I Use This Tool...

[DaveX]

I love learning about online tools out there.

What do you use?

I'll start with these...

Namepros.com
Domaining.com
Namebio.com

 

[Future Sensors]

Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS​

Rule 53: If you can think of it, someone's done it in the DNS

DNS, like almost any protocol or system on the internet, has been used in ways almost from the day it was born that were probably never intended or envisioned by its inventors.

This talk is an overview of some of the more interesting ways that people have thought to embrace and extend DNS, from large to small.

From static traceroutes to fully-fledged companies using entire protocols based on top of the DNS, there are a hundred different ways where creative people have seen ways to bend it to their will. While a lot of these are now sadly confined to history, taking a look at some of these inventions is always fun and can often be educational. DNS tools, DNS toys, DNS tunneling, and DNS filesystems, are just some of the examples of uses and misuses that we'll take a look at.

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/dns_bizarre_and_unusual_uses_of_dns/

Presentation slides (PDF)

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/ev...And_Unusual_Uses_of_DNS_DC4420_2022_09_27.pdf

Tools and links mentioned in the presentation:

 

[Short]

OK. Understand. But how good is it compared to say GoDaddy. Or are they all the same degree of inaccuracy? For example. I would say GoDaddy is better than Estibot, overall.

Check my project here

 

[Future Sensors]

DNSFilter Top Domains​

The DNSFilter Top Domains List is generated by Webshrinker and DNSFilter. It is a list of domains seen, ranked by number of queries and filtered, generated monthly.

DNSFilter is a protective DNS service that classifies domains and allows customers to configure policies to block different categories. The source dataset (the DNS queries seen by DNSFilter) is around 50bn queries per day as of Feb 2023, although this is growing.

Methodology​

DNSFilter extracts this list of top domains from DNS queries seen from customers. In order to avoid exposing any potentially sensitive domains, we drop any queries for domains that less than 20 distinct organizations have looked up.

Any domain that was looked up by more than 20 organizations receives 1 vote per organization per day. The ranking is then determined by the total number of votes for each domain over the entire month.

The DNSFilter top domains lists:
https://github.com/DNSFilter/topdomains/tree/main/lists

Other top domains lists:
Tranco, Cisco Umbrella, CloudFlare Radar, Moz, CrUX, Majestic, SecRank
https://github.com/DNSFilter/topdomains

 

[Future Sensors]

Multilocation DNS Looking Glass​

Using DNS over HTTP

This service offers a REST API to perform DNS queries over HTTP from multiple locations worldwide. It can be used to verify and troubleshoot DNS propagation, geo-aware DNS servers, and Anycast DNS deployments. This DNS Looking Glass currently has 20 available nodes in 7 countries, and more are added constantly.

Website: http://www.dns-lg.com/

Documentation: http://www.dns-lg.com/documentation/

Some examples:​

1. What are the nameservers for namepros.com, seen from node US01 (StatDNS, USA)

Link: http://www.dns-lg.com/us01/namepros.com/ns

Result:

{
    "question": [
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "NS",
            "class": "IN"
        }
    ],
    "answer": [
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "NS",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 86258,
            "rdlength": 21,
            "rdata": "elsa.ns.cloudflare.com."
        },
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "NS",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 86258,
            "rdlength": 6,
            "rdata": "lee.ns.cloudflare.com."
        }
    ]
}

2. What are the MX records for namepros.com, seen from node DE01 (DNS.WATCH, Germany)

Link: http://www.dns-lg.com/de01/namepros.com/mx

Result:

{
    "question": [
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "MX",
            "class": "IN"
        }
    ],
    "answer": [
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "MX",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 86400,
            "rdlength": 19,
            "rdata": "1 aspmx.l.google.com."
        },
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "MX",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 86400,
            "rdlength": 22,
            "rdata": "10 aspmx2.googlemail.com."
        },
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "MX",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 86400,
            "rdlength": 11,
            "rdata": "10 aspmx3.googlemail.com."
        },
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "MX",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 86400,
            "rdlength": 9,
            "rdata": "5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com."
        },
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "MX",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 86400,
            "rdlength": 9,
            "rdata": "5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com."
        }
    ]
}

3. What are the TXT records for namepros.com, seen from anycast node CloudFlare (USA)

Link: http://www.dns-lg.com/cloudflare/namepros.com/txt

Result:

