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24 alternatives to Strange Whois Records for Major Sites
Open your Terminal / Console / sh prompt and type the following: whois aol.com whois google.com whois microsoft.com ... etc. Can anyone explain why WHOIS/Verisign can't prevent this? I found some explanations but none of them made much sense.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Strange Whois Records for Major Sites launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Free & Private domain research - right in your browser
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Ad-free parking page, Whois included
2016 · domains.squarespace.com · its alternatives →
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Unlock the secrets of any domain with just one WHOIS search
2023 · its alternatives →
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I get at least one phishing text message every week, and discovered that reporting malicious domains was a major hassle. You have to first manually do a whois lookup, and since not every registrar includes an abuse contact email in their whois record, you often have to then go to the registrar's website and try to find their abuse reporting section before you can report the domain. I figured something had to exist already for reporting domains directly to their registrars, but I couldn't find anything, so I spun up DomainReporter mostly as a tool to use myself, but also to make the process…
2024 · domainreporter.net · its alternatives →
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NS6.com▲71Register domains across 800+ extensions with free WHOIS privacy, free DNS and free SSL on every domain. Search, transfer in, and manage everything in one place.
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WhoisMind▲76Advanced reverse whois search inc. domain history
2014 · whoismind.com · its alternatives →
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Check WHOIS details of any website with a single click.
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DNS record lookups just as you like 'em
2017 · dnsrecords.io · its alternatives →
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whodidthis.io▲165Publish your projects, get meaningful endorsements and more.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Whoisology▲106Find Connections Between Domain Names & Their Owners
2014 · whoisology.com · its alternatives →
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Get detailed domain information quickly and easily
2023 · its alternatives →
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Trying to claim back a domain name
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Free domain lookup for DNS records, RDAP, WHOIS, subdomains, IPs, and email security. Research any domain in one fast report.
Jul 2026 · digga.dev · its alternatives →
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Free domain lookup — RDAP, no API key needed
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5 free dev APIs: WHOIS, Company, Email, Geo, Sanctions
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