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Tutorial: How to Track Verisign’s Monthly Top Popular Keywords using DomainScope API

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Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use Verisign DomainScope’s API to produce and store monthly popular keywords for .com and .net domain registrations.

Once upon a time, Verisign provided a monthly email and blog post reporting the top trending keywords contained in recent .com and .net domain registrations for a given month. That all ended circa Q4 2019.

Fortunately, Verisign provides an online interface that gives visitors insight into the top 10 popular keywords for recently registered domains for the last 7, 30, 60 and 90 days or a custom time period.

Verisign DomainScope Tools

While this tool is good for the casual observer, it’s not necessarily the same report layout.

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Tutorial: How to register and purchase a domain using GoDaddy API

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Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use GoDaddy’s API to register and purchase domains.

Today’s tutorial aims to help many domain investors with a desire to harness the power of technology to streamline the registration and purchasing of domains using GoDaddy’s API.

Instead of using GoDaddy’s web interface and having to perform many time-consuming clicks at risk of losing out on hand registering domains, this tutorial will be the foundation for what could become an automated purchasing script (with a bit of elbow grease and database integration).

Script automation and database integration won’t be covered in this tutorial, but you can likely search the web for a few simple tutorials on automating PHP and MySQL database integration. [Read more…]

How to import your Whois data into Watch My Domains

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Even with Port 43 limits and GDPR, you can still download your Whois info from select registrars.

A lot of domain name investors use Watch My Domains Pro to manage their domain name portfolio. But as domain name registrars limit access to Whois in the GDPR era, it has become difficult for domain owners to download their own Whois data into the program.

There’s now a way to download all of your Whois data into the program without running into rate limits and other issues. It’s accomplished using registrar APIs. And before you dismiss this because you aren’t technical, I was able to set this up in 5 minutes with no technical skills.

Here’s the process:

1. Get your API key and secret from your registrar.

Watch My Domains currently supports ResellerClub, GoDaddy, Namecheap, Internet.bs and Dynadot. I got my GoDaddy API information by logging in and going to developer.godaddy.com/keys.

2. Input your API info in Watch My Domains.

Click on the API configuration icon and enter your info in the box that pops up.

3. Import your data.

The first step is to import your domains by clicking the Import button in Watch My Domains.

After downloading all of your domains you’ll be able to do Whois lookups on them that pull data through GoDaddy’s API rather than Port 43 (which doesn’t return valuable information).

Presto.

Tutorial: Domain Availability Search Using GoDaddy API and PHP

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Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on using GoDaddy’s API.

Grab a beverage, put your “coding” hat on for the for the journey ahead. Why? Today we’re tackling a simple coding tutorial.

That’s right, we’re coding a bit today as we aim to create a custom domain search feature with a bit of PHP, HTML, and GoDaddy’s Application Programming Interface (API).GoDaddy API: Check Domain Availability

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