A little over a week ago we added a usability improvement to the DomainRecord.Info service. We have created a search shortcut to save you a couple of steps to viewing the search results.
Instead of having to go to the website home page to use the search form, now all you have to do is enter in your address bar whois.domainrecord.info/<domain name> to view the whois results. Simply replace <domain name> with the domain or IP you would like to see a whois record for.
We hope that this feature will encourage you to use the service even more. Feel free to leave us your feedback on this improvement in the comments below. As always, if you have any suggestions or need help feel free to contact us.
Bookmark friendly page titles are here. That’s right. You sent us your feedback and we listened.
When bookmarking search results Domain Record Info (DRI) pages it became difficult to determine, at a quick glans, which domain record a bookmark points to. Prior to the changes our page titles displayed the web site name – Domain Record Info – before the domain name, thus when a user has more than one DRI bookmarks in their favorites he or she had to expend their bookmarks navigation window to view the complete title of the bookmark. As all of these extra actions consume the user’s time and detract from the usability of the web site, changes had to be made. And changes were made, resulting in positive usability improvements. Now, after a successful search, the domain name is the first thing displayed in the the page title, making it easier for You, our loyal service users, to navigate your bookmarks and Domain Record Info.
Please, keep sending us your feedback and ideas. You can also leave them as a comment below.
Last night we had to block our first service abuser. Over 21000 automated queries in just few days! The persons who had set up the automated script have been consuming over 90% of the bandwidth used by the site every month. The script always checked .fr domains. Usually three to four letters long.
Looking over the site logs, this has been happening for a very long time. Something we were aware of, but until few weeks ago, when we decided to further develop DomainRecord.Info we didn’t really found this to be a problem. It was simply a nuisance, which we saw as unethical due to the way the queries were executed and the data retrieved.
Hopefully it will be a while before we have to block someone again.
We have completed the initial setup and design of DomainRecord.Info. Basic layout, functioning search and results, as well as various site information and policies are now available on the website. There is a long list of other features, like IP trace, ranking and domain appraisal, to be implemented, but at this time further development of this project will be placed on hold. There are more urgent ones that must be completed. The gaming news aggregator site is almost complete, and the planing stage of the domaining web sites is done. It is time to start development process.
DomainRecord.Info DNS record comments
Looks like DomainRecord.Info did not stay on the back burner for too long. We have implemented commenting/discussion software from Intense Debate. Now when a user performs a whois look up, on the DNS record page they have the ability to leave comments regarding the domain or IP they look up, or respond to others, who have already commented.
Implementing this allows us to establish a community, but most of all it help share information. For example domainners can conduct discussions about a domain, its value and traffic. Contact information can be exchange or business can be conducted off site, but only made posible by connecting the two parties via the DomainRecord.Info community. System and network administrators as well as members of anti-SPAM communities can comment on IPs. They can share background information, as well as type of SPAM they are receiving from the IP in question. Methods and strategies for blocking or filtering can be shared between administrators, who might have not met if not for the direct information sharing provided after each DNS record.
With this move we are striving to provide user with a centralized platform for sharing information. Having the community opinion and knowledge available to users in one place will help improve productivity by cutting out time spend searching the Internet to accumulate partially useful bits and pieces of information.
Although DomainRecord.Info has been available to the public since 2007, a layout for the website was never implemented. The whois script was simply installed and provided for everyone to use.
Today this was changed. A short description/disclaimer was added to the home page, explaining what the web site is about and what it does and does not. The search form size was adjusted so was the page displaying results. Most important of all a “ShareThis” button was added, allowing users to easily share any domain or IP record information on their blog, social network of choice or email it to someone. As far as usability, the web site is very easy to navigate with a simple design.
After this small update, the DomainRecord.Info project will be placed again on the back burner due to some nearly completed upcoming projects. One involves gaming news and the other is DomainVentory, which will offer domain monetization. Once these web services have gone live and are stable, DomainRecord.Info will be revisited so we can determine what new features could be added to the web site, making it more feature rich and useful to its users.
