General

Welcome and thank you for using Domain Manager!

This application is primarily aimed at individuals and small businesses who want to keep track of their and their clients’ domains and hosting plans. You can enter records of domains, hosting plans, domain / hosting providers and domain owners / subscriber’s in the application’s database. You can also link them to one another so it is immediately obvious which domain is owned by who, which hosting plan is subscribed by who, when do they expire, which company provides the domain or the hosting service and so on and so forth. You can also enter the price of each domain and hosting plan in case you want to track the related financial part as well.

If you let Domain Manager access your calendar it can also create events to remind you when your domains and hosting plans expire. You can also create tags with custom names and color that you can then assign to any domain, hosting plan, owner or provider in case you would like to create your own classification system. The application also makes it super easy to filter your entries based on tags, owners, providers, etc.

Please check out the various help sections to read more in-depth information about the different parts of the program.

If you have any questions that are not answered here you can contact us on info@my-web.hu.

User Interface

This application has a very simple and intuitive interface. There are separate tabs for the different entry types. The tabs are called:

• Domains
• Hosting Plans
• Owners
• Providers
• Tags

We will refer to these different types of entries that you can add in the program as items.

Adding an item

When adding a new entry or when looking for a previously added entry, first you should select the relevant tab from the tab bar or from the View menu item located in the main menu.

To add a new item to the selected tab do one of the following:

• Press the Add Item button on the toolbar
• Select Items > Add New Item from the main menu
• Right click in the table and select Add New Item from the pop up menu

The new item is automatically selected for you in the table so you can start filling in the details in the bottom part of the window right away.

You may provide as much or as little information about an entry as you wish. No field is mandatory. For more in depth information about the different entry types see their associated pages.

Removing items

To remove items from the program you need to select the relevant entries then do one of the following:

• Right click the selected items and select Delete from the pop up menu
• Select Items > Remove Selected Items from the main menu
• Press ⌘ ⌫

Before the selected items are deleted you are presented with a pop-up window to confirm or cancel the delete operation.

Sidebars

The left part of the application window is a sidebar that contains filters to help you to quickly find the items you need.

The sidebar’s contents are dynamic and is dependent on which tab is currently active. Domain names can be filtered by Owner, by Provider, by Hosting Plan and by Tags. Hosting Plans can be filtered by Owners, Providers and Tags. Owners and Providers can be filtered by Tags.

When a filter is active only items that are matching the filter criteria are displayed. The filter can be cleared by clicking on empty space in the sidebar. The filter is also cleared when you switch tabs, when you start typing in the search field or when you add a new item.

Search field

You can also filter the items in the currently selected tab by entering some characters in the search field.

As you enter the characters the string you type is used to narrow down the items in the table to those that have the relevant characters somewhere in their data. The characters in the search field are only used to search in text fields, the price and date fields are not searched.

Domains

About domains, Domain Manager can store the following information:

• Domain name
• Registration date
• Expiry date
• Hosting plan used with the domain
• Provider (the domain registrar)
• Owner
• Price paid or price charged for the domain
• Tag (any label you wish to assign to the domain)
• Notes

You can choose to fill out all, some or none of these details. If you do fill out the domain name and the use of thumbnails is enabled in the preferences section then a thumbnail of the webpage is also saved together with the domain details. These thumbnails are shown in the table section along with the domain names to make them easily identifyable.

For your convenience, right clicking the domain names table you can lets you open one or more selected domains in your default browser.

Hosting plans, owners, providers and tags cannot be created here in the domain details section. They must be created as new items in their relevant sections first and only then can they be selected and assigned here in the domain details interface.

Opening and Saving Files

When you open the application it automatically opens the last used database file or creates a new one if there is no previously saved file available. You can also create a new file any time using the File > New command from the main menu or open a previously saved file with the File > Open menu.

Usually you don’t need more than a single file for all your entries. However if you would like to isolate some items from the others by putting them in another file, you can do so. The application can open and edit multiple files at the same time. The files are autosaved after you saved them at least once unless you disabled this feature in macOS.

The files are saved in XML format and can be sent to another computer and can be opened by another installation of Domain Manager just like any document.

Hosting Plans

About hosting plans, Domain Manager can store the following information:

• Plan name
• Expiry date
• Provider (the hosting service provider)
• Owner (the domain’s subscriber)
• Price paid or price charged for the hosting plan
• Tag (any label you wish to assign to the hosting plan)
• Notes

You can choose to fill out all, some or none of these details. In addition to these information Domain Manager automatically keeps track of the number of domains assigned to each hosting plan.

Owners, providers and tags cannot be created here in the hosting plan details section. They must be created as new items in their relevant sections first and only then can they be selected and assigned here in the hosting plan details interface.

Owners

Domain owners and hosting plan subscribers can be entered here in the owners section. For example if you run a small web design business and you want to keep track of the service you provide to your customers or you want to keep track of the different domains and hosting plans of your family members in this section you can enter their details. The following information can be stored here:

• Owner name
• Website
• Address
• Address 2
• Postal code
• City
• Country
• Tag (any label you wish to assign to the owner
• E-mail
• Phone number
• Fax number
• Notes

You can choose to fill out all, some or none of these details. In addition to these information Domain Manager automatically keeps track of the number of domains assigned and hosting plans assigned to each owner.

Printing

Each section in Domain Manager allows you to print out the section’s data in tabular format. Before printing you may want to go to the Preferences section and select which columns of the table you would like to print out. You may also select the font you would like to be used and the font size as well.

If you select many columns or you have very long texts in your columns the table to be printed might become wider than a single page. While you can print out multiple page wide tables you also have the option to decrease the scale of your printed data to make it fit within less space. To do so go to File > Page Setup… and change the scale from 100% to the desired value.

Providers

The domain names and hosting plans added to the other sections of this app are probably provided by a number of different domain registrars and hosting providers. In this section you can enter these providers along with their relevant details so you can keep track which provider is providing which service to you and/or your customers. You can store the following information about the providers:

• Provider name
• E-mail
• Website
• Phone number
• Fax number
• Tag (any label you wish to assign to the provider)
• Notes

You can choose to fill out all, some or none of these details. In addition to these information Domain Manager automatically keeps track of the number of domains provided and hosting plans provided by each provider.

Tags

Tags are essentially labels that you can assign to any domain, hosting plan, owner or provider. Each tag can have a name, a color and some notes associated with it and each tag can be assigned to any entry - except another tag. One entry can only have one tag associated with it. Tags provide the possibility of a secondary classification system that you define in any way you want. For example you can create a tag called Important for the most important domains, hosting plans or even customers. Or you could create a tag to easily mark domains that should not be renewed when they expire. There are virtually endless possibilities.