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Are You Keeping An Eye On Your & Your Adversary’s Domain Activity? – Part 1

Are You Keeping An Eye On Your & Your Adversary’s Domain Activity? – Part 1

If the answer to the above question is “no”, “looking forward to, but don’t know how”, or god forbid, “why would I want to do that?”, then you are just in the right place! Businesses always need to protect their brand from bad actors who can spoil their reputation, while at the same time, also try & stay a step ahead of their competition. And why only businesses, security teams also need to constantly keep a track of threats in order to pre-empt & proactively curb online attacks. The internet has made a lot of information easily accessible, but getting relevant, timely & proactive Intel is the key for staying a step ahead whether it is to protect your brand or to prevent a hacker from committing an online crime. Reactive in today’s day & age is longer a solution for success.

If you want to be a notch above the rest, Domain Research Suite (DRS) is just the tool for you. DRS provides a bundle of tools in the form of an easy-to-use web-app which will definitely benefit your domain investigation & management with automated monitoring & timely alerts combined with extensive research tools!

Domain Monitor

This tool lets you keep a watchful eye on your domains or anyone else’s by tracking any changes in the domain’s registration details (Whois records). Once you enter the domain names you want to monitor, our systems will watch out for those domains daily & notify you about any changes in its Whois record; right from any alteration in the ownership, registrar, servers or to even the quintessential domain status change, just in case you are trying to get a hold on a particular expired domain name!

Power Tool

  • Add domain names to the monitoring system manually or import a bulk list of the domains you want to monitor as a CSV file.
  • Daily monitoring of any changes in all the specified domains Whois records.
  • Track both existing and not yet registered domains.
  • Get email alerts of any changes in the monitored domains, so you don’t miss anything.
  • Quick & easy access from the dashboard to view various detailed reports of the monitored domains for its entire Historic Whois, Reverse Whois, Whois records, Domain Availability.
  • Download the monitored domains for offline analysis or for sharing details with your team.

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Registrant Monitor

This tool helps you track domain activities of any individual or organizations. Like our domain monitoring system, registrant monitor too checks for your specified term each day & alerts you when domains tied to the monitored registrant term(s) have any changes, including new registrations, changes of ownership, or drops/deletes.

Power Tool   

  • Monitor any of the different registrant parameters like registrant's name, company name, email, phone/ fax, postal address or city/country.
  • Track domain registrations, updates, renewals or expirations occurring specifically for your monitored terms.
  • Daily monitoring of any changes in all the specified term’s Whois records.
  • You can blacklist terms by adding them as ‘Exclude’ in the Registrant part of the domain's Whois record, so you can focus on the items that need your attention.
  • Get email alerts of any changes in the monitored terms, so you don’t miss anything.
  • Download the monitored domains for offline analysis or for sharing details with your team.

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Brand Monitor

A crucial tool for businesses to monitor domain registration for specific terms that could be associated with your brand, trademark, product or even your competitor’s trademark. Use the dashboard to see a daily log of added, deleted and modified domains under your monitored keywords and phrases. This can be a very handy tool whether you are looking for a new domain for a product or company, protecting an existing brand from infringement, keeping tabs on the competition, or watching for trending registration activity tied to specific words or phrases.

Power Tool

•    Monitoring of domains containing specific words, phrases, or partial words.

•    Discover any new domain name registrations, recently expired domains or even modified domains including the specified term.

•    Daily monitoring of any changes in all the specified term’s Whois records.

•    You can blacklist terms by adding them as ‘Exclude’ in the domain's Whois record, so you can focus on the items that need your attention.

•    Get email alerts of any changes in the monitored terms, so you don’t miss anything.

•    Download the monitored domains for offline analysis or for sharing details with your team.

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Besides Monitoring Tools, DRS also compliments your domain research with wide-ranging Search Tools!

Reverse Whois Search

Give a boost to your domain research by finding every domain name ever owned by a specific individual or a company. It can be great for finding connections between various domains, individuals and organizations. Using one or more unique identifiers such as a person or company's name, phone number, email address or any other Registration detail found in a Whois record, you can find all the domain names related with it.

Power Tool

  • Use any term present in the Whois Record to find its associated domains.
  • Advance search option can help you get more specific results, as to where the search terms should appear in the Whois record, or even if you would want to check for the term in the historic or current Whois records. This can help in getting more relevant searches instead of a wild goose chase.
  • Quick & easy access from the dashboard to view various detailed reports of the resulting domains for its entire Historic Whois, Reverse Whois, Whois records, Domain Availability.
  • You can also add the resultant domains for Domain or Registrant Monitoring directly from here.

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Whois History Search Tool

Research & investigate the entire history of any domain name. Get all the Whois records containing any update; be it a change in the domain’s Ownership, Name Server, Registrar, Contact Details or any other alteration made in the Registration data, since the first time it was registered up until now.

Power Tool

  • View the entire Whois record history for the domain with key highlights in a glance.
  • See each unique Whois Record listed by the date in a more visual format.
  • Quick & easy access from the dashboard to view various detailed reports of the resulting data sets in the Whois Record for its entire Historic Whois, Reverse Whois, Whois records, Domain Availability or even adding them for Monitoring.
  • Well-parsed data.

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Whois Search

Get real-time registration data for domain/ IP. Be assured of getting the most accurate results from the largest Whois database in the world, with over 310 million domain names tracked over a decade.

Power Tool

  • Get the entire Whois Record.
  • Quick & easy access from the dashboard to view various detailed reports of the resulting data sets in the Whois Record for its entire Historic Whois, Reverse Whois, Whois records, Domain Availability or even adding them for Monitoring.
  • Well-parsed data.

Access Whois Search Tool

Domain Availability Check

Get the most accurate & real-time domain registration status. No more second guessing or spending hours in figuring out to know if a domain name is available for registration or not!

Power Tool

  • Result verified from the largest Whois database covering all TLDs.

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We have recently upgraded DRS to make the tool more advanced & easy to use. Besides this now you can also quickly & easily integrate our monitoring and search tools into your applications with an API key. This can be done in a few minutes, without any excessive programming!

In our next blog, we will discuss how DRS can be a handy tool for professionals as well as novice who are interested in researching and staying abreast on all kinds of domain activities.

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