookup on its domain. The Registrant field shows who it's registered to, unless privacy protection is on — then you'll see the registrar's placeholder info instead, and there's no way around that without contacting the registrar with a valid legal reason.
RDAP is the newer, JSON-based version of WHOIS that a handful of registries are moving toward. Same information, different format. Most registries still run the classic WHOIS protocol, though, which is what this tool actually queries.
No. WHOIS is about domain registration, not hosting. It'll show you the Name Servers managing the domain's DNS, but getting the actual server IP takes a separate DNS lookup.
It doesn't disappear right away. There's usually a grace period, then a longer redemption period, both visible in the domain status field, before the registry finally releases it. Start to finish, that's typically 30 to 45 days.
Yes, and there's nothing unusual about it. WHOIS is public by design — registrars, buyers, researchers look up domains that aren't theirs constantly.
No. It's a one-way, read-only query. The owner has no way of knowing anyone looked.