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Spies Online Version Of Alexa Toolbar
Here is a handy free toolbar that is essential for the investigator. Want to know who is behind a certain website immediately as you surf? How much traffic does that site get in comparison to yours or some other site? Find out immediately. Also see what other sites link to this site and other related sites. You can also click one button and find out what that site looked like at any point in time using the Wayback Machine. Send cool sites to your friends without the hassle of copying and pasting URLs into an e-mail. Have instant access to Google and certain reference sites. As if this isn't already enough, this toolbar will automatically block annoying pop-up ads.
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Better-Whois.com
Find out if a domain name is available or who owns it if it is not. Contact postal addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers are available for domains that have been registered.
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Allwhois.com
Check any domain name in the world.
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Website Tracker
Netcraft reports a site's operating system, web server, and netblock owner, and if available, the time since last reboot for each of the computers serving the site.
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Opus One Traceroute Tool
Here's a nice traceroute tool.
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DNS 411
This site offers a "Smart Whois" search, as well as DNS and reverse DNS lookups.
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Super DNS Search Gateway
The site includes many links to DNS information sources.
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The Elephant's Toolbox
Here there are lots of tools courtesy of The Church Of The Swimming Elephant.
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Find An ISP
Over 9,700 Internet Service Providers are listed here. You may search by area.
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List Of Domains By Country
Find out what the two-digit country code is at the end of the domain name.
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Sam Spade
There are lots of online tracking tools here, plus a free downloadable version.
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Ping/Traceroute CGI Gateways
Fifi.org offers this handy service.
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Teknion Tracker
This site has helpful resources for tracking people down online.
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IP2Location.com
Here is a free web query to reverse lookup country, state, city, latitude, longitude and ISP by IP address.
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Translation Services
Here is a collection of services that offer free translations for websites and blocks of text.
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The Way Back Machine
Go back in time and search the Net the way it was years ago using this digital archive.
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Search Newsgroup Archives
Search for people and e-mail addresses in the Usenet archives.
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Mike's Marketing Tools
Check out Mike's page of free marketing tools. The link popularity checker is great, as it polls many different search engines. Find out what the most popular keywords are that people search for on the Net. Lots of neat stuff here!
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Link Popularity Checker
Find out how popular a particular site is. Just enter in a URL and see who links to it.
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WatchThatPage.com
Monitor your favorite web pages, and be notified via e-mail when they change - currently a free service.
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Ports Lookup Database
Search a large database for official and unofficial port assignments.
