How do you tell # of WHOIS searches on your domain?

[Nathan King]

Good day,

How do you tell how many time's people have performed a WHOIS lookup on your domain?

Thanks!


Edit: Answer for GoDaddy users is here.

 

[katherine]

I believe only Fabulous allows you to keep track of that information.

 

[Theo]

Correct, only Fabulous adds that crafty little gimmick to your set of portfolio managing tools.

 

[snicksnack]

it is not possible, unless you have control over the whois servers.

 

[Theo]

Actually it is. The Registrar has control of the upper layer of the WHOIS server; unless specifically redirected to the root servers, each query is performed at the registrar's servers. Some registrars like GoDaddy don't even allow full WHOIS unless it's performed directly at that upper layer. However, it seems that this applies only to Verisign-controlled TLDs: .com and .net

 

[Nathan King]

I figured it out how to get the # of WHOIS searches with GoDaddy. I have posted instructions in this thread.

This is a registrar-specific feature.

 

[snicksnack]

is it only possible if the registrar of the specific .com or .net provides this information, as the registrars operate the whois servers for .com/.net. When it comes to ccTLDs, in most cases the whois servers are operated by the registry and they normally do not provide these informations.

 

[AbsoluteKC]

I figured it out how to get the # of WHOIS searches with GoDaddy. I have posted instructions in this thread.

This is a registrar-specific feature.

Thank you for sharing, this is a useful tip!

 

[Infoproliferati]

Thank you Acro.

 

[draggar]

Someone posted how to do this with domains registered at GoDaddy recently.