Monitor Nameserver Changes

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Silent Push helps track changes to nameservers to detect malicious domain hopping or inadequate security practices. This query combines scans and searches for comprehensive monitoring.

  • Scan for Nameserver Changes: Identifies all changes to a domain’s nameservers, offering summarized results or detailed views.

  • Search for Nameserver Changes: Targets specific changes within a time window, including registrar and WHOIS filters.

Scan and search for Nameserver Changes

  1. From the left navigation menu, select Advanced Query Builder > Domain Queries > Nameserver Changes.

  2. Specify a domain.

    • (Optional) Click Summary to return summarized results.

    • (Optional) Click Explore Table View to visualize results and look up passive DNS data.

    • (Optional) For a targeted search, select Search Nameserver Changes.

  3. Specify nameservers in the from_ns and to_ns fields.

    • (Optional) Specify a date in change_date_before or change_date_after (defaults to the last 30 days).

    • (Optional) Check ns_changes_only to focus on nameserver data.

    • (Optional) Specify whois_date_before, whois_date_after, registrar, or email for WHOIS filters.

    • (Optional) Adjust the sorting order or set a limit and skip to control results.

  4. Click Search.

Save Query

  1. Specify query parameters.

  2. Click Save Query.

  3. Provide a Name and Description for context.

  4. Click Save. The query appears in Private Queries.

This pinpoints shifts in threat actor infrastructure, reducing attack windows.