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Version History for Domain Punch Pro

Current Version: 2.0

Current Build: March-11-2012

Domain Punch Professional was first released in July-2004.

Recent Change Log

March-11-2012

Added a new column called "Registry Created". This will display the domain creation date from the registry whois record and is meaningful for domains that have a separate registry whois data (Com, Net, TV, etc.). This is needed because the registry provided creation date differs from the registrar provided date for some domains.

Use the "Setup Columns" option to enable the display of the extra column (if needed).
Some minor internal improvements

Feb-07-2012

Fixed recent issues with website visibility data.
Improvements to Visual Interface

Jan-11-2012

Fixed recent issues with website visibility data.
Added default support for XXX domains. Previously this required manual configuration.
Changed the application icon.

Oct-12-2011

Fixed recent issues with website visibility data.

Aug-12-2011

Fixed an issue with redirect URL display for some domains

May-08-2011

Added default support for additional country codes.
Added support for checking domain SSL certificate expiry
Minor interface changes

Dec-01-2010

Added a few new options to 'application settings' dialog.
Minor optimizations applied to some application defaults.

Oct-27-2010

Fixed problem with CA domain expiry dates because of a format change (required a manual configuration change before)
Added support for JP domains
Improved data extraction

Sep-01-2010

Improvements in lookup speed
Added options in context menu (right click within domain list) to copy domain table in 'tab' separated format. You can paste 'tab' separated data directly into Excel.
Added built-in support for CO domains (required manual configuration in earlier builds)
When renaming or adding new domain categories in the left side tree view pane, the software will check for unsupported characters (non alphanumeric, repeated spaces, etc).
The "domain manager" will highlight rows that contain a domain that is "available". Previously the highlighting of available domains happened only in the "domain finder"

March-25-2010

Quick Find (Ctrl-F) is no longer case sensitive.
Added support for MX domains. Previously this required a manual configuration.

January-17-2010

Now you can define http based proxy for any specific whois server. Please see http based whois.
Support for HTTP/1.1 based whois proxy script (only if you use web based whois). Previous versions worked only if the whois script was uploaded to a hosting account with a dedicated IP address. It now supports virtual hosts.
Name servers are always displayed in lower case now. Previously it was picked up exactly as it is in the last read whois data. This caused the NS data to be shown in mix of lowercase and uppercase.
Secondary lookup support for CC domains. CC domains require a second lookup (similar to NET/COM/TV domains). The software does it automatically now.
When you open a new document and lookups are in progress, you will be prompted to stop the lookups.
The Whois Setup dialog displayed a harmless "Delete Selected" button that did nothing. This was removed.

October-03-2009

Domain Finder (the tool in Domain Punch pro that identifies available domain names) will now work faster and better. It will also automatically identify the invalid IP addresses (for DNS based lookups).

Aug-29-2009

You can now double-click on a domain name to edit the categories the domain belongs to.

July-17-2009

Added support for simple http based whois lookups.
Added support for properly parsing dates that contain "rd", "nd", etc. Example: 22nd June 2007, 1st Jan 2004.

July-02-2009

Routine maintenance update. Includes minor interface changes.

May-09-2009

You can now disable domain alerts for specific domains. Use the manual edit option in Details Tab to enable or disable alert for any domain.
The "Pending Delete" domain category will display domains that have a related text in whois output. This was not enabled before.
If you drag the mouse and shrink the domain table or the details view panel to almost zero size, the panel will become hidden. You can now prevent this from happening in the "Application Settings..." dialog.
Added default support for .TEL domains. Previously you had to manually configure .TEL support.
The Remove duplicates option in Keywords tab has been improved. It will now clean up the list (trim leading and trailing spaces, remove repeated spaces, etc.) before removing duplicates.

Mar/16/2009

The details tab normally displays/edits dates in mm/dd/yyyy format. You can change this to dd/mm/yyyy using the "Config > App Settings" dialog. Please make sure that you restart the software if you change the date format for the details tab.

Note: this is different from the date format for regular data display within domain list. Regular domain data list always uses the date format as specified in the system regional settings.
Added 3 new columns that show the IPs corresponding to the MX Records. These are labelled MXIP1, MXIP2 and MXIP3. You can enable the display of these columns from the Setup Columns option in the context (right-click) menu.

Feb/02/2009

Now you can sort TLD-wise by clicking on the "#" column.
You can optionally make the "#" column to sort based on original insertion order by changing the setting in the "Config > App Settings" tab button.
Added support for SMTP authentication (for domain alerts)
Fixed an obscure bug in Keyword Manager.

Jan/10/2009

Improved some of the messages displayed by the software.
Added built-in support for KR domains. (KR domains were already supported through manual configuration)

12/27/2008

Simple maintenance update.
Minor bug fixes in Keyword Manager

11/17/2008

Improved Whois Configuration and TLD / ccTLD Handling
Minor Interface Improvements

This is a simple maintenance update and is not critical. Update your installation only if you want to.

10/31/2008

You can now do simple website monitoring using Domain Punch Pro. You can also specify text tokens to look for in the website's home page.
The exported CSV files include a header now.
There was a bug in the exported CSV files when text that contain a linefeed or carriage return is part of the exported data. This is now fixed.
The data entry box in "Add Domains" dialog has a buffer size of 1MB now. This means that you can paste text contents of upto 1MB into it. Previously this was much less (Windows default). To add domains from bigger text files, use the "Import" option instead of "Add Domains".

