Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News The Big Business of Cybercrime at FS-ISAC, IACC and INTA 2013 Spring Conferences This spring contained, as usual, the spring “conference season”. And, DomainTools attended a variety of them. The back-to-back-to-back conferences we exhibited at were FS-ISAC, IACC and INTA. Each of the three conferences had sessions covering the pervasiveness of cybercrime generally, but each also focused in on areas specifically ... Domaintools.com - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 13:24 Hack Days at DomainTools For those of you not familiar with the term “hack day”, it’s commonly used among technical professionals when referring to free time at work to focus on something that is outside of your daily, required workload. I can only imagine that the phrase was coined because it started with a bunch of programmers sitting in front of their com... Domaintools.com - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 12:16 Analysis of .PW Domain Registrations One Month After Launch The launch of .PW has received a great deal of attention because it can indicate the kind of reception new gTLDs may receive.  The .PW registry operators were delighted to reach 50,000 domain registrations within only 3 weeks of general availability.  With their goal for the year of 100,000 registrations, they appear to be well Domaintools.com - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 17:38 DomainTools on the Road This May is a busy month for DomainTools! We're exhibiting at three conferences this month (back to back) that are specific to the financial services, anti-counterfeiting and trademark audiences. DomainTools will be talking to conference attendees about their current business needs and how some of our products and latest innovations... Domaintools.com - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 12:21 5 Things To Know When Managing Your Domain Information All to often the Support Team here at DomainTools receives disconcerting stories from registrants who have no control over their domain names or websites. What is entirely surprising is how many registrants shift control of their business’ domain and/or website to outside resources without building a solid understanding as to how to ... Domaintools.com - Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 18:55 5 Tips for Developing a Competitive Intelligence Strategy Using DomainTools As a marketer, I rely on a wide range of tools every day to track campaign ROI and gain insight into the health and impact of the various DomainTools marketing programs I run. Some of the tools I use (such as Twitter, ExactTarget, Facebook, and LinkedIn) provide their own metrics based on number of visits, specific content impression... Domaintools.com - Monday, April 15, 2013 - 14:14 Rate Limiting with Redis We use different forms of rate limiting throughout DomainTools. Common use cases are detecting abusive actors trying to scrape our data and limiting requests to external services to avoid placing any undue load. I have seen and used many different algorithms for rate limiting requests but none of which met the requirements for a proj... Domaintools.com - Monday, April 8, 2013 - 17:24 It’s Raining Domains in Spain! Dietmar Stefitz and Jodi Chamberlain are once again putting on their Domaining Spain conference April 25-27 in Valencia, Spain. DomainTools is proud to sponsor this Europe-focused domain event as we expand many of our products in 2013 to cover ccTLDs and of course all new gTLDs. Our very own James Morfopoulos will be speaking at the ... Domaintools.com - Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 12:55 Game Changers For DomainTools, the game changers have been large memory systems, solid state drives, and virtual systems. 10 years ago, it was very very expensive to buy a server with more than 4 gigabytes of memory.  With improvements in manufacturing and memory technology, it's easy to buy systems with 256 gigabytes or more of memory.  DomainTo... Domaintools.com - Monday, March 25, 2013 - 13:25 DomainTools Whois History, Reverse IP, Brand Monitor and Registrant Alert as Daily Business Tools How I Found Out About DomainTools And Won a Great Client I first came across DomainTools through a close colleague of mine who owns Australia's domain name trading forum, DNTrade.com.au. He loaded up DomainTools.com on his PC in the office one night. I was firstly struck by how fast it ran and the depth of the data it returned. I s... Domaintools.com - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 12:35 DomainTools Winter Retreat – 2013 This past weekend, the DomainTools team ventured to The Great White North (Whistler, B.C. CA) for our annual winter retreat. Whistler is a perfect destination for a team like ours, as it provides a wide variety of recreational activities. Domaintools.com - Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 12:18 New Brand Monitor in Action Most people reading this blog are probably aware that Microsoft is force-converting Hotmail users to its new Outlook email service this week. And as many of you know, 'Hotmail' is one of the most cybersquatted brands of all-time. With Outlook being an emerging global brand, it provides a good use case for our newly expanded Brand Mon... Domaintools.com - Friday, February 22, 2013 - 11:39 nTLD Brand Monitoring with DomainTools DomainTools is well-known for Whois data: whois lookup, whois history, and reverse whois reports. But we also have a lot of other cool products that savvy clients utilize all the time. Many of those products deal with domain names and DNS data, rather than strictly whois data. Brand Monitor is a perfect example. This product reviews... Domaintools.com - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 14:31 8 SEO Blogs you must follow in 2013 Ben is the SEO & Analytics Manager for DomainTools. He works closely with everything from Google Analytics and SEOmoz to Adwords and Adzerk. 2012 was a year of massive change in SEO. Google threw the proverbial farm at us with algorithm updates that shook up the landscape and led SEOs to question everything we thought Domaintools.com - Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 16:21 New gTLDs, New Logos Big changes are ahead on the internet. ICANN will be implementing its new gTLD program this Spring (2013) and we can expect to see hundreds of new domain name extensions such as .love, .donuts, .art, .law, .fashion, .games, .tech, .pizza. ninja…well… you get the idea. There will be new gTLDs for almost any profession, community, ser... Domaintools.com - Monday, February 11, 2013 - 15:42 See DomainTools Data in a Whole New Light with Domain Report Transformative Digital Products I have a passion for digital products and their ability to transform how we communicate, how we do business, and even how we live. Perhaps that’s why I feel a sharp pain in my head every time I see someone print out a web page or an email. It feels like a step backwards, and I can barely resist the t... Domaintools.com - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 13:2 Dev…Ops…DevOps! Dev...Ops...DevOps! Hi, I'm Andrew, and I’ve got a problem. I'm one of two System and Network Admins here at DomainTools and because we’re growing, we have enough work for three! Actually we had enough work for three last year but they wouldn’t let me hire anybody :) So I thought I’d write a quick blog post with some fun facts about... Domaintools.com - Friday, January 25, 2013 - 15:24 8 SEO Blogs you must follow in 2013 Ben is the SEO & Analytics Manager for DomainTools. He works closely with everything from Google Analytics and SEOmoz to Adwords and Adzerk. 2012 was a year of massive change in SEO. Google threw the proverbial farm at us with algorithm updates that shook up the landscape and led SEOs to question everything we thought Domaintools.com - Monday, January 14, 2013 - 14:39 Santas Favorite Whois Contest Winners! Thank you to all of you who entered the Santas Favorite Whois contest! Santa had a wonderful time reading all of the entries and drew the following names out of the entry bag. The following three people won a FREE DomainTools Professional membership for one year (or a FREE Professional membership renewal for one year) if he or she is... Domaintools.com - Friday, January 4, 2013 - 12:19 Santas Favorite Whois Giveaway! It's that time of year again... Santa would like to give away one of his favorite tools: the DomainTools Pro Membership! Leverage Whois and Hosting History, Reverse IP, Domain Monitor, along with Brand, Name Server, and Registrant Alerts. If you are currently a DomainTools Professional member, we still encourage you to enter to rece... Domaintools.com - Monday, December 10, 2012 - 11:58 Next 20 Domaining.com - Newsletter - RSS - Affiliate Program - Advertising - Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Blog - Contact Us  Suggestions - Trends - Registration - Marketplaces - Portfolios - Brokers Drop - Appraisal - Financing - Escrow - Parking Web Hosting - Development - SEO - Forum - Tools - WHOIS Education - Resources - Metrics - New Extensions - Legal - Events