Three Famous Names, Checked One By One
PakSim GA, Pak Data CF and PakSim Pro: All Three Are Gone
PakSim GA, Pak Data CF and PakSim Pro no longer exist. We checked all three on 26 July 2026 through Google Public DNS, an external resolver. So nobody can call this a Pakistan-side block. Both paksim.ga and pakdata.cf return NXDOMAIN, which means those domains are not registered to anybody. paksim.pro still resolves, but only to a parking page saying its registration has expired. Pakdata ML, the fourth name people search, fails the same test: pakdata.ml returned NXDOMAIN when we checked it on 29 July 2026. Two of the three disappeared when Freenom’s free-domain business collapsed, and the third simply lapsed. Search demand for these names outlived the services themselves. That is why new operators, none of whom identify themselves, have taken the names over. The only legal check is still your own CNIC: Check SIM Owner Details Pakistan.
Key takeaways
- paksim.ga and pakdata.cf both returned NXDOMAIN on 26 July 2026, which means neither name has an address record or any nameservers.
- Both suffixes were Freenom giveaways, and Freenom itself collapsed. Meta sued on 3 March 2023, ICANN ended its accreditation in November 2023, and the company left the business on 12 February 2024.
- paksim.pro resolved on 26 July 2026 to a registrar lander saying the domain registration has expired. It carries no SIM content whatsoever.
- pakdata.ml, the domain behind Pakdata ML searches, also returned NXDOMAIN when we queried Google Public DNS on 29 July 2026.
- Replacement sites now trade under these names on different suffixes. None of those we opened on 26 July 2026 disclosed a company, an owner or an address.
- One of them said in its own disclaimer, on that date, that it is “not affiliated with PTA, NADRA, or any telecom operator”, while offering a SIM owner lookup.
- Your own record is free and legal. Send your CNIC to 668, or open the official cnic.sims.pk portal.
This page is a record of verification checks, not opinion. Every liveness claim below carries the date we ran it, because a lapsed domain can be bought again by anybody at any moment. Where a figure belongs to somebody else, we identify whose claim it is. That is the whole difference between this page and the services it describes.
On this page
PakSim GA: the domain does not exist
Is PakSim GA still working?
Gone No, and it has not been for years. We queried paksim.ga at Google Public DNS on 26 July 2026, and the resolver returned NXDOMAIN, DNS status 3, with no address record and no nameserver record. NXDOMAIN is not a filter or a firewall; it means nobody has registered the name. We used a resolver outside Pakistan, so this is no Pakistan-side block.
The name was real once, and the Internet Archive holds working copies of paksim.ga going back to 2019. The last archived copy that still returned a page is dated 28 May 2023, and after that there is nothing. That date matters, for reasons the Freenom section below explains.
So what are people actually finding when they search for pak sim ga, or the run-together paksimdata, today? They are not finding the old site, but new pages that borrowed the name, usually on a different suffix. Those pages are operated by parties we could not identify, because not one of them said who it is. The name carries a reputation that its current occupants had no part in building.
Pak Data CF: gone with Freenom
Is Pak Data CF down?
Gone Yes, permanently. On 26 July 2026 pakdata.cf returned NXDOMAIN from Google Public DNS, with no address record and no nameservers, so the name is registered to nobody. It has been silent far longer than PakSim GA, because its last archived working copy in the Internet Archive is dated 3 April 2018, more than eight years before our check.
PakData CF, sometimes typed as pak data cf or shortened to just pak data, is the name that gets recycled hardest of the three. You will encounter it as a menu item, a heading, or a service listed in a footer on sites with no link at all to the original. One live page we opened on 26 July 2026 lists Pakdata CF among its own services, alongside Pak Sim data and Sim Database Online. So they cannot always be compared as three rival services. On the evidence we saw, some of these names sit on a single shelf.
None of that revives the original Pak Data CF. A discontinued domain does not carry its records forward to anybody. Whatever a current page shows you, it did not come from pakdata.cf, which has not answered a single request in years.
PakSim Pro: expired, then reused
Is PakSim Pro safe?
Expired The original is not running at all, so there is nothing there to use. On 26 July 2026 paksim.pro did resolve, to 216.227.142.171, but its nameservers were ns1.lander.d.parity.domains and ns2.lander.d.parity.domains, where the word lander is the giveaway. We fetched the page directly and it says the domain registration has expired. There is no SIM content, no lookup form and no data.
