hughesey

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Comment · 1 year ago

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!

Comment · 1 year ago

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

Comment · 1 year ago

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

Comment · 1 year ago

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.

Comment · 2 years ago

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 [email protected] as I'm more than happy to extend some free API credits etc!

-Hughesey

Comment · 8 years ago

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

Comment · 9 years ago

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

Comment · 9 years ago

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