Anonymouse.org

Anonymouse.org is a free web proxy that lets you anonymously visit websites. Each time you normally surf the web, you share some details about your computer and Internet connection, such as your browser version, IP address, and Internet service provider (ISP) name. Some web portals and search engines like Google even store a record of your IP address and Web searches.

Web proxies like Anonymouse act as intermediaries between your computer and the websites you visit by passing along HTTP (web) protocol requests and displaying the contents of the requested URL within your browser. For example, if you use Anonymouse to visit Google and you start some keyword searches, Google will only see Anonymouse as its visitor, not you. Any data that Google sends to Anonymouse will then be forwarded by Anonymouse to you.

Anonymouse.org

DNS query websites

DNS query websites allow you to perform whois searches to find out the following information about other websites:

• Registrar – the name of the organization (registrar) that registered the domain name. Some DNS registrars are GoDaddy.com and Network Solutions.
• DNS Servers – the names of the public DNS servers that authoritatively answer DNS queries for the domain names queried.
• Organizational details – names, addresses, email addresses for the organization that owns the domain name you queried.

For example, a whois search for the domain name cisco.com yields the following results:

Domain Name.......... cisco.com
  Creation Date........ 1987-05-14
  Registration Date.... 2011-04-06
  Expiry Date.......... 2012-05-16
  Organisation Name.... Cisco Technology, Inc.
  Organisation Address. 170 W. Tasman Drive
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. San Jose
  Organisation Address. 95134
  Organisation Address. CA
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... Info Sec
  Admin Address........ 170 West Tasman Drive
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ San Jose
  Admin Address........ 95134
  Admin Address........ CA
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... *******@cisco.com
  Admin Phone.......... +1.4085273842
  Admin Fax............ +1.4085264575

Tech Name............ Network Services
  Tech Address......... 170 W. Tasman Drive
  Tech Address.........
  Tech Address......... San Jose
  Tech Address......... 95134
  Tech Address......... CA
  Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
  Tech Email........... ********@cisco.com
  Tech Phone........... +1.4085279223
  Tech Fax............. +1.4085267373
  Name Server.......... NS1.CISCO.COM
  Name Server.......... NS2.CISCO.COM

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iWebTool.com

iWebTool contains several useful tools for analyzing website statistics, traffic analysis, search engine placement, URL link locations, etc. Some of these are:

• Broken Link Checker – used for checking for broken links on a website.
• Link Popularity – retrieve a number of backlinks to a website found in search engines.
• Search Engine Position – check where a website ranks with various search engines.
• Link Shortener – make a URL address shorter.

Some features available on the iWebTool website.

NetCraft

The NetCraft website provides statistical analysis services on other websites. NetCraft checks and reports on various sites’ operating systems and web server software (usually either Windows/IIS or Linux/Apache).

A Netcraft query for WordPress.com

For example, a NetCraft query for wordpress.com returns the following results:

IP address: 74.200.247.188

Nameserver: ns1.wordpress.com

Domain Registrar: godaddy.com

OS: Linux

Web Server: nginx

If you want to find out all of a particular website’s subdomains, you can use the search feature on the searchdns.netcraft.com page as shown below.

Search.netcraft.com

For further reference see the NetCraft entry on Wikipedia.