The Internet Archive shows paksim.pro serving real pages as recently as 20 July 2025. So this one was not a Freenom casualty. The registration simply was not renewed, and the name fell into the parking pool that every registrar keeps.
Meanwhile a separate site now trades under the PakSim Pro name on a different suffix. On 26 July 2026 its homepage title read “Paksim Pro – Check Sim Owner details 2026”. We have no evidence connecting it to whoever ran the original, and it makes no such claim itself. On the same date its About page carried no company, no address and no named person. The contact route was a form plus an email on yet another domain.
One detail is hard to ignore. On the same date, the HTML title of that site’s own About page read “About us – Paksim GA”. So a page selling PakSim Pro still carried PakSim GA in its title tag. On that evidence, these two names look like one content operation rather than two independent services.
What happened to Freenom, in dates
Freenom, the Dutch company that gave away free domains on .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf and .gq, collapsed. Meta sued it for cybersquatting on 3 March 2023, ICANN terminated its registrar accreditation in November 2023, and Freenom left the domain business on 12 February 2024. That collapse ended paksim.ga and pakdata.cf, and nothing about it involved Pakistan. Free registration is why so many one-page lookup sites chose those suffixes.
Is Pakdata ML still working?
Gone No. On 29 July 2026, Google Public DNS returned NXDOMAIN for pakdata.ml, with no address record and no nameservers, which means the domain is not registered. The .ml suffix was another Freenom giveaway alongside .ga and .cf, so the fourth name people search in this family fails exactly the same test as its siblings.
| Date | What happened | Source we checked |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Gabon Telecom partners with Freenom to give .ga names away free. | Wikipedia, .ga |
| 3 March 2023 | Meta sues Freenom over cybersquatting and trademark infringement, and new registrations are halted. | Krebs on Security |
| 4 to 7 June 2023 | Gabon’s ANINF ends its Freenom contract and migrates .ga, removing free registration. | Wikipedia, .ga |
| November 2023 | ICANN terminates Freenom’s registrar accreditation agreement. | Wikipedia, .tk |
| 12 February 2024 | Freenom settles with Meta and announces that it will exit the domain business. | Wikipedia, .tk |
| By early March 2024 | Roughly 12.6 million Freenom domains are no longer reachable. | Wikipedia, .tk |
Now place the dates alongside each other. The last working archive of paksim.ga is 28 May 2023, and the .ga migration window opened on 4 June 2023, just one week later. That timing matches the collapse of the free scheme, not any change in Pakistani law. pakdata.cf had already fallen silent years earlier, and the Central African Republic has since closed .cf to new names.
There is a plain lesson here for readers. A service running on a free throwaway domain was never built to last. We could not identify a company behind either name, and neither left a forwarding address.
Claim versus what we verified
These are the pitches you meet when you search Pak Data CF and the other two names, set against the checks we ran on 26 July 2026.
| The claim you will see | What we verified on 26 July 2026 |
|---|---|
| “PakSim GA, check any SIM owner” | paksim.ga returns NXDOMAIN at Google Public DNS, with no address record and no nameservers. |
| “PakData CF free SIM database” | pakdata.cf returns NXDOMAIN as well, and its last archived working copy is dated 3 April 2018. |
| “PakSim Pro, the official app” | paksim.pro resolves to a parking lander, and the page states that the domain registration has expired. |
| “Fresh owner details for all SIM networks” | That is one live site’s own widget text. The same site’s disclaimer says it holds “limited, non-sensitive, publicly accessible information only”. |
| “PTA approved” or “official database” | The same disclaimer states it is “not affiliated with PTA, NADRA, or any telecom operator” and does “not claim access to PTA, NADRA, or any government database”. |
| “Three trusted brands, compare them” | One live site lists Pakdata CF among its own services, while its About page title tag still reads “About us – Paksim GA”. |
| “4.8 stars, 10,000 plus installs” | That rating and install count appear as ordinary text on the site itself, so we treat them as the site’s own claim, not a confirmed figure. |
Read the fourth and fifth rows together, because together they hold the whole story. A site cannot promise a stranger’s SIM owner details in its headline and then disclaim any database access in its own footer. Both cannot be true at once.
Why no third-party site can legally hold this data
No third-party site can lawfully hold Pakistan’s SIM-ownership records. The SIM-to-CNIC linkage exists in only three systems: PTA’s verification system, NADRA’s records and the operator’s own database. PTA licence conditions bar operators from passing subscriber data onward without informed consent, and the two public windows, 668 and cnic.sims.pk, answer only for the CNIC you send. None of the sites we opened on 26 July 2026 named any source at all.
