Suspect someone is checking on the domains I own

Has anyone experienced this before?

[IdeaMagic]

Hello Members,

I am new to this forum and here I find lot of useful tips from several other members.

Last fewdays, I have noticed (through google adsense) someone was checking all the domain names owned by me. Since I own several hundred, the search went for several days which is very unusual when compared to normal hits.

I sent out an email to the registrar asking how come someone check my portfolio when I registered through them. The answer is , through registrant email id and through name server.

I wonder how a person with my email id, can find all the domain names owned?

Does anyone have any idea or experienced this before?

Thanks for answering,
The new kid on the block.

[jaynl]

Are you sure your sites were visited by a human? It sounds like a crawler was hitting all your sites.

[DNattorney]

The other concern, could be that someone is doing research on you because of a potential dispute over one of your domain names....

[edited by: Webwork at 2:44 am (utc) on Sep. 21, 2009]
[edit reason] Per Charter please avoid endorsements of service providers [/edit]

[IdeaMagic]

I don't think it's a crawler. It is human as the check went for 3 days...all of my names... So I am sure it must be a human.

I don't see any potential trade mark issue as some of the names I have trademarks.

Does anyone know how to get someone's domain name portfolio registered through a registrant email id? Do you think it would be the handiwork of the registrar or a known employee working at the registrar?

[robho]

Does anyone know how to get someone's domain name portfolio registered through a registrant email id?

There are various domain tools companies that offer this, usually for a price (can't mention them here). They get the information by doing a "whois" lookup for almost all domains, then reverse-indexing them on contact email, dns server, etc. Doesn't need to involve your registrar.

[IdeaMagic]

Thanks robho. I came across a company that offers this domain tool to find names based on registrant email id... and the price is ... I can buy another portfolio ..And for this price of thousand of dollars, people instead of spying on my names could have bought some great domains.

Also when I checked with that tool ( names hidden since one need to pay), these may not be that accurate.

I am not sure how this (whoever) got my names... If google adsense provides a visitor logs that would be great.

Does Google analytics offer visits to domains parked?

Thanks in advance.

[edited by: IdeaMagic at 6:25 pm (utc) on Sep. 22, 2009]

[bwnbwn]

Are all the domains on the same server? Registered under the same name? If so there are tools that can be used to obtain the domains you own.

[IdeaMagic]

Yes...All the names from one registrar. I have several registrars for coutry specific names... But this particlar hit came only on a specific regisrar with a specific tld.

[IdeaMagic]

Thanks bwnbwn.

The tools that you have mentioned is a paid one or paid service provided by some company or is it available for free?

Also how to block such searches by those tools or programs?

[robho]

If all the domains are hosted on a common IP there are free tools that will match them up. That one is easy to write - just go down a list of all domains, getting the IP, then list the results by IP.

How accurate it is depends on how complete the domain list is, and how often the search is done. For domains on shared hosting or parking there are too many sharing an IP for the result to be very meaningful.

To get a list of all registrant email addresses or names is more complex, involves a full whois lookup for every domain (hard when registrars rate-limit the lookups), and is much more likely to be out of date.

If this is a concern you need domain privacy, or a unique name and email address for each domain (so you then can't use domain templates). Plus, each domain needs to be on a separate IP, if not parked or forwarded. More trouble than it is worth, for most people.

[HuskyPup]

@ IdeaMagic

Are you bothered by this?

If so, why?

I'm not being intrusive however there seem to be quite a lot of people/companies who want to be secretive about their names however I can assure you that I can "usually" find out a domain owner without paying any fees.

[IdeaMagic]

Thanks a lot robho for a complete information.

Yes, Husky, I am bothered as it's not a genuine hit. Some one was checking domain names manually to see , is there any sites I have out or not. Most of the domain names are parked with google, so I got the hit in the adsense.

Domain owner finding is not a problem , if you know the domain name. But getting an registrant email id and then search through all of his domain portfolio is intriguing.

Is there anyway, we can find where the visitors come from or the IP address.. like thru google adsense, or analytics?

Thanks for all your clarifications sofar.

[Webwork]

Is there anyway, we can find where the visitors come from or the IP address.. like thru google adsense, or analytics?

The question would best be presented here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

This thread is now closed. Thanks to everyone for helpful answers.