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New RSS Feeds deep inside DomainTools
July 15th, 2008 by 
Jay Westerdal
We just released a new RSS Feed Management system to DomainTools that allows subscribers to monitor alerts and other services using RSS feeds instead of email updates. Email alerts have bugged me for a while because they clog my inbox, RSS gets announcements out of the inbox and in a more usable area. We are not getting rid of email alerts on anything, however going forward everything on DomainTools that can email users will have its own micro-feed. All micro-feeds of a certain type will have grouped-feeds where a person can subscribe to a bunch of micro-feeds all contained in one feed.
The flexibility that RSS extends to our users is that they don’t need an email client to monitor our alerts. One of the obvious uses is setting up a scheduled web process to check the RSS feed and do something based on the results it finds in the RSS location. The more obvious use is plugging those feeds into an RSS reader like Google Reader.
We have two types of RSS feeds available on all things. The first is a rich-HTML markup RSS feed like you would expect in an email. The other if an XML style 
that is strictly for parsing by a computer on the other side and is designed for only computers. This will allow more computers around the world to interface with DomainTools.
This release only has four group feeds available right now, but in the near future we will be releasing the Domain Monitor alerts and other missing products to the Global Feed as well. We are very committed to RSS feeds on every service we offer.
Just a quick security note: Do not share your RSS feeds with other people, there is only one RSS access key per account and you are giving away all your RSS streams to every feed you have if you give away just one stream. If you make this mistake, just login and reset your security key inside the RSS Feed Management System. It will be impossible for people to guess your key which means all your RSS feeds are secure unless you disclose the RSS feed URL to the other people.
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July 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Welcome back! =D
July 16th, 2008 at 12:52 am
HE LIVES !!! welcome back.Well
this will be a help to my mailbox buildup thats always helpful thanks 
July 16th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Jay,
I am happy to learn that like Mark Twain, the rumors of your death have been greatly exaggerated. Would you please review the comments in Domain Tools Forum and address the customer communication issues? I have already stumbled across some new Domain Tools features which would be very useful but there has been no communication about them.
One of the strongest business assets which Domain Tools had was your frequent BLOGS. This asset has been very much lacking for the last two months, to the distress of many of your loyal customers.
Mike
July 16th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Welcome back Jay! Don’t stop writing again…
/Andreas
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 am
We are felicitous to ascertain that like Mark Twain, the rumours of your death have been greatly enlarged. Would you delight review the comments in Domain Tools Forum and address the customer communication effects? I have already faltered crossways some new Domain Tools features which would be very useful but there has been no communication about them.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
It’s cool
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 am
It’s cool
July 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
The communication, mac-digitalinfoz109, is called: silence.
July 30th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Hi every body i hope to nice to meet u.