{"id":27961,"date":"2026-03-04T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/docs\/how-can-i-find-out-who-owns-a-domain-name\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:09:20","password":"","slug":"how-can-i-find-out-who-owns-a-domain-name","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/docs\/how-can-i-find-out-who-owns-a-domain-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I find out who owns a domain name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>you can do a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namebay.com\/whois\/Whois.aspx\">Whois<\/a> by specifying the desired domain name.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image2016-9-16-11405.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong>Holder of domain name<\/strong> is the owner of the domain name.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Technical contact<\/strong> is the contact with authority to make &#8220;technical&#8221; changes<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Registrar<\/strong> is the company that registered the domain name.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Name servers<\/strong> is where your domain name points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you can do a Whois by specifying the desired domain name. Holder of domain name is the owner of the domain name. Technical contact is the contact with authority to make &#8220;technical&#8221; changes Registrar is the company that registered the domain name. Name servers is where your domain name points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[123],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-27961","docs","type-docs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","doc_category-domain-names"],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":50,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Support","author_nicename":"support","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/author\/support\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Domain names","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/docs-category\/domain-names\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30425,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27961\/revisions\/30425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=27961"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=27961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}