We have posted a minor version update to Watch My Domains Pro. Details are availabe at the product change log.
We will be posting updates for our other domain name management software products like Watch My Domains ISP and Domain Punch Pro within the next few days.
The format in which various domain name management software tools display the dates is set using the Windows Control Panel. Don’t confuse this with the date format in the “Whois Configuration” dialog.
It is always safer to set a display format that shows the month as name and not as a number. Otherwise there is always a possibility confusion between dates and months. Please see the screen shot below.
The data format in “whois setup” specifies the format used by the registry and registrar to specify the dates. This is required so that the software can extract the dates properly.
You can easily configure all our Domain Name Management Software and add support for the new CO domains.
Please see the screenshot below for the setup. You can find additional instructions at Whois Configuration.
Here is how to add support for .DK (Denmark) domains in Watch My Domains or Domain Punch Pro.
From the ribbon select “Config > Whois Config”.
Type in DK into the box at the left bottom corner (meant for adding new TLDs and ccTLDs) and click “Add”.
Highlight DK in the list by clicking on it and specify the following.
Whois Server: whois.dk-hostmaster.dk
Port: 43
Search Token: No entries found for the selected source
Date Format: mmdd
Name Server Token: Hostname:
Click OK.
We have updated Watch My Domains ISP. Please see the change log for details.
The new update also adds a new data extraction token for obtaining multi-line data (eg: addresses). For example,
#ML#token-1#token-2#token-3#
will extract all the three lines of text that appear after token-1, token-2 and token-3 and merge them together. Please see the earlier posts on advanced string tokens for more information.
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Sometimes lookups on one or more domains in Domain Punch Pro or Watch My Domains ISP (or Watch My Domains Pro) will simply not occur even after repeated attempts. This could be due to any of the reasons mentioned in this support article or it could be because you are redoing the lookups too soon.
All our domain name management tools have a minimum interval before a lookup will be attempted again. You can set this from the “Config tab” > “App Settings” ribbon button. The “Lookup Interval” is specified in minutes.
The “Whois Check Selected” option in the context menu (that appears when you right click within the domain list) is not affected by this setting. This is so that you can quickly right click a domain and re-do a lookup.
One of the common questions we get is about the registrar names that appear in our domain portfolio management software products.
The registrar names appear differently based on the registry and or TLD. For example, for COM and NET domains “Directi” shows up as “DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM”, but for INFO domains it is “Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. dba PublicDomainRegistry.com (R159-LRMS)”.
These long names are often a problem when creating reports and print outs.
There is a way to make the software just display “DIRECTI” instead of long full names as shown above. Right click on the domain and select “Edit Registrar Alias”. Then type in the short Alias name you want to use. This will make the software display the Alias wherever the long form name is present.
You will need to do these a few times for each registrar because of the slight differences in text between different TLDs.
This is a working tip and not an April Fool Joke 
1. Always backup your data. You can backup your domain name management data by simply backing up a folder. Please see this blog post for more details.
2. Don’t fillup the projects with data you don’t need. Software like Domain Punch Pro and Watch My Domains ISP allow you to obtain and store a large amount of related data for each domain. Lookup only the data you need. You can selectively lookup the required data by using the “Lookup Some” or “SQL lookup” options in these products.
3. Use the domain Finder tool for finding domain names. Domain Manager is for managing your domain names. Use the “Finder” tab (available in Watch My Domains ISP and Domain Punch Pro) for finding available domain names. It is built for that.
4. After you have retrieved all the data for domain names, enable auto-update and set it to re-lookup the data at leisurely intervals. Don’t enable auto-lookup at the beginning, especially if you have a lot of domains.
5. Manually check your domain records, probably, once a month. You can quickly sort using the Expiry date or Admin contact and find domains that need to be renewed or emails that don’t seem to be correct. You should also manually inspect the raw whois data (lower panel) for your important domains.
6. Always make sure that your contact emails work and that you can receive emails from your registrar. Any email you use as domain name contact should be well protected using a strong password that is never used for anything else. For example, never use the same password for registering at an online forum.
Did you know that you can use Domain Punch Pro and Watch My Domains ISP to invoke a private web based script, after whois lookups, if any domain record has been modified?
The information about the changes is passed as a POST variable to the script. You can set this up from the “Config” tab using the “Domain Alerts” button.
First check the “Web Script” option under “Alerts”. Then scroll down and specify the details about your server script. You have to provide the full URL of your script along with the name of the POST variable that should be used. For a sample PHP script, please see “Domain Alerts, Web-scripts and more…”
You can use this to send email alerts too. We recommend this method instead of SMTP because SMTP method may fail if your ISP uses grey-listing to prevent SPAM. Most ISPs do use it.
We have updated Watch My Domains Pro and Watch My Domains ISP.
For Watch My Domains ISP, the update fixes a minor issue with some regional settings.
Watch My Domains Pro gets better support for doing whois lookups through a web based script. Please see http based whois for more details.
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