ViewDNS.info VS DomainTools

Heya, Founder of https://viewdns.info/ here (used by any mentioned in the article a bit). If anyone is doing this kind of research, feel free to reach out at feedback@viewdns.info as I'm more than happy to extend some free API credits etc! -Hughesey. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

This might help you get a start: There are lots of common tools. https://viewdns.info/. Source: about 1 year ago

I used viewdns.info - allowed me to search by registrant name. I looked for Bed Bath Procurement and Liberty Procurement for the list I grabbed (~600 results). Spotted the .sex TLD and filtered down to that and hand-verified whether each result was truly owned by BBBY. I work in IT Audit and InfoSec, so was a piece of cake to find and filter the data. :D. Source: over 1 year ago

After doing some investigating, it looks like when I sent the email, it was initially sent via an IP address that falls within Googles IP range, but when I went to viewdns.info to lookup the IP, it was of a Domain that was not Google. Source: over 1 year ago

Normally that means that every target that belongs to the company, is in scope except the one in the OOS section. Now the real question his, how can I be sure that a target is in scope? Well, whois command is your friend, if you have a domain name. If you have a ip address, you have to work more on it, anyway you can try some reverse DNS or other tool that you can find here: https://viewdns.info/ or you are... Source: over 1 year ago

And domaintools.com also gives historical nameserver data. Source: about 1 year ago

A lot of people have been reporting the various Arcade1up scam sites here and on Facebook, the best thing you can do if you see these websites is do a whois on them utilizing something like https://domaintools.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

So here’s the useful info for aristogloballimited.com I came up with (using domaintools.com):. Source: over 2 years ago

Also I have found domaintools.com to be very good. You need to sign up but thats about it. Another great site is whoxy.com. Source: over 2 years ago

Sure. I personally prefer other Whois providers over ICANN (there are lots of Whois providers, including GoDaddy). I use domaintools.com because they show more data and I like the way they lay it out, including a visual country flag for the website host location. So looking up amazon.com in domaintools.com, I come up with (all three good signs):. Source: over 2 years ago