Tag Archives: domaintools

Tue 15th September 2015
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DomainTools launches Iris height for confidence hazard investigations - New platform helps security teams quickly find the source of attacks. DomainTools launched its new Iris platform today, making it easier for companies to quickly investigate security attacks and determine their sources. Iris integrates many of DomainTools’ existing data sets into an easy-to-use workflow. While targeted to enterprises without the resources necessary to manage their own systems tapping into DomainTools’ API, it could also be helpful for domain name attorneys and other people trying ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2015
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How & because we should use DomainTools' portfolio tracker - DomainTools offers a nifty tool for tracking domain names. DomainTools has a lot of useful features, but most people just barely scratch the surface of its capabilities. One of the tools I find particularly useful is Domain Monitor. Simply put, Domain Monitor monitors domain names and lets you know if changes are made to the whois record. Changes can include expiration dates, lock status, registrar, registrant, etc. It’s pretty obvious how this can help you with your own portfolio. DomainTools ... read more ...
Wed 6th August 2014
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4 subscription domain name services we use - Here are four subscription-based domain name services I use regularly. There are a lot of great subscription-based services for the domain name industry. Here are four that I use on a regular basis. FreshDrop $19.95 per month FreshDrop is my go-to source for finding the best expiring domain names. A recent redesign might take long-time users a bit to get used to, but Freshdrop has a number of powerful filtering tools under the hood. I’ve used FreshDrop to find a ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
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DomainTools retools website - Company launches new homepage more targeted to security and enterprise services. Don’t be alarmed if you visit DomainTools.com this afternoon and see the image to the right. The company, known in the domain name community for its whois and domain searching tools, has updated its home page as well as some other elements throughout the site. Whereas the previous home page focused on whois searches and finding domain names, the new one is all about cybercrime, brand ... read more ...
Mon 7th October 2013
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DomainNameSales.com gets placement (and here’s how to opt-in) - If you opt-in, GoDaddy and DomainTools customers will now see that your domain is for sale. DomainNameSales.com’s domain sales platform has been quickly adopted by a number of domain name investors. But until now it has been missing a key ingredient of domain sales – distributed listings. That changed today as the company announced a deal with GoDaddy and DomainTools to help generate more sales leads for domain names. If a GoDaddy user searches for your exact ... read more ...
Thu 12th September 2013
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An overview of a Seattle domain name circuit - Last week I visited the many domain name companies that call Seattle home. Seattle is home to a large (and growing) number of domain name companies.Last month I took my annual family “escape the Texas heat” vacation to Seattle. I didn’t get the chance to visit any of the domain companies in the area while I was there, so last week I took a return trip to Seattle to rectify that. The collection of domain name companies in Seattle is large and growing. This is ... read more ...
Mon 17th June 2013
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A giveaway apparatus to find targeted buyers for your domains - Video explains a little-known tool for finding relevant buyers for domain names. Over the years a number of tools have been developed to help domain owners find buyers for their domain names. These tools typically search for similar domains as well as online advertisers bidding for the terms found in the domain. But the best tool for finding highly targeted buyers for your domains is often overlooked. Perhaps it’s because the tool wasn’t designed for this purpose, ... read more ...
Wed 30th January 2013
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DomainTools offers new Domain Reports for $49 - DomainTools releases new product with comprehensive data for a single domain. DomainTools has released a new one-off product called Domain Report. A Domain Report is a comprehensive, professional-looking PDF document that includes an entire profile of an individual domain name: -Every Historic Whois record DomainTools has -Our complete website screenshot history -Owner (registrant) name and email address -Current Whois record -Registration dates and status codes -Network ... read more ...
Thu 10th January 2013
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2 collection we use to lane my domain portfolio - Watch My Domains Pro and DomainTools Domain Monitor work in tandem to keep a watchful eye on my portfolio. Yesterday I reiterated my appreciation for Watch My Domains Pro, a tool I’ve been praising since 2007. Rob Sequin seconded my approval for the software in the comments. Watch My Domains Pro is one of two tools I use to monitor my domain portfolio. Watch My Domains Pro I use this to track the master list of domains I own. You basically add your domains and then ... read more ...
Thu 29th November 2012
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DomainTools updates Reverse Whois, creation it (potentially) cheaper - Updated functionality lets users request details on a subset of domains owned by a business or person. DomainTools has released new reverse whois searching functionality, allowing users to hone in on exactly the records they’re looking for. By reducing the number of domain records in a search, it can also make it cheaper. The updated functionality allows you to add multiple ‘and’ and ‘or’ operators for the email address, registrant record, whois record, ... read more ...
Thu 19th July 2012
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DomainTools lawsuit discharged for miss of jurisdiction - Preemptive case against New Jersey man can’t go forward in Washington, judge rules. DomainTools’ preemptive lawsuit against Russ Smith has been dismissed (pdf) with prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue. Russ Smith had threatened to sue DomainTools for copyright infringement and try to get its trademark canceled. Among Smith’s complaints: DomainTools’ archival of snapshots of his web site home pages were copyright violations. Instead ... read more ...
Wed 4th January 2012
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DomainTools gets dual trademarks - Domain and web hosting data company gets trademarks for “DomainTools”. Remember when DomainTools was called (the much less desirable) whois.sc? It was shorter, but running a domain name business on a Seychelles ccTLD is no bueno. It changed its name in 2006 to DomainTools and today was awarded two trademarks on its brand. Trademark registration number 4,079,040 covers “DomainTools” for several uses, including “Downloadable computer software for providing ... read more ...
Thu 10th March 2011
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DomainTools and Estibot are Domainer Favorites - Domain investors share their favorite tools. What are your go-to tools for domaining? I’m guessing DomainTools is one of your most frequented sites. 45% of people who took this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey said DomainTools was the “software or hosted application that is most valuable to their domain name business for research and management.” Nearly 14% said the same thing about domain pricing and sales system Estibot. After that usage drops off significantly. ... read more ...
