Your company has its own domain name, but are you sure that you are the one who owns it? Chances can be you or anybody in the company ever checked and see who is really the owner of your domain name. It's common for a domain name that is owed by any of the company's employee; it may be the website designer as well as the provider of your internet service. Actually, the one who is listed in the “registrant” application is the one who owns a domain name.

When an internet is used, determining who owns a domain name is so easy. Domain name can be “owned” or can be licensed to a person or an entity that is shown as “registrant” on “whois” database in the registrar. A “whois” is the database which is maintained among all the registrars which lists the pertinent information of all the domain names which is issued of the registrar. Each of the registrar's “whois” can be searched through online.

To check ownership of the domain name, just look into the “whois” database. Just type in there the domain name's name, then put domain name's top level like the .com, .net, .name, .biz, or .info and then click search button. And if your domain name can be found in whois database, search results are displayed on the following pertinent of information regarding on a domain name:

1. Registrant: So who owns domain names? It refers to a person or the entity which is listed as the owner in a domain name.
2. Administrative contract: A person designated for the receiving of communications coming from the registrar which is related to the administration of a domain name.
3. The billing contact: A person who receives the notices coming from registrar concerning about domain name's registration fee.
4. Technical contact: Person who receives communication which is related to the technical matters which associated with a domain name.
5. The date of expiration: The date when will a domain name is about to be terminated and can be revoked not unless its renewal fee is paid.
6. The date of record creation: The date when was a domain name first issued on the registrant.

Just take note of this: A person who owns a domain name, which his/her name can be found in whois database, it has a power of adversely affecting a domain name. just see to it the name appears in the administrative, in the billing, and in the technical contracts all are correct.

There are times that searching in the whois search, the searcher may not able to get all the information that you want to know other than its registrar's name. This is just normal because not all of the registrars are sharing their information regarding to the domain name.