information Wordpress Themes or Plugins for Selling Domains

[hubbahubba]

I'm interested in listing a bunch of my domains for sale on my own website. Are there any wordpress themes or plugins that are setup for this purpose? If so, any recommendations? Happy to click an affiliate link if there are paid options.

 

[Name Trader]

..i could never understand why one would want his own domain marketplace unless it's a 10,000+ portfolio that is able to offer a good choice in several narrow niches

otherwise if i search for a food related domain and you have one, i completely refuse to understand why i have to know that you apart from your FoodSomething.com also own a bunch of "brandable" 5Ls, a heap of (un)pronounceable 4Ls and a 1,000+ collection of totally irrelevant to me random crypto/weed/cloud/etc/etc names ...

another thing with those "marketplaces" is credit card forms...
are you even serious when you offer to send you your asking $10,000+ via a CC form on your wordpress site with $59 theme and a handmade logo thoroughly crafted with MS Paint??
..that looks fishy at best.
and you know better than anyone else that your form will never be used by a real buyer ..but it's still here

instead of clearly pointing a bueyr to a real established and trusted marketplace or escrow service (Sedo, Afternic, Escrow etc) where they can painlessly hit that so desired Buy Now button without fear of being scammed domainers choose to stuff their "marketplace" with scammy looking CC and Paypal forms.. why is that so?

..i could never understand those "info" panels filled with the most irrelevant and useless for a buyer stuff like:

- how many letters the name consists of
you kidding?
..who cares other than your friends - domainers?
..is the buyer not able to count himself or what?

- year of registration / yaers old
..same as above

- registrar
..it's your job to deliver the name where the buyer wants so no one cares where it is now, the buyer will request a transfer to his registrar of choice anyway


...honestly the more domainers' "marketplaces" i encounter the deeper my belief is that this is all more about ego than selling domains


imho

My personal domain portfolio website with 4k+ domains for sale is a hand-crafted HTML/PHP website using bootstrap. Every domain has it's own landing page. So if you type in the domain in your browser it will direct the domains landing page on my website. You are not lamblasted with a string of fancy graphics for all the domains I have for sale. The only method of payment is via Escrow.com, like most major aftermarket brokers. It is safe and secure for all parties. I still list my domains on Afternic, but you need to visit afternic and search for the domain to find it. As opposed to just typing it in your browser and visiting the domains own landing page on my website. If I have set a price on afternic, because of the Fast Transfer process, I set a price on my website for 20% less than is listed on afternic. If you want to purchase via afternic. That's the buyers choice. So they should bear those additional sales costs. But it is in fact easier and cheaper to find the domain by typing the domain they are seeking in their browser, and to purchase it with the same amount of security that they can find on Afternic, but just without the higher price tag. Visitors can of course, if they like my website, search for any number of domains, niches, once they have visited my website, just like they can do, at afternic. I don't see that I am dumbing down the sales/purchase process at all, like you describe. What I am describing does not look at all like what you are describing, from your point of view.

I'm just saying. We do not all subscribe to the scammy practices you are describing in your post.

 

[hubbahubba]

I'm not a domainer per se - our company owns a huge portfolio of tier 1 domains for the niches we work in that we will never have time to sell. We're active on several forums and well known in the industries where we can put a link in our sig that would likely generate leads. We do also list on Sedo and Uniregistry etc, but if we can sell some domains without paying 15% fees to 3rd parties then happy days. Nothing to do with ego

 

[Kpett]

Like @stub - each domain I have has its own landing page ... which is a post in Wordpress, so each has its own url, which is keyword optimized (through a plugin) so that a google or bing search for that or those terms will hopefully show my lander. I have found this to work better for so-called "brandables" ... but the chances of someone searching for that exact non-word are pretty slim.

I do not have a shopping cart of check-out on my site ... each lander has a make offer form. I have sold many many domains in this manner. We negotiate a price, method of payment, etc., with the only fee being charged is whether it is escrow.com or Paypal. I too also have each domain on Afternic, so those searching on GoDaddy or Afternic can also find my domains ... but I price these a little higher to cover the high commission.

