Understanding the WHOIS record

What the fields of a NIC.RO.ORG WHOIS record mean.

Domain Name

The registered name, including its ending.

Name Server listed in order

The name servers the domain is delegated to, with their IP addresses where known.

Record created

The date of the first registration.

Record modified

The date of the last change to the record.

Record expires

The end of the paid registration period.

Status

connected

The domain is delegated to its name servers and can be used.

reserved

The name is registered but no name servers have been specified.

pending

The registration has been received and is awaiting payment.

suspended

The delegation has been withdrawn, for example because an invoice is overdue.

on hold

The registration has expired and was not renewed. During the redemption grace period it can still be recovered; after that the name is deleted.

NIC.RO.ORG Data Privacy and access to WHOIS Database

Your privacy is important to us.

Effective 25. May 2018 enforcing EU General Data Protection Regulation "GDPR" ("REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL On the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC" - details are available here and here...) and acc. NIC.RO.ORG Data Privacy Statement, available here, access to WHOIS data has been limited.

How and under which Circumstance can Information about the Holder of a Specific Domain be obtained

Under certain conditions, NIC.RO.ORG provides information about the holder of a specific domain upon individual request.

Name and Trademark Rights

If you are the owner of a right to a name or trademark that may be violated by this specific domain you can request information about the holder of the domain, providing Documents to substantiate this right.

Seizure under Civil Law

If you have an enforceable title against the domain holder and intend to perform a civil seizure of the domain holder's claims defined in the domain contract or have already done so, you can assure yourself that the domain holder is actually the holder of this specific domain by providing Documents to substantiate this right. Due to data protection reasons, there is no possibility, however, to query which domain is held by a specific debtor.

Public Authorities

If you are a public authority and intend to act in the exercise of your public powers (for instance in relation with criminal prosecution, risk prevention or by means of a seizing order), you may request information about the holder of a domain in a variety of cases.

No Information about the Holder of a Specific Domain Provided

In all other cases, NIC.RO.ORG will generally not provide information. Instead, if you think that the contents of a website that can be accessed via a domain may be illegal, you should send an e-mail reporting the matter to the e-mail address for abuse reports abuse [at] nic.ro.org. Moreover, the imprint, if any, of the website concerned will inform you who the operator of the website is.