Dear all, There are some services gets better result than others where domain has privacy protected, you can even get better results than icann lookup. Let me give you example: championingyourlife.com you can not get the owner name from whois.com or icann.com https://www.whois.com/whois/championingyourlife.com But you can get it https://www.baidu.eu/domains/championingyourlife.com or domainiq Can someone explain how this can be happen?
Here's a start. https://whois.icann.org/en/what-are-thick-and-thin-entries https://domaincocoon.com/thin-vs-thick-registry-whois Also, it seems that the baidu site you mention, is serving outdated info. I checked some .coms I've acquired the last few years, and I see old info (several years back) for those domains. For my recent .com registrations, it simply says "sorry, can not find the domain".
I just checked one of my keeper domains on the baidu site and it apparently expired in 2018 At least they redacted my personal details that were not hidden at the time.
It's just cached whois results. As per the registry and registrar data, the expiration date is Registry Expiration: 2022-03-01 21:34:09 UTC And the contact data is hidden as per the registrar data (Mailing Address: New Mexico, US), note that the registrar adds this note : REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Some of the data in this object has been removed. I don't see any issue with any of the whois sites mentionned here, some of them just show cached data while others don't (or they had their cache refreshed recently for that domain)
So you think this cached data can not be trusted, owner probably changed or privacy protection activated.
So what happened to Whois.net? For many years it was my quick goto for registration info. It appeared to stop working a while ago, perhaps around the time that regulations concerning whois privacy were updated (?) and today I noticed that when a search for a name is run, it redirects to Hover.
That site was great, it's true. Hover might have bought it or it could just be another affiliate marketer.. Now for "Can we trust whois", the answer is simply no. It's even explained in some registrar's whois results : "OVH Sas make this information available "as is", and do not guarantee its accuracy." We can trust a registry or the current registrar. And his whois data is deemed exact and up-to-date if the refresh date is recent. Whois.com shows the updated date for example, or use a command line tool, that should give you recent data
Run WHOIS From a Windows Command Prompt or MacOS Terminal Windows Download & Install Whois utility Open a Windows command prompt Type whois -v example.com Whois will return the output to the terminal MacOS Open Terminal Type whois example.com Whois will return the output to the terminal Ubuntu Install Whois command: sudo apt-get install whois Type whois example.com Whois will return the output to the terminal If the Whois return "no match" means the domain isn't registered. Regards
