Whois MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 88 installs a week from npm. Last commit 21 Aug 2026.
Domain registration, availability, DNS records, and IP/ASN resolution via RDAP and DNS-over-HTTPS.
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": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.whois-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"whois-mcp-server": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"whois-mcp-server": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
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.).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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Answers built from our own checks of this server.