How do you manage domains?

[Rohit Lakhotia]

I saw many people have 50+ domains on their domain portfolio.
I was just curious about how people manage their domain?
Use excel to keep track of their domains?

 

[lock]

Depends how many times you need to look at them now imagine your focus at 500 or 5000 on a one man show.

 

[Rohit Lakhotia]

Depends how many times you need to look at them now imagine your focus at 500 or 5000 on a one man show.

Yeah make sense.
BTW how do you manage your domains?

 

[lock]

Export portfolios from accounts but i try to keep most of my names listed on my websites and adjust what is pointing where with dns. If my site is up to date or close enough i use that and my own tools.

 

[postscripter]

I have less than 100 domains I came to the conclusion that the easiest way to manage them is using a list on Excel.

I have a file that has two tabs.

Tab1: the list of domain and has four columns

Domain Name - Registrar - Category - Expiry Date

(Category can be: Brandable, Work hack, Dictionary..etc)


Tab2 is for the log. it includes every transaction I do with my domains.
This has four columns
Date - Domain name - note
Example:
30/10/2019 hiptin.com offered to someone on namepros for 400

 

[Rohit Lakhotia]

I have less than 100 domains I came to the conclusion that the easiest way to manage them is using a list on Excel.

I have a file that has two tabs.

Tab1: the list of domain and has four columns

Domain Name - Registrar - Category - Expiry Date

(Category can be: Brandable, Work hack, Dictionary..etc)


Tab2 is for the log. it includes every transaction I do with my domains.
This has four columns
Date - Domain name - note
Example:
30/10/2019 hiptin.com offered to someone on namepros for 400

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I really liked your way.

 

[7363824]

I imagine almost everyone uses either a spreadsheet or an off the shelf management software. I having a background in web development am building my own web app to manage my names, still a WIP, in the meantime my fallback is a good ole spreadsheet.

 

[Rohit Lakhotia]

I imagine almost everyone uses either a spreadsheet or an off the shelf management software. I having a background in web development am building my own web app to manage my names, still a WIP, in the meantime my fallback is a good ole spreadsheet.

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That looks good.

 

[Samer]

Great thread, thank you,

 

[thedomainpromoter]

I don't own that many domains and there are all registered at the same registrar. I use my own website to keep track and an excel spreadsheet.

 

[Josytal]

I manage, market and monetize my domains with DNHat.
It's natural.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I use Numbers on MacOS, Excel like.

I have one main spreadsheet that I track everything I currently have active, including columns for name, extension, type (e.g. 1 word, acronym, 2 word etc.), registrar, current expiry, first registered, columns for reach marketplace I use (Afternic, Sedo, DAN, Epik, Namecheap, NameSilo, Dynadot, etc.) with an O for offer, F for fast transfer, B for Buy-It-Now price etc., the total price I have paid up to now (i.e. acquisition and all renewals), my BIN price, automated appraisals for GoDaddy, Estibot and NameWorth if available, and a notes text section for various comments.

I can order that by say expiration date to see what is coming up, or extension, or most of the time just name.

I have separate spreadsheet "pages", for sold domain names and names I let expire. I keep less information on those, but for sold as well as name I have where it sold, date, gross, commission, net and notes.

Separate from all of this I have a huge Wish List spreadsheet with a page for each extension I have considered carefully domains in and a line for each domain name. Mainly name, status, automated appraisals, notes on things like TLDs, Google search. Open Corporate businesses with that name, search volume, advertiser stats like CPC, related TM if any, past history, etc. It is in a very condensed code that probably only means anything to me.

28 TLDs, com fs $12k .net av, 4 dr; 122 ac OC; 45M res " " 98k; 8.7k ex $0.65; 1.2M br $1.31; 2 ad; .org sold $900

That all means that the exact name is registered in 28 different extensions
The com of it is for sale at $12,000, while the .net is currently available
Name has dropped 4 times in past according to HosterStats or DTs
There are 122 active company listings on Open Corporates for the term
Google simple search on term has 45 million results, but when I put it in quotes it is 98,000
There are 8700 exact search with $0.65 CPC, but 1.2 million broad at $1.31 CPC with Estibot showing 2 ads
The .org of the same name has a sale at $900 on record.

Probably TMI. It keeps me busy so I don't register too many domains I should not!

Bob

PS I also am very old school and when I buy or sell or renew a name I write the brief particulars in a physical notebook. I know, so old fashioned!

 

[tonyk2000]

I have one main spreadsheet that I track everything I currently have active, including columns for name, extension, type (e.g. 1 word, acronym, 2 word etc.), registrar, current expiry, first registered, columns for reach marketplace I use (Afternic, Sedo, DAN, Epik, Namecheap, NameSilo, Dynadot, etc.) with an O for offer, F for fast transfer, B for Buy-It-Now price etc., the total price I have paid up to now (i.e. acquisition and all renewals), my BIN price, automated appraisals for GoDaddy, Estibot and NameWorth if available, and a notes text section for various comments.

Wow... fascinating. You’re a genius How many hours do/did you spend to have everything in order?

I'm still with an old version of Microsoft Access (2003 or 2007, lol) - it works offline, good for database management purposes (much better than any excel or opensource "tables" software from openoffice/libreoffice). Moreover, such an outdated MS Access is something that 100% works under emulators (or virtualbox/vmware) on a linux laptop. I wish I had time to add and maintain all the extra data like @Bob Hawkes ! It would at least help to stop bidding on or backordering domains I myself dropped recently, or years ago...

 

[Shaan Chopra]

I don't have too many domains so simple google sheets does the work

 

[postscripter]

I imagine almost everyone uses either a spreadsheet or an off the shelf management software. I having a background in web development am building my own web app to manage my names, still a WIP, in the meantime my fallback is a good ole spreadsheet.

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this screenshot blew mind! is this your work? will you make the web app available for public? please share us the url when its available!

 

[coolhands]

I use Excel to manage my portfolio
and here is a screenshot:

 

[7363824]

this screenshot blew mind! is this your work? will you make the web app available for public? please share us the url when its available!

The look and feel is based on the open source template called AdminLTE. But I've had to customize it for showing domain details, as well as am completely building out the backend functionality based on a PHP framework called Laravel. It also has a website connected to it for my own portfolio site which is a part of it. Once it is finished and launched I will be sharing a link to get any feedback on the portfolio site.

It is really heavily customized to my needs and not really designed for public release. But if there was enough interest I could maybe look into making a version for others to use. My biggest concern with making it public is is includes API connections to registrars. And I really don't want to be responsible for keeping others API credentials to registrar accounts.

 

[dirk]

By using a webapp. Most is automated.

 

[postscripter]

By using a webapp. Most is automated.

can you please let us know what web app do you use?

 

[dirk]

can you please let us know what web app do you use?

All self build. There's no real solutions out there that satisfies my needs and is able to serve both the interest for investment portfolios and development/enduser portfolios.

It's not an easy task. I've been working on it for a couple of years. If I count all hours put in by me and my dev team we're probably still in the red