WebOSINT - Easy

We have to find as much as information as possible about the website RepublicOfKoffee.com, which does not exist.
We can search it up with quotes, so that the search engine does not redirect us to the URL.
The most basic form of domain recon is a 'whois' lookup. An example for such a service is https://lookup.icann.org/lookup

What is the first name of the blog's author? - Steve
What city and country was the author writing from? - Gwangju, South Korea
What is the name of the temple inside the National Park the author frequently visits? - Jeungsimsa temple

What was RepublicOfKoffee.com's IP address as of October 2016? - 173.248.188.152
Based on the other domains hosted on the same IP address, what kind of hosting service can we safely assume our target uses? - shared
How many times has the IP address changed in the history of the domain? - 4

What is the second nameserver listed for the domain? - ns2.heat.net
What IP address was the domain listed on as of December 2011? - 72.52.192.240
Based on domains that share the same IP, what kind of hosting service is the domain owner using? - shared
On what date did was the site first captured by the internet archive? - 06/01/97
What is the first sentence of the first body paragraph from the final capture of 2001? - After years of great online gaming, it’s time to say good-bye.
Using your search engine skills, what was the name of the company that was responsible for the original version of the site? - SegaSoft
What does the first header on the site on the last capture of 2010 say? - Heat.net - heating and cooling

In order to analyze websites and find more clues, we can look into the page source of the website.
For quick wins, we can search for terms such as (comment), @ (email), .jpg (or other file extensions).
We can use websites such as https://www.nerdydata.com to check if a particular code has been used in any other website or not.

How many internal links are in the text of the article? - 5
How many external links are in the text of the article? - 1
Website in the article's only external link - purchase.org
Try to find the Google Analytics code linked to the site - UA-251372-24
Is the the Google Analytics code in use on another website? Yay or nay
Does the link to this website have any obvious affiliate codes embedded with it? Yay or Nay - nay

Now, we have to find the link between heat.net and purchase.org, as to why both these websites are connected.
We can use the ViewDNS website we used earlier to research into this.
When we check the IP history of both websites, we can see that both had the same owner, Liquid Web.

We have to find as much as information as possible about the website RepublicOfKoffee.com, which does not exist.
We can search it up with quotes, so that the search engine does not redirect us to the URL.
The most basic form of domain recon is a 'whois' lookup. An example for such a service is https://lookup.icann.org/lookup

What is the first name of the blog's author? - Steve
What city and country was the author writing from? - Gwangju, South Korea
What is the name of the temple inside the National Park the author frequently visits? - Jeungsimsa temple

What was RepublicOfKoffee.com's IP address as of October 2016? - 173.248.188.152
Based on the other domains hosted on the same IP address, what kind of hosting service can we safely assume our target uses? - shared
How many times has the IP address changed in the history of the domain? - 4

What is the second nameserver listed for the domain? - ns2.heat.net
What IP address was the domain listed on as of December 2011? - 72.52.192.240
Based on domains that share the same IP, what kind of hosting service is the domain owner using? - shared
On what date did was the site first captured by the internet archive? - 06/01/97
What is the first sentence of the first body paragraph from the final capture of 2001? - After years of great online gaming, it’s time to say good-bye.
Using your search engine skills, what was the name of the company that was responsible for the original version of the site? - SegaSoft
What does the first header on the site on the last capture of 2010 say? - Heat.net - heating and cooling

In order to analyze websites and find more clues, we can look into the page source of the website.
For quick wins, we can search for terms such as (comment), @ (email), .jpg (or other file extensions).
We can use websites such as https://www.nerdydata.com to check if a particular code has been used in any other website or not.

How many internal links are in the text of the article? - 5
How many external links are in the text of the article? - 1
Website in the article's only external link - purchase.org
Try to find the Google Analytics code linked to the site - UA-251372-24
Is the the Google Analytics code in use on another website? Yay or nay
Does the link to this website have any obvious affiliate codes embedded with it? Yay or Nay - nay

Now, we have to find the link between heat.net and purchase.org, as to why both these websites are connected.
We can use the ViewDNS website we used earlier to research into this.
When we check the IP history of both websites, we can see that both had the same owner, Liquid Web.