Portfolio management site(s)

epik does all that
afternic and sedo just the listing part

@FGarr the Domain Check Wordpress plugin does not let you list things for sale on any platform and is less full featured than many standalone services, but it is a free plugin and it can help with the very basics of managing a portfolio of domains. It is for use on Wordpress websites.

If you have a Wordpress website you can learn more about the plugin at:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/domain-check/

Disclaimer: that is my plugin

Thanks you guys! Maven, can a user list their domains for sale in the marketplace on multiple platforms through Epik? that's what I'm looking for. does this capability exist anywhere?

We just launched a portfolio platform for free....
Most other products require you to update each name at the domain level. We let you update all info like a spreadsheet. unlimited names for free. if you want api data like alexa rank and backlinks and valuation that requires a pay plan

https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-free-domain-portfolio-manager.1001860/

as far an we know no site allows you to list your domains on all market places. They all would require direct apis. Flippa doesnt really have a public api, namejet is very restrictive, godaddy may have one, afternic is godaddy and sedo does not. godaddy charges an auction fee to be part of the acution...and namejet has an approval process. you send them a list of names and they approve disapprove and they have even told us to adjust prices lower or they wont list. at the end of the day if your talking marketplace there are only 2 Godaddy/afternic and sedo....flippa and namejet are more auction based. If everyone played nice and offered an api it could be done.

Talk to this gentleman about his Efty.com platform:
@Doron Vermaat
I highly recommend you start a free trial and see what they have to offer. I've had 10 sales now since last August through their awesome landing pages. Fairly priced, too.

And welcome to NP! You sound like you are off to a great start by researching, good luck to you my man.

toughdomains said:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-free-domain-portfolio-manager.1001860/

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maven said:

epik does all that
afternic and sedo just the listing part

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took a deeper look at epik...it appears they also have alexa and traffic and expiration per domain however you need to transfer all your domains to them in order to view that data. Our platform is agnostic of any registrar.

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your correct. If I log out its a missing link but if Im logged in I can access it...not sure why...never noticed that before

I'm logged in and can't access it.

toughdomains said:

your correct. If I log out its a missing link but if Im logged in I can access it...not sure why...never noticed that before

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Domains - Wanted said:

I'm logged in and can't access it.

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I'm logged in but still can't access

@toughdomains - your post is in the Business section so only Business members and VIPs can see it AND we have to be logged in. You could ask the mods to move it to the public section for you.

New Free Domain Portfolio Manager
Discussion in 'Exclusive Marketplace' started by toughdomains, Feb 16, 2017

EDIT: In the meantime members can get to the site if you look at ToughDomains signature line or get clever and just add dot com : wink :

@usernamex your right I actually never knew that section was for biz and VIP...we posted the announcement in a public post however it was deleted and we were told to post there. I guess we should just pony up and buy a banner ....

why do you think you need a portfolio management site?


you can manage your names in excel or notepad or keep at one registrar

you can also create your own site with simple html pages

it ain't rocket science and you don't have to pay anybody but yourself.


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@biggie agreed excel is great if you have a few names.
what became an issue for us and domainers we spoke to was when you started buying many names from auctions. auction names have auction locks for a certain time which prevents you from pushing it to your account.
And if your buying 50 or 100 names a month its really hard to remember which registrar the auction house pushed the name to and which are in auction lock.

A portfolio manager will dynamically update your whois and show you info like
-where its parked (name servers)
-if you have the correct whois email transfered with each name
-what register its currently at
-when it expires

while you can add all this to excel the issue is excel isnt dynamic. all the whois data and ranking data like alexa needs to be updated as often as it changes. If you have over a thousand names you will need to update hundreds of records each month.

Or you can load all the names into a manager sit back and let the system automatically pull in this data as it updates....and for those excel fans your tool should have an export to excel feature if you ever want to go away.

You also cant easily see the traffic to each name. Again yes you can make a Google anaytics account for each name or toss code on each name but really you just need basic stats like visits, referral and country.

As for hosting html pages again yes its possible to make an html page for each of your 1200 names but why not just load them in a system and have them hosted and created instantly? Our tool does all this.

@toughdomains


i've been around for years and have owned a few thousand names at one time or another.

and some things you think up to say, that need to be managed, don't even need managing.

all the whois data and ranking data like alexa needs to be updated as often as it changes. If you have over a thousand names you will need to update hundreds of records each month.

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@biggie it sounds like you have your routine in place with spread sheets and we respect that.

But for many domainers....things like back links and alexa matter....after all any domain valuation tool takes these metrics into account. Our tool gives you this data so you can make an informed purchase or so you have real time data.

As for whois....most domainers are constantly changing their name servers and have accounts with multiple registrars and having this data at their fingertips saves them a lot of time

unireg shows expiration dates and registrar for every name you have listed and they pay ppc too

and domains by themselves, aren't going to generate any new backlinks nor should alexa rank, (which doesn't mean sqat anyway) increase.

also, who's going to link to a domain with no website and how will a domain with no website achieve alexa ranking?

as for valuation tools, they are worth less than a penny/per 100.


