What you’ll learn
- Subdomain search: read a competitor’s public certificate record to see who they host.
- Reading the result: tell a customer tenant apart from the vendor’s own infrastructure.
- Turning it into outreach: make the list a table and enrich it into contacts.
Before you start
You need one domain belonging to a tool whose customers you want. This works when a vendor gives each customer its own address, so it finds nothing for a vendor that does not.Find the tenants
1
Open the search
Click Find subdomains in the sidebar.
2
Enter the domain
Type the vendor’s bare domain into Company domain and run the search.
3
Read the result
The count above the list tells you how many addresses were found. The Web address column holds each one.
4
Make it a table
Click Create table with N rows to bring the whole list in.
Turn addresses into people
1
Work out the company
A tenant address usually carries the customer’s name. Add a function column to pull that name out of the address.
2
Enrich the company
Add an enrichment column from the Company shelf to fill in the real company behind the name.
3
Find the people
Use the company list as the starting point for a people search, then enrich for contact details.
Good to know
Why did a well-known vendor return nothing?
Why did a well-known vendor return nothing?
Some vendors put every customer behind one shared address, which leaves no per-customer record to read. The search can only see what is published.
Are all of these customers?
Are all of these customers?
No. The list mixes customer tenants with the vendor’s own staging and internal addresses. Scan it before you enrich it.
Is this public information?
Is this public information?
Yes. It comes from the public log of certificates issued for a domain, which anyone can read.
How current is the list?
How current is the list?
It reflects certificates that have been issued and not yet expired, so a long-gone customer can still appear.
Next steps
Find subdomains
The full reference for the search and its limits.
Find people and companies
Turn the company list into named contacts.
Function columns
Pull a company name out of a web address for free.
What you can enrich
The shelves in the catalog and what each one returns.