- The linkage exists in three systems only. A registered SIM is tied to a CNIC inside PTA’s verification system, inside NADRA’s records, and inside the operator’s own records. It exists nowhere else.
- Operators may not pass it onward. PTA licence conditions bar operators from sharing subscriber data with third parties, other than directory information, without the subscriber’s informed consent.
- There is no public feed. PTA’s two public windows are 668 and cnic.sims.pk, and each answers only for the CNIC you send, about you, returning a count, not another person’s name.
- So there is no authorised source. A third-party site has no lawful channel to this data, and the ones we opened on 26 July 2026 named no source at all.
- A displayed result therefore has no traceable origin. With no authorised channel and no named source, a reader cannot establish where any shown record came from, or whether it reflects a real registration at all.
The consequences reach the user too, not just the seller. Taking another person’s identity data is an offence under Section 16 of PECA 2016, which carries up to three years in prison, a fine of up to Rs 5 million, or both. The statute text and what it covers sit on our PECA 2016 page.
The state has been acting on this trade for a while. PTA reported 1,372 personal-data sites and apps blocked by September 2025. An NCCIA-led effort found and blocked 139 more platforms in October 2025. Dawn reported in March 2024 that a Joint Investigation Team found records of about 2.7 million citizens compromised between 2019 and 2023. Our SIM database explainer explains where this recycled material originates, and if you worry your own record is in that pile you can check your breach exposure in minutes.
Red flags: how to spot a revived name
To spot a revived name, open the About and Contact pages first, because a genuine business names its company, address and people. Then read the disclaimer against the headline: one site we opened on 26 July 2026 promised SIM owner details at the top while denying any PTA or NADRA database access at the bottom. Names come back and expired domains get re-registered, so judge the pattern, not the brand.
- Nobody is named. Open the About and Contact pages, then look for a company, an address, a person or a company number. A genuine business tells you exactly who it is.
- The contact route is a bare form, or an email address hosted on a different domain from the one you are actually reading. That mismatch is worth noticing.
- The disclaimer contradicts the headline. A confident promise sits at the top, while a denial of any sensitive data sits at the bottom. Read the bottom first.
- A famous old name appears on a new suffix. The originals ran on .ga, .cf and .pro, so a revival on any other ending is a new party in a borrowed coat.
- The words fresh, live or 2026 updated. Test that promise mentally against a SIM issued last month, because recycled records cannot answer it, and no live public feed exists.
- Ratings printed as ordinary page text. Stars and install counts typed into a page are decoration. Only a genuine store listing can carry a verifiable rating.
- An app file offered outside Google Play. A lookup needs no access to your contacts, messages or storage. No app carrying these three names is worth installing.
- Payment demanded after a teaser result. A partial answer, then a fee for the full profile, is the oldest shape in this trade.
- Any promise of a physical location. No website can locate a handset, and our live SIM tracker page explains why that claim always collapses.
Three or more of these signals together is enough. You never need to know who is behind a page to decide against typing your CNIC into it.
The only legal check, and it is free
There are only two lawful ways to check SIM registrations in Pakistan, and both answer for your own CNIC only. Send your 13-digit CNIC in an SMS to 668, which costs about Rs 2, or open the free PTA portal at cnic.sims.pk. That portal is the only pak sim data check online with a lawful source, and our check SIM owner details guide lists all 12 official methods in one place.
- To see the SIMs registered on your own CNIC. Send your 13-digit CNIC, with no dashes, in an SMS to 668, which costs about Rs 2 including tax. You get the count registered against that CNIC, network by network, and our 668 SMS check guide decodes each network’s reply.
- The same information, free and from anywhere. Open cnic.sims.pk in a browser, enter your CNIC and complete the captcha. The SIM Information System portal works overseas, and it accepts NICOP and POC numbers.
- To deal with an unknown caller. No lawful service will name them for you, so block the number and report spam to 9000. If it turns into harassment, call NCCIA on 1799 or use complaint.nccia.gov.pk. Our by-number page lists what genuinely works.
- To report one of these sites. Call PTA on 0800-55055 or use complaint.pta.gov.pk, and include the web address plus a screenshot of what you were shown.
Is there a pak sim data check online that works?
