> long term what is your goal to differentiate? or where do you want to focus?
Most other tools have clunky UX, dated design, or are painfully slow. I'm differentiating in ease of use, clarity and speed. Still a lot to be done, but I think I'm already doing okay compared to other sites.
> Other TLDs or Other Associated Domains, is this something that you would be able to find?
Since GDPR, nearly all WHOIS queries get their owner details purged. You also can't link it based on resolving IP addresses, as many sites use a shared CDN. There might be some signals left, but definitely not enough to give any kind of meaningful coverage to make it useful.
> Can you determine from a DNS search if a domain is owned by a company or by a non-corporate entity (Blog, personal)?
No, for the same reason as above. Here you could scrape the site and look for 'about' sections and do some ML, but that'd be quite involved.
> I would purchase and use this for a email verification process.
What would you like to use DNS for in email verification?
> Email format Verification
As in, detect 'firstname.lastname' for 'john.doe@company.com'? There's already a SaaS that does just that: https://hunter.io/
> I'm differentiating in ease of use, clarity and speed.
FWIW I've worked for a small company for the last ~15 years and this is basically our differentiator. Most of our products weren't the first in their market, and we don't have all the bells and whistles, but we really focus on making an easy to use, non-frustrating user experience.
> long term what is your goal to differentiate? or where do you want to focus?
Most other tools have clunky UX, dated design, or are painfully slow. I'm differentiating in ease of use, clarity and speed. Still a lot to be done, but I think I'm already doing okay compared to other sites.
> Other TLDs or Other Associated Domains, is this something that you would be able to find?
Since GDPR, nearly all WHOIS queries get their owner details purged. You also can't link it based on resolving IP addresses, as many sites use a shared CDN. There might be some signals left, but definitely not enough to give any kind of meaningful coverage to make it useful.
> Can you determine from a DNS search if a domain is owned by a company or by a non-corporate entity (Blog, personal)?
No, for the same reason as above. Here you could scrape the site and look for 'about' sections and do some ML, but that'd be quite involved.
> I would purchase and use this for a email verification process.
What would you like to use DNS for in email verification?
> Email format Verification As in, detect 'firstname.lastname' for 'john.doe@company.com'? There's already a SaaS that does just that: https://hunter.io/