Survey respondents vote for best domain tools…and choose the aptly named DomainTools.
DomainTools is the most valuable tool in the domain business for research and management, according to a survey of over 1,000 people in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey.
Survey takers were asked “Which software or hosted application is most valuable to your domain name business for research and management?”
28% of respondents selected DomainTools. That’s more than double the next highest entry on the list.
Here are the top five responses:
1. DomainTools 28%
2. FreshDrop 12%
3. DomainResearchTool 10%
4. Estibot 10%
5. Wordtracker 10%
Last year DomainTools was also ranked highest, although it took a larger share of the vote.
You can read more results from the Domain Name Wire survey here.
rs says
I asked my registrar (Tucows) why they are allowing DomainTools to display historic whois data. Tucows says they have no relationship with DomainTools.com and that they scraped the whois data w/o permission. I seems to me the data should not be used in legal proceedings such as the UDRP if it was not obtained from a verified source.
DomainTools.com also captured screenshots of all my web site, superimposed their logo on it, and posted them at their screenshots.com web site. I asked them to remove my intellectual property and they won’t answer me. I may have to file a takedown notice with their ISP.
I noticed all this after the story here about the DomainTools trademark. When the trademark office said it was descriptive DomainTools claimed they had exclusive use of the name and that notbody else used it or something similar. I think they knew I used Domain-Tools.com. their letter to the trademark office even shows a Google search on “domaintools” and my site came up sandwiched between DomainTools.com and the DomainTools.com twitter page.
rs says
This is from the screenshots.com site:
FAQ: I have a robot.txt file on my site yet DomainTools is still capturing my sites screenshot image. Why is that?
Answer: Screenshots does not “crawl” a site. It only grabs an image of a website’s home page.
So why do they grab the home page if robots.txt tells them not to? …
And who is on first?
WQ says
Good question…any answer?