How to manage a PORTFOLIO ?

Hi!

Try looking around in this section....
https://www.namepros.com/forums/domain-parking-and-traffic-monetization.126/

Silentptnr said:

Hi!

Try looking around in this section....
https://www.namepros.com/forums/domain-parking-and-traffic-monetization.126/

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Thank you, I’ll take a look, but I think not many things related to it.

erchaman said:

Hello guys, I was wondering which site are you using to make your portfolio, you know, any site which support for free a beautiful system to upload logos and descriptions and the domain you want to display...to let you have all under control or just to show the customers:
Do you use a free site to upload information plus logos? If so which?
Of course I know proffesionals domainers use a domain and then develop, and sure is the best method, but if I don’t want to spend money by now what to do?

Thank you in advance, regards.

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There are a few options- like Efty which was created by an active domainer but the central issue is that unless your domains get traffic on their own or you invest in SEO and get ranking organically you cannot compete with the registries advertising to the top of the SERP's. Personally, I don't want to use someone elses nameservers so they can gather and monitor the traffic, so I started my own website.

The real answer I see and have posted a number of times is enough demand from domain owners to give incentive to someone wanting to create a central marketplace- a "craigslist' so to speak of domains that comes up in google right beside all the advertisers. That way end users discover this somewhat hidden "Secondary Market".

I also use Dub.io which has been a great free new offering, and Kevin has been super responsive to everyone's requests- my hats off to @Kevin Johnson

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dub-io-a-new-tool-for-parking-your-domains.1021899/

offthehandle said:

There are a few options- like Efty which was created by an active domainer but the central issue is that unless your domains get traffic on their own or you invest in SEO and get ranking organically you cannot compete with the registries advertising to the top of the SERP's. Personally, I don't want to use someone elses nameservers so they can gather and monitor the traffic, so I started my own website.

The real answer I see and have posted a number of times is enough demand from domain owners to give incentive to someone wanting to create a central marketplace- a "craigslist' so to speak of domains that comes up in google right beside all the advertisers. That way end users discover this somewhat hidden "Secondary Market".

I also use Dub.io which has been a great free new offering, and Kevin has been super responsive to everyone's requests- my hats off to @Kevin Johnson

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dub-io-a-new-tool-for-parking-your-domains.1021899/

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Thank tou mate for the useful info, I will take a look on it and perhaps someday, when I am enough experienced I start to make my own website, best wishes.

Efty is great for quality landing pages for your domains that are highly customizable. They also provide some good stats for tracking your profit and loss and other portfolio management tools. It's a monthly subscription which I think is very affordable considering what they offer. Only $6 a month for up to 50 domains, $4 if you pay annually. The tiers go up from there.

Currently I have my domains listed on Afternic, Sedo, and Flippa with landing pages at Efty. Another bonus is Eftys is commission free. Worth checking out for sure if you're just starting and are on a budget.

Rothex said:

Efty is great for quality landing pages for your domains that are highly customizable. They also provide some good stats for tracking your profit and loss and other portfolio management tools. It's a monthly subscription which I think is very affordable considering what they offer. Only $6 a month for up to 50 domains, $4 if you pay annually. The tiers go up from there.

Currently I have my domains listed on Afternic, Sedo, and Flippa with landing pages at Efty. Another bonus is Eftys is commission free. Worth checking out for sure if you're just starting and are on a budget.

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Can you use on Efty a domain you want to make you main page Portofolio? Ej. Domainseller.com and then when you type it you go to your portfolio? Thank you.

Yes, you can use one of your domains as your "Marketpage" which showcases your entire portfolio while also having individual and customized landing pages for each of your domains. Your Marketpage can be setup with a logo, GA tracking code, metatag, and other custom text and backgrounds.

Check out undeveloped.com

I like Efty.

Sounds good, but I am not sure at all which % of chance you have to sell thanks to that monthly subs. Kinda like brandbucket, we don’t know exactly how far their seo/sem reaches to our end users. If someone have sold any domain there, would be grateful to share their experience, and how much it deserves the monthly subs.

I like Efty a lot - easy to make attractive lander pages and set DNS so they show up, just right amount of text detail re features of each domain, lots of flexibility in backgrounds and logos, excellent tables to keep track of your development and portfolio domains and when they expire, etc.

So far, my Efty pages have not resulted in any inquiries, but I have only been on Efty for a bit over two months. I would also welcome feedback on how many sales have come from Efty pages for those who have been on the system for some time.

