advice Anyone that uses own landers or has before please help with redirects

[DomainBFF]

I've spent a good deal of time setting up my website and building out lander functionality and backend workflows, and they have been working great, but I'm stuck with redirecting my portfolio right now.

Anyone that uses their own landers or is experienced with this area, how do you redirect your domains in bulk?

I really don't want to set up a server for this, but Cloudflare API gives you 10 domains per account using git/powershell, I've tried redirects from registrars but they are spotty as hell or don't show a wildcard redirect if http/www etc is added. I'm losing my mind trying to get all these domains added to landers and I can't find a way to automate it that works/

Plz help

 

[Altetra]

If Cloudflare does not allow in the free account bulk redirect, move away or setup a single website, then add NS to where your hosting is, then add the domains under that website as parked domains, they will redirect to your main website, not sure how to explain but on Hostinger seems easy to do this.

 

[Simon SE]

Cloudflare. You can add multiple domains and point them to same github repo. Up to 100 names. I've done this for a lot of names I sell.

 

[enterscope]

The way I did it in the past was by adding "Alias Domains" in my hosting account and coding the lander to retrieve the URL to populate the Lander with the domain info using php.

Essentially, the Domain Alias will share the same folder as the main domain in the hosting account.

With this you have a lot of possibilities.

You can put a redirect script in the root, or write the script so it redirects to a different url depending on the domain.

The only downside is some hosting accounts or servers restrict the amount of domain aliases you can use.

 

[DomainBFF]

Cloudflare. You can add multiple domains and point them to same github repo. Up to 100 names. I've done this for a lot of names I sell.

Have you done it recently? I know I used to be able to do this, but I've been getting limited at 10.

 

[DomainBFF]

If Cloudflare does not allow in the free account bulk redirect, move away or setup a single website, then add NS to where your hosting is, then add the domains under that website as parked domains, they will redirect to your main website, not sure how to explain but on Hostinger seems easy to do this.

I have a hostinger account. I didn't know you could create your own NS in hostinger. Is there a way to add redirects to their respective landing pages though? The way I did my first 50ish was set up a 301 redirect with an A record and wildcard A record to point to eg; website.com/sld_tld

 

[DomainBFF]

The way I did it in the past was by adding "Alias Domains" in my hosting account and coding the lander to retrieve the URL to populate the Lander with the domain info using php.

Essentially, the Domain Alias will share the same folder as the main domain in the hosting account.

With this you have a lot of possibilities.

You can put a redirect script in the root, or write the script so it redirects to a different url depending on the domain.

The only downside is some hosting accounts or servers restrict the amount of domain aliases you can use.

Hmm I didn't even think about this type of approach. Going to play with this but I feel like there has to be an easier way.

 

[Simon SE]

Have you done it recently? I know I used to be able to do this, but I've been getting limited at 10.

Yes. I am doing it right now. Cloudflare worker, all free. I also have Hostinger but to do what I wanted would have required upgrading my package.

 

[fka1080405]

There are a few different options. The most important factor to consider is SSL certificates, your domains need to redirect from https too if you don't want to lose valuable traffic, as many browsers assume https by default nowadays.

The easiest way is to find a service that allows you to add unlimited domains to a web project. Vercel is one such service, you can add hundreds of domains to a project and they will handle the certificate management and routing for you, and it can all be done via the CLI, e.g:

```
vercel add domains example.com my-example-project
vercel add domains example.org my-example-project
vercel add domains example.net my-example-project
```

And then your project source code is just a simple bit of code that redirects to your chosen destination based on the hostname. Vercel will even handle the www. redirects for you.

Alternatively, you can pay for a hosted service like redirect.pizza but it can get expensive.

Alternatively, you could use Porkbun's free redirect option which does not require you to transfer the domain to them. Porkbun's DNS service is built on top of Cloudflare's and is available to external domains, so you can add all of your domains to Porkbun and then use their redirect system for each domain, which handles certificates etc. for you.

Alternatively, you could use a purely DNS based free service that I created called defunct.net. I would recommend the Vercel approach over defunct.net because Vercel gives you more control, but with defunct.net, you can do it entirely through DNS records, no set up required, e.g:

```
example.com 300 IN A 34.36.101.120
example.com 300 IN TXT defunct.redirect=https://godaddy.com/forsale/example.com
```

 

[biggie]

Hi

I’ve been doing basic url redirects to html pages from fabulous/enom com for years

organicwinecompany.com
sop.net


imo….

 

[DomainBFF]

There are a few different options. The most important factor to consider is SSL certificates, your domains need to redirect from https too if you don't want to lose valuable traffic, as many browsers assume https by default nowadays.

The easiest way is to find a service that allows you to add unlimited domains to a web project. Vercel is one such service, you can add hundreds of domains to a project and they will handle the certificate management and routing for you, and it can all be done via the CLI, e.g:

```
vercel add domains example.com my-example-project
vercel add domains example.org my-example-project
vercel add domains example.net my-example-project
```

And then your project source code is just a simple bit of code that redirects to your chosen destination based on the hostname. Vercel will even handle the www. redirects for you.

Alternatively, you can pay for a hosted service like redirect.pizza but it can get expensive.

Alternatively, you could use Porkbun's free redirect option which does not require you to transfer the domain to them. Porkbun's DNS service is built on top of Cloudflare's and is available to external domains, so you can add all of your domains to Porkbun and then use their redirect system for each domain, which handles certificates etc. for you.

Alternatively, you could use a purely DNS based free service that I created called defunct.net. I would recommend the Vercel approach over defunct.net because Vercel gives you more control, but with defunct.net, you can do it entirely through DNS records, no set up required, e.g:

```
example.com 300 IN A 34.36.101.120
example.com 300 IN TXT defunct.redirect=https://godaddy.com/forsale/example.com
```

Thank you to everyone that commented, but thank you so much!

 

[cooljub]

How many names do you have to redirect?

 

[Eric Lyon]

Looks like there's a lot of different options already shared in this thread.

Before I started using Namepros landers, I was using WordPress + Godaddy SSL and simply created a page for each domain as the landing point. Then I would use the url forwarding option at the registrar each domain was with so anyone typing the domain into the browser would be sent to the WP Page dedicated to the domain.

That also allowed me to leverage SEM/SEO strategies to rank each WP page in search engines to capture organic visitors for various key-phrases related to the domains niche. As well as monetize them how I wanted.

Now days, I would rather spend the time I used to managing the WP install + updates + glitch/error troubleshooting when a plugin conflicted with the latest version of WP install and just use NP landers, since they are basically fully html customizable and also allow me to monetize them how I want.

No more WP plugin bug headaches for me and I was able to downgrade my server costs to a shared server for the few websites/ventures I have left. (Cutting overhead in half)