{
    "question": [
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "TXT",
            "class": "IN"
        }
    ],
    "answer": [
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "TXT",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 60,
            "rdlength": 45,
            "rdata": "\"status-page-domain-verification=rdhvtr3r76b9\""
        },
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "TXT",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 60,
            "rdlength": 69,
            "rdata": "\"google-site-verification=e0MhZ6ItPvz0B08YcDrMjdMUUAR2RnJpYGhFykgWRJ4\""
        },
        {
            "name": "namepros.com.",
            "type": "TXT",
            "class": "IN",
            "ttl": 60,
            "rdlength": 113,
            "rdata": "\"v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:spf.mail.intercom.io include:stspg-customer.com -all\""
        }
    ]
}

 

[urlmaker]

for research i really like expireddomains.net

 

[JB Lions]

Alright, I've been in organization mode, going thru 15+ years of bookmarks on my computer. Just went thru 4 folders of domaining bookmarks, just finished this thread and others. Now, will be typing in keywords like domain name generator into Google and see what's new. I put all the bookmarks in a spreadsheet. Name/Category/URL, have 200+ right now. There are a lot of SEO tools and Site tools being posted as well, more for development. Going to put those in their own spreadsheet.

One tool I'm looking for if anybody knows a good one that actually works. Would be willing to pay a one time fee as well if it's good.

A url extractor. There are some old directories out there that haven't been updated in years. I want to be able to input the url and get a list of domains posted on those sites and I can do an availability check.

So does anybody know a great url extractor that can do that kind of thing? I've tried about 5 different ones so far, they all suck. Thanks.

 

[D Haynes]

Alright, I've been in organization mode, going thru 15+ years of bookmarks on my computer. Just went thru 4 folders of domaining bookmarks, just finished this thread and others. Now, will be typing in keywords like domain name generator into Google and see what's new. I put all the bookmarks in a spreadsheet. Name/Category/URL, have 200+ right now. There are a lot of SEO tools and Site tools being posted as well, more for development. Going to put those in their own spreadsheet.

One tool I'm looking for if anybody knows a good one that actually works. Would be willing to pay a one time fee as well if it's good.

A url extractor. There are some old directories out there that haven't been updated in years. I want to be able to input the url and get a list of domains posted on those sites and I can do an availability check.

So does anybody know a great url extractor that can do that kind of thing? I've tried about 5 different ones so far, they all suck. Thanks.

Like a URL validator? I could use something like that on my own directory. It's half the reason I don't update it that offen as it takes forever and a day to check all the links are still active. Interested to see if anyone knows of one.

 

[JB Lions]

Like a URL validator? I could use something like that on my own directory. It's half the reason I don't update it that offen as it takes forever and a day to check all the links are still active. Interested to see if anyone knows of one.

URL extractor, a little different. Imagine a coupon directory from 2004. Let's say it had 200 listings. Let's call it CouponDirectory.com

I want to input that site/name - CouponDirectory.com into some url extractor site/application/whatever

and I want it to spit out a list of all the urls listed on that site
url1
url2
url3
.......
url 200

I want to take that list of 200 urls (just the keywords, after I strip out the extension and stuff) put them into something like GoDaddy Bulk search and see which ones are now available to hand reg.

 

[D Haynes]

URL extractor, a little different. Imagine a coupon directory from 2004. Let's say it had 200 listings. Let's call it CouponDirectory.com

I want to input that site/name - CouponDirectory.com into some url extractor site/application/whatever

and I want it to spit out a list of all the urls listed on that site
url1
url2
url3
.......
url 200

I want to take that list of 200 urls (just the keywords, after I strip out the extension and stuff) put them into something like GoDaddy Bulk search and see which ones are now available to hand reg.

Ahhhhhhh OK I see what you mean now thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of a tool to validate all the links on a page and list any that were broken or not resolving.

 

[Future Sensors]

URL extractor, a little different. Imagine a coupon directory from 2004. Let's say it had 200 listings. Let's call it CouponDirectory.com

I want to input that site/name - CouponDirectory.com into some url extractor site/application/whatever

and I want it to spit out a list of all the urls listed on that site
url1
url2
url3
.......
url 200

I want to take that list of 200 urls (just the keywords, after I strip out the extension and stuff) put them into something like GoDaddy Bulk search and see which ones are now available to hand reg.

Hi @JB Lions

Something like this tool?

https://en.rakko.tools/tools/62/

(see: URL tab)

 

[JB Lions]

Ahhhhhhh OK I see what you mean now thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of a tool to validate all the links on a page and list any that were broken or not resolving.

