Gain actionable insights into domain registration, transfers, and privacy. Learn to retrieve and interpret WHOIS data, monitor ownership changes, and employ privacy services—so you can make informed decisions, protect your brand, and avoid pitfalls when managing or acquiring domains.
In today’s digital economy, your brand’s online identity is often as valuable as your products or services. Unfortunately, unscrupulous parties sometimes register domains similar to yours—typosquatting, brandjacking, or malicious infringement—to divert traffic, confuse customers, or perpetrate phishing attacks. By continuously…
Transferring a domain between registrars might seem straightforward—unlock the domain, grab the auth code, paste it into the new registrar’s transfer form, and hit go. But in practice, dozens of small misconfigurations and timing quirks can derail the process, leading…
Your domain name is your digital real estate. WHOIS records—publicly accessible information about your domain’s owner, registration dates, contact details, and name servers—help networks route traffic and stakeholders verify legitimacy. But if you run a small business or personal blog,…
Leveraging WHOIS data for competitive domain research involves analyzing registration patterns, registrant history, and domain portfolios to uncover insights about rivals’ strategies and opportunities to acquire valuable domains. Here’s a detailed guide on how to do this effectively: Why Competitive…
Keeping track of your domain’s registration and expiry is mission-critical—miss a renewal date, and your website could vanish, email service break, or worst, someone scoops up your brand. That’s why mastering WHOIS lookups is essential. In this guide, we’ll walk…