Try .. ToughDomains.com

I can recommend DNHat free version.

https://demo.dnhat.com/domainlist.php
https://demo.dnhat.com/
https://dnhat.com/

It's search functions are excellent.
Unlike many scripts, where search terms produce ZERO result (even though you have probable domain matches in the database), DNHat searches the database aggressively, splitting complex search terms into parts and looking through multiple columns (12) of the table. Complex, multi-level filter - all with a single search.
Just try it and you will understand what I mean.

erchaman said:

Sounds good, but I am not sure at all which % of chance you have to sell thanks to that monthly subs. Kinda like brandbucket, we don’t know exactly how far their seo/sem reaches to our end users. If someone have sold any domain there, would be grateful to share their experience, and how much it deserves the monthly subs.

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Brandbucket has SERP ranking, and 40,000 names with rankings in search that favor certain people to first page, it should be private sellers only not public. I removed names from there.

Efty does not have or pass along SERP- its an individual domainer sales system, not a marketplace.

Efty has a 60 day free trial, @Doron Vermaat is the owner and a member here and he will assist you he also has a blog dngeek(.)com. I am not associated with them, just giving you the info to assist. Efty provides nice landing pages, escrow integration for BIN and great integration of collecting all your names if they are registered from different registries and emails weekly reports of those names their expiration dates and any inquiries. They also filter for spam requiring inquirers to confirm their email. Again, There is no SERP ranking provided at all. That I was advised is up to the individual account holder, and unless you own traffic names you may not get inquiries.

If in the future there was an open marketplace where all of us individuals could list a select list of names in one place, that did have good ranking in the SERP’s I would instantly join.

offthehandle said:

If in the future there was an open marketplace where all of us individuals could list a select list of names in one place, that did have good ranking in the SERP’s I would instantly join.

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@Silentptnr has one already. here is the link: https://prycr.com

I too thinking of turning http://namecape.com into one. If will be free, so I need to attract advertisers. Once 've got enough ads signed up, namecape.com will be for everyone.

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Josytal said:

@Silentptnr has one already. here is the link: https://prycr.com

I too thinking of turning http://namecape.com into one. If will be free, so I need to attract advertisers. Once 've got enough ads signed up, namecape.com will be for everyone.

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The key expensive part is getting into ranking, you need budget initially fir adwords, but the PPC bidding by Godaddy and other large entities is huge. Domainers are scattered all over and end users need a “trusted” source to go to, right now GD = domain names, they “own” the name “domain” in the mind of prospective customers and have marketed themselves into a $10 billion marketplace.

The challenge is if the secondary marketplace were to become recognized more by end users, then there would be more income and cash flow. This 1-3% sell through rate people here talk about is only because of lack of exposure and overpricing from some.

I didnt know you or Prycr had open markets, first I heard of that. How are you qualifying people to enter to sell?

hi,

you can try Behance ....

That is one of the most popular and effective social networking platforms for creatives worldwide.

No web design skills are required - but you might still be nervous about uploading your work to the site and building your own customised portfolio.

efty.com - very happy with them so far

lolwarrior said:

efty.com - very happy with them so far

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Does it works like Sedo? Didn’t test it yet. Still looking for an auction place to bring my domains, still thinking where I will subscribe with the monthly fee.

erchaman said:

Does it works like Sedo? Didn’t test it yet. Still looking for an auction place to bring my domains, still thinking where I will subscribe with the monthly fee.

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Efty is basically a landing page. Sedo is more of a marketplace.

I always suggest listing your domains at the markets Afternic, Sedo, Uniregistry etc...

But point your domains to either a marketplace script on your own hosting or use a subscription service...

http://www.domainmarketpro.com
http://www.efty.com
etc...

Most leads come in from wherever ya point the domain so that might as well be direct so ya achieve name, email, phone, ip address of the buyer which helps in negotiations. Then ya route deals to an escrow service and have the buyer pay the escrow fees and ya end up with zero commissions or escrow fees on all sales.

Fine with paying sales commissions when a buyer finds my domain at Afternic etc... and buys it as then that market earned the commission by delivering the buyer. Knowing that 90%+ of all my sales have come in from my landing pages over the last 15 years I would never point them to someone that hides buyer info or takes a cut of a sale as your basically delivering them the lead for free so how nice they hide buyer info=blind negotiations and take a cut on a lead my own domain delivered.

Few bucks a month hosting or few bucks a month subscription service keeps all those leads in house building your end user database. Pointing those domains away is giving them a lead they can email market for life, sell their own domains to, sell another domainers domains to, etc.... Conflict of interest as all the major aftermarkets have their own portfolios to sell so why have your domains drive leads to their end user database that might sell a domain owned by them or another domainer. Build your own site and now every sale profits "you" with no traffic leaks to make someone else richer. Build your future, not the rich guys for free. Short term pain for long term gain.

