Domain portfolio recommendations in 2018?

[Peak.Domains]

Hey I'm looking to host my own portfolio. I'm currently checking out Efty, I like it, but I'm not sure I want to pay $15 per month in order to have a secure site. I'm not saying it's not worth it, just that I want to explore other options. I would be all over their $8 plan if it included SSL. I mean one good sale would cover the cost for years, and I'm still considering it as an option, not trying to talk trash about Efty or anything haha, just want to make that perfectly clear.

Anyways, I want to check out some other options too, including self-hosted using a template/theme, so I'm looking for recommendations.

FolioTrader on CodeCanyon seems close to what I'm looking for, if anyone is using it please share a link, I'd love to see it in action with logos, or hear from domainers that like or dislike it.

Some of the other scripts I've seen look kind of dated, anything recent worth checking out, or other sites similar to Efty that allow you to host a portfolio with your own domain that are worth checking out? Does anyone just redirect their portfolio domain to a list of their names on Afternic or Sedo?

 

[BrandPlease]

I use them both, Efty is great, IMO, as I really need the (cross reg) consolidated management with expire dates and all. It's really the complete package - for what I need it for.

But... its their hosted app and they get your traffic and all, stuff most domainers dont care about, realistically.

I also started using Folio Trader recently, bought on CodeCanyon and its really good as marketplace - but that is all it does. It's not a domain management tool like Efty. But be clear, Folio Trader is as good of a marketplace as any I have seen - much better than most really/

e.g. I put all my names in Efty - selling or not - you wouldn't do that in Folio, I dont think anyway.

But here is my site with FolioTrader: Rareium.com - like I said, just started working with it, SSL and all updates shortly. It's a good product if you dont need everything Efty has to offer.

Feel free to shoot me any questions, happy to help.

Brian

 

[creataweb]

Escrow.com is available at efty marketplaces (haven't had any sale yet so never used it).

Yes. I don't prefer Escrow.com myself, too many headaches.

 

[likeslikes]

Thanks. It looks quite promising. As some have said. It looks a lot better than anything else I've seen.

I've got the Folio theme from a while back and it's pretty limited. I reached out to the dev and he was willing to make some changes for me, but I'd need to reach out to him a lot in order to get things to look the way I want. I'd recommend taking some time and making your own WordPress site and having it go to undeveloped.com landing pages honestly.

 

[kam]

DNDork Looks the best imo

The FolioTrader's landing page will redirect to main domain while Dndork's landing page will stay on the same domain. Both of the setting and fixed and they don't provided you an option to make any change.


FolioTrader landing page Demo:
http://DomainProfolios.com

- It will automatic redirect all parking domains to my main domain with HTTPS. (by simple bulk editing two NS records for my domains in registrar )
- HTTPS make buyer feel confident but domain redirection may make them feel uncomfortable.



DNDork landing page Demo
http://DomainProfolio.com

- Parking page remained on the same domain.
- NO HTTPS with parking domains (by simple bulk editing two NS records for my domains in registrar )
- Although I can get my FREE SSL for all my domains with CloudFlare but it will take a lot of time to setup them one by one.


It's hard to determined which one is better.

 

[Josytal]

anything recent worth checking out,

Checkout DNHat latest version at https://dnhat.com

 

[creataweb]

How much is this going to cost you per domain landing page? Theme, SSL certificate, form spam bots protection, web hosting, etc.

Mostly time and not much else. Hosting is around $9 a month. SSL is free. Forms are free. I bought one of the themes from here with a fully developed site for around $75 I think. Then customized that. That was the WP version. The other one I used free templates and spent many hours customizing and re-coding it until I got the look I desired.

 

[kam]

I just spent $60 USD purchased both FolioTrader and Dndork.
I would say Efty better than both of them in term of functions.

Main problems
FolioTrader - not user friendly for bulk import.
Dndork - The bulk import is fine but it's really painful to change the setting one by one for 100+ domains.


