Hello everyone,
This is something part of the domain business and many investors are curious as to what domain owners with thousands of domains under their portfolio do after acquiring the domains. By the way, currently I own 8,600 domains as of now.
Okay, so coming back to the topic, below I’ve shared it in detail.
The first thing I do after acquiring a domain name is to add in my records as some people use Excel sheets and some have their own way of storing the data. After that I change the nameservers to Afternic (ns3.afternic.com/ns4.afternic.com) and add it to my Afternic account as well as Sedo to have an additional exposure.
Once the domain completes the 60 days lock period, I always move out the domain to my preferred registrar, earlier it was Uniregistry but now after it’s getting shut down, I’ve moved all of my domains to Dynadot. After the domain transfer is completed, the next thing is to activate Afternic Fast Transfer and Sedo MLS to get additional exposure at their partner registrars. Make sure the domain is successfully added in your respective accounts before you approve the Fast Transfer requests by Afternic and Sedo which usually shows at Dynadot under Summary page. It varies how it will reflect at your end depending on the registrars. Once the domain is successfully added to your account, then only approve the FT requests. Otherwise wait until the previous/old listing is deleted and your domain is added to your account before approving it.
Also I don’t keep the domains on auto-renew as I want to renew it myself because you can never rely on the auto-renew option. I always renew the domains in advance and try to buy domains which I plan *not* to drop in the future. This makes the domain renewal management pretty easier in the sense that I’ve to simply select the domains and renew it. It took several years of experience and learning process to buy only those types of domains which I believe are not the type of domains I will be dropping in the future. I recommend especially to big portfolio holders (typically in thousands) to buy only these types of domains you don’t plan to drop ever because scanning through the list, doing some research is super time consuming for making the decision whether to renew or not.
Feel free to share your experience as to what you do after acquiring the domain.
Thank you!
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Thank you for as always sharing it.
Really informative. Thanks for sharing it. Also one thing, always keep the updated pricing and cross check on all platforms. Sometimes we don’t check and sold the domain on low prices.
Thank you Zubair! 🙂
That’s a nice point to keep in mind. I’ve had an experience about what you’ve said it – https://www.abdulbasit.com/domaining/how-this-mistake-cost-me-8900-loss
Thank you for sharing, bhai.
I don’t have huge portfolio. But I use Airtable and Google sheets for storing data.
Thanks Atul for sharing your experience. I haven’t used Airtable yet but someone else also mentioned about it. It seems that one is getting popular among domain investors for keeping the domain records.
Thank AB,
Always nice to read your helpful post .
Thanks to you for as always coming in and sharing your feedback. I really appreciate it 🙂
Very similar process 🙂 Why Dynadot? Using it, but not main one.
Here is the answer to your question – https://www.abdulbasit.com/domaining/my-experience-with-dynadot-com
Hello Abdul, how are you and your family doing? I hope you are well. Great informative post regarding domain transfers. The main guideline is: _______ 1) Purchase the domain ACTION: Go to your preferred domain registrant and pay for the domain (Example Godaddy) _______ 2) Add the domain to your Excel spreadsheet / word file (or which ever program you use) so it is easy to organise. ACTION: Copy and paste your domain to your spreadsheet. _______ 3) Update the name servers of the domain to your ACTION: Go to the Domain register and go to the settings, and change… Read more »
Hi Matt,
Thanks for your detailed response which is very much appreciated. I always like to see your informative comments.
This is a must read for everyone going through blogpost.
Best wishes! 🙂
Nice, i have one question dotdb.com substitute?
I’m not aware of any better alternative.
thanks
what is the advantage of active of afternic fast transfer?
You can find in complete detail here – https://www.afternic.com/domain-reseller-network
thanks
Abdul,
I saw on this post that you mentioned using ns3/ns4 Afternic landers on new domains.
With recent Afternic changes on landing pages, how do the ns3/ns4.afternic.com DNS settings differ from the ns5/ns6 landers? A while back you said you were using the ns5/ns6. Has that changed? I did about $34,000 in sales with Buy It Now landers in 2022. Worked for me!
However with the Afternic 2.0 beta screen, I’ve had to manually add “Buy It Now” to my Afternic listed domains.
Any thoughts on this topic?
I know for a fact that people sell more with BIN especially when the pricing is in the 3 figures to low 4 figures. I tried BIN lander for a few months and shared my experience on that – https://www.abdulbasit.com/domaining/my-take-on-afternic-ns5-ns6-lander
I wasn’t too disappointed but didn’t find any good success either.
I believe that ns3/ns4 works well overall.
By the way, among those 34K sales, would you like to share the sale price range for those sold domains?
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this informative resource—it has made the process of getting started with a new domain much easier and more manageable.
Thank you for the info. It is a full time job to keep track of all the domains you have, nenes them and move them!! I am new to this and I have a question: Would you accept other people’s domain’s and try to sell them for a percentage?
Thank you Sultan for the feedback which is appreciated.
Sorry to say but I don’t offer domain brokerage services.
What kind of information do you find useful in your records? Domain name, expiry date, purchase price, listing price, where you list the domains for sale… anything else? Do you also keep some memos with ideas in there (e.g. potential buyers?) Curious to learn how someone with such a large portfolio does this.
Useful in what sense you’re asking?
I usually buy upgrade type domains and don’t invest in trend domains.
Thanks!
Dear Abdulbasit I need some help from you please advise I have 100 domain and I want to start saling my domains soom please help
Hi Emad,
You may use the above Contact Us page and send me your query.
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing Abdul maleek,i have some question to ask first was if you buy any domain now ,you dont list them until the 60days lock is over? secondly do you sell course or can you recommend anywhere a new domainer can learn more about the industry? also wishing you Ramadan kareem
Thank you Olayiwola!
I list all the domains to Sedo and Afternic right after the domain hits my account.
I offer domain consulting services – https://www.abdulbasit.com/domain-consulting
Ramadan Kareem and wish you all the best!
i have another question sir, you state that after acquiring ur domain even though it is locked for 60days you normally list it on afternic ns3.afternic.com/ns4.afternic.com right..what do you do if you get buyer for it within that the lock period?
There are several instances where the domain has sold within the 60 days lock period. Normally the buyer either waits for the 60 days lock period to finish or get it transferred to the same registrar where the domain is already registered with.