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poll Poll: Are You Consolidating Your Domains?

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

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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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1. Uniregistry
2. NameSilo
3. Godaddy

Cheers
Corey
 
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What do you pay at GoDaddy? Where do you pay less?

I am in the godaddy discount club and get good prices using that but I can get that pricing in numerous other places without having to pay for the discount club. For my .ca's I can save a buck with a Canadian registrar without the discount club as well.

That said, the discount club works for me just so I don't have to deal with all the coupons and such. The coupons never work on renewals anyways.

Not going to bother quoting you pricing because I am set up to deal in CAD funds on godaddy but I can tell you that it's an average price., not too much and not the cheapest either.
 
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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.
 
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Consolidating to Unireg also, mainly from Godaddy. I don't know how such a huge web based company has such an awful website / user experience. Managing domains there is a chore.

I'm really impressed with Unireg's UX and customer service.
 
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Always think I will but then I don't.
 
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had hundreds of names at enom and when they went from 9.98 to $14 moved all my personal names to dynadot. contacted a few other regs before moving and no one could match dynadot really happy with them hope they keep the prices where they are.
 
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And the reason behind leaving Uniregistry?
I used both epik and unireg and epik has a bunch of tools that are better than unireg.
I havent really heard anyone discuss unireg recently.
epik .com $8.49
unireg .com $10.88
$2.39 per name....100 names equals $239 per year in extra cost
@AbdulBasit.com do you really have to ask this question?
 
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I used both epik and unireg and epik has a bunch of tools that are better than unireg.
I havent really heard anyone discuss unireg recently.
epik .com $8.49
unireg .com $10.88
$2.39 per name....100 names equals $239 per year in extra cost
@AbdulBasit.com do you really have to ask this question?

Fine if you're handregging and only holding there for a year, but Epik charges $35 for a .com renewal. Ouch!!.. Not a good place to move your portfolio.

https://registrar.epik.com/prices/renew/toplevel
 
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James, Can I ask why Uniregistry are there any particular features you prefer over the other registries? Is it pricing etc etc
 
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@James Iles , Can I ask why Uniregistry are there any particular features you prefer over the other registries? Is it pricing etc etc
 
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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.
Same, most of mine are at Godaddy for a similar reason - they seem to be the most recognised name for potential buyers so in my mind it's worth the little extra.

I do also hold a few at Uniregistry.
 
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60% of portfolio is at one Registrar 40% spread about elsewhere. Ideally I’d like to have all in one place but not going to pass up on transfer deals.
 
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Mainly 2 of them. Some names are scattered at others due to pricing differences.
 
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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.

What do you pay at GoDaddy? Where do you pay less?
 
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GD and Name.com for me.

Same for me. Vast majority of portfolio at GD, a few at Name.com

I will periodically do a sweep and transfer all acquired domains sitting at "random" registrars over to GD.
Except for those at some of the terrible registrars, which I transfer on day 61 after acquisition.
 
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I am in the godaddy discount club and get good prices using that but I can get that pricing in numerous other places without having to pay for the discount club. For my .ca's I can save a buck with a Canadian registrar without the discount club as well.

That said, the discount club works for me just so I don't have to deal with all the coupons and such. The coupons never work on renewals anyways.

Not going to bother quoting you pricing because I am set up to deal in CAD funds on godaddy but I can tell you that it's an average price., not too much and not the cheapest either.

I am also in godaddy discount club - but essentially deal in only .COMs. I don't know of a registrar that normally matches those prices - and it would need to be significantly cheaper in order for me to give up the other benefits you mentioned ealier.
 
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I used both epik and unireg and epik has a bunch of tools that are better than unireg.
I havent really heard anyone discuss unireg recently.
epik .com $8.49
unireg .com $10.88
$2.39 per name....100 names equals $239 per year in extra cost
@AbdulBasit.com do you really have to ask this question?

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.
 
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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

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.
 
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The poll should have a third option - I've already consolidated. So neither of the two options work for me.
 
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I am trying to, Slowly but surely, i will get my complete portfolio to NameSilo, I wish it was all there now though.
 
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Fine if you're handregging and only holding there for a year, but Epik charges $35 for a .com renewal. Ouch!!.. Not a good place to move your portfolio.

https://registrar.epik.com/prices/renew/toplevel

I was showing your $35 when I 1st clicked your link, but now I'm showing 8.49 for a .com renewal when I checked again.
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I'm moving much of what I have to Epik. One reason, regarding Epik's pricing:

I sold a domain that I'd already transferred to Epik to someone who contacted me on it. We used Epik's escrow - which went very smooth/will use again. The price I sold the domain for was 1,500.00 US, and because I left the $ in my Epik account instead of withdrawing it - left it to pay for future domain purchases, transfers, renewals - the amount that went into my account ended up showing as being 1,773.35 US. Part of their Masterbucks program, I'm thinking, where if you pre-pay $ into your account, the price for .com drops to 8.10 US for any purchases/transfers/renewals that use those prepaid $.

The renewals and transfers paid from those pre-paid $ still showed as being 8.49 in my account records, but because of the top up from Epik, were coming out as really costing 8.10.
 
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Yes Namesilo all the way!
 
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