URL Country Definitions
At the end of a URL you may see two letter abbreviations. The abbreviations are always at the end of a URL address : ww.porn&Mp3s.com.cr or ww.toyota.com.jp These represent Countries of which the server is located in. Some Domains are multipart and searches will have to be conducted accordingly. Some countries do not have a national whois database.
ac - Ascension Island - web
interface http://www.nic.ac/cgi-bin/whois/ 2 part domain
ad - Andorra - web interface http://www.nic.ad/dominis.txt
ae - United Arab Emirates - No Whois
af - Afghanistan - whois whois.nic.as 2 part domain
ag - Antigua and Barbuda - No Whois
ai - Anguilla - No Whois
al - Albania - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part domain
am - Armenia - web interface http://www.amnic.net/cgi-bin/host 2 and 3 part domain
an - Netherlands Antilles - no Whois
ao - Angola - no Whois
aq - Antarctica - no Whois
ar - Argentina - web interface http://www.nic.ar/cgi-bin/nic/consdom.cgi 2 and 3 part domain
as - American Samoa - whois whois.nic.as 2 part domain
at - Austria - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part domain
au - Australia - whois whois.aunic.net 2 or 3 part domain
az - Azerbaidjan no Whois
ba - Bosnia and Herzegowina - no
Whois
bb - Barbados - no Whois
bd - Bangladesh - no Whois
be - Belgium - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part domain
bf - Burkina Faso - no Whois
bg - Bulgaria - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part
bh - Bahrain - no whoisdomain
bi - Burundi - web interface http://www.nic.cd/database/bi/
bj - Benin - no Whois
bm - Bermuda - whois rwhois.ibl.bm port 4321 2 part domain
bn - Brunei Darussalam - no Whois
bo - Bolivia - no Whois
br - Brazil - we interface http://registro.fapesp.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/domainsearch 2 and 3 part domain
bs - Bahamas - no Whois
bt - Bhutan - whois whois.nic.as 2 part domain
bv - Bouvet Island - domain not in use
bw - Botswana - no Whois
by - Belarus - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part domain
bz - Belize - no Whois
ca - Canada - web interface http://www.cdnnet.ca/regs/ 2 or 3 part domain
cc - Cocos (Keeling Islands) - web interface http://www.nic.cc/who.html
cd - Zaire - web interface http://www.nic.cd/database/cd/
cf - Central African Republic - no Whois
cg - Congo - web interface http://www.nic.cd/database/cg/
ch - Switzerland - whois whois.nic.ch 2 or 3 part domain
ci - Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) - no Whois
ck - Cook Islands - no Whois
cl - Chile - web interface http://www.nic.cl/ 2 part domain
cm - Cameroon - no Whois
cn - China - web interface http://www.cnnic.cn/cgi-bin/domainqc 3 part domain
co - Colombia - web interface http://polifemo.uniandes.edu.co/PAGINAS/NEWDOMCO/cons.htm
cr - Costa Rica - web interface http://www.nic.cr/consulta-dns.html
cs - Czech Republic - no Whois
cu - Cuba - no Whois
cv - Cape Verde - no Whois
cx - Christmas Island - no Whois
cy - Cyprus - no Whois
cz - Czech Republic - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part
domain
de - Germany - whois whois.ripe.net
2 or 3 part domain
dj - Djibouti - no Whois
dk - Denmark - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part domain
dm - Dominica - no Whois
do - Dominican Republic - no Whois
dz - Algeria - no Whois
ec - Ecuador - no Whois
ee- Estonia - no Whois
eg - Egypt - no Whois
eh - Western Sahara - no Whois
eg - Egypt - no Whois
er - Eritrea - no Whois
es - Spain - web interface http://www.nic.es/whois/
et - Ethiopia - no Whois
fi - Finland - web interface http://www3.nedecon.fi/cgi-bin/thk/domains.pl?language=eng
fj -Fiji - no Whois
fk - Falkland Islands - no Whois
fm - Micronesia - no Whois
fo - Faroe Islands - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part
domain
fr - France - whois.nic.fr
fx - France Metropolitan - no Whois
ga - Gabon - whois whois.ripe.net
2 or 3 part domain
gb - Great Britian - no Whois
gd - Greneda - no Whois
ge - Georgia - no Whois. See if a domain is registered at http://www.nic.net.ge/
gf - French guyana - no Whois
gg - Guernsey - no Whois
gh - Ghana - no Whois
gi - Gibralter - See if a domain is registered at http://www.gibnet.gi/nic/register.html
gl - Greenland - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part domain
gm - Gambia - no Whois
gn - Guinea - no Whois
gp - Guadelope - no Whois
gq - Equitorial Guinea - no Whois
gr - Greece - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 part domain and http://pythia.ics.forth.gr/cgi-bin/webwhois
gs - South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands - web interface http://www.adamsnames.tc/
gt - Guatemala - See if a domain is registered at http://www.gt/cir/nodos.htm
gu - Guam - web interface http://gadao.gov.gu/Scripts/wwsquery/wwsquery.dll?page=guamquery
gw - Guinea-Bissau - no Whois
gy - guyana - no Whois
hk - Hong Kong - no Whois
hm - Heard and McDonald Islands - web interface http://www.registry.hm/whois.html
hn - Honduras - no whois. List of hn web sites is at http://www.hn/eng_menu.htm
hr - Croatia - web interface http://ds.carnet.hr/whois/diggere.html
ht - Haiti - no Whois
hu - hungary - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 partdomain http://www.nic.hu/domainsearch/
id - Indonesia - no Whois.
