Until the end of 1998, there was only one organization on the planet that was engaged in registration and accounting of domain names - the question of who is the domain registrar was then exclusively rhetorical. However, one organization was unable to cope with the explosive growth of the Internet, and today there are already almost a thousand companies in the world that have the official status of “domain name registrar”. As a result, the total number of registered domains exceeded 160 million, and the price of registration and renewal fell five times. But the question of determining the registrar of a particular domain has become relevant.
Instructions
Step 1
From a technical point of view, defining a domain name registrar is not difficult - Linux-based operating systems even have a built-in function to do this. Therefore, there are a huge number of services for determining the domain registrar based on the technical protocol WHOIS (Who Is - "Who is this?"). All you need is to find any of them on the network (for example, 1whois.ru, whois.net, etc.), enter the domain name and click the submit button. The web server script, having received the domain name, will make a request to the distributed database of registrars and give you the received response. In addition to information about the registrar, many services will provide you with a lot of other information about the site - from a list of other domains hosted on the same IP address to the Yandex citation index for this site.
Step 2
Most Internet services for determining domain registration data do not give out the official name of the registrar company, but the so-called "Nic-Handle" of the registrar - the pseudonym under which the registrar is listed in the organization that issued him the license. For example, at your request, you can get the answer: registrar: RU-CENTER-REG-RIPN By this "nickname" it will not be difficult to identify the registrar, but to be sure, you can check the list of the organization that issued this license. For domains in RU and RF zones, a list of all currently accredited registrars is published on this page -
