Best whois plugins for WordPress
The most popular whois plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP24 Domain Check leads with 4K+ active installs, ahead of Powie’s WHOIS Domain Check (400+) and DomainLabs Whois (30+). All 11 plugins tagged “whois” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 whois plugins
- 1.
WP24 Domain CheckThe most installed whois plugin, with 4K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 32 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Powie’s WHOIS Domain Check400+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 10 reviews, updated 12 hours ago.
- 3.
DomainLabs Whois30+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 4.
IPv6 Detector20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
- 5.
Whois Dashboard Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.8.41.
- 6.
Quick Whois10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 7.
Whois XML API Whois10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 8.
IP Intelligence10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.6.
- 9.
MarketXYFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.
QAS Domain CheckerFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 11 plugins tagged “whois”
WP24 Domain Check
Down in the last 7 days:10#3,548by WP242 months ago
Check (whois) domain names for availability. Easy integration via shortcode or widget.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.3(32)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Powie’s WHOIS Domain Check
Up in the last 7 days:23#9,205by PowieTtoday
Check domain availability with the [pwhois] shortcode using io-developer/php-whois.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
DomainLabs Whois
#24,961by Bahri CANLI12 years ago
DomainLabs Domain Whois Plugin for Wordpress
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 2.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
IPv6 Detector
#28,016by ppatux15 years ago
Simple IPv6 detector widget for WordPress to show if user is connecting with IPv6 or IPv4.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Whois Dashboard Widget
Up in the last 7 days:304#32,580by BenRacicot12 years ago
A simple dashboard widget to Whois lookup domain name registration information.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Quick Whois
#37,002by FasterThemes12 years ago
Quick Whois Plugin Shows Whois information of the provided domain name. You can do this using Widget/Shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Whois XML API Whois
#38,601by whoisxmlapi7 years ago
This is Whois XML API integration for your WordPress website, which allows adding tooltips with whois information for each domain name in your post co …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
IP Intelligence
#43,389by nullamatix.com17 years ago
Provides the ability to retrieve information on a commentators IP address without leaving the "edit-comments.php" page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
MarketXY
Up in the last 7 days:17,268#54,482by Amit singh10 days ago
Instant company, domain, security and trust intelligence — as a WordPress admin tool and a public [marketxy_lookup] shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
QAS Domain Checker
#59,157by qasolutions2 months ago
A simple, multilingual domain availability checker using the modern RDAP protocol. One block, one shortcode, no setup pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
OWH Domain WHOIS RDAP
#70,322by Link Nacional3 months ago
Advanced domain availability checker using modern RDAP protocol for fast and accurate domain searches.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day