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OSINT tools, free, no signup.

Single-purpose investigator tools. No accounts, no rate limits, no telemetry. If you need to do 100 of these at once with citations and an audit trail, that's what the Tracelight platform is for.

Domain & DNS

WHOIS / RDAP lookup

Look up domain registration, registrar, name servers, and key dates via RDAP.

DNS records lookup

A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA, SOA records for any domain.

Network

SSL certificate inspector

Pull the live TLS certificate from a host. Issuer, validity, SANs, fingerprint.

URL unshortener

Follow redirect chains to the final destination. Spot phishing redirects.

IP address lookup

Reverse DNS, ASN, hosting organization, and rough geolocation for any IPv4/IPv6.

URL & IOC defanger

Defang or refang URLs, domains, and IPs for safe sharing in reports and emails.

Runs locally — files never leave your browser

HTTP header analyzer

Inspect response headers and grade common security headers (HSTS, CSP, etc).

Identity

Username search

Check whether a username is registered across 25+ major platforms.

Email

Email header parser

Parse Received: chain to trace an email's path and detect spoofing.

Runs locally — files never leave your browser

Files

EXIF metadata viewer

Inspect EXIF data in JPEG/HEIC images. Camera, GPS, timestamps, software.

Runs locally — files never leave your browser

Need this at investigator scale?

The paid product runs all of these — plus social, dark-web, breach, sanctions, and litigation sources — against a list of subjects with citation receipts on every claim. Built for PIs, M&A diligence, SIU, and journalists.

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