The Wordpress site grew slowly over time ... not sure how many hours have actually been put into it. But with the post template it's pretty easy to swap out and/or re-organize the domains, and just adding new domains to the site is fairly easy.

 

[Josytal]

I'm interested in listing a bunch of my domains for sale on my own website. Are there any wordpress themes or plugins that are setup for this purpose? If so, any recommendations? Happy to click an affiliate link if there are paid options.

You can try DNHat : https://dnhat.com

 

[Domains - Wanted]

I'm interested in listing a bunch of my domains for sale on my own website. Are there any wordpress themes or plugins that are setup for this purpose?

Like @lock pointed out, it's not the most elegant solution, but you will find that Woocommerce for WP will do the job.

I agree, wordpress is heavy. And that really sucks. But the problem with building a static HTML portfolio site when you have a lot of domains and removing and adding domains all the time, is that it's not scalable and it's time consuming over a dynamic site like wordpress or otherwise...

As @stub described, there is a middle ground: a custom made PHP site. It's hard to know where to start, though. One option is to find and use an existing PHP script (too constrained). Another one is to hire a PHP developer (expensive and stressful). I chose the hard way: learning to do it myself. A bit of a learning curve, to be sure, but I couldn't find anything that came anywhere close to my needs and working with developers when you have no idea how things work was outside my comfort zone. And knowing how to design a database and write a PHP script doesn't mean that you have to do it all yourself!

I concentrate on the key component of any dynamic website: I design the database. Next, I use CakePHP to build the website for me, forms and all. I chose CakePHP (there are other, more popular PHP frameworks like Laravel or Symphony) for its AI-like CakeBake function, using your database schema to build or "bake" a basic PHP website for you. You can modify that to fit your needs yourself or hire more professional help to finish this part of the job. Using the structured, PHP framework (CakePHP) approach has another important advantage: it ensures the help will not make a mess of it (which is often the case), that you or another programmer can't make sense of later.

Like @stub, I chose the Bootstrap framework for the HTML/CSS layout part.

I use Drupal for modeling, to test how I want things to look and work.

I use Ansible to automate almost everything. It takes a few minutes to spin up as many servers as needed, simultaneously, with fully configured Drupal or CakePHP or Varnish or Sendy or whatever else I might need at any given time.

It's all one heck of a mess right now, but I can see the light in the tunnel coming closer, getting brighter, with each passing day

Tip: making use of proven, popular frameworks, tools, makes it easy to find more professional help to outsource parts of the job to, while still maintaining order and full control of the project. You first need to understand how things work under the hood, though.

Disclaimer: probably a bit of an overkill to make a simple marketplace, landers, to host a couple hundred domains. Learning all this stuff, I mean. But I'm not interested in simple. My goal is an AI-like tool to automagically build and run thousands of simple, but fully functional websites on the fly, not empty landers. Including equally automagical email marketing (outbound) functionality. With fully automated, self sustaining (self-rebuilding) hosting backend... yeah, I learned that stuff, too. I'm building all this with my significant others in mind... for the day I won't be here to manage my (probably) tens of thousands strong domain portfolio

 

[nameflipping]

Hi guys,

I commented on another thread of another post here in the forum, at the moment I am creating a brand on the internet to sell and integrate solutions for domainers, we really have two products:

1. It is a development based on php and mysql with a professional UX.

2. It is a wordpress adaption based on the powerful Genesis Framework, professional SEO-oriented designs.

Also as a premium service we will have the monitoring, backup, weekly report of the operation of the website.

 

[Name Trader]

Most of them don't look very good, to me. But 1 on Code Canyon, always catches my eye, Called Folio Trader, https://codecanyon.net/item/foliotrader-domain-portfolio-seller-script/17690221?s_rank=1

I haven't used it. But it looks pretty nice. Let me know if you use it. I'd like to see it in action for real. The sellers sample pages only give you a "taste", but it's quite limited. He does response to inquiries, usually within a day. I have no affiliation to the author or his program.

