A small article for fans to search the Internet and play scouts. How to find out the name of the domain owner ?
Although this information is confidential, we have found ways to find out.
We will talk about these options in our article. Why do you need this? First of all, this is interest. Perhaps you want to find a council for a person stealing articles, ideas, etc. from your site. Or you want to hire a person to work, but there are no contacts for communication.
The first method and the most famous one is to look at domain information through the who.is domain registrar.
Obvious ways
1. We go to the site who.is and drive into the search bar the domain you want to know information about . To begin with, through this service you can find out the email address and phone number of the owner with sufficient luck. If the domain name registrar has decided not to hide the information.
2. Trying to contact in an obvious way.
We send a message to the domain registrar with a request to give us the contact information of the site owner or to contact him. Or write to the email address specified in who.is, a tempting offer. It is not known whether the correct mail was specified during domain registration and with what regularity the site owner checks it. You can apply social engineering skills, introduce yourself as an investor or administrator of a large site, offer to buy advertising at a bargain price. Having obtained the mail of the former or current owner of the site, we can search the forums and services for the sale of domains and find information about it. After finding this ad, we will find out a list of potential buyers, usually they are displayed. You can find out the owner of a domain this way.
Social engineering
3. Did you recognize the mail? We are looking for what other sites are in its management.
Why do we need to know who owns the domain ? Perhaps on other sites he left information about himself or maintains a personal blog. And the data about it can be easily found out by writing, as indicated in paragraph 2. You can do this on the domainiq.com website.
4. We turn to the hoster to find out the owner of the domain.
Hostadvice.com helps you. The main thing is to justify why you need information about the domain owner . Again, SI (social engineering) comes into play . You can introduce yourself as an employee of the company who wants to order advertising, or as a cute girl who is in love with articles on the site and, therefore, the owner.
Search engine help
5. Information about the creators of the file is publicly available.
Google will help us. This search engine is able to search not only sites, but also files of certain formats: doc, ppt, xls, pdf, rtf, swf. An example of a Google request for doc files from the Lepra site is filetype: doc site: lepra.ru. And find out who owns the domain .
6. File for search engine robots .
We are looking in the file robot.txt for files like: members, member, uchastniki and stuff like that. This file contains information about users of the site. You may get pages of participants with photos and personal data. As a rule, robot.txt lies in the root directory of the site, but exceptions are possible.
7. Useful for finding pages in sitemap.xml.
Unlike the previous file, this one is for the Google search engine. There may be differences. For example, there you can find a page with contacts, which the administrator deliberately removed from the main page of the site in order to maintain confidentiality. But you can find out the domain owner on this page.
8. Addresses associated with the domain.
There is an interesting service emailhunter.co, which, according to its own principles, calculates which email addresses can be associated with this domain.
9. We are looking for sites that link to the domain.
Use any backlink checker. Perhaps there are links from profiles in social networks to this site, and one of them will be owned by the owner.
10. There is an interesting service that can determine the address of the owner and the model of his mobile phone from the photo, if he took this photo from him, findface.ru is the address of this service.
11. Identification of the owner of the photograph with his face.
There is a small chance, provided that the site is small, to find a photograph of the owner in his pictures, perhaps, sometime by negligence, he uploaded it there, and then forgot to delete it. But Google doesn’t forget this, you can search the pictures that are on the site using this search engine.
Digging in the code
12. We are looking for comments in the source code of the pages.
We go to the site, type Shift + Command + U or by clicking on the right mouse button select the pop-up menu item "Show page code" or "Show source code". Variations may be different. The main thing is to find the right one. We are looking for js scripts, perhaps they are written by the site owner on their own, his vanity will help us. The person who wrote the script is likely to indicate his nickname in such a file. And already by nickname you can find out the owner of the domain.