Our Estimate: Verisign Manages Over 100 Million .COM Domains A number of organizations track the .com domain registrations without taking into consideration the complete picture, thus underestimating the current count. Our research shows that the .com count is already well past that number.
Verisign publishes a daily “zone file” of registered .com domain names with their associated nameservers...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 9:2
DomainTools Estimates Verisign Manages Over 100 Million .COM Domains A number of organizations track the .com domain registrations without taking into consideration the complete picture, thus underestimating the current count. Our research shows that the .com count is already well past that number.
Verisign publishes a daily “zone file” of registered .com domain names with their associated nameserv...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 8:53
SOPA & PIPA Protesters: A Visual Gallery of January 18th Websites On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, thousands of websites across the Internet went "dark" to protest SOPA and PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and (Protect IP Act). The Screenshots.com system provides a unique method of preserving what these sites looked like during the protest, and we've featured a few of them here!
Once ou click on ou...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 12:44
A Visual Gallery: Which Sites Protested SOPA & PIPA on January 18th? As most are aware, today, Wednesday, January 18th, thousands of websites went dark to protest SOPA & PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and (Protect IP Act). DomainTools provisioned its historic thumbnailing service on a new site called Screenshots.com, as announced in December. Today, we customized that service to capture the homep...
Domaintools.com - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 22:6
Announcing the FREE Reverse Whois Report Winner The time has come to draw a name out of our Reverse Whois contest entries. And the winner is…Paul Goldstone! His entry read, “Dear Santa, please send me a free reverse lookup report. There’s a cookie in it for you!” Congratulations, Paul!
Honorable mentions go to the following contestants who submitted some gr...
Domaintools.com - Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 16:59
A Screenshot a Day It’s been over a week since we launched Screenshots.com on December 6th. We’re excited to have this live for all of you to use. To those who have sent us feedback on the site, thank you!
Please feel free to continue sharing your thoughts with us regarding the site functionality or anything else that comes to mind. You can...
Domaintools.com - Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 12:24
Insight Behind our Screenshots.com Launch
Today marks the launch of Screenshots.com, a new DomainTools site that provides an excellent showcase for the millions of historical website thumbnails we’ve collected over the years.
It’s also typical of the kinds of engineering problems that seem relatively straightforward until you try them on web-scale.
Most of us kn...
Domaintools.com - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 10:50
Win a FREE Reverse Whois Report from Santa!
It’s that fun time of year to start another give away!
We’ve been working with Santa to provide a FREE Reverse Whois Report to one lucky DomainTools fan…
Find out all the details by visiting Santa’s Favorite Whois site.
P.S. You have until January 1st, 2012 to enter the give away by contacting Santa@SantasFa...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 12:49
Politics and Disposable Domain Names
With the news not too long ago that Republican Jack Abramoff is fighting to get control of jackabramoff.com from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, I thought I’d take a look at the always tricky subject of domain names used in politics.
Abramoff is just the latest in a long line of people in political circles to ...
Domaintools.com - Monday, November 28, 2011 - 13:44
DomainTools Baby Shower Yes, you read the headline right. We had a baby shower celebration this Thursday at DomainTools in honor of Jason and his wife Erika – welcoming their baby girl in just a few weeks! We ate some ice cream cake and played a baby-themed game that was an interesting mix of trivia, pictionary and charades! Gustavo impressed us all...
Domaintools.com - Friday, November 11, 2011 - 13:51
Happy Halloween from DomainTools! In case you haven’t heard about our Halloween pumpkin carving contest last week, we wanted to share some fun photos of the event. We had a great time teaming up to compete for bragging rights (the 2 BEST DomainTools Halloween pumpkins of 2011)—topped off with Halloween cake and a birthday toast to Brian, our office manager!
Pum...
Domaintools.com - Monday, October 31, 2011 - 12:31
How Many Active Visitors are on Your Site Right Now? We found out the answer to that question the other day, having gained access to Google Analytics Real-Time. It was amazing to see the number of site visitors flicker from moment to moment. Ah, the moment we have been waiting for finally came true- here’s the evidence!
Yesterday, here was a snapshot of how many people were on D...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 17:8
DomainTools Tribute to Steve Jobs There is no doubt that word has spread across the globe about the passing of Apple’s visionary leader, Steve Jobs, on October 15, 2011. At DomainTools, we fully acknowledge his impact on the industry and we read about the news online just as it broke. It’s a clear indicator of how quickly news can spread via the Internet....
Domaintools.com - Friday, October 7, 2011 - 13:7
DomainTools Team Building Mini Golf Event To celebrate September birthdays at DomainTools (Happy Birthday to Susan, Emily, Andrew and Kirsten!), we played some mini golf at the Seattle Interbay Golf Course the other day. After grabbing some beverages, teams were chosen by the birthday crew. It was a perfect day to play some mini put-put out in the sun!
Prizes were given out...
Domaintools.com - Friday, September 30, 2011 - 12:13
How To Stop Typosquatters from Stealing Your Email Here at DomainTools we’re well aware of the importance companies place on protecting their brands online, especially when it comes to using our tools to hunt down cybersquatting and typosquatting. But typosquatting is not just a problem for brand managers any more, as recent shocking research has shown.
A security company calle...
Domaintools.com - Monday, September 19, 2011 - 12:40
Best of DomainTools Support Inquiries – Volume 2 Last January, we posted our first DomainTools Support Inquiry blog update and it’s time to post a Volume 2! In case you don’t remember the background around these tickets, here’s a recap:
DomainTools Support receives a wide variety of inquiries — from appropriate account-related questions to inquiries that are not...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 14:15
Apple, Google and RIM – Who Has the Right Domain Strategy? Last week, I explained how simple it can be to gain insight into companies’ product plans by using DomainTools to track the domain names they register. If you’ve been using our services to do that fora long time, you’ll have no doubt noticed that every company has a different strategy, in terms of how,and more impor...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 11:51
Behind The Scenes with ReverseMX
At DomainTools, we often throw around ideas on new and interesting data we could collect and combine with our existing data sets to discover interesting information.
One idea that had been floating around was to look up and store mail server (MX) records for all domain names we know of in the popular top level domains (TLDs). This ...
Domaintools.com - Monday, August 29, 2011 - 10:30
How to Use Alerts to Get the Scoop on Your Competitors
Have you ever read a story on news site or blog about how a well-known company is planning a new product or service, which is based on the domain names it has recently registered? Have you ever wondered how the writer came across their information?
Last week, TechCrunch spotted that Google had become the proud owner of Android.me, f...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 16:31
Was Your Domain Used for Porn? How to Avoid a Costly Mistake With the launch of .xxx domain names coming soon, I thought now would be a good time to address an important topic sometimes overlooked by domain buyers: how to avoid accidentally purchasing a domain that was once used for pornography.
Almost as long as the web has been around, companies have been selling content filtering software. ...
Domaintools.com - Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 14:23
