.cn WHOIS Lookup
.cn is the country-code extension of China, administered by CNNIC. Look up a .cn address and see what the record contains.
- 1.494 extensions
- IANA 1601 ICANN accredited
- 2 protocols — RDAP and WHOIS
Your IP address 216.73.216.31
.cn WHOIS Lookup: What a CNNIC Record Contains
.cn is China's country code extension, delegated into the root zone on 28 November 1990 and operated by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Queries are answered on port 43 by whois.cnnic.cn. In our measurement on 12 August 2026 the reply carried ten fields, and the zone held a DS record in the root.
Identity is open here: in the record we measured the holder's name and a contact email address were directly readable, and the registrar's name appeared as well. Those lines are written in Chinese, so the text arrives outside the Latin alphabet and any tool reading the raw output has to handle the character set correctly. A separate field carries the record's own identifier.
The date fields do not follow generic naming: the registration and expiry times arrive under names of their own in a day-and-time format, and there is no separate last-updated field. A parser written for .com output therefore finds no dates under .cn; on the result screen those lines stand complete in the raw output tab. IANA's RDAP bootstrap registry defines no endpoint for .cn. To compare neighbouring markets, see the .my WHOIS lookup and .in WHOIS lookup pages.
About the .cn extension
- Extension
- .cn
- WHOIS server
- whois.cnnic.cn
- RDAP endpoint
- This extension has no RDAP endpoint in the IANA bootstrap registry.
- Registry
- China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)
- Delegated
- 28 November 1990
- Fields measured
- 10 fields (12 August 2026)
- Arrives open
- The holder's name and contact email, plus the registrar's name
- RDAP
- IANA's bootstrap registry defines no endpoint for .cn
WHOIS FAQ
Does a .cn WHOIS record show the domain holder?
It does. In the record we measured the holder's name and an email address for contact arrived open, and the registrar's name was present too. This is one of the few extensions where identity data is not closed. Because the lines are written in Chinese, tools expecting the Latin alphabet may render them poorly; in the raw output tab the text stands exactly as the registry sent it.
Why are the .cn date fields named differently?
Because CNNIC uses a naming of its own: the registration and expiry times are not written as Creation Date and Registry Expiry Date but under their own labels, in a day-and-time format. There is no separate last-updated field either. A parser written for .com does not recognise those lines, so reading the dates means looking at the raw output.
What is the identifier field in a .cn record for?
It is the record's unique identity in the registry database, and it arrived open in the record we measured. The number addresses the record uniquely in transactions between registrars. It brings no direct benefit to a visitor, but when comparing snapshots of the same name over time it shows continuity: a changed identifier means the registration was reopened rather than renewed.
How are status codes read under .cn?
The record we measured carried two codes, both with the server prefix: deletion and update were locked at registry level. The prefix tells you who set the lock, and a lock set by the registry cannot be lifted by the registrar. Because the codes come from ICANN's shared vocabulary their meaning matches other extensions, and our result screen shows each with an explanation.
Can .cn registration data be queried over RDAP?
No. IANA's RDAP bootstrap registry defines no endpoint for .cn, which our measurement confirmed. Since 28 January 2025 RDAP has been the definitive source for generic extensions, but country code extensions fall outside that arrangement. So the port 43 WHOIS service is the only machine-readable source for .cn registration data.
How does an available .cn name appear in a lookup?
Query a name nobody holds and the server reports that no match was found, with no holder, date or name server lines. That means the name looks free to register. We keep such a result for five minutes only and registered ones for six hours, the short window being there because a name that looks free can be taken quickly.