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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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I currently use 5 registrars, although most are at 2. I expect to increasingly have my portfolio at Namecheap and Namesilo. I like both of them a lot in terms of features, user friendly and transparent interface, and excellent value for both registrations and renewals. In addition, they both have marketplaces that I like as an option for some domains. Depending on renewal prices, I may use another registrar for .ca renewals. Within the ngTLD space (about 80% of my holdings), I find that using only one registrar would not result in best prices.
 
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I have found having my own re-seller account for G dad makes it easy to manage. I can also set the prices to what ever I like. Plus I get the bottom price and kick backs. I have my domains currently registered at 2 registrars. Not counting free URL provided by web site builders. A domain name is just a series of code really.
 
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For anyone consolidating domains, Epik does have a free domain concierge service. In short, you provide the account logins at your current registrar(s) and then we manage the domain consolidation work either in bulk or on some interval, e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterly for expiring domains. Some registrars (e.g. NetSol) make the transfer out process excruciatingly tedious so we have processes for overcoming these hard cases. For the moment, Godaddy and a few others still allow easy bulk export of domains with auth codes.

In some cases, we provide interest-free domain loans to help with the migration expense with the loan secured by the domains. Epik does also have a unique feature where you can add all of your domains at any registrar and use DNS and forwarding service for free even if the domains are registered elsewhere. It is possible to also sell external domains in the Epik marketplace but it requires approval -- this is a safeguard to prevent bogus marketplace listings from folks that don't actually have registrar control over domains.
 
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