.tools WHOIS Lookup
.tools is a generic domain extension whose registration data is read over RDAP only. Look up a .tools address and see the record.
- 1.494 extensions
- IANA 1601 ICANN accredited
- 2 protocols — RDAP and WHOIS
Your IP address 216.73.216.31
.tools WHOIS Lookup: Fields in the Reply
.tools is a generic extension delegated into the root zone on 16 January 2014. IANA's record names Binky Moon, LLC as the contract holder, yet the registry address in that same record leads to the identity.digital brand, and the RDAP endpoint answering queries runs at rdap.identitydigital.services. In our measurement on 12 August 2026 port 43 returned no registration data, and the zone carries a DS record in the root.
A third name appears inside the reply: the registrar holding the record. When we queried the registry's own name on 13 August 2026, that field read Registry Operator acts as Registrar with the number 9999 — the name sits with the registry itself. On an ordinary .tools address the same field carries the trading name of the company that sold the domain, together with its own IANA number. None of the three names is the owner of the domain.
The distinction is useful in practice: seeing a company you do not recognise in a record is not by itself a warning sign. The contract holder, the brand operating the platform and the registrar can be different organisations, and across generic extensions they usually are. Run a .tools lookup and separate the names yourself. For a sibling extension answered by the same endpoint, see .agency WHOIS lookup; for an older generic extension sharing that RDAP endpoint, see .info WHOIS lookup.
About the .tools extension
- Extension
- .tools
- WHOIS server
- This extension has no WHOIS service on port 43; registration data is published over RDAP.
- RDAP endpoint
- https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap
- Registry
- Binky Moon, LLC in the IANA record — registry address identity.digital
- Delegated
- 16 January 2014
- Source of record data
- rdap.identitydigital.services
- Roles in the reply
- Registrar only; no registrant role is opened at all
- Measured sample
- nic.tools registrar field: Registry Operator acts as Registrar (9999)
WHOIS FAQ
Which companies are named in a .tools lookup?
Three separate organisations are involved. The first is the contract holder for the extension: IANA's record names Binky Moon, LLC. The second is the brand actually running the registry platform, whose name you read from the RDAP address the reply comes from, the identitydigital domain. The third is the registrar holding the record, listed as a role in the reply. The three are independent of one another: one can change while the others stay put.
Why does the registry appear in the registrar field?
Because a name held by the registry itself shows the registry in that field instead of a registrar. In the nic.tools record we measured on 13 August 2026, the field carried the wording Registry Operator acts as Registrar and the number 9999, and the same wording appeared in the records of the sibling extensions. On an ordinary address the field holds the trading name of the company that sold the domain and that company's own IANA number.
Where does .tools registration data come from?
From the RDAP endpoint at rdap.identitydigital.services. IANA's .tools record lists no WHOIS server, so there is no port 43 address to ask in the first place; our measurement on 12 August 2026 returned no data from that port. Our lookup recognises the extension, goes to the RDAP endpoint and parses the reply. An older tool that only ever connects to port 43 produces an empty answer for this extension.
How can the owner of a .tools address be contacted?
Not through the record itself. The only role in our 13 August 2026 measurement was the registrar; no owner name or contact line was opened. Across generic extensions, contact data belonging to natural persons has been published in masked form since 25 May 2018. What remains concrete is the registrar's name: a contact request or a complaint travels through that company's own channel, which is where any disclosure decision is made.
What do the dates in the nic.tools record show?
In the record we read on 13 August 2026, registration was dated 4 December 2013, the transfer 9 April 2014 and expiry 4 December 2026. The first date is the striking one: the name was registered before the extension entered the root zone on 16 January 2014. That order is ordinary, because a registry creates its own service names ahead of delegation. The same transfer date also stood in a sibling extension's own record.
What do the company names in a .tools reply prove?
Only whose system the record sits in. The names describe the operating chain behind the extension; they say nothing about who owns the domain, who uses it or where the content published at that address comes from. Seeing a brand named in a reply does not mean the brand runs the address for its own business either. For questions of identity the single counterpart is the registrar holding the record.