What is Registrant Monitor?

Registrant Monitor provides active monitoring of domain registrants. Registrant Monitor sends email notifications when there is a modification to a Whois Record of a domain that matches the keyword(s) of your choice. You will receive a notification when a domain matching the keyword(s) you provide is registered, deleted, or when ownership changes. Note that Registrant Monitor is not recommended for monitoring high-volume registrants such as Privacy or Proxy services.
Note: for complete documentation, please see the User Guide.

What TLDs are supported by this tool?

Registrant Monitor supports .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, and .info domains. Additional TLDs may be supported; however, a delay between registration and notification may occur and there is a possibility notification may never occur.

What can I do with Registrant Monitor?

With the Registrant Monitor tool, you can monitor when changes to a domain’s Whois record occur. To use this tool, enter a search term(s) (name, address, email address) into the Registrant Monitor search box, and enter any terms you wish to exclude; an email is sent to your email address when a change occurs to the Whois record of domains matching that search term(s). This may be helpful in the following instances:
Phishing and Typo-squatting sites: By using DomainTools’ Domain Typo Generator, you are able to search for people who may be stealing traffic from your site. Add the registrants name to your Registrant Alert list and you will be notified as soon as the squatter registers a new domain name.
Corporate Monitoring: Use Registrant Alert to monitor a particular company or organization. Keep track of what properties a company is buying, new products they may release, and domains they’ve acquired through arbitration. You will also be alerted when the registrant privatizes records, changes addresses, transfers to a shell company, or sells or purchases a domain name.
Personal Monitoring: Protect your domains by monitoring your email address or name and address. Alerts will be sent out when you get a new domain name, when someone registers a domain name on your behalf, or when someone uses your name to register domains. Also, you will receive an alert when your domain’s ownership is changed, which may be evidence of possible domain theft.
Local Domain Registrations: Monitor local registrations using postal code or city name. For example, if you create an alert for “90210”, you will receive alerts when new domains are registered to registrants in Beverly Hills. This may allow you to track new start-up companies in a particular local, or businesses that may be expanding their online presences.

How much does Registrant Monitor cost?

Registrant Monitor access is based on your membership level. See the Features & Pricing page for details.

How do I get to Registrant Monitor?

Registrant Monitor is located in the Monitor section of Research.DomainTools.com.