SpareDomains said:

I always suggest listing your domains at the markets Afternic, Sedo, Uniregistry etc...

But point your domains to either a marketplace script on your own hosting or use a subscription service...

http://www.domainmarketpro.com
http://www.efty.com
etc...

Most leads come in from wherever ya point the domain so that might as well be direct so ya achieve name, email, phone, ip address of the buyer which helps in negotiations. Then ya route deals to an escrow service and have the buyer pay the escrow fees and ya end up with zero commissions or escrow fees on all sales.

Fine with paying sales commissions when a buyer finds my domain at Afternic etc... and buys it as then that market earned the commission by delivering the buyer. Knowing that 90%+ of all my sales have come in from my landing pages over the last 15 years I would never point them to someone that hides buyer info or takes a cut of a sale as your basically delivering them the lead for free so how nice they hide buyer info=blind negotiations and take a cut on a lead my own domain delivered.

Few bucks a month hosting or few bucks a month subscription service keeps all those leads in house building your end user database. Pointing those domains away is giving them a lead they can email market for life, sell their own domains to, sell another domainers domains to, etc.... Conflict of interest as all the major aftermarkets have their own portfolios to sell so why have your domains drive leads to their end user database that might sell a domain owned by them or another domainer. Build your own site and now every sale profits "you" with no traffic leaks to make someone else richer. Build your future, not the rich guys for free. Short term pain for long term gain.

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Very interesting info friend. Is it ok then if I purchase gold plan or store plan at Tough domains to land my portfolio and use sedo or namejet to get then in auctions? I still didn’t got which is the best site to sell domains which help you to with the escrow comisions ( paypal for example, or while you are negotiating the price with and enduser you advice him that he will need to pay comissions? I mean all end users once a customer tells to them he need to pay comissionnhe probably run away, isn’t it? I don’t know how to start and where as I am still a beginner and don’t know which market to choose or which portfolio service use, at the moment only using toughdomains for free. And is it ok to use paypal?Any more advices?
Regards

erchaman said:

paypal for example, or while you are negotiating the price with and enduser you advice him that he will need to pay comissions? I mean all end users once a customer tells to them he need to pay comissionnhe probably run away, isn’t it?

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I haven't paid sales commissions or escrow fees on 90%+ of my sales for 15 years as most sales come direct since that's where I point the domains. Buyer pays escrow fees has been my rule for 15 years. If a buyer is spending high xxx (my starting point on all sales) to xx,xxx a few dollars in escrow fees won't even matter as it's cheap for the extra security. https://escrow.payoneer.com/fees

erchaman said:

And is it ok to use paypal?

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I've taken 10k through Paypal but that's the advantage of doing deals direct as you know who the buyer is so if you see a major company less chance of them doing chargebacks etc... With that said with rates like https://escrow.payoneer.com/fees honestly no reason to even take a chance with PayPal. So my advice on PayPal would be don't take more in than you can afford to lose as less secure.

erchaman said:

Any more advices?

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Plenty of scripts to run on your own web hosting...

https://themeforest.net/item/domain-broker-2-landing-page-to-sell-domains/12578919
https://themeforest.net/
http://codecanyon.net
http://codester.com

just gotta search for what ya like, not technical enough to install a script, tweak it etc... various subscription services out there that charge a monthly fee and don't take any sales commissions, here are 2 that both send buyer info unfiltered name, email, phone, ip address ...

http://www.domainmarketpro.com
http://www.efty.com

other services out there as well, main things you're looking for are....

1) Don't filter my inquiries, pass buyer name, email, phone, ip address
2) Don't take a sales commission from my sales

3) (optional my personal preference)
Don't process payments for me

If your a landing page service be that and stay outta hiding buyer info, taking sales commissions, or processing payments for me and adding your payment fees, not hard to negotiate a sale with buyer information direct and send to an escrow service of choice, escrow service even has payment plan arrangements.

Better to pay a few bucks a month hosting or a few bucks a month subscription fee than to have each and every sale put you in "blind negotiation" status cause the service is hiding who the buyer is or getting whacked 9%-30% of each and every sale when the majority of those sales leads were driven in from your own domain traffic just adding another end user to their database instead of your own. I have 15 years of end user names, emails, phones, ips etc... that happens from leads coming in direct either from your own marketplace script on your own hosting or from a subscription service that follows rule #1 above.