.hr WHOIS Lookup
.hr is the country-code extension of Croatia, administered by CARNet. This page explains which parts the reply is made of.
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.hr WHOIS Lookup: CARNet Records and the Notice
.hr is the country-code extension of Croatia, delegated into the root zone on 27 February 1993 and operated by the academic and research network CARNet. Queries are answered by whois.dns.hr on port 43, and in our measurement on 12 August 2026 the reply carried fourteen fields. The extension has no registered RDAP endpoint, so port 43 is the only channel for registration data, and the zone carries a DS record in the root.
The first part of the reply is not the record but a notice. The output we measured refers to the data protection regulation in force since 25 May 2018, states that personal data of the domain holder and of the contact persons under that holder is no longer offered openly through the search interface, and then gives the address of a request form to be completed by anyone with a legitimate reason. The registry does not merely close the door; it says in the same reply how the door may be knocked on.
After the notice the record follows, and it is not empty: the registrar's name and WHOIS address, the creation date, the updated date and an expiry date, the name servers and — in the sample we measured — the registrant's name, street, city, postal code and email. That is no contradiction: withholding applies to natural persons and is not mandatory for legal entities. For a European extension that closes personal data outright, see .eu WHOIS lookup; for one that refuses the query altogether, .ch WHOIS lookup.
About the .hr extension
- Extension
- .hr
- WHOIS server
- whois.dns.hr
- RDAP endpoint
- This extension has no RDAP endpoint in the IANA bootstrap registry.
- Registry
- CARNet — the Croatian Academic and Research Network
- Delegated
- 27 February 1993
- Measured field count
- 14 fields (12 August 2026)
- Start of the reply
- A data protection notice and the address of a formal disclosure form
- Expiry date
- Given under the label Registrar Registration Expiration Date
WHOIS FAQ
What does the data protection notice in a .hr reply say?
The text at the top of the output we measured rests on the data protection regulation in force since 25 May 2018. The notice states that personal data of the domain holder and of the contact persons under that holder is no longer offered openly through the search interface. It then gives the address of a request form to be completed by anyone with a legitimate reason for disclosure. The text is not part of the record but an explanation accompanying it.
Why does owner data appear in some .hr records?
Because the rule on withholding is applied according to who holds the record. Contact data of natural persons is published in closed form, while no such obligation covers legal entities. The record we examined in our measurement on 12 August 2026 belonged to a company, and its name, street, city, postal code and email lines were populated. In the same extension you should expect not to see those lines for an address held by a private person.
How can holder data for a .hr domain be requested?
The registry has defined a documented route and put its address inside the reply. The notice points to a request form to be completed by anyone seeking disclosure of personal data, and the application is expected to rest on a legitimate reason. The data has not vanished; access to it has been made conditional. That approach differs from registries which refuse the query outright: the door is closed, but the location of the key is written down.
Which label carries the expiry date in a .hr record?
In the record we measured, the expiry date was labelled as the end of the registrar's registration rather than as a registry expiry. The difference looks trivial but is not so for parsers: a tool looking only for the registry label fails to find the line and leaves the expiry date empty. Once you read the value the date is sound; only the name of the label differs from generic extensions.
Is there an RDAP endpoint for the .hr extension?
There is not. In our measurement on 12 August 2026 IANA's bootstrap list carried no RDAP address for .hr, so no second channel exists. The single address for registration data is the server on port 43. RDAP becoming the authoritative source for generic extensions does not cover country extensions; each national registry decides its own channel and publication scope.
Which dates appear in a .hr record?
The record we measured carried three: the creation date, the updated date and the end date of the registrar's registration. All three were written with a time and in UTC, so no guessing about time zones is needed. The updated date says when the record was last edited; a name server change or a contact correction moves that date forward as well.