 

[Kpett]

@hubbahubba - I set up my own Wordpress site using a column plugin to allow for the images to line up easier, but it's not particularly a theme for selling things. But you can check it out at: http://www.domainds.com/

 

[lock]

The problem with wordpress is you can have a website with 10000 files or you can have a website with 10 files with a html page and can make both look same. Even with unlimited hosting I still can't be stuffed creating those 10k files to show one page.

 

[EbookLover]

I agree, wordpress is heavy. And that really sucks. But the problem with building a static HTML portfolio site when you have a lot of domains and removing and adding domains all the time, is that it's not scalable and it's time consuming over a dynamic site like wordpress or otherwise.

With a dynamic site, it can be programmed so that all domain pages pull whois data using an API, like domain age, expiration date, etc, etc, etc. So all you have to do is insert your domains. But even if you still need to upload unique info per domain that you can't just pull from a database somewhere, at least with a dynamic site you can bulk upload from a CSV or XML file.

 

[4pm]

..i could never understand why one would want his own domain marketplace unless it's a 10,000+ portfolio that is able to offer a good choice in several narrow niches

otherwise if i search for a food related domain and you have one, i completely refuse to understand why i have to know that you apart from your FoodSomething.com also own a bunch of "brandable" 5Ls, a heap of (un)pronounceable 4Ls and a 1,000+ collection of totally irrelevant to me random crypto/weed/cloud/etc/etc names ...

another thing with those "marketplaces" is credit card forms...
are you even serious when you offer to send you your asking $10,000+ via a CC form on your wordpress site with $59 theme and a handmade logo thoroughly crafted with MS Paint??
..that looks fishy at best.
and you know better than anyone else that your form will never be used by a real buyer ..but it's still here

instead of clearly pointing a bueyr to a real established and trusted marketplace or escrow service (Sedo, Afternic, Escrow etc) where they can painlessly hit that so desired Buy Now button without fear of being scammed domainers choose to stuff their "marketplace" with scammy looking CC and Paypal forms.. why is that so?

..i could never understand those "info" panels filled with the most irrelevant and useless for a buyer stuff like:

- how many letters the name consists of
you kidding?
..who cares other than your friends - domainers?
..is the buyer not able to count himself or what?

- year of registration / yaers old
..same as above

- registrar
..it's your job to deliver the name where the buyer wants so no one cares where it is now, the buyer will request a transfer to his registrar of choice anyway


...honestly the more domainers' "marketplaces" i encounter the deeper my belief is that this is all more about ego than selling domains


imho

 

[EbookLover]

@4pm

About Ecommerce Payments:

I understand all your points, however you seem to not understand how small business ecommerce works.

When you buy anything from my ecommerce store, be it domains or a pair of shoes, I don't collect the payment. I use a gateway. Be it paypal, stripe, Authorize.net, 2checkout, etc, etc, etc. They collect the payment then they pay me once they take their cut.

They are setup best to legally collect money and are PCI compliant. I, the merchant, never see your card or bank account #. The payment processor/gateway/merchant bank take your payment info, not ,me. If I were to have a system where I collect your CC info via my site then run it through a machine, I would be in big trouble. This is not acceptable practice of online merchants (although I could possibly be grant the go-ahead to collect credit cards over the phone then run them through my gateway's virtual terminal, but that is expensive and is usually only done by wholesalers and other B2B businesses).

About Escrow.com

Escrow.com now has payment gateway functionality. You, as a seller, can go in your account and create buy now or make offer buttons. Once clicked by the buyer, they to straight to Escrow.com and everything is done through Escrow.com's systems an site.

