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Website brief
Website brief
Ten short questions and a written brief for a website or online store, ready to hand to any company.
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Domain check: is it free, and who holds it?
Type a name or a domain. We tell you whether it is free under six endings and, if it is taken, which registrar, host and mail provider it uses and what the site shows.
Result
We never show the holder's name or contact details, even when the registry returns them. You can reach the holder through the registrar.
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What we check
For availability we ask the registry over RDAP (.com, .net, .online, .shop); for .bg in either alphabet and for .eu we ask public DNS, and when the name is not there we say "looks free", never "free". For a taken domain we read its NS, MX and A records, the server's network in RIPEstat, the certificate and the home page, as every visitor sees them. The name you type is not kept, and the result stays for 10 minutes.
We only look at what the site shows every visitor and at the domain's public records. We do not try passwords, forms or hidden addresses.
The service behind this check: website development.
In the glossary: Web hosting · Domain registrant
QUESTIONS
What people ask
How do I check whether a domain is free?
Type the name in the box, with an ending (mebeli-ivanov.bg) or without one (mebeli-ivanov). With an ending we check that exact domain and the same name under the other endings; without one, under .bg, .com, .eu, .net, .online and .shop. A name in Cyrillic is checked under the Cyrillic and Latin Bulgarian endings and in up to three Latin spellings.
Why does it say "looks free" and not "free"?
The .bg and .eu registries have no RDAP service, the machine-readable protocol we use to ask the others, so for those we ask public DNS. A name that is not in DNS is almost always free, but a domain can be registered without any DNS records. We only say "free according to the registry" when the registry itself has answered, which today means .com, .net, .online and .shop.
How do I register a .bg domain?
Through a registrar: a company that files the application with the .bg registry and looks after the domain afterwards. The registrar checks the name, takes the documents and sets the term and the price. This check tells you whether the name looks free; the registration happens at the registrar.
Can I find out who owns a domain?
Not from this check. Registries no longer publish the holder's name and details, and we never show them even when we receive them. You see the registrar, and you can reach the holder through it.
The Cyrillic .bg ending or Latin?
A Cyrillic domain shows as Cyrillic in the browser, but in e-mail addresses and some software it is written as xn--… That is why most companies keep the Latin name as their main address and the Cyrillic one as an extra that leads to it. The check shows both.