Domain

Supported formats

Internet Domain Names

Description

This processor retrieves domain record information from databases maintained by Network Information Centers. It attempts to collect details such as domain creation and expiration dates, domain age, registrar, associated name servers, and others.

info

Available in Contextal Platform 1.1 and later.

Symbols

Object

• NO_DATA → no information was found in a WHOIS database

Example Metadata

{
  "work_id": "sImpfo9hKRVaKd6PMIsARquo",
  "org": "ctx",
  "object_id": "de6a7b4bb643ac2e1ee7e3e667611f8c52ea29ae7b3795e24d8059a0ae04824c",
  "object_type": "Text",
  "object_subtype": null,
  "recursion_level": 1,
  "size": 299,
  "hashes": {
    "sha512": "64c8b069a39dbefea56df40532d7e6cbdb593f0a50e3d68ff55e16f868f9a7a384e19777277d709d885be3e07f9b29010af25442ce654ddfb43af01efbd05bd6",
    "md5": "088311bfd9e30b86423b741999e98114",
    "sha256": "de6a7b4bb643ac2e1ee7e3e667611f8c52ea29ae7b3795e24d8059a0ae04824c",
    "sha1": "ae24ae56eb8506b0a7f1aa42a4015c3d97913793"
  },
  "ctime": 1734025318.945344,
  "entropy": 4.3528282647531515,
  "ok": {
    "symbols": [
      "ALL_ASCII"
    ],
    "object_metadata": {
      "_backend_version": "1.0.0",
      "encoding": "utf-8",
      "natural_language": "English",
      "natural_language_profanity_count": 0,
      "natural_language_sentiment": {
        "compound": 0.9273739248094984,
        "neg": 0.053639846743295014,
        "neu": 0.6130268199233716,
        "pos": 0.33333333333333337
      },
      "number_of_ascii_range_chars": 299,
      "number_of_characters": 299,
      "number_of_digits": 0,
      "number_of_newlines": 3,
      "number_of_whitespaces": 39,
      "number_of_words": 39,
      "possible_passwords": [],
      "unique_domains": [
        "contextal.com"
      ],
      "unique_hosts": [
        "platform.contextal.com"
      ],
      "uris": [
        "https://platform.contextal.com"
      ]
    },
    "children": [
      {
        "org": "ctx",
        "object_id": "799d984b478bb61e872bb7b30a1ed5f1063b95b09a9b4d99663cdbceae8bf3d5",
        "object_type": "Domain",
        "object_subtype": null,
        "recursion_level": 2,
        "size": 13,
        "hashes": {
          "sha512": "74dfaba1916f1115caef56b972c01a356e4f6b1e116d5202459c4c5886825440e476dfb5711b21301a170baba68a63f7d32da33ddc0687f16a843468058edae1",
          "md5": "a0757bb75ed5d643c33db0d49dc3d1f1",
          "sha1": "7be687281074b97a119ce1693ca0b3d4b4de71c0",
          "sha256": "799d984b478bb61e872bb7b30a1ed5f1063b95b09a9b4d99663cdbceae8bf3d5"
        },
        "ctime": 1734025318.945344,
        "entropy": 3.238901256602631,
        "relation_metadata": {
          "name": "contextal.com"
        },
        "ok": {
          "symbols": [],
          "object_metadata": {
            "_backend_version": "1.3.0"
            "creation_date": "2022-11-22",
            "update_date": "2023-09-25",
            "expiration_date": "2025-11-22",
            "age_days": 840,
            "name_servers": [
              "NS25.DOMAINCONTROL.COM",
              "NS26.DOMAINCONTROL.COM"
            ],
            "registrar": "GoDaddy.com, LLC",
            "status": "clientTransferProhibited,clientUpdateProhibited,clientRenewProhibited,clientDeleteProhibited",
            "registrant_name": "Registration Private",
            "registrant_org": "Domains By Proxy, LLC",
            "admin_name": null,
            "admin_org": null,
            "tech_name": "Registration Private",
            "tech_org": "Domains By Proxy, LLC",
          },
          "children": []
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Example Queries

(object_type == "Office" || object_type == "PDF")
    && @has_descendant(
        object_type == "Domain"
        && @match_object_meta($age_days < 60)
    )

• This query matches Office or PDF objects, which at some level have a Domain descendant of age lower than 60 days.

Configuration Options

• query_timeout_secs → WHOIS server query timeout in seconds (default: 15)