Brand Monitor

The Brand Monitor API will search across all new domain registrations worldwide, and return result sets consisting of domain names that contain a customer's brand or monitored word/string. The Brand Monitor API looks at country code TLDS and new generic TLDs, as well as the usual suspects of .COM, .NET,.ORG, etc.

https://api.domaintools.com/v1/mark-alert/?query=domaintools

By default, the active data set is the list of domain names registered on the day you submit your API query. You should design your system to submit one API query per day for each term you want to monitor. If you experience a temporary failure in your processing routines, you can catch up on missing alerts up to six days back by providing the days_back parameter in your request.

Brand Monitor Parameters

Parameters	Description
query	Required. One or more terms, where the pipe character (\|) may be used as a logical AND to require that all strings be present in order to match. For example, domain \| tools will match domaintools but will not match domain or tools.
exclude	Domain names with these words will be excluded from the result set. For exclusions of multiple terms, use the (\|)character as a logical AND. In such a case, a domain would have to contain all of the excluded strings in order to be excluded from matching. To exclude individual terms, create separate exclude parameters.
domain_status	Sets the scope of domain names to search. By default, the API will search both new domain names and domains which are now on-hold (pending delete). To narrow your search to only one of these status codes, set this parameter to either new or on-hold.
days_back	Use this parameter in exceptional circumstances where you need to search domains registered up to six days prior to the current date. Set the value to an integer in the range of 1-6.

For best results, schedule your daily update to occur no sooner than 3am Pacific time. This ensures the data has been fully processed and is ready for your use.

Because each query consumes resources regardless of whether a match is found, your API account will be charged for each request you submit to the API even if no domain names match your query.

Sample Response

{
   response: {
     query: "finance",
     exclude: "auto|best",
     new: true,
     on-hold: true,
     date: "2011-03-02",
     total: 2,
     alerts: \[
       {
         domain: "24hourfinance.info",
         status: "on-hold"
       },
       {
         domain: "actionis-finance.com",
         status: "new"
       },
       ...
     \]
   }
}