Difference between revisions of "DomainTools.com"

DomainTools.com is the famous website whois.sc with a new name and a lot of added domain searching functionality. Where whois.sc tracked domain ownership, the mission of Domain Tools is to provide all the tools you Domain Tools is still the number one domain registration information site online. However, they now also offer both an easier to remember name, and a much better website. Their new website design allows you to find all of their tools via a new header on each of their pages. This allows you to navigate to any tool they offer from any page. No getting lost or not being able to find what you are looking for.

The whois function of Domain Tools no longer simply returns you information on the domain registration but also allows for wildcard searches, partial word searches, the ability to search an IP address, a suggestion tool to help you name your domain, a search for domains for sale, and a search for domains being sold at auction.

DNS Tools

The DNS Tools page allows you to do simple things like DNS lookup, ping or traceroute from your web browser. The tool kit also allows you to view the information on your own PCs IP address as well.

FREE Domain Monitor

One of the best offerings from Domain Tools is their Domain Monitor. The Domain Monitor is 100% free and allows you to monitor the daily status, via e-mail, of any domain you might be interested in. Domain Monitor supports TLDs of .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info.

The Domain Monitor will send you updates when a domain you are interested in purchasing will come to be available. It will let you know when a domain is about to expire so you can purchase it.

Membership

By registering with Domain Tools you get free and unlimited access to advanced features on their site and a stored roaming profile where you can save your search information and access it from anywhere online.

Contact

DomainTools.com

Support

Address

12806 SE 22nd PL

Bellevue, WA 98005

Very Poor and Very Intrusive

Domaintools.com publish private data from the WHOIS register or sell it - which is in breach of the UK Nominet terms of use - and cache historical records including peoples names and addresses and sell those on in "reports" to make a quick profit. They operate purely due to a lag in the law to catch up with modern technology regarding privacy. Not in the spirit of the Internet.

Copyright

Websites that our hosted outside the USA do have their own copyright laws. Which Domaintools believe that they copy website content. They stated that they can do this because of Kelly v. Arriba Soft case when a judge stated that a site can use other sites content if it is fair use. However this will mean that these are only for USA websites and not other websites that our outside the states. When told to remove the copied data, domaintools.com said that if a webmaster or owner wants to get in touch with them to remove the data, they require a lawer to contact their legal department. But why should webmasters and owners waste time and money to get domaintools.com to remove the copied data. I suguest that they learn the different laws of the world and honor the requests of webmasters and owners of sites that they copied data off without permission. Techesport.co.uk 15:25, 19 February 2008 (PST)

Privacy, Copyrights and Trademarks

By publishing and even selling the whois information as well as content from individual websites related to that whois information, Domaintools.com is considered to be an illegally operating company in most European countries; since EU laws simply do not allow to do so.

• posted by superspamfilter on Dec 26, 2009, 13:04 pm