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Free Registrant Alert for DomainTools Users
July 31st, 2008 by 
Susan Prosser
In April, we launched the Registrant Alert service. This is an extremely valuable service. It can save tons in time and money. Jay points to an example of the service in action: alerting him when he was about to lose a domain due to expiration. Another scenario that can be far more hazardous, time consuming, litigious and expensive for domain owners is the possibility of losing a domain to theft. Registrant Alert can circumvent such a situations and useful in other proactive measures.
The service has been available now for a few months with great success and positive feedback. We feel the service is so valuable to domain owners that we are giving it away for free.
All DomainTools members who have a confirmed email address on their account will receive a Registrant Alert on the confirmed email. By default, this alert is sent to the email on account. Users can also subscribe to RSS for notification instead or in addition to. To find this alert service, go to My Services in your DomainTools account and then Registrant Alert. Changes to method of notification are set here. Also, you can change the Nickname of the query by right-clicking, choose Nickname and edit it. However do NOT edit the specific query to anything other than the default settings, it will charge you units. The system will assume this is a new query. A pop up notice warns you of this along with an estimate fee of the new query.
DomainTools members are receiving this for free on their own email with no Units deducted. If you implement the service for other alerts, the unit cost varies by the level of activity of the registrant being monitored.
Users can unsubscribe as well, if chosen, in the same service area. Choose the alert and then turn OFF or delete completely. However, why would you want to remove a system that could alert you of possible harm to your business?
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:44 am
where’s jay, & why is someone else posting here?
UPDATE: Jay is still around. I posted this entry to update customers on DomainTools services.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
This is a great idea with one major flaw: almost no serious domainers use the same address for their DomainTools account and their WHOIS records i.e. we trust DomainTools more that we trust email harvesters.
As such, those of us who have entrusted DomainTools with our main email addresses rather than our throw-away WHOIS email addresses (to ensure we are always aware of emails from DomainTools) will receive no alerts regarding our domains.
The creators of this feature should complete it by allowing registered members to specify, in their account settings, a secondary email address, the one they use for their WHOIS records - only then will the full potential of this feature be realized.
UPDATE: That is a very good point. Good suggestion, thanks.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:23 am
the only thing i can trust domaintools, whois.sc, nameintelligence, thoughtconvergence, or whatever their name is this month, is to change their name, charge for formerly free stuff that usta be only advertising supported.
long live gmail, 7 gb FREE space & continuously increasing.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
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