.ai WHOIS Lookup
.ai is the country code extension of Anguilla and a frequent choice for technology sites. This page explains what the .ai registry publishes over WHOIS and RDAP.
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.ai WHOIS Lookup: What the Registry Publishes
Anguilla's .ai entered the root zone on 16 February 1995, and IANA lists the Government of Anguilla as the organisation responsible for it. WHOIS answers come from whois.nic.ai on port 43, while RDAP runs at rdap.identitydigital.services, a platform that also serves many generic extensions. The WHOIS reply has 54 labelled fields, most of them about people. The registrant, admin and tech contacts each get lines for name, organisation, street, city, state, postal code, country, phone, fax and email.
Whether those lines are filled in depends on who holds the domain. Since 25 May 2018, contact data of private individuals has been published in masked form, and that obligation does not extend to companies. The record of google.ai, held by Google LLC, is therefore complete in all three blocks, with address, phone and email. A comparable 54-field layout with almost every value redacted appears in the .io WHOIS lookup.
About the .ai extension
- Extension
- .ai
- WHOIS server
- whois.nic.ai
- RDAP endpoint
- https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap
- Registry
- Government of Anguilla
- Delegated
- 16 February 1995
- RDAP service
- rdap.identitydigital.services
- Contact blocks
- Registrant, admin, tech; masked for private holders
- DNSSEC
- Zone signed, DS record in the root
- Last checked
- 12 August 2026
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WHOIS FAQ
How can I find out who owns a .ai domain?
Look at the Registrant Name and Registrant Organization lines of the .ai record. For a company holder they can carry a contact name and the company itself, plus a postal address and an email. For a private holder the same lines are masked, and the registrar named in the reply is the remaining point of contact. The .me WHOIS lookup shows a registry that hides the admin and tech blocks even for companies.
What does [Non-Public Data] mean in a .ai WHOIS record?
The [Non-Public Data] tag marks a value that the registry holds but does not publish. The terms of use at the end of every .ai reply explain the tag, so a masked line can be told apart from one that was never filled in. When a field carries it, the information exists in the registry database and has only been kept out of the public answer.
Why does a .ai WHOIS query get refused after many lookups?
The .ai WHOIS server throttles queries, and once too many arrive from a single IP address within a set time, it rejects further ones for a while. The terms of use in each reply state this and add that bulk data collection from one source is detected and limited. If a script running many .ai lookups starts to receive empty or failed answers, slowing it down is the fix.
Does .ai have an RDAP service, and what does it return?
Yes, IANA's RDAP bootstrap file lists a service for .ai. Its answer names a single contact entity that holds the registrant, administrative and technical roles together, next to a separate registrar entity, and it includes the contact's name. The events it reports are registration, expiration, last changed and the last update of the RDAP database.
Is the .ai extension signed with DNSSEC?
Yes, the .ai zone is signed and has a DS record in the root, but a .ai domain does not become signed automatically. The DNSSEC line in each reply describes the queried name itself, and for google.ai it reads unsigned. A holder who wants validated DNS answers for a .ai domain has to enable DNSSEC through the registrar.
Where do I find the expiry date of a .ai domain?
A .ai domain's expiry date appears in the Registry Expiry Date line, as a UTC timestamp. Creation Date shows when the name was first registered, and Updated Date when the record last changed. Renewals go through the registrar shown in the Registrar line of the same reply, which is also the place to ask about a name that is close to lapsing.