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Hi @FGarr I had created post on similar topic about some months before, do read the comments

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Epik lets you add domains from any registrar to your account and shows these metrics for them: registrar, creation date, expiration date, nameservers, Estibot appraisal value, Alexa rank, pagerank, and Epik marketplace status. DNS services are free for external names too.

@biggie agreed a parked domain isnt going to generate any new backlinks. Aslo agree that valuation is not worth much.
We built insights to provide domainers with as much information about their name to make the best decision for a sale
. After we loaded lists of names it was interesting to see patterns in our data. For example many of the domains sold in our personal portfolio were older in domain age and previously registered. Something we didnt focus on at time of sale.

Some domainers sell domains based on what they paid for it and have no idea about additional info.

We show you how much traffic your name gets, where the traffic is coming from (not many services provide this) , what country its coming from, how old the name is, when it will expire, what the admin email is, where its registered, the alexa rank. Having this info when you make a sale is alot better in making a decision than not having it. The more data you are armed with the less likely you are to sell a gem domain for cheap.
We are always looking at other tools and releasing new features each month based on feedback. Many of the features in our roadmap actually came from feedback on this forum. We love to hear it and respond to it. Good or bad.

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@biggie agreed a parked domain isnt going to generate any new backlinks. Aslo agree that valuation is not worth much.
We built insights to provide domainers with as much information about their name to make the best decision for a sale
. After we loaded lists of names it was interesting to see patterns in our data. For example many of the domains sold in our personal portfolio were older in domain age and previously registered. Something we didnt focus on at time of sale.

Some domainers sell domains based on what they paid for it and have no idea about additional info.

We show you how much traffic your name gets, where the traffic is coming from (not many services provide this) , what country its coming from, how old the name is, when it will expire, what the admin email is, where its registered, the alexa rank. Having this info when you make a sale is alot better in making a decision than not having it. The more data you are armed with the less likely you are to sell a gem domain for cheap.
We are always looking at other tools and releasing new features each month based on feedback. Many of the features in our roadmap actually came from feedback on this forum. We love to hear it and respond to it. Good or bad.

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@toughdomains

Hi

don't know why you keep saying the same things, that i previously dismissed as "non-unique" to your service.

because ppc's, also provide traffic origins, referrers, email inquiries, email addresses, etc,.
then that data, plus any "income" generated from those respective names, puts a domain owner in a much better position when deciding whether to sell, or not.


imo...

@biggie there are many parking options currently out there.
We have personally tested most of them and discovered most provide no more than few dollars on a portfolio of over 100k visits per month.
There are many threads here that discuss parking vs sales page. Parking revenue just isnt what it used to be (which is strange because over the years we have seen media costs increase for premium placement.)

I think a bigger conversation is even at pennies per thousand of views, if everyone just replaced their default hosting parking page with something personalized, it would result in more revenue and offers for the owner.

We are trying to provide something different. As far as I know there is no service that allows you to instantly develop hundreds of domains in seconds with a news page. And we have plans to offer many more options than news.

Many of the current parking and domain tools share functionality and specialize in certain areas. All we can do is keep trying until our users are happy. And again the feedback from namepros has resulted in many changes to our system.
here is a link to our free portfolio manager tool for all the non vip and biz readers
https://www.toughdomains.com/domain-portfolio-manager

toughdomains said:

@biggie there are many parking options currently out there.
We have personally tested most of them and discovered most provide no more than few dollars on a portfolio of over 100k visits per month.
There are many threads here that discuss parking vs sales page. Parking revenue just isnt what it used to be (which is strange because over the years we have seen media costs increase for premium placement.)

I think a bigger conversation is even at pennies per thousand of views, if everyone just replaced their default hosting parking page with something personalized, it would result in more revenue and offers for the owner.

We are trying to provide something different. As far as I know there is no service that allows you to instantly develop hundreds of domains in seconds with a news page. And we have plans to offer many more options than news.

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Hi

when you 'tested" these ppc's, what names did you test them with?

cuz, if your names aren't worthy, then yeah, all you will get is a few dollars on a portfolio, if that.

we all know parking isn't what it used to be, but what is like it used to be now-a-days?

as for the threads on NP, those that earn say parking ain't dead... while those that make anything, say parking is dead.

and... there have been several services who have tried the auto-dev with domains, ala mini-sites, mfa's, whypark, etc., so that's not a unique concept either.

keep trying though.....

imo....

toughdomains said:

We just launched a portfolio platform for free....
Most other products require you to update each name at the domain level. We let you update all info like a spreadsheet. unlimited names for free. if you want api data like alexa rank and backlinks and valuation that requires a pay plan

https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-free-domain-portfolio-manager.1001860/

as far an we know no site allows you to list your domains on all market places. They all would require direct apis. Flippa doesnt really have a public api, namejet is very restrictive, godaddy may have one, afternic is godaddy and sedo does not. godaddy charges an auction fee to be part of the acution...and namejet has an approval process. you send them a list of names and they approve disapprove and they have even told us to adjust prices lower or they wont list. at the end of the day if your talking marketplace there are only 2 Godaddy/afternic and sedo....flippa and namejet are more auction based. If everyone played nice and offered an api it could be done.

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Could this be something a newbie like me could use as well? I looked over the website, and I see how to sell the domains, but how do you buy them? This may be more of a PM convo to have. I am trying to understand why tough would do it for free?