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With our massive domain name dataset, it was about time we exposed a way to search for subdomains for any domain name. Hopefully people find this useful!

hugheseyon Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS

Thanks for the kind words and glad it's been useful :).

hugheseyon Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS

100% agree that there will be more ccTLD operators that will implement RDAP. The sooner we're on a consistent protocol the better!

hugheseyon Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS

This was announced originally early last year. It removes the requirement for TLD and nTLD (not ccTLD) operators to have a WHOIS service available, but doesn't mandate they must shut them down.

So far the sunsetting has had little effect with most TLDs still having their WHOIS services online. In reality, I think we'll see a period of time where many TLDs and nTLDs have both WHOIS and RDAP available.

Additionally, since ccTLD's aren't governed by ICANN, many don't even have an RDAP service available. As such, there's going to be a mix of RDAP and WHOIS in use across the entire internet for some time to come.

Disclosure: I run https://viewdns.info/ and have spent many an hour dealing with both WHOIS and RDAP parsing to make sure that our service returns consistent data (via our web interface and API) regardless of the protocol in use.

hugheseyon CIA 2010 covert communication websites

Heya,

Founder of https://viewdns.info/ here (used by and 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

hugheseyon CloudFlair: Bypassing CloudFlare using Internet-wide scan data

You can also potentially view the historical DNS A records for the domain to view the pre-Cloudflare IP at http://viewdns.info/iphistory/.

hugheseyon Find every domain someone owns automatically

There's some reverse engineered zone files for a lot of cctlds at http://viewdns.info/data/.

hugheseyon Find every domain someone owns automatically

So has http://viewdns.info. Free too.

hugheseyon CloudFlare, We Have a Problem

Or just http://ViewDNS.info/ for a free alternative :)

hugheseyon How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

For those without domaintools commercial accounts... http://viewdns.info/reversewhois/?q=seemaexports3%40gmail.co...

hugheseyon Show HN: IP Lookup

Also available at http://viewdns.info/iplocation/. There's an API as well http://viewdns.info/api/.

hugheseyon Complete, Persistent Compromise of Netgear Wireless Routers

There's one at http://viewdns.info/ if you're only after common ports.

hugheseyon NYTimes.com down for some users; paper suspects “external attack”

NS records pointing to Syrian Electronic Army - http://viewdns.info/dnsrecord/?domain=nytimes.com

hugheseyon Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown

Dates are when the domain was last checked by the site.

hugheseyon Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown

Once seized, they generally point them at the server at 74.81.170.110 which hosts their seized image. Thus using a simple reverse IP lookup we can see a list of all seized domains: http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=74.81.170.110

hugheseyon The Web engineer's online toolbox

Suggesting an addition http://viewdns.info/ - A collection of free DNS tools.

hugheseyon Iran designing its own version of the Internet

The Internet is Iran is already quite unique, thanks to the strict Government controlled filters in place.

There was a recent study testing the top 100 websites in each of Alexa's site categories. It tested if each was available in Iran using the Iran Firewall Test (http://viewdns.info/iranfirewall/).

The result? Approximately 27% of sites we tested were blocked. Categories such as adult sites saw much higher rates.

The research piece is here for anyone interested: http://viewdns.info/research/current-state-of-internet-censo...

hugheseyon GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

Have you tried http://www.viewdns.info/ismysitedown/ ?

hugheseyon Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

Not a blog post but a great book.

The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307465357/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Quite litterally changed my whole perspective on just about everything!

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100 websites from EACH of Alexa's 15 categories = 1500 sites. Sure the sample could have been bigger, but with millions, if not billions of websites in existance, what number would you class as a representative sample?

hugheseyon Apple's domains

Can find them using Reverse IP Lookups as well: e.g. http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=ipod.com

Try a few other of their domains and see what else is hosted on the same server.

hugheseyon Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown

Most of the seized domains end up hosted on the Feds 'seized domain' server at 74.81.170.110.

As such, it's possible to see a list of all seized domains using a Reverse IP tool - e.g. http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=74.81.170.110

hugheseyon Has Iran lifted it's Internet censorship or is it just MITM all connections?

Reports on the ground also support the evidence that twitter, facebook, etc are all currently accessible in Iran!

hugheseyon Is your website hosted in a dodgy neighborhood?

Guess some people preferred something other than 'localhost'!

hugheseyon Anonplus.com hacked by Syrian hackers

The site is hosted with JustHost with over 1000 domains sharing the server...

http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=anonplus.com

If you host with JustHost it might be worth seeing if your site is listed, because the server itself might be compromised!

hugheseyon Instantly see what other websites are on the same server as you

@moozeek - none of those sites you linked seem to be anywhere near as accurate.