Check Domain Names
Check Domain Names
This page was updated with several links from a NICAR 22 conference presentation by Prianjana Bengani (@acookiecrumbles) and Jon Keegan (@jonkeegan).
Who Is Behind This Website?
An excellent set of tips and tools to track the source of a website.
WhoTwi
Just enter a Twitter ID to run a simple analysis. Analyze friends, tweet trends, follows and followers.
ahrefs.com
Check backlinks to a website. Who is linking to it?
Sensity.ai
Check photos for deepfakes.
TweeterID
Twitter ID and username converter. Trace who is behind an account.
Builtwith
Gives you the infrastructure of the site, including IP addresses, analytics codes, tech stack, etc. Has a free model.
RiskIQ
A “threat intelligence” tool that allows you to get reverse IP, reverse analytics.
Whoxy.com
A free tool that lets you see historical WHOIS registrations.
DNSlytics
Offers a range of tools, including reverse analytics and reverse DNS lookups as well as WHOIS data. Has a free model and paid one.
Blacklight
The Markup’s real-time website privacy inspector.
Centralops.net/co
Website owner details. Retrieve names, ABNs, emails.
YouTube Metadata
Grabs singular details about a video and its uploader, playlist and creator/channel. Submit a link to a video, playlist or channel. Has reverse image/video search built-in.
Distill.io
Free Chrome extension that alerts you when a web page changes.
Visualping.io
Monitor website pages for text and graphic changes. Email alerts when a page changes.
DNSDBScout
Search and flexible search for passive dns lookups inlucind IP domain mapping.
URLScan.io
A free service to scan and analyse websites. When a URL is submitted to urlscan.io, an automated process will browse to the URL like a regular user and record the activity that this page navigation creates. This includes the domains and IPs contacted, the resources (JavaScript, CSS, etc) requested from those domains, as well as additional information about the page itself.
Have I Been Pwned?
Check to see if an email address from the site shows up in a data breach.
DomainTools
Cyber threat intelligence and threat investigation platform.
GIJN: Tips for Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in Your Next Investigation
WHOIS History Search
With much of the WHOIS database now redacted, use this archive of WHOIS sites and pages dating back 10 years.
ICANN Lookup
Domain registration data lookup.
Register.com
Check domain names.
GoDaddy.com
Register domains and store files.
Whoisology
Mine deep connections between domain names and their owners.
Smashing Magazine: Eight Tools for Finding and Registering Domain Names
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