Privacy Policy

No fine prints, no gimmick.

We are also very conscious about our privacy. That's why we have a no nonsense privacy policy that we know you'll feel comfortable with:

• Lookups are kept by name and shown to anyone who looks up the same name. Our own records of a lookup never say who made it.
• The home page lists the registered domains that get the most visits, and the ones looked up most recently. Each person counts once a day per domain. A domain nobody holds is never listed, and neither is any IP address.
• To allow one new lookup every 2 seconds, your IP address is held for 2 seconds after each new lookup, then forgotten. To count you once a day, a code made from your IP address and the domain you open is kept until the end of the day, then forgotten. It cannot be turned back into your address.
• To fill in a result, a domain name you look up is sent to thum.io for a picture of its website, to Tranco and Open PageRank for its rankings and to Cloudflare's family filter to tell whether it is an adult site, and an IP address you look up is sent to AbuseIPDB for its abuse reports. The number of the network that announces it is sent to RIPEstat and PeeringDB. Maps come from OpenStreetMap, and routes from our own copy of bgp.tools' routing table. None of them is told who asked.
• My favorites are kept in your own browser and never reach us.
• The About page shows our AbuseIPDB contributor badge, which your browser loads from AbuseIPDB.
• We use Google Analytics to count visits. It sets cookies, and sends Google the pages you open, which includes the names you look up, along with your browser and approximate location. Google's privacy policy covers that data.
• We limit how often each address can start a new lookup, to keep bots and scripts from abusing the service, as per our Terms Of Service.
• Apart from what Google Analytics collects, we will not sell, share or distribute information regarding you or your searches. (no, not even for a million bucks)