.com Zone File Query - http://www.ZFbot.com

[kengreenwood]

Sorry - I wasn't checking for a zero array on the new matches form so anyone who registered and tried to open the "My Matches" form to enter domains wasn't able to... works now.

[kengreenwood]

I expanded the allowable search length to include any 2 character string or greater (it was 3). This was achievable by adding indexes on first_two, last_two, first_three, last_three, first_four, and last_four character strings on the main zone table along with indexes on extension, domain length. I added a limit of 50,000 for any query to prevent time outs. Performance on the "ending with" type queries was not good... now it's significantly improved. As is the overall performance of the application. This is because I added logic to interrogate the length of the query and the app falls into a different loop depending on the length and thus uses the appropriate index and select statements. A query of a four character or more string uses the four character index, three character query uses the three character index, two character uses the two character index. Seems to have improved the performance nicely.

I'll be adding some additional filters on the main page and making the domain stats on the right not appear by default (this info is cool to look at but doesn't have too much value for us domain sellers).

http://www.zfbot.com

I just received access to the .tel zone file and now that is included in the search criteria as well. Also, the domain stats no longer appear by default. If you want to see them, there is a check box on the upper right hand side.

I added a filter for the Parked column.... here's an example:

http://www.zfbot.com/#/search=junebu...2;stats=f;go=t

I'll continue to tweak the logic for determining a Parked website...

[tobiasr]

Thanks for sharing the list of parked nameservers, I was just looking for this!

[Dale Hubbard]

Ken, further and continuing congratulations on this huge achievement. One tweak you might consider is whether a domain purchased for email only is classed as 'parked'.

My email domain is dalehubbard .com and you have it as being 'likely' parked; I assume because of the primary nameserver.

I don't know all the stuff you're currently doing at the preprocessing stage, but you might look at adding a 'dig -tmx domain.ext' thing, which in my case will show you that I'm using the domain for Google email. I think if you were to x-ref those MX results with the MX records of the top 10 email providers, it could be an added resource. So in my case, the domain would revert from 'likely' to 'email' or something like that, if the primary NS initially indicated it was parked but the MX records fall into those top ten email provider categories.

Great site - keep up the good work!

[kengreenwood]

Ken, further and continuing congratulations on this huge achievement. One tweak you might consider is whether a domain purchased for email only is classed as 'parked'.

My email domain is dalehubbard .com and you have it as being 'likely' parked; I assume because of the primary nameserver.

I don't know all the stuff you're currently doing at the preprocessing stage, but you might look at adding a 'dig -tmx domain.ext' thing, which in my case will show you that I'm using the domain for Google email. I think if you were to x-ref those MX results with the MX records of the top 10 email providers, it could be an added resource. So in my case, the domain would revert from 'likely' to 'email' or something like that, if the primary NS initially indicated it was parked but the MX records fall into those top ten email provider categories.

Great site - keep up the good work!

Great info Dale - Just doing some research on the DIG command... pretty cool. I'll need to do some further putzing around with it... and get the top 10 or so email providers server names. In these matched cases, I could report back the results as "email" or put it in the "unlikely" catagory...

[kengreenwood]

couple updates:

1. You can now search for both "starts with" and "ends with" at the same time by selecting "both" in that dropdown....
2. I added a checkbox to filter off IDN domains (domains beginning with xn--)

[JoshuaPz]

Hasn't domain-search.domaintools.com been offering the same zone file search functionality for years?

[kengreenwood]

Added .info zone file... up to 127 million domains now. ZFBot now contains active/drop searches for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, .mobi and .tel.

[kengreenwood]

I enhanced the search to allow for searching on both the starting and ending strings at the same time. This allows you to find domains that match ones in your portfolio more precisely. For example, if you own a domain like "domainsales.com" and entered "domain" in the starts and "sales" in the ends, you would quickly find "domainnamesales.com" and many others. And it's a pretty logical assumption that a company operating under a very long domain name would want to shorten it.

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I also switched services for the web snapshot since snapcasa looks to be no longer around. now using shrinktheweb.com.

[Acro]

I enhanced the search to allow for searching on both the starting and ending strings at the same time. This allows you to find domains that match ones in your portfolio more precisely. For example, if you own a domain like "domainsales.com" and entered "domain" in the starts and "sales" in the ends, you would quickly find "domainnamesales.com" and many others. And it's a pretty logical assumption that a company operating under a very long domain name would want to shorten it.

This is a great addition Ken - thanks so much.

[Dale Hubbard]

This is a great addition Ken - thanks so much.

Yes it's a domaining stats milestone Theo. Is that your banner plastered over the ZFbot lander? Give me a break... Kudos to Ken but no rocket science there.

[Acro]

Yes it's a domaining stats milestone Theo. Is that your banner plastered over the ZFbot lander? Give me a break... Kudos to Ken but no rocket science there.

It's been there for 2 years, if you just saw it you need to start using the service more often

[Dale Hubbard]

Yes, I'm wrong; it's spiffingly useful. In fact it don't do shite. E.g.: Where are the databased LSV and Yahoo (YBL) backs? Let me answer: It ain't there 'cos it costs! This stuff; to be useful, takes an age; paid proxies and significant resources. In reality, anyone can take a zone file and extrapolate it and 'guess' parking status. Stats for dropping domains are omniscient. No rocket metallurgy there then.

[Acro]

There's metallurgy in a 7 star Metaxa

[Dale Hubbard]

But no useful data in the dregs.

[katherine]

No coffee grinder either.

[Dale Hubbard]

Amen.

[kengreenwood]

I added the ability to search on primary name server.

you can now also copy/paste both the domain and name server if you want to use what you find in further searches.

The application is now on a new web server that has enough disk space to allow me to to the updates without downtime.

[kengreenwood]

Finally got around to redirecting IPhone/IPod users to a mobile version of the app that's formatted/sized properly. I also added a new icon next to the domain (blue question mark) for the WHOIS. The mobile search now has the nameserver search functionality as well.

To hit it directly, it's http://www.zfbot.com/mobile

One of these days I'll actually attempt to convert it into an IPhone/IPad application.

[Adam Dicker]

To hit it directly, it's http://www.zfbot.com/mobile

One of these days I'll actually attempt to convert it into an IPhone/IPad application.

Ken everytime I go to the page from ie I get the mobile browser version from my pc, how do I get around this?

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