WhoisXML API Blog

Domain network servers direct web traffic to the proper location. When servers are flooded with requests, consumers may be unable to access websites, and if they are, the process is slow. Site slow-downs are particularly problematic for small e-commerce businesses, and here’s when reverse DNS lookup comes in handy. Reverse lookup is one way to mitigate potential server problems. Listed below are a few other ways for small businesses to use reverse DNS lookup.

What Are Email Verification Terms, and Why Are They Important?

Email Verification Terms (EVTs) are used to describe the sending and receiving of emails, as well as everything else that happens in this process.

This verification is very important for businesses to conduct their affairs smoothly and maintain a positive reputation. In many instances, communication by email is the only means of contact with customers, clients, and potential business partners.

Organizations are better aware of the informative value of domain names — .com, .edu, .org, and many others. That’s imperative in today’s global business environment, where a significant share of operations occur on the Internet while cyberattacks, brand infringements, and more mishaps haunt the place.

In the last blog, we discussed the various features of all the Online Monitoring & Search tools that you can avail with our Domain Research Suite. The next question is naturally, how professionals from different industries can take advantage of these power tools to enhance their domain research? So, today we will be covering several use-cases of DRS to help make you understand its importance in today’s day & age.

The world of marketing and media isn’t a walk in the park. The teams working in those departments are always on the move constantly looking for ways to improve their strategies. A WHOIS database can prove useful for them in many ways. Read on to find out how.

See Reverse WHOIS service in action by searching for all Internet domains a company owns or is related to. We shall use the web-based reverse WHOIS service. An alternative would be to use the reverse WHOIS API, a RESTful solution which is also available with the same capabilities. We shall pick a popular brand, the Eastman Kodak Company, as an example for our investigation, although it works for any other one you might be interested in. If you are a domainer, a marketer, a legal investigator, an IT security expert, or anyone interested in or working with Internet domains, you are in the right place. We present the Swiss Army knife designed to fit in your very pocket.

Keeping track of a vast range of domain information, especially with the Internet’s rapid growth, is quite challenging for domainers and registrars. However, WHOIS data can help tackle multiple issues that these specialists face on a daily basis. Moreover, access to domain details can provide a lot of insights that were previously unavailable or hard to obtain. Let’s take a look.

In many of the aforementioned applications, it is equally important to find out who an actual IP address is assigned to and which part of the network it belongs to. Technically, it necessary and sufficient for a device to have an IP address to be able to communicate on the network. As it is sufficient, there are nodes which are not assigned a domain name. However, in every communication it is necessary for the IP address to be able to be tracked back at least. This makes IP WHOIS data useful in many of the aforementioned applications, and indeed essential for IT security. In a typical server log, for instance, we have IP addresses whose ownership can be identified via its IP WHOIS record obtainable by the WHOIS protocol.