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poll Poll: Are You Consolidating Your Domains?

NameSilo

Are you currently trying to consolidate your domains into one registrar?

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  • No

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For domain investors with hundreds or thousands of names in their portfolios, management of those domains can be difficult. From ensuring all names are renewed to changing nameserver settings, doing this thousands of times across different registrars can be time consuming.

This is why many domainers opt to consolidate their domains to one registrar in particular. There are many choices for registrars, and it can be difficult to select a specific registrar. Sometimes it can come down to simply registrar features, prices or existing relationships with registrar staff.
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Investors that consistently buy names via auctions can have hundreds of names at varying registrars. NameJet domains tend to go to eNom, whilst DropCatch domains tend to move to NameBright. Whilst these may not be an individual investor’s proffered registrar, eventually these names may be moved to a registrar of choice.

Our poll this week asks whether you are consolidating all of your names to one specific registrar? You may be in the process of doing this for the first time, or you may have been consistently moving new purchases to a preferred registrar for some time.

From a personal perspective, I have moved all of my domains to Uniregistry aside from several .CO.UK names which remain registered at GoDaddy.
 
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I am transferring domains from other registrars to NameSilo, DynaDot, and Name.com.
 
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It makes things way easy to have most names at one place, but it is smart to spread domains around in the event changes in terms, pricing etc. causes a rethink regarding one or more provider.

I only use three: Epik, NameSilo, and Godaddy.
 
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Yes and no.

I am consolidating, but not into 1. For now, it is 2. I am giving up on deals etc to reduce admin load. And paying to transfer right away rather than keeping in another register.

Currently, I have about 1300 names with GD and about 400 with Dynadot. I chose the latter because it has access to both GD fast transfer and Sedo MLS and the deal they were running with $6.99.
 
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Hi James,
I have had dealings with a few registrars in the past, but my loyalties lie with only one. NameSilo. All my domains are with them now. They offer me everything I need from a registrar. They offer very reasonably priced registrations in especially dot coms, which I am only interested in. Their support is absolutely second to none, and their commission is an amazing 7.5%. When I'm treated that well, I don't walk away.
 
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I have my domains at 10 various registrars around the globe. 2 main reason for that:
1) not good to have all assets in 1 basket, so to speak
2) new gTLD extensions are priced totally differently at various registrars - registrar which is great option for one gTLD extension can be horrible option for another gTLD extension...pricing varies so much...
 
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I am leaving uniregistry

I consolidate at epik
 
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I consolidate at Epik and my second favorite is Uniregistry. I'm trying NameSilo right now. I've recently experienced the fastest NS change in NameSilo. I don't know the reason but it was very fast and just wanted to mention.
 
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I've consolidated down to two but I have so many at both of them that moving to one is almost out of the question. With so many domains to move it would be a weeks project to consolidate them.

I'm leaning more and more to godaddy and have about half my domains there for no other reason than it's easy to push to other domainers. I pay more with godaddy but everyone has an account there so transactions just seem to go smooth whenever I need to do a quick deal.
 
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many domainers opt to consolidate their domains to one registrar in particular.
From another hand, it's better not to keep all eggs in one basket... Very true for all aspects of business. And here, with our main asset - domains, where we are totally dependent on some 3rd parties... Let's go figure what will happen tomorrow with what registrar. Better to spread the risks a bit.
DropCatch domains tend to move to NameBright
Right, wherever else?
 
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I've been consolidated for many years. I also consolidate renewal months so I have the same amount of renewals due each month.
 
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Yes. I have been doing this for years. It makes management far easier.

Brad
 
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1- Godaddy.com
2- DynaDot.com
 
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I preferred have a domain at Uniregistry but I also use dynadot since they provide afternic.com premium listing unlike uniregistry.com
 
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I’m consolidating from UNI to GD. Absolutely abysmal interface in comparison, and the pricing is worse. I’m doing it for the household name with buyers and the Afternic integration. Fingers crossed they’ll come to their senses and rebuild that monstrosity. Wouldn’t bet on it though.

They've attempted it very recently but made it even worse, I have to revert to the old style domain manager to get anything done. Their platform is built for everyday people that have 1-2 domains, not domain investors.
 
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For me uni is big no no. Reason one- they are not fast transfer partner with afternic.
Second- why do I have to contact support for get better pricing? I mean isn’t that something that You would do like 20 years ago? To get some discount? I mean
 
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I would keep all domains at one place, but some ccTLD are cheaper elsewhere. Uniregistry and Dynadot seems to have better renewal costs for some "premium" new gTLDs plus Dynadot is pretty neat.. Also NameJet works with eNom so, I hold some names at eNom. So there is always gonna be some spread.
 
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I’m consolidating from UNI to GD. Absolutely abysmal interface in comparison, and the pricing is worse. I’m doing it for the household name with buyers and the Afternic integration. Fingers crossed they’ll come to their senses and rebuild that monstrosity. Wouldn’t bet on it though.

Interface is bad and buggy, but the Afternic sales cannot be beaten by any other platform. And of course, being the household name. I sold one name via BB that was with DD and the buyer just wanted the auth code :) with GD, it is always push out.
 
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And the reason behind leaving Uniregistry?

I can't see any advantage there
I do not like the interface
they are more expensive

I was planning to pay for renewals
from their parling income
and affiliate commission

but that is not going to happen
as they didn't pay the way I planned for

they have this $100 USD minimum payout
and sometimes they have "chargesbacks"
from google that is not obvious to me

overall
after 77 sale leads and no sales

I really don't feel comfortable with uniregistry
 
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
If you ever plan to try them again, you just need to contact Uniregistry support and provide them the number of domains you're planning to move there and they'll give you good discount.

I personally like their interface which is great and super quick. Easy to manage everything IMO.


Yes thank you
I did so

My costs are below namesilos

But a few cents saved
Is not the main reason to
Like a registrar

If so I would go with godaddy I guess

But to me that a real nightmare
With GD
If you own more then a handfull
Domains
The worst of all
 
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Since my currency is weak compared to the US dollar, slowly moving my domains to a registry that uses my currency!

Should have done that long time ago, can't imagine how much money I would have saved by using my currency BUT then again..the more that I save, the more that I buy, the more that I buy (hopefuly not but) the more that I have to renew....
 
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Yes, I wanted to ask because you need to contact Uniregistry support and provide them the number of domains you're planning to move there and they give you good discount.

I was told not to disclose what price I'm getting but what I can say is they'll give you very close price to what Epik offers you currently.
I asked them for bulk on about 300 names when I was switching over from enom...this is what they offered
"Based on your portfolio size I’m more than happy to extend out a bulk discount which will give you $9.17 on .coms, as well as reduced costs ton a wealth of other extensions. "

even with their bulk price still higher than dynadot or epik....I also have never sold a name through them so to me I dont see much of a value or reason to even mention them....there is nothing different or special
 
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Transfer is cheaper than renewal. I transfer domains between 5+ registrars. I try to stay away from GD. Namesilo is the best one for me mostly for its high quality marketplace but I don't keep all my domains at Namesilo.
 
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