Looking for good Domaining /Domain Management Software?

**ycfme** · May 9th, 2012, 2:38 PM

I'm looking for a domain management suite,ideally similar to these:
"Domainer"
"Watch My Domains"

I'm looking for an app that will do all the basics these i've listed do plus more much like the features on http://www.domaintools.com

These seem ok, but I just have a feeling there are others that are better out there....

Thanks

**Clinton** · May 9th, 2012, 2:56 PM

I have recommended Domain Punch Pro in this thread. Is that the kind of thing you are looking for?

**monty** · May 9th, 2012, 4:37 PM

One app I tried a while ago and used for a bit was RoboDomain . Its quite good for keeping track of domains, related details and expiration dates.

**KenW3** · May 9th, 2012, 10:07 PM

Years back, I tried a bunch of paid and shareware programs to keep track of domains, renewals, metrics, and finally gave up and put everything into Excel. Some of the programs would keep track of the expiration dates of names I might want to buy, but that was of no use doing all that work when the domains didn't drop. Some of the programs would find similar names, but those services were online anyway. All I really needed was a way to keep track of what was owned.

A spreadsheet serves me well, and it has no additional cost. The fields at the top are: Domain Name, Date Bought, Price Paid, Renewal Date, Registrar, DNS To, Domain Type (product, service, brand, acronym, etc.), Note 1, TLD, Words (number of), Characters (number of), Keyword Phrase (for EMDs), Current Use, and Note 2. The rest are metrics I want to keep track of, such as if they've been appraised and price, and search volume if they're an EMD. For metrics, depending on the types, you can have columns for yes and no entries, such as TradeMark, Hyphen, Numeral (in name), and IDN. For type, I've added the best use of the name, and have a column for Category (business, computers, fashion, jewelry, etc.) and one for Niche (forex, weight loss, exercise, etc.).

The spreadsheet works well enough. I review it once every couple weeks, as I do not have names set to auto-renew. The other two worksheets in the Excel workbook have the same categories at the top, and are named Dropped and Sold; I move names to those sheets as needed.

**akirk** · May 10th, 2012, 3:59 AM

I do much the same as Ken, but being a coder I do it in php / mysql - my web company has a complete project management system we built for all our client work and as we host a number of domains for clients - it has a domain section built in... but fundamentally it is very similar to a spreadsheet - the main advantage though is the ability to automate some things through cron jobs - such as reminders to renew etc.

Alasdair

**ycfme** · May 10th, 2012, 1:49 PM

Hi there Ken,

Any chance you'd be willing to share the template with a Noob who's just lost his mother and can REALLY use some organization at this time?

Originally Posted by KenW3

Years back, I tried a bunch of paid and shareware programs to keep track of domains, renewals, metrics, and finally gave up and put everything into Excel. Some of the programs would keep track of the expiration dates of names I might want to buy, but that was of no use doing all that work when the domains didn't drop. Some of the programs would find similar names, but those services were online anyway. All I really needed was a way to keep track of what was owned.

A spreadsheet serves me well, and it has no additional cost. The fields at the top are: Domain Name, Date Bought, Price Paid, Renewal Date, Registrar, DNS To, Domain Type (product, service, brand, acronym, etc.), Note 1, TLD, Words (number of), Characters (number of), Keyword Phrase (for EMDs), Current Use, and Note 2. The rest are metrics I want to keep track of, such as if they've been appraised and price, and search volume if they're an EMD. For metrics, depending on the types, you can have columns for yes and no entries, such as TradeMark, Hyphen, Numeral (in name), and IDN. For type, I've added the best use of the name, and have a column for Category (business, computers, fashion, jewelry, etc.) and one for Niche (forex, weight loss, exercise, etc.).

The spreadsheet works well enough. I review it once every couple weeks, as I do not have names set to auto-renew. The other two worksheets in the Excel workbook have the same categories at the top, and are named Dropped and Sold; I move names to those sheets as needed.

**Kay** · May 10th, 2012, 2:43 PM

Hi ycfme

Sorry to hear about the loss of your mother. It's a tough thing to go through.

The general consensus here seems to be that using spreadsheets is the way to go. That's how I do it too. I have a spreadsheet which has a list of domain names I own. The columns include the date I bought it, date of renewal, who it's registered with, how much I paid to buy it, and what use the domain is currently put to (parked, holding page, active site, etc). Then if I sell it, the sales price is listed and it gets moved to another spreadsheet page of what's not mine any more.

I don't really need any domain management tool because a quick glance at the spreadsheet every month will tell me that something is coming up for renewal. The domain registrars are also pretty good about sending emails to tell you when your domain is about to expire. You can't rely on that, of course. But, in more than 12 years of owing domains I can say that I've never accidentally dropped one. It's not that I'm super-organised, it's just that in my experience it's easy enough to do with a spreadsheet.

**KenW3** · May 10th, 2012, 4:28 PM

Originally Posted by ycfme

Hi there Ken,

Any chance you'd be willing to share the template with a Noob who's just lost his mother and can REALLY use some organization at this time?

@ycfme, I'm very sorry to hear about your mother. That is certainly a very difficult time. I am very willing to share with anyone; That's why I'm here on EP

My precise template is included in my post above. There are no formulas, no special cell formats, no color, no recorded macros, and no event triggers - all business and works fine with nothing extra. It is exactly as I described above. The worksheet has all of the fields listed at the top. You can open a New spreadsheet, type those column headers into your spreadsheet in that exact order at the top, and you will have exactly what I am using

(That is why I included columns titled Note1 and Note2 in the list for where I have those placed.) I opened the one I use, and typed in the column names. Anyone here is welcome to duplicate that sheet using the list above.