SKILL.md
WHOIS & DNS Recon
Registration and DNS records reveal ownership, infrastructure, and mail security posture — all passive.
WHOIS / RDAP
whois example.com # registrar, dates, nameservers, registrant
RDAP is the structured successor — query https://rdap.org/domain/example.com.
Registrant details are often GDPR-redacted; the registrar, creation date, and
nameservers still pivot well. Historical WHOIS (WhoisXML, SecurityTrails) can
show pre-redaction owners and registrant email — feed those to email-osint.
DNS records
dig example.com ANY +noall +answer
dig example.com MX +short # mail servers
dig example.com TXT +short # SPF, verification tokens
dig _dmarc.example.com TXT +short # DMARC policy
- A/AAAA → hosting IP; look up the ASN/host for shared-hosting neighbors.
- MX → mail provider (Google/Microsoft/self-hosted).
- TXT/SPF → third-party services the org uses (marketing, SaaS senders).
- NS → DNS provider, and sometimes internal naming conventions.
Pivots
- IP/ASN →
shodan-censys-reconfor exposed services. - Subdomains →
certificate-transparency. - Registrant org/email →
company-osint/email-osint. - Reused nameservers or MX across domains hint at the same owner.