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Fandango
Fandango is a movie-ticketing and entertainment website where people find showtimes, buy movie tickets, watch trailers, read movie information, and move between theatrical and at-home movie services.
What Fandango is
Fandango is a movie-ticketing and entertainment website. On Fandango, people can look up movies, showtimes, nearby theaters, ticket availability, trailers, offers, gift cards, and movie news before buying tickets or moving to related Fandango services.
Movie tickets and showtimes
The core Fandango workflow starts with a movie, theater, location, or showtime. Users compare nearby screenings, seat availability, formats, times, and ticket options, then complete a purchase through Fandango for participating theaters. The theater still controls the actual screening, seating rules, and on-site experience.
A wider movie network
Fandango Media is broader than one ticket checkout page. Its official about page describes a portfolio that includes ticketing brands such as Fandango, MovieTickets, and Flixster; Rotten Tomatoes for reviews and ratings; Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips for trailers and clips; and Fandango at Home for video-on-demand movies and TV.
Theater and studio promotion
Fandango also functions as a marketing channel for movies. Its pages can combine trailers, editorial features, coming-soon pages, special offers, fan programs, gift cards, theater listings, and links to affiliated entertainment services. That makes the site a bridge between studios, theaters, streaming or rental services, and moviegoers.
Ownership and branding
The current Fandango about page labels the site as a Versant Media company. The same page gives Fandango's physical mailing address at 100 Universal City Plaza in Universal City, California, and presents Fandango as part of a group of affiliated movie and entertainment brands.
Why it matters
Movie-ticketing websites influence how people discover films, compare theaters, and decide when to see a release. Fandango matters because it ties showtimes, ticket checkout, trailers, reviews, offers, and at-home options into one consumer path. That convenience can help moviegoers, but it also gives a platform significant influence over visibility, promotions, fees, and discovery.
Limits and tradeoffs
Fandango can simplify buying movie tickets, but users still need to check final terms. Convenience fees, refund windows, seat changes, show cancellations, theater policies, accessibility needs, rewards rules, and promotional-code restrictions can vary. The final moviegoing experience depends on both the online purchase and the theater visit.
WHOIS domain data
Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record
- Domain
- fandango.com
- IP address
- 23.212.251.141
- Registrar
- CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
- WHOIS server
- whois.corporatedomains.com
- Referral URL
- http://cscdbs.com
- Created
- August 7, 1995
- Updated
- April 24, 2026
- Expires
- April 28, 2027
- Nameservers
- udns1.ultradns.net (204.69.234.1); udns2.ultradns.net (204.74.101.1)
- Domain status
- clientTransferProhibited