Fabulous.com vs. Enom vs. ???

[Chris_C]

Hi, maybe I can tap into the expertise of someone with some experience with these various options.

I'm at the point where I have more domains than I know how to manage properly. They are scattered all over the place with various registrars thanks to both drop catches and myself just migrating around to the "cheap site of the minute".

What I'd now like to do now is go through my list of domains and find a central location where I can transfer them. Some I'm using, some I'm *squatting*, and some I will be using. Certainly making some revenue off of the traffic to them would be nice (I'm wasting probably 200-300 unique visits per day) but my main concern is the ease of having them all in one location.

Ok, so the two options I've heard the most about are the Enom Reseller accounts and Fabulous.com. I've applied to the wholesaler section of fabulous, but haven't yet received a reply (my portfolio is about 100 domains right now). I also see a Enom $6.95 reseller costs about $250.00.

Can someone shed some light here please? What are the advantages of using one of these two services? What are the extras? How do you guys with 1000+ names manage your domains and when they are going to drop, etc.?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[bensontwenty]

With an enom account you have to transfer the domains into them at a cost per domain to yourself.

With a Fabulous wholesale account, they offer parking sevices for all of your names. Your domains can be reg'd anywhere and as long as you have the fabulous nameservers, your account there will track your domains for you. I have over 100 domains sitting with fabulous at the moment, They are spread over multiple registrars, but Fabulous sends me an expiration email for each of them when they hit 60 then 30 days.

Unless you can affod to transfer all your domains in one hit I would stick with the multiple registrars and park them at fabulous. Then just migrate them slowly to your registrar of choice - I am doing the same and am migrating over the year to enom.

I also keep separate enom accounts for parked and developed/developing domains to manage them down even further - that way I don't switch the nameservers on the actual developed ones by accident during a global edit :lol: - I have done this onece believe it or not!

I also use a great piece of software calle KFWHOIS as a backup

 

[Chris_C]

For the domains I'm going to keep, I don't mind switching them all over to the new registrar and paying the fees to have them hosted there. I'm not into reselling the domains so it's just easier for me to do it this way.

I suppose the other option is to try to buy out a company or site that's ICANN registered? How would that work as an option, are there yearly fees to maintain something like this? What's the base fee to register a domain if you're accredited do you know?

>>that way I don't switch the nameservers on the actual developed ones by accident during a global edit - I have done this onece believe it or not!<<
haha