Tue 14th September 2010
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DomainTools Gets Patent for Reverse IP Method - DomainTools granted patent for reverse IP method. DomainTools‘ parent company Euro Convergence, SARL has been granted a patent for “Reverse IP method and system”. U.S. patent number 7,797,410 was invented by company founder Jay Westerdal. The invention is for a “new and improved domain name searching method and system” comprised of the following steps: (1) downloading all zone files, public and/or non-public, associated with one or more host names (2) performing ... read more ...
Tue 8th June 2010
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DomainTools Shows Off New Office in Seattle - Whois company holds open house to show off new office. Seattle is one of my favorite cities. So when I heard that DomainTools was holding an open house Monday to show off its new office in Seattle, I knew I had to make the stopover en route to TRAFFIC in Vancouver. DomainTools didn’t need a moving truck to get to its new offices; they are directly upstairs from the old digs. But it’s a big improvement. The former radio studio downstairs in the two story building ... read more ...
 
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DomainTools Takes Investment, Forms Advisory Board - Whois data service takes outside investment. File this in the category of “happened a while ago, but no one knew about it”. During yesterday’s DomainTools Open House, DomainTools CEO Tim Chen said that the company had taken on outside investment and formed an advisory board. Here’s an official statement from the company: As part of Thought Convergence’s goal to expand the DomainTools brand, products and services globally, we have taken on a group of strategic ... read more ...
Mon 7th June 2010
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The Week Ahead: Seattle, Then Vancouver - Stay tuned to DNW for reports from TRAFFIC. I’m headed up to the Pacific Northwest this week, and the timing couldn’t be better. It’s getting hot in Austin. It’s near 100 degrees, which is hot enough that I’m asking myself why I live here. My first stop will be Seattle on Monday (high temperature 71) to visit DomainTools’ new offices. I checked out their old digs a couple years ago, and they were nice. But word is the new offices are a nice improvement. ... read more ...
Mon 15th February 2010
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DomainTools Selected as Top Domain Research and Management Tool - Whois service gets MVP. Perhaps it’s only fitting that the top domain tool is, well, DomainTools. The popular whois service was selected as the “most valuable” software or hosted application for domain research and management, according to respondents in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 39% of those surveyed picked DomainTools, nearly three times as many as the next highest vote-getter. Here are the top five results: 1. DomainTools (39%) 2. FreshDrop ... read more ...
Tue 12th January 2010
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Thought Convergence and Jay Westerdal Settlement May Be in a Works - TCI and Westerdal getting closer to resolution. A settlement between Thought Convergence and Jay Westerdal over the former’s acquisition of DomainTools’ parent Name Intelligence is closer to reality, court records show. As a result, both parties have requested a postponement (pdf) of deadlines and the trial date. The parties held a mediation session with the Hon. George P. Schiavelli (Ret) on January 6, of which Schiavelli wrote (pdf): “…during the mediation, ... read more ...
Mon 23rd November 2009
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DomainTools Launches MyWhois - New MyWhois feature is a big usability improvement. A month or two ago DomainTools changed the way it displays whois data. Whereas whois records and associated domain data used to be displayed on one page, it switched to a tabbed view to make it easier to read. But some people are stuck in their old ways and (understandably) didn’t like clicking between multiple tabs to get the data they needed. DomainTools has figured out a solution that provides the best of ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2009
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Every Domain Owner Should Subscribe to DomainTools’ Registrant Alert - Why every domain owner should subscribe to a registrant alert for their domains. If you don’t use DomainTools’ Registrant Alert service to monitor your own domain names, drop everything and sign up now (it’s free to monitor your domains). Here’s how this service has helped me in just the past few months: 1. It alerted me that one of my domains had changed to ‘pending delete’ because I neglected to renew it. That saved me from losing a valuable domain ... read more ...
Fri 5th June 2009
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Archive.org vs. DomainTools for Web Site Captures - Archive.org and DomainTools take a different approach to the same problem. Now that ICANN’s hearing on Capitol Hill has passed I’m going to return to Domain Name Wire’s series on using DomainTools. Today let’s explore DomainTools’ historical site thumbnails, a key tool for investigating the prior use of a domain name before buying it. Most people are familiar with Archive.org a.k.a. Wayback Machine, a service that “archives” web sites at different points ... read more ...
Fri 29th May 2009
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DomainTools Typo Generator Protects Your Brand - Typo Generator includes the information you need to protect your brand against typosquatters. All week I’ve been writing about how I use DomainTools. Here’s the latest tool I use… There are a number of typo generators out there, but DomainTools’ is the only one that makes it easy to find out who is typosquatting on your domain name. It also lets you know if someone previously typosquatted or tasted a typo of your domain. To use the typo generator, go to ... read more ...
Thu 28th May 2009
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Whois History Important Part of Domain Due Diligence - Use DomainTools’ whois history to research the history of a domain name you’re buying. When you’re ready to shell out a bunch of cash for a domain name, it’s important to understand the ownership history of the domain name. There’s no title insurance for domains, so the onus is on you to make sure the domain isn’t stolen and has clean title. In fact, it was DomainTools’ whois history that saved me from buying a stolen domain name for $5,000 back in ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2008
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TrafficZ Lightens Up - TrafficZ changes background color, starts integration with DomainTools and LeaseThis. One suggestion I’ve made to TrafficZ is to change its background color in the administrative console from black to a lighter color. I know a lot of other people have made that suggestion, too. TrafficZ has listened to its customers and changed the background color: TrafficZ is lightening the mood. Next time you visit www.TrafficZ.com, you can expect to see a brand new background ... read more ...