Brussels, 29 February 2008 - To improve privacy protection, EURid has made a minor change to the web WHOIS service. Now when you search for a name in WHOIS, you will immediately see if the name is: Available, Not available for registration or Not allowed.

To get more information you need to enter the so-called Captcha code and click “more information”. Then you will see the more precise status of the name- if it is registered, on-hold, reserved, etc. You will also see the public contact data of the registrant and registrar, just as before.

No changes have been made to the Port 43 WHOIS and DAS lookup services.