10 ways to check if sites are related

There are many reasons - I was going to say legitimate and not, but I think it’s actually all “not” - for a site owner to try to hide which sites he/she owns and operates. When doing your due diligence on the competition, these sites are exactly the types of things you want to uncover. So here is a task list to figure out if those two sites that you are slightly suspicious of are a little too closely related:

1. Check the whois
domaintools.com/domaininquestion.com will quickly tell you if the site owners were complacent enough to just use the same registrant info or same name servers. Sometimes it will be the same DNS privacy company which is a hint in itself. I’ll do another post some other time on how to figure out who it is if the DNS is obfuscated. Read the rest of this entry »

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