A powerful way to stay informed about the online activities of an organization, individual, or even a location, is to watch for changes to the monitored registrant information as reflected in the Whois records. A Whois record contains all of the contact information associated with the person, group, or company that registers a particular domain name. Typically, the record will contain information such as the name and contact information of the Registrant (who owns the domain), the name and contact information of the Registrar (the organization or commercial entity that registered the domain name), the registration dates, the name servers, the most recent update date, and the expiration date. Whois records may also provide the administrative and technical contact information (which is often, but not always, the registrant).

Registrant Monitor can be used to track a specific registrant or to alert you to new online holdings before they become active or are publicly announced by parsing through the Whois records of new domain registrations daily and compiling a list of domains that contain the significant term(s) being monitored. This list of matching domains is available via the Registrant Monitor dashboard, where daily email alerts can also be enabled. Use this tool to track a specific registrant or to alert you to new online holdings before they become active or are publicly announced.

What can I do with Registrant Monitor?

• Keep a close eye on known or suspected malicious organizations or individuals via the domains they register or drop, including malicious or brand-infringing domains operated by serial violators
• Observe registration activities connected to a physical location or a phone number--which can help track registrants who supply changing name or contact information
• Monitor your competition for new online holdings, or changes to existing ones, before they are publicly announced

Key features:

• Monitoring of many different parameters: contact name, registrant name, email address, physical address or address component (such as postal code), phone number, and more
• Email alerts tell you when domains tied to the monitored registrant term(s) have changes, including new registrations, changes of ownership, or drops/deletes.
• Dashboard displays records of the changes for easy reference

Note that Registrant Monitor is NOT recommended for monitoring high-volume registrants such as Privacy or Proxy services.