Whois & Analysis for check-domains.com

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information.

The protocol stores and delivers database content in a human-readable format.

The WHOIS protocol is documented in RFC 3912.

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space.

For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name.

For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is com.

Responsibility for management of most top-level domains is delegated to specific organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS).

Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name.

The Register is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.

Situation Publishing Ltd is listed as the site's publisher.

Drew Culllen is an owner, Linus Birtles the managing director and Andrew Orlowski is the Executive Editor.

A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs).

The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files.

Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories.

Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.