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Wildcard Whois Search Tools
One of the best ways to find other domains registered to a company is to use a
wildcard Whois lookup tool. There are a number of these available on the Internet
and they are detailed in a later section of this book. Wildcard searches work best
with unusual or distinctive domain names.
Domain Surfer
Domain Tools Whois Source
Namedroppers.com
Netcraft
Whois.net
Whoix?
Whoix? Advanced Search
http://www.domainsurfer.com/
http://whois.domaintools.com/
http://www.namedroppers.com/
http://www.netcraft.com/
http://www.whois.net/
http://www.whoix.com/
http://www.whoix.com/advdomsearch.html
Explore the Site
There are any number of things you can learn from looking at the various pages at a
company website. Fortunately, it is easy to display all the pages at a website (at
least all the pages indexed by a specific search engine); unfortunately, for a large
website, finding useful information within all these can be a daunting task. The best
tools for site exploration are Yahoo's Site Explorer and the various site: and link:
commands available at major search engines.
In addition to Yahoo's Site Explorer, here is a summary of the various "site
exploring" syntax available in Yahoo, Google, and Live Search:
Yahoo Search:
~ site/domain: restricts results to a specific website or domain, including a
specific top-level domain. May be used with or without keywords.
[site:fr] returns all the pages Yahoo has indexed in the French top-level
domain
[site:who.int sars] finds all the pages at the WHO website that contain the
keyword SARS; will find pages at wpro.who.int as well as www.who.int.
Google Search:
~ site: restricts results to websites in a given domain. May be used with or
without keywords.
[site:in] returns all the pages Google has indexed in the Indian top-level
domain
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