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A leading provider of domain name research and monitoring services. DomainTools offers WHOIS history, reverse WHOIS lookups, and other intelligence tools used by domain investors, brand protection teams, and cybersecurity professionals.

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.CLUB

A generic top-level domain for communities, organizations, and membership-based groups.

.APP

A generic top-level domain (gTLD) operated by Google, designed for mobile applications and app developers.

Drop Catch

See Drop

NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement)

A legal contract requiring parties to keep transaction details confidential, common in high-value domain sales.

DR (Domain Rating)

A metric developed by Ahrefs that measures the strength of a domain's backlink profile on a scale from 0 to 100.

TLS

TLS is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide secure communications over a computer network. It's the successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). When a domain uses TLS, it means that data se...