Use cases

Twelve ways teams turn daily whois data into revenue and protection

Sales teams, hosting providers, agencies, brand owners, security analysts, investigators and researchers all pull the same daily feed of newly registered domains — and each one reads it differently. Here is how.

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Prospect reached before any competitor
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From registration to your FTP account
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Privacy-masked rows you pay for
40+
Days of history for backfills

By team

Whois database use cases, one by one

Each card lists the outcome, the workflow and the exact fields that carry the weight for that job.

Sales

B2B lead generation from day-one businesses

Every newly registered domain is a business that just decided to exist online. Reaching the registrant on day one puts you in front of the buyer before any competitor knows the company exists.

200,000+ fresh prospects every single day, worldwide
Verified registrant name, email, phone, organisation and postal address
Filter by TLD, country or registrar to match your ideal customer profile
Push straight into your CRM as a daily automated import

Fields that matter

registrant_name
registrant_email
registrant_telephone

Hosting

Hosting, domain and cloud provider acquisition

A brand-new domain usually has no hosting, no email, no SSL and no CDN yet. The registrar record tells you exactly who to approach and what they have not bought.

Target registrants at competing registrars with migration offers
Detect parked nameservers that signal no hosting is live yet
Bundle email, SSL and backup offers in the first 48 hours
Track registrar market share shifts over time

Fields that matter

registrarName
nameServers
whoisServer

Agency

Web design, development and SEO agency pipelines

New domains need a website, branding, content and search visibility. Agencies use the daily feed as an always-on top-of-funnel source instead of buying stale, resold lists.

Approach owners while the project brief is still being written
Segment by country and language for localised outreach
Spot niche keywords in domain names to pitch relevant packages
Refresh the pipeline daily with zero manual prospecting

Fields that matter

domainName
createdDate
registrant_organization

Marketing

Cold email and multichannel outreach lists

Because whois privacy and proxy records are removed before delivery, every record you receive carries usable contact detail — you never pay for masked rows.

Deliverable registrant email addresses, not role-based guesses
Phone and postal fields for calling and direct-mail sequences
Daily deltas keep suppression and re-contact rules simple
Build country-specific sequences from country-filtered files

Fields that matter

registrant_email
registrant_telephone
registrant_country

Brand

Brand protection and trademark monitoring

Typosquats, look-alikes and infringing domains are registered long before they resolve to a live site. Scanning the daily list catches them at registration, not after the damage.

Keyword and fuzzy match your brand across every new registration
Catch homoglyph and hyphenated variants across all TLDs and gTLDs
Registrant and registrar detail ready for UDRP or takedown filings
Evidence trail with the exact creation date of each abusive domain

Fields that matter

domainName
registrarName
createdDate

Security

Threat intelligence and newly-registered-domain blocking

A disproportionate share of phishing, malware C2 and spam infrastructure sits on domains less than 30 days old. NRD feeds are a standard control in mature security stacks.

Feed NRD lists into secure web gateways, DNS filters and SIEM rules
Pivot on shared registrant email, phone or organisation to cluster campaigns
Score risk by registrar, nameserver and country of registration
40+ days of history for retrospective incident investigation

Fields that matter

registrant_email
nameServers
registrant_country

Legal

Fraud investigation and due diligence

Investigators and compliance teams use whois attribution to connect entities, verify counterparties and establish who controlled a domain on a specific date.

Reverse-whois pivots on email, phone, organisation and address
Establish ownership timelines with created, updated and expiry dates
Support KYC and vendor onboarding checks with registration evidence
Bulk-check counterparty domain portfolios in one pass

Fields that matter

registrant_organization
registrant_street1
updatedDate

Investing

Domain investing and drop-catching

Registration velocity is the clearest signal of where demand is moving. Pair daily new registrations with just-expired domains to work both ends of the lifecycle.

Track keyword and TLD trends day over day
See which dropped names are re-registered and by whom
Value portfolios using real registration and renewal behaviour
Build shortlists before an auction listing goes public

Fields that matter

domainName
expiresDate
createdDate

SEO

SEO, link and competitor intelligence

New domains reveal emerging competitors, satellite sites and private blog networks long before they earn any backlinks or rankings.

Detect competitor microsites and campaign domains at registration
Find networks sharing a registrant email or nameserver footprint
Track niche entry rates to size an opportunity
Prospect outreach targets in your vertical the week they launch

Fields that matter

domainName
nameServers
registrant_organization

Product

Data enrichment and AI training corpora

Clean, normalised whois in comma-separated files drops straight into a warehouse, enrichment API or model pipeline without bespoke parsing.

40+ normalised columns, consistent across every TLD
Deduplicated daily deltas keep incremental loads cheap
Join keys for firmographic and technographic enrichment
Unlimited downloads, so backfills never cost extra

Fields that matter

domainName
createdDate
registrant_country

Research

Market research and registrar analytics

Ten days, ten months or ten countries — aggregate registration data answers questions that survey panels cannot.

Registrar and TLD market share by country and month
Adoption curves for new gTLDs after delegation
Regional business formation proxies for economic research
Reproducible datasets with fixed daily snapshots

Fields that matter

registrarName
registrant_country
createdDate

Resale

Data resale and white-label products

Licensed resellers build their own lead tools, dashboards and vertical products on top of the daily feed instead of running a collection pipeline.

Predictable flat monthly cost with no per-record billing
FTP automation suited to nightly ingest jobs
Custom field sets and country splits available on request
Historic backfill for launching with a populated product

Fields that matter

all 40+ fields
per-TLD files
country splits

How it runs

The same three steps behind every use case

Whatever you do with the data, the delivery workflow is identical — and it is automatic.

1 · Pull the daily file

Your FTP account receives the previous day's registrations, split per TLD plus one merged all-in-one file.

2 · Filter to your segment

Cut by country, TLD, registrar or keyword — or subscribe to the country-filtered plan and skip this step entirely.

3 · Load and act

Import into your CRM, security gateway, warehouse or outreach tool. Repeat automatically every morning.

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Pick the dataset that fits your use case

Newly registered domains

The daily NRD feed with whois attached — sales, security and brand teams start here.

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Country wise whois database

One-time historic databases for 285 countries, for regional research and outreach.

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Custom whois data

Your own domain list, your own field set, scraped and delivered to spec.

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Questions

Whois data use cases — frequently asked

What is a whois database used for?+

The most common uses are B2B lead generation, hosting and agency prospecting, brand and trademark protection, fraud investigation, security filtering of newly registered domains, domain investing, SEO competitor research and academic or market research.

Is using whois data for outreach compliant?+

Whois records are published by registries and registrars as part of domain registration. You remain responsible for complying with the marketing and privacy rules that apply in your jurisdiction and your recipient's — including consent, suppression and unsubscribe obligations. Our licence terms cover permitted use of the data itself.

Which use case needs the country-filtered plan?+

Any workflow that is regional: localised cold outreach, country-level market research, or compliance regimes that restrict which markets you may contact. The country plan delivers one file per registrant country each day so no filtering work is needed.

Can I use the data for a security or NRD blocklist?+

Yes. The daily list of newly registered domains is widely used as an input to DNS filters, secure web gateways and SIEM correlation rules, since a large share of malicious infrastructure is under 30 days old.

Can I resell or redistribute the data?+

Resale and white-label use is possible under a separate arrangement. Contact us with your intended volume and product and we will quote a licence.

What if my use case needs fields you do not publish?+

Send us the field list or your own domain list and we will quote a custom whois scraping job built to your specification.

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