- censys - https://censys.io
- Spyse - https://spyse.com
- netcraft - https://searchdns.netcraft.com
- Google Hacking Database (GHDB) - https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
- ExifTool - https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool
- Certficate Search - https://crt.sh/
- Huge TLS/SSL certificate DB with advanced search - https://certdb.com
- Google Transparency Report - https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates
- SiteDigger - http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/sitedigger.aspx
- A tool to scrape LinkedIn: https://github.com/dchrastil/TTSL
- cree.py http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy
WHOIS information is based upon a tree hierarchy. ICANN (IANA) is the authoritative registry for all of the TLDs and is a great starting point for all manual WHOIS queries.
- ICANN - http://www.icann.org
- IANA - http://www.iana.com
- NRO - http://www.nro.net
- AFRINIC - http://www.afrinic.net
- APNIC - http://www.apnic.net
- ARIN - http://ws.arin.net
- LACNIC - http://www.lacnic.net
- RIPE - http://www.ripe.net
- BGP4 - http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses
- BPG6 - http://lg.he.net/
- dnsenum - http://code.google.com/p/dnsenum
- dnsmap - http://code.google.com/p/dnsmap
- dnsrecon - http://www.darkoperator.com/tools-and-scripts
- dnstracer - http://www.mavetju.org/unix/dnstracer.php
- dnswalk - http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnswalk
- Search Engines for Academic Research
- See additional information under the OSINT Dark Web OSINT Tools section
- Resources from Pentest-standard.org - http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines#Intelligence_Gathering