.pt WHOIS Lookup
.pt is the country code extension of Portugal, and Associação DNS.PT keeps its register. Its WHOIS record shows who holds a .pt name and when the registration ends.
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.pt WHOIS Lookup: Portugal Domain Name Records
.pt is the country code extension of Portugal. It entered the root zone on 30 June 1988, and its registry is Associação DNS.PT. Queries go to whois.dns.pt on port 43. IANA has no RDAP service on record for .pt, which leaves plain-text WHOIS as the only way to read .pt registration data by machine. DNS.PT signs the .pt zone with DNSSEC.
A .pt reply has seventeen fields: the domain name, a status line, the creation and expiry dates, the name servers and two contact blocks laid out the same way. The first block belongs to the owner and the second to the administrative contact, each with a name, street address, locality, postal code and country code. Phone numbers, email addresses and EPP status codes are not published. For another registry that names the registrant openly, see the .cl WHOIS lookup.
About the .pt extension
- Extension
- .pt
- WHOIS server
- whois.dns.pt
- RDAP endpoint
- This extension has no RDAP endpoint in the IANA bootstrap registry.
- Registry
- Associação DNS.PT
- In the root zone since
- 30 June 1988
- Fields in the reply
- 17
- Published identity
- Name and postal address of the owner and the administrative contact
- Not published
- Phone, email, EPP status codes
- Last checked
- 12 August 2026
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WHOIS FAQ
Who owns a .pt domain, and how can I contact them?
A .pt WHOIS record gives the owner's name and postal address, but no phone number or email address. The administrative block can name a different party, as in google.pt, where the owner is Google LLC and the administrative contact is MarkMonitor Inc. If you need to reach someone about a .pt name, write to one of those two postal addresses or go through the administrative contact.
How can I check when a .pt domain expires?
The Expiration Date line of a .pt WHOIS record gives the date in day/month/year order, followed by a time. For google.pt it reads 28/02/2027 23:59, so the registration runs until the last minute of 28 February 2027. The creation line uses the same order, which makes 09/01/2003 the 9th of January 2003 and not the 1st of September. Reading the month first would shift an expiry date by weeks or months.
Why does .pt WHOIS show the owner's name when .com hides it?
The owner's name is public in .pt because the masking rules that ICANN introduced on 25 May 2018 apply to generic extensions only. Under those rules, registrars of names such as .com hide the personal contact data of private individuals. Country code registries set their own policy, and DNS.PT keeps the owner block in its public WHOIS.
What does Domain Status: Registered mean in .pt WHOIS?
Registered is the status value DNS.PT writes for a .pt name that is recorded in its register. The record does not list EPP codes such as clientTransferProhibited, so transfer and deletion locks cannot be seen in WHOIS. If a .pt transfer stalls, ask the registrar that manages the name whether a lock is in place.
How is .pt WHOIS different from Spain's .es?
whois.dns.pt answers queries from any address and returns the owner, the dates and the name servers of a .pt name. Red.es works the other way round for .es, opening its WHOIS server only to IP addresses it has authorised and leaving holder details and dates out of the record. The .es WHOIS lookup covers the Spanish rules in detail.
Does a .pt WHOIS record show when the domain was last updated?
No, a .pt record has a creation date and an expiry date but no line for the last update. A change of name servers or owner leaves no date in WHOIS, so the record cannot tell you how recently a .pt name was modified. The registrar that manages the name is the place to ask about recent changes.