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.

Date Extraction Format for Whois

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.

Please see the screenshot below for the setup. You can find additional instructions at  Whois Configuration.

This fixes a recent problem with generating keyword ideas from “Products That Sell”

Note: This free download was available only for 3 days from July 3, 2010. However, if you are a registered customer (SEO Lab Pro, Keyword Strategy Studio) please contact us to obtain a download link.

“How To” questions are extremely useful because they are about “real problems” that need a quick solution.

You can use these to get ideas for your blog posts, plan the next niche product and so on.

The keyword phrases include everything from “how to draw cartoons”, “how to lose weight” to “how to kiss”.

Customers who are simply looking for a competition and niche research software will find this tool very useful.

You can download a trial evaluation copy.

If you have been planning to buy SEOLab Pro, now is the time. There will be a price increase once the new update is released (the update is free for all existing customers)

Here are the major changes

1. New major version update (from v2009 to v3)
2. The main package in SEOLab Professional has been renamed to Competition Strategy Studio Premium
3. Ability to to customize PDF reports (column headings, water mark, report titles)
4. Improved regional support (for French, German, Spanish users)

About SEO Lab

SEO Lab is the premium competition research tool available for Windows users (there is also an SEO Lab Mac OS X version).

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.

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.

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.

The Pro version now includes support for IDN (International domain names), faster and better domain name availability check, quicker sorting etc.