DomainTools.com is great place to check the status of your domain along with some network tools that can help webmasters; such as, nameserver information, SEO Score, Meta tag descriptions, Alexa Rankings.
Let’ts run through a quick tutorial…
- Open your browser and go to www.domaintools.com
- Under the first whois lookup form, type in your domain. ie; “WebMasterpunk.com” (typing www is not needed)
- Select search
- You will not be presented with a long page of descriptive data about your domain and your webhost
Some of the cool features I like about DomainTools.com Whois Record Lookup is that is provides you a quick snapshot of what your website is about, who you are hosted with, quick SEO score, any wiki articles about your site.
Now let’s do a breakdown of the detailed sections.
Site Profile
Site profile captures data from your website .html .php or .asp pages. Grabs the title from your code and lookups the numbero f unique wording descriptions on your website. It’s a cool tool that will also tell you if you are missing any alt tags (which are very important for Google Indexing).
Registration Record
This data provides you where your domain was registered and or purchases. Gives you a quick breakdown of the company, register status and your nameservers. A great tool for webmasters and webhosts.
Server Data
This portion of the page describes information about your nameservers. It simply does an IP address lookup and display information about your host’s network, where the server is located, what datacenter and much more.
DomainTools Exclusive
Since DomainTools.com is a free service, heck, their going to try to upsell you, right? Yep. This section of the website provides even more detailed information about your nameserver, registrant and how many domains the server or registrant owns. In order to lookup this information, you will need a membership to this website. (Boohoo!) Yea…I know you don’t like paying for stuff, neither do I. It’s a nifty tool, well worth it becuase you can see the history of what that website looked like a few days, weeks, months, and years ago! Kinda like a web history page.
Whois Record
When purchasing a domain, you are asked to enter in your data for your domain. Data such as your first name, last name, who this domain belongs do, who the admin or webmaster of this domain is. This data is displayed here and is publicly available to anyone in the world; unless, you purchase Privacy…in which your domain Whois Record is masked by a corporate address from a company that monitors your privacy and blocks your personal information. Privacy is recommend only to users who would like their information blocked from publich access and or business/personals who have personal websites and would not like to share their name and details.
Easy eh? This is a great site if you ever want to figure out where your compeition is hosting, what company they are using, where they registered their domain or heck to see who owns the domain. Goodluck, be safe!