10/18/2008

Added an option to import domain notes from a CSV file. Right click within the domain list and select "Extra Columns > Import Domain Notes..." The first row in the CSV file should contain the header names. If the notes contain a "," wrap the entire entry within quotes. You can see a sample CSV file below. Please note that the CSV file need not contain all four "notes" columns.
```
domain,notes-a,notes-b,notes-d
domainpunch.com,Invoiced,"Hello, There",ZZZZZ
softnik.com,AA,BB,DD
```

Added support for SE domains. SE domains were previously supported through manual configuration.
CSV export failed when the list contained domain names in other languages (IDN). Fixed
CSV export - now prompts for a .CSV file instead of .TXT
If you are viewing domains that belong to a specific domain name category and try to add or import new domains, the newly added domains will be added to the currently selected category. You can disable this from the application settings dialog.
You can now right click within the category tree and select Reorder Categories to rearrange the category display order.

09/24/2008

Added a new option for data extraction (string token) that will allow picking a specific line number after a token text. For example, use Registrant:@@#L#2 as the string token to extract the second line after the occurrence of Registrant:
Added in-built support for BE domains.
Added support for generating alerts when a ping or home page check fails.
Added support for generating alerts when IP address corresponding to a domain is changed.
Added an option to enable UTF-8 conversion for web-script POST data. Use this if you use IDNs.
Added Unicode support for the domain log file. Without this the domain log file will not display IDNs properly.
Added a check box for enabling Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) to the "Add Names" dialog.
Added support for extracting the organization name.
Bug Fix: Fixed data extraction failure when the required data is in the very last row of whois record.
Bug Fix: Fixed IP address display bug when the domain name contains an uppercase letter.

09/10/2008

Added an option to view the log of domain name record changes ("View > Domain Log" ribbon button)
Minor bug fixes and Interface modification.
Update your copy if you use web-script option for domain name alerts.

09/02/2008

Domain Punch Professional now supports IDN (Internationalized domain names). Just add domain names in their native language text and the software will automatically do the IDN conversion before lookups! Make sure that you enable IDN support from the "Application Settings" dialog.
Added a progress dialog when deleting large lists of domain names.
Improved performance when adding large domain name lists.
Minor bug fixes and display changes.

08/23/2008

The 'Import Domains' option will now import the domain groups from older DMS files. There are some limitations to this because of the way the domain groups are stored in the DMS files. You will need to rename the domain groups after the import.
Added support for ME domains. You may also manually configure the software to support ME domains.

08/18/2008

Added an option to Generic Settings for doing IP (DNS) lookups after appending a "www." in front of the domain name. This will make the DNS lookups in v2 similar to that in previous version (v1.x).
Improved the project "open" and "save as" dialogs.
Changed the default data store path to My Domain Records. This will not affect any existing installations, but will make it consistent across all our domain management products.
Minor bug fixes.

07/30/2008

Minor interface changes. Update only if you really want to, or if you are running a build older than 7/28/2008.

07/28/2008

Added Web Forms Manager
Added support for "Live Links" and "Total SE #" in Web Visibility Check.
The "Programs" folder now includes a shortcut for starting the software in safe mode. This will start up the software without loading some of the registry settings and can be used to fix occassional problems due to a bad or corrupt program setting.

07/14/2008

New Major Version Release. Upgrade information.

09/22/2006

Version 1.1 Released.
Added better support for managing domain groups.
Added support for MOBI domains.
Added visual interface enhancements.
Minor fixes.

04/02/2006

Added support for EU domains
Minor bug fixes.
Support for high speed EU DAS (Domain Availability Service) lookups for EU domains. Please see the kb article for details.

12/14/2005

Nominet changed the whois formats on Dec 13 2005 and this required some manual configuration changes. Download this version if you don't wish to make the configuration changes on your own. If you are installing over an existing copy, right click on any .UK domain name in the list (after installing the new version and opening any of your existing data files) and select Data Extraction Setup > Reset To Default. Press yes when you are prompted for confirmation.

11/24/2005

Added support for showing redirected URLs for site home pages with a 301/302 redirect.
Some minor changes

06/02/2005

Changes to default whois configurations.
Some minor changes.

10/22/2004

Country code domains like co.uk, com.au, etc. needed to be manually configured immediately after installation. This has been fixed. Download only if you have problems looking up these domains or you haven't already configured the settings manually.

09/06/2004

This update is not critical. Download only if you wish to.
The software is now digitally signed by Softnik Technologies. This is to ensure that the software has not been modified by any one. You can right click the downloaded file (if you are using Windows XP) and check the 'Digital Signature' tab for details.
Supports importing domain names and data from the older version files (.DNM) of Watch My Domains Pro (v1.2).

08/01/2004 (and previous updates)

HTTP page check will indicate status codes like like 200 OK, 301 Moved, etc. Previous builds used to follow the redirect and show the status of the final page.
Minor bug fixes and interface changes.
Removed all domain tree view items that point to this site.
Ability to create registrar name aliases
Better Sorting Options
Support for basic web visibility (site and link popularity)
Support for sorting in descending order.
User created domain groups/categories
Email alerts contain more information now.
All changes that have occurred to various domain name records are logged to a file on disk.
Ability to sort based on user's notes
A pop-up whois tool for quick domain name lookup (or for diagnostics).
Ability to manually edit important dates.