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Once you’ve signed up to a paid or trial subscription, you will create a password and be able to access your dashboard via your login.

Here you can monitor your domain, manage your settings, and access your account.

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Analyzing Your Results:

Within your dashboard you can perform a WHOIS lookup or check the threat level of parked URLs.

You will receive alert emails as domains are analyzed, if you are receiving too many emails you can manage your subscription settings - including noise filtering - from the subscription management link in their alert emails.

If you don't have a recent alert email, you can retrieve your subscription management link here.

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FAQs

  • DNS Twister generates a list of domain names that are similar to the one that you provide, checking to see if any of them are registered with DNS A or MX records.

    A search for 'example.com' will generate a list with domains like:

    • cxample.com

    • éxample.com (xn--xample-9ua.com)

    • wwexample.com

    • 4xample.com

    As well many others.

    Each one of those domains is "similar" to 'example.com' because it only differs by a small aspect. For instance, '4xample.com' is in the list because '4' and 'e' are close on the keyboard and a mistyping of 'example.com' could result in '4xample.com'. A modified version of Marcin Ulikowski's dnstwist DNS fuzzing library forms the backbone of this domain list generation algorithm.

    DNS Twister then attempts to resolve DNS A and MX records for each similar domain, the existence of either of these DNS records being an indication that the domain has been registered.

  • DNS Twister can tell you if someone may be using a domain like yours for malicious purposes like phishing or trademark infringement.

    As an example, as the owner of the domain dnstwister.report I would be very interested to know if someone registered the ‘dnstw1ster.report’ domain and might start sending malicious password-reset emails to users.

  • DNS A record

    An A (or Address) record is almost always used to map a hostname to an IPv4 address.

    The malicious creation of an A record similar to your domain could intercept potential visitors to your website, at best directing them to a competitor and at worst intercept authentication attempts or serve up drive-by malware.

    DNS MX record

    An MX (or Mail eXchange) record is used to specify the mail server responsible for accepting email messages for a domain name.

    The malicious creation of an MX record similar to your domain is usually the first step in launching a phishing attack where your employees or customers are targeted with legitimate-appearing emails to collect credentials or serve malware.

    Malicious MX record creation can also siphon accidentally mis-addressed emails away from your business potentially giving a third party critical confidential information about your business.