{"id":152,"date":"2025-10-25T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:34:50","slug":"whois-data-verification-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/whois-data-verification-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Whois Data Verification Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Whois Verification?<\/h2>\n<p>Whois verification is a process required by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to ensure that the email address linked to a domain name is valid and belongs to the domain owner (called the Registrant).<\/p>\n<p>This rule applies to all <strong>gTLDs<\/strong> (generic top-level domains like .com, .net, .org) and <strong>nTLDs<\/strong> (newer domain extensions like .xyz, .online), but <strong>not<\/strong> to <strong>ccTLDs<\/strong> (country-code domains like .uk, .ca).<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83d\udd52 When Does Verification Happen?<\/h2>\n<p>Verification is required within <strong>15 days<\/strong> if any of the following occurs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new domain is registered with an unverified email address.<\/li>\n<li>A domain is transferred from another registrar.<\/li>\n<li>The Registrant contact is changed to someone with an unverified email.<\/li>\n<li>The Registrant\u2019s email address is updated to an unverified one.<\/li>\n<li>A domain is moved to another account and ends up with an unverified email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\ud83d\udce9 What Happens Next?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An <strong>email is automatically sent<\/strong> to the Registrant\u2019s email address asking them to verify it.<\/li>\n<li>If the email is <strong>not verified within 15 days<\/strong>, the domain will be <strong>deactivated<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The domain will then show a page explaining why it\u2019s inactive and how to fix it.<\/li>\n<li>Once the email is verified, the domain will be <strong>reactivated<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\ud83d\udd27 What Can You Do During the 15 Days?<\/h2>\n<p>From your Reseller or Customer Control Panel, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2705 Update the Registrant\u2019s contact details.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udd01 Re-send the verification email if it wasn\u2019t received.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Whois Verification? Whois verification is a process required by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to ensure that the email address linked to a domain name is valid and belongs to the domain owner (called the Registrant). This rule applies to all gTLDs (generic top-level domains like .com, .net, .org) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domain-registration","category-help"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4starhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}