Schedule Scans for Certain Time/Date [ Watch Video after Reading Help Topic ]

Domain Research Tool can execute scans at a certain time on certain dates. To do this, you'll have to create a Windows Scheduled Task and pass the filename or list to download as a parameter along with a "autorun" parameter Though it may sound confusing, this is extremely simple and can be setup in about 5 minutes. The purpose of scheduled scans is to scan various search engines when the load is low (ex: night time).

A video is available at the bottom of this help topic that demonstrates the scheduling feature. Please read through this help topic before watching the video.

Important: Domain Search Tool assumes previously saved settings (ex: proxy settings, scan settings) when auto-loading and auto-scanning domains from a scheduled task. That means that whatever settings you configured, whatever proxy lists you have added, will be used during the automated scheduled scan. For example, if you last scanned only for Overture domains using the UK overture, D.R.T. scheduled task will only scan for Overture score in the UK overture.

D.R.T. requires that you either pass a filename of the file you wish to scan or specify the type of list to download (ex: expired, RGP, custom, etc).

The "autorun" parameter passed along with one of the above list types tells D.R.T. to automatically load (or download) the specified list and start scanning immediately. This parameter is required.

To load a file from the hard drive into the scan queue you'll have to pass the filename as a parameter when launching D.R.T. For example, the below parameter will load the file "C:\Programming\DRT\domain-lists\dropped-12-14-2005.txt" and begin scanning it immediately.

Sample: "C:\Program Files\Domain Search Tool\DRT.exe" C:\Program Files\Domain Search Tool\domain-lists\dropped-12-14-2005.txt autorun

The above command (if ran from Start Menu->Run or Windows Task Scheduler) will execute Domain Research Tool given the program path (blue), then load a file (dropped-12-24-2005.txt, outlined in red) and finally the last parameter (gray) tells D.R.T. To start scanning the list after load.

If you don't want to load a file that's on your hard drive but rather need to download a live domain file you may use the parameters below instead of the file path (red). All domain lists provided by D.R.T. can be downloaded automatically as well as a custom list. To specify a list to download for a scheduled scan use the parameter list below:

Downloadable List Type	Parameter Name
Expired Domains	download-expired
Dropping Tomorrow	download-tomorrow
Pending Delete List (dropping < 6 days, large)	download-pending
RGP List (large)	download-rgp
Registrar Hold List	download-registrarhold
Custom Domain List (specified in General Settings window	download-custom

Sample using live domain lists: "C:\Program Files\Domain Research Tool\DRT.exe" download-expired autorun

The above command (if ran from Start Menu->Run or Windows Task Scheduler) will execute Domain Research Tool given the program path (blue), then download and load domain list (daily dropped domains in this case, outlined in red) and finally the last parameter (gray) tells D.R.T. To start scanning the list after load.

Click here to watch a video demonstrating how to use Windows Schedule with Domain Research Tool to download an expired domains list and start the scan at 12:00 AM every day.