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Wouldn't it be useful to know how many people perform a whois search on your domain? Well with GoDaddy, you can!
It took me a while to figure out, but here's how:
In GoDaddy's Domain Manager, hold your mouse over the Tools tab at the top and select Exportable Lists. Next click the Add New Export button. You will see a drop down box. Select All My Domains and click next.
Now you can select which data you want to export. There are quite a bit of options to play around with here, but what we're interested in are Whois Searches - Previous Period and Whois Searches - Current Period. Make sure those two options are checked and click Next.
The final screen lets you select file type. I recommend CSV which can be opened with Excel. I also recommend you set Select Compression to "none". Name your list and click Finish. GoDaddy will take a few minutes to compile the list and will e-mail you when it's ready. You can then download it on the Exportable Lists page mentioned above.
Kind of an unnecessarily long process but nice information to have either way. It shows both the current and previous day, week, and month's statistics.
Enjoy!
UPDATE:
I've noticed an increase in WHOIS requests for domains that are about to expire. I have a long, random domain that I know nobody did a WHOIS request for, but yet GoDaddy is showing 2 WHOIS requests. I'm assuming they are the result of automated tools that people are running on nearly-expired domains. Something to keep in mind.
It took me a while to figure out, but here's how:
In GoDaddy's Domain Manager, hold your mouse over the Tools tab at the top and select Exportable Lists. Next click the Add New Export button. You will see a drop down box. Select All My Domains and click next.
Now you can select which data you want to export. There are quite a bit of options to play around with here, but what we're interested in are Whois Searches - Previous Period and Whois Searches - Current Period. Make sure those two options are checked and click Next.
The final screen lets you select file type. I recommend CSV which can be opened with Excel. I also recommend you set Select Compression to "none". Name your list and click Finish. GoDaddy will take a few minutes to compile the list and will e-mail you when it's ready. You can then download it on the Exportable Lists page mentioned above.
Kind of an unnecessarily long process but nice information to have either way. It shows both the current and previous day, week, and month's statistics.
Enjoy!
UPDATE:
I've noticed an increase in WHOIS requests for domains that are about to expire. I have a long, random domain that I know nobody did a WHOIS request for, but yet GoDaddy is showing 2 WHOIS requests. I'm assuming they are the result of automated tools that people are running on nearly-expired domains. Something to keep in mind.
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