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Efty is easy to use, just a few click and it's all set. But it's expensive if you want to have a white label website.

DEMO
http://DomainName.cc
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Dndork
The license cost $24 USD only.
DEMO
https://DomainNames.cc

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FolioTrader
The license cost $36 USD.
DEMO
https://DomainNames.tv

 

[kam]

When I used it I spent a fair amount of time customizing (and re-coding bits of) it and it still was ugly AF lol.
Felt like I was using Windows 98 compared to other modern options.

I like the DNDork look the best, haven't used it though so can't comment on back-end or functionality.

DNDork had two main problems.

Dndork had bulk import function, You can only import the domain itself when using bulk import.
After you imported 1000 domains. You may want to bulk edit the price and category. But no there is no bulk editing function there and you have to go in each domain edit page. you are required to scroll down and then edit those fields. It had csv exporting but no csv importing

The second problem is the search function in back-end is currently broken.
In dndork back-end, each page is showing up 100 domains. When you try to search for a specific domain, It will only search for the current page, Let's say you have 1000 domains and there are page 1 to page 10. If you are in page 1 and try to use the search function search for a domain listed in page 9. You will not able to see it.

The third problem is the escrow.com integration is required to created that button from escrow.com manually one by one and paste the code into each domain edit page.

I think I can fix the second problems by charging the default per page value to 9999. So it's not a big issue but lack of bulk editing is really painful experience.

Anyway, it's just a $24 USD script. Although it's not perfect but I would say it worth every penny

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btw, can you share me with your site ?

 

[kam]

Do you guys think a wordpress theme would work for what you'd want?

I think it could work well, but that there would be a decent amount of work needed on a users side to make changes such as adding and removing names + images each time.

Wordpress theme is just a front-end, you also need a well design back-end to make it become a great product. When we are talking about portfolio scripts, we are going to import thousand of domains into it.
Easy to use bulk editing is the most important part of back-end for domain portfolio script. But I cannot find any scripts that can fulfilled all my requirements.

 

[STELLAR]

There's another one that you might want to take a look at, DomainMarketPro.

 

[kam]

I testing it out efty since 4 Oct 2018.

I would say they're not proactive at all after trying it out.

For example, at the time registrant e-mail was no longer visible in the whois. Efty promoted themself as a solution to this problem. But it's not the case, we all knew that many marketplace required a txt record in DNS for verification after this change. If Efty is "proactive" enough they should already let us to add a txt record in DNS for verification for different marketplace. But it didn't happened so far.

Another example is I cannot find any region / IP blocking setting in the back-end panel. I keep receiving some offer of 0.01 USD, 1USD and 2 USD and I really want to block those IP

Many functions that I think Efty should included are missing. You better setup your own website with a script if you have the knowledge.

 

[creataweb]

I've tested a bunch of scripts and most are outdated now (and clunky.) I now am trying a custom WP install and a HTML5 / CSS3 / Bootstrap site instead.

 

[Jay Ha]

Mostly time and not much else. Hosting is around $9 a month. SSL is free. Forms are free. I bought one of the themes from here with a fully developed site for around $75 I think. Then customized that. That was the WP version. The other one I used free templates and spent many hours customizing and re-coding it until I got the look I desired.

Thanks for the response. The hosting fee is per domain, right? The reason I asked is because I always thought that having your own landers will give you full control on what to show and how things get done. So for a coding-illiterate like myself and a few others, I think the best way to go is Efty landers.

 

[creataweb]

No it’s for all domains except the cost of each domain as a site. So if I own 3 sites I buy 3 domains for $8 or so each then the rest is the same. $9 total per month for reseller hosting plan (unlimited added domains)

 

[creataweb]

Thanks for the response. The hosting fee is per domain, right? The reason I asked is because I always thought that having your own landers will give you full control on what to show and how things get done. So for a coding-illiterate like myself and a few others, I think the best way to go is Efty landers.

Yes sometimes we each have our own way. If Efty works for some then that’s perfect. I don’t mind customizing my stuff so it works for me. I have used Efty and it saved time building out the storefront as well.

