WHOIS / RDAP

WHOIS lookup — domains, IPs & AS numbers

One box for any identifier: paste a domain, an IPv4/IPv6 address or an AS number and get the registry’s own record via RDAP — registration age, an expiry countdown, EPP status codes decoded into plain English, nameservers, DNSSEC and abuse contacts. Your query goes directly from your browser to the responsible registry; BRev never sees it.

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Where this query goes: your lookup travels from your browser to rdap.org and on to the responsible registry (Verisign, ARIN, RIPE…). BRev has no server in the path and never sees what you look up — but the registry you query does, as with any whois tool.

WHOIS vs RDAP — what you’re looking at

WHOIS (1982) returns free-form text that every registry formats differently, over a raw TCP protocol browsers cannot speak. RDAP — the Registration Data Access Protocol (RFC 7480/9082/9083) — is its ICANN-mandated successor: the same registration data as structured JSON over HTTPS, with real field names, consistent date formats and proper internationalised-domain support. Since 2019 every gTLD registry must run it; this tool queries those registries directly from your browser.

Expect redacted contacts on almost every gTLD domain: since GDPR (2018), registrant name, email and address are withheld or replaced by privacy-service placeholders. That is policy, not an error — the one contact that always remains actionable is the registrar’s abuse desk, which this tool surfaces prominently.

Reading EPP status codes

Status codes describe what the registry and registrar currently allow. client… codes are set by the registrar, server… codes by the registry itself. Locks are good news: clientTransferProhibited and friends protect a domain against hijacking and accidental deletion — well-run domains carry several.

Trouble reads differently: serverHold and clientHold mean the domain has been pulled out of DNS entirely; redemptionPeriod means it expired and is in its last restorable window; pendingDelete means it is days from being released to the public. If a domain you own shows any of these, contact your registrar immediately.