DNS Yogi: A True Alternative to DNSStuff
A while back, I posted about how I wanted to find an alternative to DNS Stuff. Since then, I haven’t found much to get excited about. In addition, I continue to get search traffic where people use terms like “free dnsstuff”, “dnsstuff alternative”, or “dnsstuff coupon code”. So, it seems that I’m not the only one that wants a real alternative to DNS Stuff.
Introducing DNS Yogi. My goal is to provide a set of tools that can compete with the quality of DNS Stuff while remaining free. Here is what I plan to launch the site with:
- record lookups (complete with tracking each step in the lookup chain and verifying consistent results)
- whois (both domain and IP)
- whohosts (a quick way of seeing where a site is hosted)
- reverse DNS (IP to hostname)
- spam database lookup
- ping
- abuse contact for domain
There are many other tools that I’m considering. Here are some of the other tool ideas that I’m thinking about launching with:
- traceroute
- show HTTP headers (both for person visiting site and for specific URL requests)
- geo location of IP
- DNS analysis to help you find and correct problems
One of the main focuses of my design is making it extremely easy to do lookups quickly and easily. This means that it will be easy to run queries by directly typing in a URL location and that doing lookups via Firefox’s keyword bookmarks will be extremely easy. For example, you can easily set up a bookmark so that you can simply type in “whois gaarai.com” to quickly pull up DNS Yogi and show the whois details of my domain. I’ll detail how to do this on the DNS Yogi site once it goes live.
It might interest some of you that I am building DNS Yogi completely from WordPress. That’s right, yet again, I’m using WordPress as a web application framework. This will be a great test of how flexible the WordPress system truly is.
Please check out the DNS Yogi site and let me know what you think. I want this to be a fantastic tool for everyone to use, so getting quality feedback on what people want and need is crucial.
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