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Whois Database Download
What is a Whois Database Download?
Whois database downloads provide complete historic domain Whois data, such as registrant name, e-mail & registration address, organization, registrar, and creation, expiration, and updated dates, among other data points. Whois database downloads can be customized as per your cybersecurity requirements and business needs.
How does Whois Database Download Work?
Follow these steps to get started with Whois Database Download:
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Upon the start of the subscription, download a large snapshot of registered domains with most current Whois records.
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Keep your Whois database up to date every day with daily feeds of newly-registered, newly-dropped domains and existing whois record changes.
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Continue receiving a large snapshot of all registered domains with the most current Whois records each quarter.
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Contact us to get your whois database subscription started.
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Benefits
- Get active Whois records for gTLDs as well as for ccTLDs
- Several thousand gTLDs including .com, .net, .org, .us, .biz, .mobi, .info, .pro, .coop, .asia and many new gtlds, click here for the entire list.
- Hundreds of ccTLDs include .uk, .fr, .cn, .ru, etc. click here for the entire list.
- Get close to 300 million active domain names with Whois records in the latest version of the Whois database with a growth rate of hundreds of thousands of domains and Whois records per day.
- Get both parsed and raw Whois data for downloads as database dumps (MYSQL or MYSQL dump) and Comma Separated Values (.CSV) files. You can view a sample here.
- Get over 5 billion historic Whois records.
- Get key data points for domains including Registrant name, organization, e-mail address, registration address, registrar information, creation date, expiration date, updated date, domain availability, domain age, and much more.
- All the Whois information is well parsed and normalized to a consistent format for easy integration with your business processes.
Practical uses
- Cyber Security forces use Database Downloads for cyber security analysis and fraud detection.
- Registrars require Database Downloads to keep track of domains.
- Law enforcement agencies use Database Downloads to identify all the connected domains, websites and IP addresses associated with fraudulent activities and criminals.
- Marketing Research Analysts and contact data warehouses use Whois Database to examine domain registration trends and create market forecasts.
- Brand agents use Whois data to protect their intellectual property and check potential trademark infringements through searches to scope domain name similarities, duplicates, or copycats.
- Payment processors, banks, and fraud solution vendors use domain data in their ML research and model for fraud detection. WHOIS database download information such as location, launch data, and IP addresses to also help them spot domains that have ties to suspicious doings so they can take the necessary precautions.
- Contact data warehouses use Whois Database to enrich, verify and enhance business contact data.
- Investment banking institutions use domain registration data to enhance business intelligence on portfolio companies and monitor corporation domain assets.
- Investigate Indicators of Compromise (IOC) and Produce Threat Intelligence.
- Enrich security information and event management (SIEM), Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), Automation, and Orchestration Tools.
- Help managed security service provider (MSSP) and managed detection and response provider (MDR) to differentiate their threat detection and management services.
- Provide more strategic value than your competitors by developing useful and accurate statistical market insights with data gleaned from billions of WHOIS records — creating a dominant market understanding for your marketing and sales clients.
- WHOIS database download is also a rich source of information on specific domains for cybersecurity specialists’ reconnaissance needs.
- Digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) consultants can rely on WHOIS database download to provide their clients with easy-to-read lists of domains that may have ties to cybercrime, allowing them to beef up their cybersecurity posture.
- WHOIS database download is also a great means to look for domains related to phishing and other malware-instigated attacks.
- Researchers seeking answers to Internet-user-base-related questions can use the WHOIS database download to gauge the maturity of existing markets and identify budding growth areas.
These are some of the use cases of domain Database Downloads. Besides these, of course, innumerable industries and companies need domain Database Downloads for their enterprise.
For more information about practical usages, check our guide WHOIS Database Download: 13 Business, Cybersecurity, and other Applications Explored.
You can select all of the above components or choose the components based on your particular needs.
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License terms
All Domain name data/ lists provided are Non-redistributable. It means that you may not redistribute or resell this data to any other parties.
