Do you use an app for WHOIS searches?

An interesting discussion started on Twitter about using a WHOIS app vs. a WHOIS service via the web. While I definitely am a pretty heavy app user overall, there are still plenty of things that I do on the web, and thanks to mobile responsive design it’s easier than ever to make a site that looks and works almost exactly like a native mobile app.

Here’s a look at the thread on Twitter which was started by Timothy Evans (@timothymevans) and hat’s off to him for getting the conversation started!

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Timothy asked the question to a number of people including TheDomains, DNJournal, Domain Name Wire, Adam Strong, Elliot Silver, Michael Cyger, and me. Like I said above, while I do use apps for a lot of things there are still plenty of services that I use on my phone via their mobile responsive site. I’ve been a DomainTools user for a long time now and their mobile responsive site probably looks exactly what a native app would look like.

Adam Strong, a long time Domainer (he’s been doing this a lot longer than me) said, “call me old school but I don’t need an app” and I think I’m probably in the same boat. I was surprised (and pretty impressed) that Michael Berkens (TheDomains.com) uses the Terminal app on the Mac – that’s pretty badass IMO 🙂

Here’s a snipped of some of the responses, you can view the full thread on twitter here, or by clicking any of the images in this post.

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So I’ll keep the conversation going. Do you have a “go to” app for WHOIS or are you old school like me and Adam who stick to good old Domain Tools?

Morgan Linton

Morgan Linton