 

[creataweb]

I believe the payment methods need some back-end development skills if you decide to build your own and not just stick with a contact form and do the transactions manually. I guess I'm gonna have to pay that $25 "professional" monthly fee after all..

White label is a top priority for me even though I only have less than 40 domains and that plan is for "up to 5000 domains".

I just use Undeveloped or another place to process my transactions safely. I don't bother with PayPal or Stripe.

 

[Peak.Domains]

For starters, I'd change your username at NamePros to not be misspelled. Got it Dan?

....?

Edit: I just Google'd Potatoe and saw something about a fellow named Dan Quayle, so I guess that's the reference that I missed initially haha

Edit 2:

I hadn't heard of this before lol :D

 

[indiegrind]

Efty is by far my favorite option.

 

[namemarket]

....I would be all over their $8 plan if it included SSL.......

Every platform I have looked at does NOT support SSL and https on ppc and landing pages. I have asked places like Uniregistry on why page says Not Secure and has the Open Padlock and they tell me it would cost far too much money to make them https compliant and they have no plans to do it in the future.

It's a big negative since some page visitors (maybe a lot) will quickly exit the page after becoming worried about the non-secure status thus reducing your sale inquiries and ppc revenue, possibly significantly and worse as time goes by.

 

[Peak.Domains]

I could not find Folio Trader on CodeCanyon or ThemeForest.

Here you go: https://codecanyon.net/item/foliotrader-domain-portfolio-seller-script/17690221?s_rank=1




@DnameAgame Thanks for sharing, it's helpful to see it in action. Does it allow different sizes for logos? Seems really similar to Efty but with the pros and cons that come along with having a bit more control (Free SSL, more control over layout changes, etc..)

 

[kam]

Isn't that script outdated? I didn't even like it much 2 years ago.

I purchased it because I saw the last updated is on 7 August 18 and there are around 200 sales.
Since the interface is fine so I just give it a try. But I just final realize many main core function is not there.
May be it's because the author just a web designer and programmer and he had no idea what are the most important thing for domainers to making a sales.

By the way, the script is way too big... It's 70MB...
It's not clean code at all and it's hard to do some customizations.


Do you have any recommendation ? Which scripts is the best now available on the market?

My rating
DB2 -> dndork -> FolioTrader

 

[likeslikes]

I've debated trying to code up my own theme, but I don't know if there's enough demand honestly.

 

[Josytal]

Are you the developer? Is there an import csv function?

Yes. I'm the developer.
I've compiled into codes most of the things I learnt for the past three years in selling domains. In fact, I use the same scripts to manage my portfolio and marketplace - that was how it all started.

Yes, there is a function for bulk import of domains from csv file. Try the free demo at https://dnhat.com

 

[convertcontent]

Definitely. I believe logos can boost chance of sale and that is worth the extra pay.

You own class.com? wow

 

[wizard]

Hey I'm looking to host my own portfolio. I'm currently checking out Efty, I like it, but I'm not sure I want to pay $15 per month in order to have a secure site. I'm not saying it's not worth it, just that I want to explore other options. I would be all over their $8 plan if it included SSL. I mean one good sale would cover the cost for years, and I'm still considering it as an option, not trying to talk trash about Efty or anything haha, just want to make that perfectly clear.

Anyways, I want to check out some other options too, including self-hosted using a template/theme, so I'm looking for recommendations.

FolioTrader on CodeCanyon seems close to what I'm looking for, if anyone is using it please share a link, I'd love to see it in action with logos, or hear from domainers that like or dislike it.

Some of the other scripts I've seen look kind of dated, anything recent worth checking out, or other sites similar to Efty that allow you to host a portfolio with your own domain that are worth checking out? Does anyone just redirect their portfolio domain to a list of their names on Afternic or Sedo?

Depends what you want and how big your portfolio is...

We do quick and easy sales via undeveloped as its far better than ping pong of emails