And to top it off...Escrow.com has a shopping cart gateway. So if you have a site that uses a shopping cart system, like Woocommerce, you can now incorporate the Escrow.com gateway for seamless Escrow.com transactions just like any other payment processor or gateway. Everything regarding the actual money transaction and escrow service is done through Escrow.com, not the merchant's site.

If the world of Ecommerce worked like yoou think it does, shopping carts like, Woocommerce, Shopify, 3DCommerce, Volution, BigComerce and many many more would never be the giants they are today. They all made their names and their billions of off small business ecommerce. Shopify and Woocommerce, especially. they virtually took over the eCommerce sector and exploded in the past 3-5 years. All made possible through small business ecommerce.

 

[Daniel Owens]

Most of them don't look very good, to me. But 1 on Code Canyon, always catches my eye, Called Folio Trader, https://codecanyon.net/item/foliotrader-domain-portfolio-seller-script/17690221?s_rank=1

I haven't used it. But it looks pretty nice. Let me know if you use it. I'd like to see it in action for real. The sellers sample pages only give you a "taste", but it's quite limited. He does response to inquiries, usually within a day. I have no affiliation to the author or his program.

I've used that one before. It is rather nice just setting up the links for them to buy via paypal is a bit of a pain you have to use paypal developer and generate some codes and sandbox and stuff and modify a configuration file.

 

[Name Trader]

@Domains - Wanted - I started from my own free DFS website, which I purchased the code for in 2010. Which was pure HTML/PHP/CSS/MySQL. It was a good place to start from. It's since been modernized and converted to bootstrap. It isn't anywhere near as "flashy" as some of the the current crop of WP (or non WP) websites. But to my eyes, it looks good, works well, is minimal, and is fast. It's always under development. I have the "feeling" it will never stop being developed

I agree using a developer IS very stressful. It's very difficult describing emotions in words. IMHO. This is where the communications mostly break down with misunderstandings. IMHO.

 

[MapleDots]

My marketplace is built freehand, no wordpress, no database nothing but static pages and google sheets to list the names.

The google sheet is edited on my pc and the 4 columns I want to show on the website are published the second I make a change on my pc. So if I buy a domain I go to my spreadsheet, add a line, insert buy amount, renewal, expiry etc. The cells that are set to publish will automatically update.

My site uses very few resources and I never have to worry about wordpress updates and all that jazz. Could it look better? Sure it could, but for me self hosting is the best solution, it allows me to manipulate my site exactly as I want.

PS. I took my design idea from Efty, they were the ones I considered but I wanted bigger loggos and a custom favicon, both of which efty still does not offer under the regular plan. So the top half looks a lot like efty but it drifts away as you scroll down.

Anyone wanting to see it in action please click on my signature.

 

[xynames]

A sql searchable database as something that may be added on to a regular html website would be useful. Probably we could find generic ones out there but one more tuned to domains, with categories etc. would be great.

 

[BrandPlease]

Hey All,
I am into customization so I tend to build my own sites, but I have used & have live examples if you want to see what a few look like.

@stub & all ... FolioTrader is great as a starter site, I can recommend it & have found it to work solid as it is sold for a small portfolio - it is a sales platform only no backend domain management, they are treated like a product. A bit dated and clunky - but works good and looks pretty good, you can custom the images and all (design/look wise in the back end files so a little techie) - forgive mine it's a project I have neglected for a while - but check out Rareium.com - to see a FolioTrader site (I have logos "turned off" at the moment, but it's available fyi). Disclaimer, it has never been my primary marketplace - it was more of a curiosity / testing buy - but will comeback to it as it works.

Efty, you can see a ton of examples (& not trying to make this a link promo to all my sites) It's great, easy to use, has the domain management tools. & they seem to add good updates + support well. Prob the easiest way to set up IMO.

UnDeveloped, like Efty - great and tons of examples

My own site, BrandPlease - is based on WP/ Woocommerce, but I don't use the transaction processing in it - it is currently my portfolio and I am redirecting to landers on Afternic - but will all be brought on site shortly.

