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Life & fun · July 28, 2016

Certificate Transparency Log Monitor

Certificate Transparency Log Monitor launched on July 28, 2016 with 53 votes, #1,463 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

In plain words

Certificate Transparency Log Monitor monitors domains for SSL certificate issues including expiration, revocation, and unauthorized issuance. It watches Certificate Transparency logs and sends alerts when suspicious certificates appear for a user's domains, helping protect against impersonation attacks, DNS tampering, BGP hijacking, and subdomain takeover. The tool is designed for organizations that need to detect certificate-related security threats before they result in incidents.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Cert Spotter monitors your domains for expiring, unauthorized, and invalid SSL certificates, so you can act before an incident, not after. Attackers can use ill-gotten certificates to impersonate your website and intercept data from your customers. You shouldn't be in the dark when this happens. Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs and alerts you when an unauthorized certificate is issued for one of your domains, protecting you from certificate authority vulnerabilities, DNS tampering, BGP hijacking, and subdomain takeover. Expired, revoked, or incorrectly-installed certificates cause browser errors that drive customers away from your website and cost you business. Wouldn't…from sslmate.com

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    hey guys, wanted to show one of my side projects i just made public. the idea is basically another osint tool for pentesters and bug bounty hunters. it watches certificate transparency logs and checks newly-seen domains for exposed stuff like .env files, open .git dirs, config files, db dumps and so on, and puts whatever it finds into a searchable db. you just search a domain (or part of one) and see what's exposed. it's read-only and free. one thing i've been thinking about adding is a way to register for certain keywords and get notified when something new shows up for that search. would…

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