Registrar
The company that sold the domain. Transfer policies and renewal pricing vary by registrar, and that matters more than people think.
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WHOIS is the public record for a domain. It tells you who registered it, when, when it expires, and where DNS is pointed. Each TLD has its own registry that keeps the data (Verisign runs .com, PIR runs .org, and so on); we read the live record from those registries on every lookup.
The company that sold the domain. Transfer policies and renewal pricing vary by registrar, and that matters more than people think.
How old the domain is. Older names often have SEO value built up through years of backlinks.
When the current registration ends. If nobody renews, the domain enters a 60-day pre-drop window before going back on the market.
The DNS host the domain points at, usually a registrar default or a hosting provider. Tells you where the site (if any) actually lives.
Registry-level locks like transfer-prohibited, pending-delete, redemption-period. The flags drop hunters watch when timing a backorder.
When the registry last saw a change to the record. Useful for confirming a recent transfer or DNS migration actually went through.