Research Clinic
supporting open source investigation
 
 

Who owns a domain ("whois")?
Whoisology
Amazingly flexible domain information database.
Researchclinic's Reverse Whois Search
Search various Whois sites for details that might be in a domain registration (email, phone number, postcode)
Domaintools
is a great Whois tool with superb extras available by subscription. See also
Who.is
Whoismind
This allows you to do a free search for domains by email.
Website Informer
allows various fields and keywords to be searched.

See web ownership connections
Netcomber - a nice graphical interface looks at domain ownership and shows relationships between sites.

Cybertoolbelt
paid service, but contains a huge range of domain, dns and ip investigative tools
 
What's on the server? ("Reverse IP")
IP-adress
"Reverse IP", lists domains it believes are sharing a server. See also spyonweb and webhosting
yougetsignal
Recommended, with many different functions
Domaintools (subscribers)
Highly recommended, but not free.
Weboar
Robtex
Really useful tool for investigating a domain. Finds its subdomains etc.
 
Netcraft report
Click site report for WHOIS, then "netblock owner".
List subdomains on a site
See also intellitamper, foca and acunetix  software
Pentest Tools
Finds hidden (?) subdomains
Reverse Internet
Also allows you to check neighbouring domains.
Hurricane Electric
Investigate a domain name and its IP address block.
Historical whois
Domaintools (subscribers) Who.is archive (free)
Specialist IP address tools
Look up a website's IP address with IP Tracker - see also IP-Address.net and Findip-Address Geotrace an IP Address
Locate an IP address down to the users home town!
See also Max Mind and Whatismyipaddress
 
Gaijin.at
Various IP location & whois tools from an Austrian site. Sometimes finds details that others miss.
Trace Route
YouGetSignal Geographically trace a server containing a Web page or allocated an IP address.
Email tracer 
(use with caution!)
See also ip-address, mxtoolbox, reversemx and network-tools
DNS Stuff
Various tools to probe a server.
How popular is a domain?
Webrank stats

 

International WHOIS/IP research
International IPs
Find which regional authority handles IP address allocation for a country. 
National Authorities
International bodies that issue country code domains. If WHOIS fails, go to the source! 
See also IANA
Generic Domains
Authorities for domains that don't have a country code or
 
standard top level domain.
Nominet 
British domain authority who
 
oversee the .uk domain names
The TV Corp. 
WHOIS for the .tv domain.
See also DotFM WHOIS for the .fm domain
APNIC 
IP authority for the Asia Pacific region.
RIPE
The IP issuing authority for Europe, have the best WHOIS lookup for European IP addresses.
ARIN 
IP authority for for North America 
LACNIC 
for Latin America & the Caribbean and AFRINIC for Africa

 


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