General Settings

The General Settings window allows the user to make changes in how D.R.T. processes certain information, how it loads, and much more. To load the General Settings window select "Options->General Settings".

Most of the settings in the General Settings window are self explanatory. To learn about turbo mode click here. Settings which are not self explanatory are discussed below.

Copy/Paste Settings allows you to determine how D.R.T. copies data to the clipboard and how it parses pasted data. If you wish to copy-paste data between D.R.T. and a spreadsheet program such as Excel, you may wish to enable "Include column headers when copying..." so that Excel knows what the column headers are.

The "Copy entire row" feature will simply copy the entire row, which includes all columns currently visible. So, if the visible columns are "Domain", "Scan Status", "Alexa LP" than those are the columns for which data will be copied. Alternately, if this option is disabled only domain names will be copied.

The last option in the Copy/Pasting Settings is the ability to filter data using user-specified filter settings as it is pasted into the desired list. If this option is turned on all pasted data will be filtered using specified filter settings.

The Advanced scan settings section allows for configuration of how certain queries are formatted. For example, in most situations a user will want to know the Google Pagerank of www.domain.tld, however, in some situations it may be useful not to have the www. prefix.

The "Use Alexa XML Query" feature uses a faster approach to querying Alexa which has a lower ban probability.

The "Auto-Generate second level Overture domains..." option automatically generates domains from "bad" Overture results. To understand this, lets take a look at a sample "bad' result. Searching "degeners.com" in Overture search term suggestion returns "79 ellen degeners.com" which D.R.T. treats as an invalid result and returns 0. However, when the "Auto-Generate second.." feature is turned on D.R.T. generates "ellendegeners.com" from the previous "bad" result and adds that to the scan queue. Now the result for ellendegeners.com (as of 11/26/2005) is 156 (TLD). So, good domains can be found from bad results. Keep in mind that bad results containing "link" in them are skipped because "linksomedomain.com" always returns 0. Also, by default, .COM is always appended to the term/bad result unless it already exists. Finally, when these domains are added to the list they are brown in color.

The Offer Related Settings section allows for configuration of how offers are processed. By default, if an offer is submitted from the Scan list, the domain is automatically added to the Watch list and assigned "Offer Sent" status. To disable this uncheck the "Automatically add offer-sent domains to Watch list" window.

The "Use e-mail from E-mail field" option will use the e-mail address provided in the E-mail address field of the Watch list, if one is available, instead of querying the whois to extract the e-mail address. If no e-mail is available in the Watch list D.R.T. Will attempt to extract an e-mail address from the whois.

The Register tab allows a user to register their copy of D.R.T. or change their license number.