Softnik Blog » Application Notes http://www.softnik.com/blog The Official Softnik Business Blog. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:30:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Managing .Name Domain Names in Watch My Domains or Domain Punch Pro http://www.softnik.com/blog/2011/06/managing-name-domain-names-in-watch-my-domains-or-domain-punch-pro/ http://www.softnik.com/blog/2011/06/managing-name-domain-names-in-watch-my-domains-or-domain-punch-pro/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:53:44 +0000 admin http://www.softnik.com/blog/?p=1694 Here is a quick tip…

The expiry date information is not part of the .name whois records if you do a standard whois lookup. To get the expiry date set the “command line” option in the “Whois Config” panel to

domain=

You should also set the date format to mmdd.

The above tip is valid for all our domain name management products including Watch My Domains and Domain Punch Pro.

Please note that there is also a Mac OS X version of Watch My Domains.

 

 

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Just right click on the website URL and select “Export > Actual Size Screen Shot”. You can save the image in PNG, BMP, GIF or JPG formats.

]]> http://www.softnik.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-create-actual-full-length-web-page-screen-shots/feed/ 0 Domain Name Search and Registration – CO Domain Names http://www.softnik.com/blog/2010/06/domain-name-search-and-registration-co-domain-names/ http://www.softnik.com/blog/2010/06/domain-name-search-and-registration-co-domain-names/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:30:23 +0000 admin http://www.softnik.com/blog/?p=1490 The new .CO domain name registration is currently in “Global Sunrise” stage.  If you are interested in checking .CO domain availability using Domain Name Analyzer Pro, Watch My Domains ISP or Domain Punch Pro, use the following settings.

Whois Server: whois.nic.co

Search Token: Not found:

For more on .CO domains please visit the .CO Internet.

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Ofcourse, one way to find all these answers is to use your web browser and start searching.

However, you can make it even more easy by downloading Keyword Strategy Studio, one of our new software products.

You can type in a base keyword, click the “return key” and quickly find…

  • Current news headlines on the topic
  • Recent social messages on the subject
  • Top selling products that relate to the keyword
  • The page titles of  web pages that rank high for the keyword
  • Semantically related keywords

You can also quickly highlight a set of results and use the “Edit and Export” option to quickly trim the unwanted text from the text and turn them into relevant keywords before exporting to your keyword library.

Brainstorm Keyword Ideas

Keyword Strategy Studio is available as a free trial download. You can download and fully test the software before deciding to purchase. Here is the download page.

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The web is full of articles, tips and ebooks on keyword research. Almost all of them explain how easy it is to find keywords by pressing a few buttons in some software or web application!

Keyword research is an extremely important part of marketing your online business and is not as mindlessly robotic as clicking a button!

Here is a special report on strategic keyword research. Right click and select Save Target As or Save Link As to download and save the pdf file to your hard disk.

Click here for the special report.

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This can be turned off from the Application Settings option in the Config tab. If this is turned off the # click will sort domains in the original insertion order.

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The Windows version of SEO Lab Pro supports creating PDF reports.

So, how do you create similar PDF reports using the Mac OS X version?

The Mac OS X version doesn’t support direct PDF reports, but you can create PDF outputs using the native print menu option. All the data table displays within the software can be printed into PDF.

You can also right click (or ctrl-click) within any of the display lists and use the menu option to copy the table to the Mac paste-board. Then paste the data into your favorite spreadsheet or text editor to create your own formatted reports.

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Any domain category you create in Watch My Domains ISP is stored on the database using the following Boolean field name.

GRP_<category name>

For example, if you have a category called “Business Domains”, the corresponding field will be

GRP_Business Names

Any domain that belongs to “Business Domains” will have the above field value set to TRUE.

With the above information, you can construct SQL queries. Here is an example query that lists all domains that do not belong to the “Business Domains” category.

SELECT * FROM [Domains] WHERE ([GRP_Business Domains] <> 1 OR [GRP_Business Domains] IS NULL)

 You have to do the NULL check because the value may not be set for many domains.

You can also do multiple checks. The following will list all domains that do not belong to the “Business Domains” and “Important Domains”

SELECT * FROM [Domains] WHERE ([GRP_Business Domains] <> 1 OR [GRP_Business Domains] IS NULL)  AND  ([GRP_Important Domains] <> 1 OR  [GRP_Important Domains] IS NULL)

Other SQL Query and Domain Database Related Posts

You may want to try all or some of our domain name portfolio management related products at domainpunch.com. Thirty day free trial downloads are available for all the products.

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Get a free single user license to Keyword Builder, an advanced version of Good Keywords v3, by simply subscribing to the Good Keywords Guide!

This offer is available exclusively to subscribers of “The Good Keywords Guide”

Keyword Builder includes support for creating semantically related keywords, in addition to all the features available in Good keywords v3.

]]> http://www.softnik.com/blog/2009/10/the-good-keywords-guide-our-premium-newsletter/feed/ 0 Diagnostic Port 43 Whois Tool in Domain Punch Pro and Watch My Domains http://www.softnik.com/blog/2009/09/diagnostic-port-43-whois-tool-in-domain-punch-pro-and-watch-my-domains/ http://www.softnik.com/blog/2009/09/diagnostic-port-43-whois-tool-in-domain-punch-pro-and-watch-my-domains/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:41:26 +0000 admin http://www.softnik.com/blog/?p=1211 All our domain name portfolio management software tools (Domain Punch Pro, Watch My Domains ISP and Pro) include a diagnostic port 43 whois lookup tool.

This is available from the Config Tab > Popup Whois ribbon button (Tools > Popup Whois Tool menu in older versions).

To check a domain name type in the whois server and the domain name into the appropriate boxes and then click ‘Go’.

Port 43 Whois Tool: Domain Name Software

The port 43 whois tool is very handy if you have problems looking up domain names. 

If the tool is unable to connect to any whois server, one of the following is true.

  • Your internet connection is down
  • Your computer security software, company network or ISP is blocking port 43 connections.

If the tool is unable to connect to a particular whois server alone, it is possible that your IP address is bannedat the whois server or the whois server itself is down.

Using whois.iana.org to find Whois Servers

In some cases you can use the whois tool to determine the valid whois serverfor a country or top level domain by querying whois.iana.org. For example to find the whois server for query whois.iana.org for it. Now look through the whois output and you will find the whois server listed as

Whois Server (port 43): whois.nic.it

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