findomain mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• findomain

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in April 2019, and its first GitHub release was tagged 0.1.2 later that month. The project quickly defined itself around speed and breadth rather than brute force alone: the README describes a CT-log and API-driven approach, with later feature growth around monitoring, webhooks, resolver behavior, and multiple output modes.

Findomain's implementation choice matters to packagers because the README emphasizes cross-platform Rust builds and official binaries for Linux, Windows, macOS, AArch64, ARMv7, NixOS, and Docker. That made it easy to distribute as a single CLI in security-focused environments.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Findomain's adoption is mostly in the offensive-security and reconnaissance niche. Its own documentation names Homebrew, pacman, Nix, Pentoo, Docker, and direct release downloads as installation paths, which fits a tool used from disposable workstations, CI-style monitoring jobs, and bug-bounty toolchains.

The project also added premium and monitoring-oriented features, such as webhook alerts, database-backed subdomain monitoring, and imports from other tools. That shifted it from a one-shot enumerator toward a small domain-observation workflow.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run Findomain to discover subdomains from Certificate Transparency logs and public APIs, optionally resolve the results, write target-specific output files, import findings from other tools, and monitor for newly observed subdomains.

Because several sources require API tokens, Findomain usage ranges from zero-configuration public lookups to richer authenticated enumeration using providers such as VirusTotal, SecurityTrails, Facebook Certificate Transparency, and C99.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Findomain is package-interesting because it is a modern security CLI with the familiar shape of a single executable, but with a workflow that spans SaaS APIs, CT logs, local resolution, notifications, and optional persistence.

It also reflects a common pattern in security packaging: fast-moving niche tools become useful to package managers when they provide repeatable release artifacts and simple CLI installation, even if most of their culture lives in README examples rather than formal manuals.

Zeitleiste

• 2019: Public GitHub repository is created.
• 2019: First GitHub release, 0.1.2, is published.
• 2020s: README documents monitoring, webhook alerts, imports, brute-force support, and multiple API integrations.
• 2026: Repository metadata shows continued maintenance activity.

Related projects

• Certificate Transparency logs are a primary data source for Findomain's enumeration strategy.
• crt.sh, Certspotter, VirusTotal, Sublist3r, SecurityTrails, urlscan.io, Threatminer, and related APIs are documented as data sources.
• Other subdomain enumeration tools are part of the same ecosystem because Findomain can import and work with data discovered by other tools.

Quellen

• https://github.com/Findomain/Findomain
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Findomain/Findomain/master/docs/INSTALLATION.md
• https://api.github.com/repos/Findomain/Findomain
• https://api.github.com/repos/Findomain/Findomain/releases