The so-called WHOIS details of every registered domain include details about the registrar organization, the registration and expiration dates, plus the names, contact number, postal address and email address of the owner, the admin and the tech/billing person. WHOIS is a special protocol that lets you get all this info either through a command line or via one of the numerous websites that provide WHOIS lookup services. All information should be up-to-date in line with the regulations of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. If some of the details are not accurate, the domain address could be reported and the result may be its removal or losing its ownership. Several country-specific domain name extensions have specific limitations concerning the modification of their WHOIS info, but in the standard scenario any detail can be edited freely and at any time. Such a modification will show up on lookup Internet sites within twenty four hours.
