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This article shows you what whois is. It is concise and easy to understand. It will definitely brighten your eyes. I hope you can get something through the detailed introduction of this article.

Whois (pronounced "Who is", not abbreviated) is a transport protocol used to query the IP of a domain name, as well as the owner and other information.

To put it simply, whois is a system for querying domain names, which is used to query whether a domain name has been registered, as well as a database of details of registered domain names (such as domain name owner, domain name registrant, registration time, expiration time, etc.).

Query the domain name information through whois. In the early days, most whois queries existed as command line interfaces, but now there are some online query tools with simplified web interface that can query different databases at once.

The query tools of the web interface still rely on the whois protocol to send query requests to the server, and the tools of the command line interface are still widely used by system administrators. Whois usually uses port 43 of the TCP protocol. The whois information of each domain name / IP is saved by the corresponding administrative body.

The whois information of different domain name suffixes needs to be queried in different whois databases. At present, the websites that provide WHOIS inquiry services in China are, the home of the webmaster, and so on.

"WHOIS" is an indispensable information service in the current domain name system. The above is an introduction to what whois means.

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