Management system for domainers

[theozard]

Hello there,
I am planning to build an open source management system for domainers...now i need you'll to tell me what exactly would you want as a domainer to be(feature wise) in your website..

I am planning to make the system very simple and user friendly so any feedback would really help

Thanks

 

[Ronald Regging]

what do you mean by management system?

 

[lzy]

Something like this?

http://www.domainportfolio.us/

 

[gazzip]

what do you mean by management system?

I think he means something like this (which is new) http://www.rebel.com/Tutorial.aspx

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[lzy]

Wow, an open-source rebel.com? Sweet. Good luck theozard. :D

 

[Name Trader]

Wow, an open-source rebel.com? Sweet. Good luck theozard. :D

From your comments, I assume you've used Rebel. Is their management system any good? It looked to me it was only for domains registered at Rebel. Maybe you could give us a critique?

 

[lzy]

Nope, I saw the tutorial and was kinda impressed, sorry to mislead.

 

[rodash]

Hello there,
I am planning to build an open source management system for domainers...now i need you'll to tell me what exactly would you want as a domainer to be(feature wise) in your website..

I am planning to make the system very simple and user friendly so any feedback would really help

Thanks

I currently use MS Access set up with the following fields:


Domain

Rating (my own rating goes in this field)

TLD

Class (I have 4 classes to denote value of name: Premium,

Level 2, Level 3, Level 4)

Category (I use the following categories to categorize names: Solar, Gay, Branding, Wine, Carbon, Finance, Movies, Chinese, Bicycles, Space, Surname, Employment, Pimpernel, Music, GPS, Adult, Acronym, Website, Miscell, Real Estate, Art, Single-Word, Generic, Money

Acquired

Cost (How much the name cost to buy)

Renewal (Renewal cost)

Month Due (When renewal is due)

Registrar

Developed (Yes or No)

Parked (Yes or No)

Hosted (Yes or No)

Hosted With

For Sale (Yes or No)


This works really well as I can generate reports by any of the above fields. I think any domain portfolio tool has to have the capacity for users to add fields and sort on them, and generate reports.

Ideally, it should also have:

A function that let's you click on a domain name and view the current Whois details.

A function that opens a browser and takes you to a website/parked page when you click on a domain name.


A real wish list inclusion would be a Whois monitoring function. Something that monitors and alerts you to Whois changes with your domains, however I expect that's asking a lot.

Hope this is helpful. Good luck with it.



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[Name Trader]

www.dnzoom.com looks promising from their (really fast) tutorial. It's a management tool not a sales tool like domainportfolio.us