Using public resources

On the Internet, there are several public resources that can be used to collect information regarding a target domain. The benefit of using these resources is that your network traffic is not sent to the target domain directly, so our activities are not recorded in the target domain log files.

The following are the resources that can be used:

No.

Resource URL

Description

1

http://www.archive.org

This contains an archive of websites.

2

http://www.domaintools.com/

This contains domain name intelligence.

3

http://www.alexa.com/

This contains the database of information about websites.

4

http://serversniff.net/

This is the free Swiss Army knife for networking, server checks, and routing.

5

http://centralops.net/ ...

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