That would be a good bookmark to have. Tried searching for broken link checker in Google, tried your site. This one looks pretty good and it's fast:

https://www.domlinks.com/
100% scanned - 844/844 URLs checked, 748 OK, 96 failed

404 not found
403 forbidden
Timeout
Not found: Cannot find object........
Not found: The server name or ......
Not found: The date in the certificate is invalid or has expired

etc

https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/website-dead-link-checker.asp

This one looks good as well, little slower but doing the trick:

https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com

 

[JB Lions]

Hi @JB Lions

Something like this tool?

https://en.rakko.tools/tools/62/

(see: URL tab)

Something along those lines, I think I might have actually tried that one. Not picking up everything, then not the whole site. Will try some more sites to try with this tool, then try to find some other tools.

Then remember trying to find something that would get dead sites but are in archive.org. See if there is something that could scrape them for urls.

Not a tool I've used before but I'm sure they're out there being used for various reasons. I'm just trying to find some dead urls that you can hand reg.

 

[ArielT]

Alright, I've been in organization mode, going thru 15+ years of bookmarks on my computer. Just went thru 4 folders of domaining bookmarks, just finished this thread and others. Now, will be typing in keywords like domain name generator into Google and see what's new. I put all the bookmarks in a spreadsheet. Name/Category/URL, have 200+ right now. There are a lot of SEO tools and Site tools being posted as well, more for development. Going to put those in their own spreadsheet.

One tool I'm looking for if anybody knows a good one that actually works. Would be willing to pay a one time fee as well if it's good.

A url extractor. There are some old directories out there that haven't been updated in years. I want to be able to input the url and get a list of domains posted on those sites and I can do an availability check.

So does anybody know a great url extractor that can do that kind of thing? I've tried about 5 different ones so far, they all suck. Thanks.

Waste of time

If the domains are good more than likely are already registered, better use expired domains

 

[JB Lions]

Waste of time

If the domains are good more than likely are already registered, better use expired domains

You would be surprised, I have found some good ones this way. To the hunter goes the spoils

 

[D Haynes]

That would be a good bookmark to have. Tried searching for broken link checker in Google, tried your site. This one looks pretty good and it's fast:

https://www.domlinks.com/
100% scanned - 844/844 URLs checked, 748 OK, 96 failed

404 not found
403 forbidden
Timeout
Not found: Cannot find object........
Not found: The server name or ......
Not found: The date in the certificate is invalid or has expired

etc

https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/website-dead-link-checker.asp

This one looks good as well, little slower but doing the trick:

https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com

Awesome! Looks like I have some work to do lol.

 

[End User King]

Alright, I've been in organization mode, going thru 15+ years of bookmarks on my computer. Just went thru 4 folders of domaining bookmarks, just finished this thread and others. Now, will be typing in keywords like domain name generator into Google and see what's new. I put all the bookmarks in a spreadsheet. Name/Category/URL, have 200+ right now. There are a lot of SEO tools and Site tools being posted as well, more for development. Going to put those in their own spreadsheet.

One tool I'm looking for if anybody knows a good one that actually works. Would be willing to pay a one time fee as well if it's good.

A url extractor. There are some old directories out there that haven't been updated in years. I want to be able to input the url and get a list of domains posted on those sites and I can do an availability check.

So does anybody know a great url extractor that can do that kind of thing? I've tried about 5 different ones so far, they all suck. Thanks.

I use Scrapebox for this very thing.

 

[JB Lions]

Alright, just tried a bunch of tools where you put in a keyword/phrase then get a bunch of search volume, metrics for that keyword and phrases containing that keyword. I wanted free and sites where I didn't have to sign up for anything. I like these 3:

https://ahrefs.com/keyword-generator - gets you 100 keywords plus search volume

https://www.wordtracker.com/search?query=keyword - gets you 100 keywords plus search volume, competition

https://www.keyword-tools.org/en/?keyword=keyword - gets you more than 100 keywords plus search volume, competition, CPC

 

[JB Lions]

Hi you can check domain keywords vol in my tool for free . no limit. https://namelooka.com

Those 3 tools are a little different, they all give search volume as well but I’m using them more to find domains to register

Input main keyword like crypto then it spits out phrases with that keyword like:

Crypto storage
Crypto prices
Crypto currency
Crypto market
Crypto news
Etc

For just search volume I can always go to source and use Google ad planner or whatever it’s called. They had some other tool in the past that went away that did the above. Unless it’s still available and I’m missing it

 

[JB Lions]

I guess Google does have it, it's been years since using Adwords.

Input word, get Keyword Ideas, then avg. monthly searches like 1k-10k, 10k-100k. So I think those 3 tools and this is all I need.

 

[DnFolk]

anything for bulk expiry date checker? like checking 50K domains at once