Originally posted by domainduck
I especially liked adoptabledomains reply... Maybe I should get a hosting reseller account myself? I have been toying with the idea, but have been too busy to follow through.
It is a big help to have full control over DNS. I also get all default mail for all the domains, you just have to sort out the mostly spam from potential inquires or misdirected similar domain names.
Another alternative if you want FULL DNS control without a hosting account is zoneedit.com. It's a pay service, but has about the best DNS on the net if you don't have full control at a host or don't have a host.
http://www.zoneedit.com/ . For the number of domains you have, a reseller account may even cost less. You might consider it just for the domains located where you don't have control. (the first 5 are free).
Also, I am implementing RJ's script, which is why I am trying to take control of everything... 90% of my sales inquires come from only 20% of my collection... The domains that have sales pages.
It does work great... but I just had a problem last night. My hosting provider for my reseller account suspended the domain due to using "excessive resources". I figured out that the search bots and some probably email harvesting spiders were really hitting my site hard, and since every page is dynamically created, each page taking server side cycles to create the pages as it spidered my site. Possibly since each domain is parked there, it duplicated the effort on many domains. I got the site reinstated this morning, with the promise I would put in robots.txt files to keep the robots under control and create some .htaccess limits to keep out the bad spider bots that ignore that file. One spider alone has been using almost a Gig of bandwidth per month for the last 3 months. Worth looking into for any domainseller script user.
Further, now that eNom.com no longer shows WhoIs information unless you are using the eNom.com web site WhoIs, my domain contact information, which notes that 'This Domain Name May Be For Sale', is no longer seen unless a potential buyer can figure out that they need to go to eNom.com to get WhoIs information.
I can see the whois contact and company name from other whois servers for my enom domains. I use whois-search.com and whois.sc for most of my searches. I only have problems with .org domains not showing info since the recent changes. What whois servers are not showing the info?
I also list the contact company name as AdoptableDomains.com, which sort of speaks for itself. Some people also name a name server something link ns.my-for-sale-domains.com as another way to indicate they are for sale, or the email address as
[email protected]. As long as they work, they are all legitimate ways of showing intent in the whois record.
