{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Holder of domain name<\/strong> is the owner of the domain name.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Technical contact<\/strong> is the contact with authority to make \u201ctechnical\u201d changes<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Registrar<\/strong> is the company that registered the domain name.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 \u201ctechnical\u201d 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":"2026-06","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}]}}