Also, an odd ball plugin from the old days is MyDomainListPro (wp plugin) now - it's old looking, the end user shopping experience is challenging - but the domain management end (admin end) is (IMO) the easiest way to manage your names - exp, dates, reg,etc... Upload any list in csv and it pulls everything - pre whois block this was even better. I even use it to keep up the info in my EFTY site - as the who is management there is a little cumbersome.

I even have a copy of the OLD Flippa clone site that was big some years ago - I have it live out there somewhere, if I can remember I add the name so you can look and laugh hahaha.

Good Luck,
Brian

 

[nameflipping]

Hey!!

Answering in your questions:

1. Sounds cool. So basically you will provide a domain marketplace theme? Or is it a hosted turkey customisable environment:

Is a downloadable turnkey theme + plugins (hosted version available too).

2. Why php and MySQL? There are better and faster options (php would actually work and is easiest to do) especially when you want to scale up:

We are creating a script based on Semantic Framework .

The report ranges from the performance of the website in general, to the positioning of your website or keywords in google, plus it will notify you and update constantly when the framework, plugins and anything else needs to be updated.

The backups will be managed and stored with the godaddy backup tool.

Please feel free in contact me and thank you very much for your interest .

 

[EbookLover]

@Josytal You have a really nice script!

But OP is asking about wordpress themes or plugins.

 

[Name Trader]

I have used a free WordPress theme on my site, no plugin used. All domains are pointed to Undeveloped Landing Pages (Haven't set the links yet)
=> www.BoomingNames.com

The first thing which jumped out to me was your top level menu scrolls more than 1 line. Creating an ugly effect. You should work on your spacing and link title lengths, so they fit on 1 line. Otherwise the website looks rather how @4pm describes. Some buyers like that approach, and some, like myself and 4pm, don't.

 

[EbookLover]

Disclaimer: probably a bit of an overkill to make a simple marketplace, landers, to host a couple hundred domains. But I'm not interested in simple. My goal is an AI-like tool to automagically build and run thousands of simple, but fully functional websites on the fly, not empty landers. Including equally automagical email marketing (outbound) functionality. With fully automated, self sustaining (self-rebuilding) hosting backend... yeah, I learned that stuff, too. I'm building all this with my significant others in mind... for the day I won't be here to manage my tens of thousands strong domain portfolio

Let us know when you've woken up

 

[IMEZI]

Let us know when you've woken up

the dream were to awesome to be forgotten LOL

 

[Name Trader]

@Domains - Wanted - I have gotten most of what you have said. But I don't really understand this "spin up, build, say 10 Drupal VPS servers in minutes". Why would you need to do that for a DFS website? Or am I missing something? Personally, I think Drupal is way too insecure, IMHO. A great CMS though. You could really build a great DFS website with it. But it does seem like overkill

WP, Drupal, any CMS, adds way too much overhead, IMHO.

 

[Josytal]

My marketplace is built freehand, no wordpress, no database nothing but static pages and google sheets to list the names.

The google sheet is edited on my pc and the 4 columns I want to show on the website are published the second I make a change on my pc. So if I buy a domain I go to my spreadsheet, add a line, insert buy amount, renewal, expiry etc. The cells that are set to publish will automatically update.

My site uses very few resources and I never have to worry about wordpress updates and all that jazz. Could it look better? Sure it could, but for me self hosting is the best solution, it allows me to manipulate my site exactly as I want.

PS. I took my design idea from Efty, they were the ones I considered but I wanted bigger loggos and a custom favicon, both of which efty still does not offer under the regular plan. So the top half looks a lot like efty but it drifts away as you scroll down.

Anyone wanting to see it in action please click on my signature.

Wow! Kudos.
Hard to believe you could achieve that (https://mapledots.com/) with such minimum resources. I like the no-nonsense approach.
What I think lacking is site-wide search function - no matter how simple. This is a must, especially if you have brandables in your portfolio.
Just my opinion.