Looking for a Shodan alternative?
Here is what Shodan is good at, what DomainDrift does, and how to tell which one your problem needs. Sometimes the answer is to stay where you are, and this page says so.
- Domains in the catalog
- ~2,051,000
- Scans a day
- 1,971,000
- Catalog swept
- about a day
What Shodan is good at
The search engine that made internet-wide device and service discovery a normal part of security work, with enormous reach across ports, banners and connected devices.
Choose it when: Exploring exposed services and devices across the internet, and answering questions about what is reachable on a given port or running a given piece of software.
What DomainDrift adds
A domain-layer view rather than a port-and-banner one: who runs the DNS, the mail, the certificates and the hosting, watched continuously, with an alert the moment any of it changes on a domain you care about.
When to stay where you are
You are looking at services, ports and devices. That is a different layer of the stack from domain infrastructure, and a search engine built for it will answer those questions better than we will.
What this page does not claim. It describes what Shodan is known for at a category level, and says nothing about their pricing or their feature set, because those change without telling us and we will not publish a number about someone else's product that we cannot stand behind. Everything stated about DomainDrift is checkable: start with a receipt.
DomainDrift is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shodan. Shodan and all other product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify those products.