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How do you sell domain names? How do you find domain name endusers? How do you find domain name owners? or How do I lookup domain name history?

I get these and bunch of other questions related to domain names almost every day. I was literally exhausted from typing same set of answer for different people.

Here are bunch of Internet tools which will help you sell domain names, find domain name endusers, find domain name owners or lookup domain name history. Hundreds and thousands of people want to look up details of a particular domain name for various reasons and these tools listed below will make their life easier. read on to learn more about these important tools for domain name research:

Whoxy.com

Whoxy labels itself as a domain search engine offering most of the required features free of cost. I personally use this tool as it is quite reliable and provides up to date information to look up present and past owner details (WhoIS) of the of the domain name.

It also helps in extracting bulk WhoIS data through WhoIS API under paid option. Additional features include; Reverse WhoIS API, Bulk WhoIS Lookup, WhoIS Database of previously registered domain names, Database of newly registered domain names, Expired & Deleted domain names, etc.

Wayback Machine from Archive.org

Wayback Machine is known for hosting more than 376 billion web pages saved over time. It is known to have saved almost all of the world wide web on their servers and a particular website/webpage can be viewed at a later date.

You can use this tool to know about the history of a domain name. Whether it was being used as a business website, parking page or for sale landing page by a domain name investor, etc.

HosterStats.com

If you are looking to find the historical nameservers of a particular domain name or a website, look no further because this is one of the oldest and best platform to dig in and get some reliable data.

It also shares some interesting statistics and reports, such as; TLD Domain Name Registrations By Country, TLD Domain Name Counts, Top 1000 Hosters Report, etc.

HosterStats is known as a domain registration statistics and historical DNS database.

HosterStats.com provides a free searchable historical DNS database for over 600 million active and deleted domains in the .com .net .org .biz .info .mobi .asia .ie .eu .de .co.uk Top Level Domains. HosterStats.com also tracks the domain statistics for over 7 Million hosters based on their nameservers. The historical coverage of domain tracking and hoster statistics stretches back to 2000. It is the source for domain name registration, hosting and registrar statistics.

DomainIQ.com

DomainIQ bills itself as comprehensive domain name intelligence platform.

DomainIQ - Find out everything about a domain name, its owner, the server it's hosted on, its ownership history, similar domains and much more. domainIQ is an internet research tool trusted by government agencies, domain investors and legal firms.

DomainIQ's Domain Search optionis one of the most important domain name research tool to find previous and present owners of domain names which are significantly similar and relevant to your domain's keywords. This tool is developed and maintained by Intelium Corp., the company behind popular domain name valuation tool; Estibot.

Free account at DomainIQ restricts you from researching for only limited numbers. An upgraded package starting at $24.95 allows an account owner to perform plenty of daily searches such for the following tools; Bulk WHOIS Lookup, Bulk DNS, Bulk IP WHOIS, Bulk Snapshot, Hosting Research, Domain Similarity Finder, Domain Registration History, , Reverse WhoIS, Domain Search, Reverse IP, Reverse DNS, Reverse MX, Reverse Google® Analytics, Reverse Google® Adsense, Registrar Domain Counts, Reverse Map Search, Email/Registrant Count Lookup, Identity Discovery, Portfolio Analyzer, Domain Monitoring & Reports, Zone Files, etc.

DomainTools.com

DomainTools is known as one of the oldest platform (15 years in existence) with domain name intelligence tools.

Though the membership packages are a bit steep compared to DomainIQ, DomainTools is known as one of the most popular WhoIS research service with the most thorough collection of generic and country code Top Level Domains (TLDs).

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DomainTools helps security analysts turn threat data into threat intelligence. We take indicators from your network, including domains and IPs, and connect them with nearly every active domain on the Internet. Those connections inform risk assessments, help profile attackers, guide online fraud investigations, and map cyber activity to attacker infrastructure.

Our goal is to stop security threats to your organization before they happen, using domain/DNS data, predictive analysis, and monitoring of trends on the Internet. We collect Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data from many sources, along with historical records, in a central database. We index and analyze the data based on various connection algorithms to deliver actionable intelligence, including domain scoring and forensic mapping.

DomainTools has over 10 billion related DNS data points to build a map of ‘who’s doing what’ on the Internet. Fortune 1000 companies, global government agencies, and leading security solution vendors use the DomainTools platform as a critical ingredient in their threat investigation and mitigation work.

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Great info. Thanks for sharing
 
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Thanks for sharing some important tools for the domain search.
 
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