http://tukang.access.net.id/domain/
ie - Ireland - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 parts domain http://www.ucd.ie/hostmaster/dom-list.html
il - Israel - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 partdomain .
http://www.isoc.org.il/domains.html
im - Isle of Man - web interface http://www.nic.im/exist.html
io - British Indian Ocean Territory - web interface http://www.io.io/
ir - Iran - web interface http://aria.nic.ir/forms/whois.html - not functional 7/19/99
is - Iceland - no Whois
it - Italy - whois whois.ripe.net 2 or 3 partdomain .
http://www.nic.hu/domainsearch/
je - Jersey - no Whois
jm - Jamaica - no Whois
jo - Jordan - web interface http://amon.nic.gov.jo/dns/
jp - Japan - whois.nic.ad.jp
3 parts
ke - Kenya - no Whois
kg - Kyrgystan - no Whois
kh - Cambodia - no Whois
ki - Kiribati - no Whois
km - Comoros - no Whois
kn - Saint Kitts and Nevis - no Whois
kp - North Korea - no Whois
kr - South Korea - web interface http://www.krnic.net/english/info/whois_a.html
kw - Kuwait - web interface http://www.internic.net.kw/
ky - Caymen Islands - no Whois
kz - Kazakhstan - web interface http://www.domain.kz/search
la - Lao People's Democratic
Republic
lb - Lebanon - web interface http://www.aub.edu.lb/lbdr/search.html
lc - Saint Lucia - no Whois
li - Lichtenstein whois.nic.li
lk - Sri Lanka whois.nic.lk
lr - Liberia - no Whois
lt - Lithuania whois ripe.net
lu - Luxembourg whois.restena.lu
lv - Latvia - no Whois
ly - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - no Whois
ma - Morocco - no Whois
mc - Monaco - no Whois
md - Moldova web interface http://www.nic.md/search.html
mg - Madigaskar - no Whois
mh - Marsall Islands - no Whois
mk - Macedonia - no Whois
ml - Mali - no Whois
mm - Myanmar - web interface http://www.nic.mm/whois.html
mn - Mongolia - no Whois
mo - Macau - no Whois
mp - Northern Mariana Islands - no Whois
mr - Mauritania - no Whois
ms - Montserrat - web interface http://www.adamsnames.tc/
mt - Malta - web interface http://www.um.edu.mt/nic/dir/
mu- Mauritius - no Whois
mv - Maldives no Whois
mw - Malawi - web interface http://www.nic.mw/whois/
mx - Mexico - web interface http://www.nic.mx/cgi/whois
my - Malaysia - no Whois
mz - Mozambique - no Whois
na - Namibia - no Whois
nc - New Caledonia - no Whois
ne - Niger - no Whois
nf - Norfolk Islands - no Whois
ng - Nigeria - no Whois
ni - Nicaragua - no Whois
nl - Netherlands - whois.ripe.net
no- Norway - whois.ripe.net
np - Nepal - no Whois
nr - Nauru - no Whois
nt - Neutral Zone - no Whois
nu - Niue - web interface - http://www.nunames.nu/
nz - New Zealand - web interface http://www.domainz.net.nz/service/checking.html
om - Oman - no Whois
pa - Panama - web interface http://www.nic.pa/
pe - Peru - no Whois
pf - French Polynesia - no Whois
rw - Rwanda - web interface http://www.nic.cd/database/rw/
tc - Turks and Caicos Islands - web
interface http://www.adamsnames.tc/
tf - French Southern Territories - web interface http://www.adamsnames.tc/
tm - Turkmenistan - whois whois.nic.as 2 part domain
sg - Singapore
yu - Yugoslavia
vg - Virgin Islands British