Whois MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 186 installs a week from npm. Last commit 18 Oct 2026.
Domain registry records and status, DNS records, and IP/ASN resolution over RDAP and DoH.
Today is the operative word: we check Whois MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add whois-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/whois-mcp-server
{
"mcpServers": {
"whois-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"
]
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.whois-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"whois-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"
]
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"whois-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"
]
}
}
}
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE (Selects the HTTP transport), MCP_HTTP_HOST (The hostname for the HTTP server), MCP_HTTP_PORT (The port to run the HTTP server on), MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH (The endpoint path for the MCP server), MCP_PUBLIC_URL (Public origin override for deployments behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy (e.g. https://mcp.example.com)), MCP_AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')), RDAP_TIMEOUT_MS (HTTP timeout for RDAP requests in milliseconds), DOH_TIMEOUT_MS (HTTP timeout for DNS-over-HTTPS requests in milliseconds), RDAP_MAX_RETRIES (Max retry attempts on transient RDAP failures), DOH_MAX_RETRIES (Max retry attempts on transient DNS-over-HTTPS failures).
Validates domain email MX records and DNS status via Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS.
Domain age and RDAP lookup: registration date, age, expiry, registrar, status and nameservers.
RDAP whois records for domains and IPs.
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Keyless IP geolocation, ASN/ISP, timezone and DNS records for any IP or domain, plus your own IP.
Look up any domain, IP address or AS number: hosting, DNS, registration, email, TLS and headers.
Check a domain's email DNS, whether Gmail and Outlook accept its mail, and its registration.
Answers built from our own checks of this server.