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whois¶

To see information on a domain such as who owns the domain and it’s name servers you can use the whois command. To use this command you will simply need to type whois followed by the domain you are requesting this information on. An example command and output is below.

  whois ukfast.co.uk
    Domain name:
        ukfast.co.uk

    Registrant:
        UKFAST

    Trading as:
        UKFast.Net Ltd

    Registrant type:
        UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3845616)

    Registrant's address:
        Archway 1
        Birley Fields
        Manchester
        M15 5QJ
        United Kingdom

    Data validation:
        Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 17-Oct-2015

    Registrar:
        ukfast.net Ltd t/a UKFast.Net Limited [Tag = UKFAST]
        URL: http://www.ukfast.co.uk

    Relevant dates:
        Registered on: 19-Apr-1999
        Expiry date:  19-Apr-2017
        Last updated:  18-Feb-2015

    Registration status:
        Registered until expiry date.

    Name servers:
        ns0.ukfast.co.uk          81.201.128.134
        ns1.ukfast.co.uk          81.201.143.134

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