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Google PageRank history for your domains

If you like to know the Google PageRank value for your domain, you’ll definitely love the new Google PageRank history page.

This page aggregates your domain PR changes through time and uses HTML5 + SVG charts to render the results.

You can access the PageRank history page by clicking on the PageRank information in the domain list or clicking the Information tab in your domain navigation menu.

Check out the Google PageRank history support page.

Goodbye Flash charts

There are a few places in RoboDomain where we display interactive charts.

For example, there’s the costs-per-year chart that displays yearly expenses to maintain a specific domain (please note you need to add transactions to get this very cool chart!).

Just a few years ago, Flash was the de-facto standard for creating interactive charts on the web. But now we have open specifications such as HTML5, canvas and SVG.

Starting from today, we are replacing all Flash-enabled charts with cross-browser HTML5 + SVG charts.

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Google PageRank information for your domains

We now collect and display Google PageRank information for every domain in your account.

There are several PageRank checker tools available on the web, but we believe that having this value integrated into your domain can be really helpful when you need to valuate your domain.

PageRank is currently displayed in every domain listing, including domain list and expiring domain list.

Learn more about RoboDomain Google PageRank feature.

The PageRank information is automatically refreshed periodically. It’s very unlikely that we display outdated information. In case the PageRank information for your domain is not correct, please let us know.

There are cases where the PageRank information is not available. This is mainly because a domain is not registered, invalid or too young.

Simplified domain thumb view

You may have noticed we made a few changes to the thumbnail view of the domain listing. We weren’t satisfied with the previous version: many empty spaces and data was concentrated in a single point.

We decided to make it more similar to the list view, but keeping the domain thumbnail so that you can immediately identify your domain by its content.

This layout version also leaves space to other features… ops, I’ve already said too much.

Expiring Domain HTML notifications

Last month we rewrote the expiring domain notification system. The response to this feature was simply amazing and we decided to make it even better by introducing a new notification HTML design.

The basic features are the same of the existing version.

We introduced some courtesy links to the application (1), we compute and display the distance of time to the expiration date (2) and we also provide some links to subscribe the expiring domain list using alternative sources (3) such as a Calendar application or your feed reader.

If you are a plain-text fan don’t worry, the “old” plain-text template is still there. We now deliver a multi-part email and your client will display the more appropriate version according to your view settings.

More details are available in the Expiring Domain Notifications page.

Domain Transaction Changes

We introduced a small update for transactions.

After logging into your RoboDomain account, you will notice a new transaction style in the dashboard.

We applied the same style over the entire application, making it more consistent. For example, here’s the domain transaction list.

We also updated the transaction list introducing new information. Now you can see the order amount and the payment method for each transaction beyond the transaction type, date and hosting company.

Obviously you need to enter order and payment details when recording a new transaction in order to get them in the list.

This is also a good way to have a quick overview of your domain costs.

Better Expiring Domain Notifications

RoboDomain has been sending out expiring domain notifications since its very early stage. This is a very powerful feature and one the most appreciated by our users.

We designed the notification system to deliver an email for each expiring domain matching one of the following pre-defined ranges: 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, and 2 months.

This approach worked very well in the past when the number of domains per user was reasonably low, but we now have users managing 500 or 1000 domains and receiving tons of notification emails in your inbox is not that helpful.

So, we’ve redesigned the expiring domain email notification to acts as an email digest. Your emails should now look something more like this:

This is how it works:

1. As soon as you have at least one domain expiring in the next 2 months we start sending you a weekly expiring domain notification
2. The email contains a list of all expiring domains, grouped by periods
3. Because we don’t want to spam you, you will receive at most one email per week

We’re continuing to improve the expiring domain notification experience on RoboDomain, so look for even more awesomeness going forward.

WHOIS Definition Update

We just deployed a new release including several updates to the WHOIS definition database. Several new TLDs have been added to the list and we also increased the list of supported IDN domains.

The full list is available at the domain WHOIS support help page.

Going SSL

In the past several users asked us to be able to access login and account pages via SSL-protected pages.

Today we’re switching the entire site from HTTP to HTTPS.

We originally planned to make this feature available to paid plans only, but we eventually decided to deploy SSL to all users, including free and beta accounts. We’re also flagging all cookies as secure to make sure they are sent only over SSL requests.

Let us know if you experience any issue.

WHOIS Definition Update

A couple of minutes ago we rolled out an update to the WHOIS definition list. The update introduces the support for more than 15 new TLD, including .br.com, .cn.com and all the CentralNic extensions.

Thanks for all your feedback.