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.ly WHOIS lookup

.ly is managed by General Authority of Communications and Informatics (GACI). Its registry answers lookups over RDAP at rdap.nic.ly, so a .ly lookup here reads the registry directly.

Managed by

General Authority of Communications and Informatics (GACI)
As listed by IANA

RDAP

rdap.nic.ly
Lookups read the registry live

WHOIS server

whois.nic.ly

DNSSEC

Signed
The ending is signed in the root zone

In the root zone since

23 April 1997

Registry website

wsm.ltt.ly

What a .ly lookup shows

The registrar, when the domain was registered and when it expires, every status code in plain words, nameservers and DNSSEC, plus the mail setup read from DNS.

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Ending: .ly
Managed by: General Authority of Communications and Informatics (GACI)
RDAP base URL: https://rdap.nic.ly/
WHOIS server: whois.nic.ly
DNSSEC signed in the root: yes
Source: IANA root zone database and RDAP bootstrap, read 2026-10-31
Lookup URL: https://openwhois.org/#d=example.ly