Domain investigation playbook
DNS, subdomains, certificates, history and look-alikes of a domain, passively first
intermediate
Splits a URL or hostname into subdomain, registered domain and public suffix
Community-packaged from github.com/john-kurkowski/tldextract: the registry's community pins the upstream release; the tool is its authors' work. Maintain that project? Claim this package.
Run
Through ot mcp, an agent calls run_tool with this; ot asks you before anything that goes online or touches a target. Set it up: ot mcp install claude (or cursor, vscode, codex, gemini).
{"tool":"osintverse-community/tldextract","target":"https://forums.news.cnn.com/","input_type":"url"}Or just say: "Run osintverse-community/tldextract on https://forums.news.cnn.com/ with OTInstaller." The registry's read-only MCP server at api.otinstaller.com/mcp can find tools without installing anything.
ot run osintverse-community/tldextract url:https://forums.news.cnn.com/ --format tableot install osintverse-community/tldextractPython wheel, run in a read-only container (Docker optional with --native) · talks to publicsuffix.org, raw.githubusercontent.com · no key · up to 2 min. The first ot run installs the tool after asking once. The example value is the registry's own test input, so this command has run. Drop --format table for JSON.
ot? Install it in one linecurl -fsSL https://get.otinstaller.com/ot | shot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.ot in /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin. Nothing else is written. Read the script.irm https://get.otinstaller.com/ot.ps1 | iexot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.ot in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ot, and adds it to your PATH. Nothing else is written. Read the script.sha256:7f02aed3…efb34f from PyPI. ot re-hashes the file after download and refuses a mismatch.ot warns before installing.ot downloads the copy and checks the same hash.{
"envelope": 1,
"tool": "osintverse-community/tldextract@5.4.0",
"runtime": "pipx",
"input": {
"url": "https://forums.news.cnn.com/"
},
"started_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
"duration_ms": 4100,
"exit_code": 0,
"entities": [
{
"type": "domain",
"value": "example.com"
},
{
"type": "subdomain",
"value": "mail.example.com"
}
],
"warnings": []
}Every tool returns this shape, shaped here from what this tool declares it finds. --format table to read it; ot extract and ot auto to continue.
This repository packages github.com/john-kurkowski/tldextract for the OTInstaller Registry as osintverse-community/tldextract. The tool is the work of its authors, under the BSD-3-Clause license; this repository only holds the manifest and release workflow.
Report problems with the tool upstream, and problems with the packaging here. If you maintain the upstream project and want to publish it yourself, open an issue or run ot claim osintverse-community/tldextract: the package is transferred to you.
It installs the upstream project's own release from PyPI, pinned by version and hash; nothing here is rebuilt.
ot run osintverse-community/tldextract --url …
Packaged version: 5.4.0.
DNS, subdomains, certificates, history and look-alikes of a domain, passively first
tldextract finds domain, subdomain. Tools that take those:
domain → 9 toolssubdomain → 9 toolsot auto, with a saved result
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