Only the official ones work, because they are the only ones with a lawful source. PTA’s cnic.sims.pk portal returns the SIM count registered against the CNIC you enter, free of charge, and the 668 SMS returns the same count for about Rs 2. Every other pak sim data check online, including the three names on this page, has no authorised channel to the data.
Use both methods for your own CNIC only. That boundary is the reason they stay free and open. The moment a service offers you somebody else’s record, it has stopped being a service. It has become a risk you carry.
Frequently asked questions
Is PakSim GA still working?
No. We checked paksim.ga on 26 July 2026 through Google Public DNS, and it returned NXDOMAIN, meaning the domain is not registered, with no address record and no nameservers. Its last archived working copy dates from 28 May 2023, so any site using the name today is an unrelated copy.
What happened to Pak Data CF?
The .cf suffix was one of Freenom’s free domains, and Freenom settled with Meta before leaving the domain business on 12 February 2024. By early March 2024 roughly 12.6 million Freenom domains had stopped resolving. We checked pakdata.cf on 26 July 2026, and it returned NXDOMAIN.
Is Pakdata ML still working?
No. We queried pakdata.ml at Google Public DNS on 29 July 2026, and it returned NXDOMAIN, with no address record and no nameservers. The .ml suffix was another Freenom giveaway, and free Freenom names stopped resolving in the same collapse that took paksim.ga and pakdata.cf.
Is PakSim Pro safe?
The original paksim.pro is not running, because on 26 July 2026 it resolved only to a parking page saying that the registration has expired. A different site now uses the PakSim Pro name, and its own disclaimer says it is not affiliated with PTA, NADRA or any operator.
Why did paksim.ga and pakdata.cf both stop working?
Both suffixes came from Freenom, which gave domains away free until Meta sued the company on 3 March 2023 and new registrations stopped. Gabon’s registry then ended its Freenom contract and migrated .ga between 4 and 7 June 2023, and ICANN terminated Freenom’s accreditation in November 2023.
Are the sites using these names today the same operators?
We cannot say who operates them, and that anonymity is exactly the problem. None of the pages we opened on 26 July 2026 names a company, an owner or an address. One live site lists Pakdata CF among its own services, while its About page title still reads PakSim GA.
What is the legal way to check SIM details in Pakistan?
Check your own CNIC only. Send your 13-digit CNIC, without dashes, in an SMS to 668, which costs about Rs 2, or open cnic.sims.pk free from anywhere in the world. Both methods return the SIM count registered against that CNIC, whereas looking up another person’s record is a Section 16 offence.
Is there a pak sim data check online that still works?
Only the official one. Open cnic.sims.pk, enter your own CNIC and complete the captcha, and the portal returns the SIM count registered against that CNIC, free. SMS code 668 does the same by text for about Rs 2. No third-party pak sim data check online has any lawful source of this data.
Roman Urdu mein
PakSim GA, PakData CF aur PakSim Pro, teenon khatam ho chuke hain. 26 July 2026 ko humne Google Public DNS se verify kiya, jo Pakistan se bahar ka resolver hai. paksim.ga aur pakdata.cf dono par NXDOMAIN aata hai, matlab yeh domain registered hi nahi hain. paksim.pro par sirf parking page hai jo batata hai ke registration expire ho chuki hai. Pakdata ML wala domain, yani pakdata.ml, humne 29 July 2026 ko check kiya aur wahan bhi NXDOMAIN hi mila.
.ga aur .cf muft domain the Freenom ke, aur Freenom 12 February 2024 ko domain karobar se nikal gaya. Ab in naamon par nayi sites chal rahi hain, jinka koi maalik ya company kahin likhi hui nahi. Aik site khud likhti hai ke woh PTA, NADRA ya kisi operator se affiliated nahi. Asli aur legal check sirf apne CNIC ka hota hai, is liye 668 par CNIC SMS karein ya cnic.sims.pk kholein. Kisi doosre ka record dekhna Section 16 ke tehat jurm hai.
Written and reviewed by Muhammad Hamza, founder and editor of CnicSimInfo. Domain checks were run on 26 July 2026 against Google Public DNS at dns.google, alongside direct page fetches, and pakdata.ml was checked against the same resolver on 29 July 2026. Archive dates come from the Internet Archive. The Freenom timeline was cross-checked against Krebs on Security and Wikipedia. Enforcement figures come from PTA notices, and the 2.7 million figure was reported by Dawn in March 2024. No brand is linked from this page, and no operator is named or accused of any offence. Last reviewed: 5 August 2026. See our Editorial Standards.