10 domain management tools to advance your precense and value on the web
by: Monte Cahn - CEO, Moniker.com
Today, it is more important than ever to increase value of your website and to protect your online assets. Since the dot com boom and bust, and now with the resurgence of the internet, many companies are beginning reap the rewards of their hard work and staying power. Getting all you can out of your domain registration is one of the most important strategies you can take to ensure online success.
Listed below are 10 great domain management tools that all website managers can be using every day:
Domain Parking
If you own domain name and haven't created a website for it, Domain Parking is a great way to gain traffic from natural 'type in' visitors and search engines, while at the same time increasing your online presence and value. There are two main types of parking pages:
- The first and most popular is a For Sale parking page. This page allows others to know that your domain is For Sale and provides a bid form for interested parties to place on offer on your domain. Moniker prepares thousands of appraisals, and sells hundreds of domains each month on behalf of their customers from the use of the For Sale parking pages.
- The second most popular parking page is a Coming Soon parking page. This page allows customers to know that your web site is in development and use of the domain is coming online soon. These pages, and For Sale pages, allow users to click on a related link to the name they typed into the browser. For example if your name was Shanghai.com, and someone typed in Shanghai.com into the browser, they would see that this domain is For Sale, or they would be able to click on a link related to Shanghai so that they most likely end up where they intended. Domain Parking is available with Moniker at no charge.
Traffic Stats
Traffic Statistics provide information on unique type in visitors to the website or a domain name parking page. Every domain manager should review their free daily, weekly, and monthly traffic statistics. This information is also a valuable tool to help you determine the value of a domain when deciding on renewals, or when putting your domains up for sale and determining appropriate sale prices.
URL Forwarding
URL Forwarding allows you to point your domain to another IP address or web site to bring your domain to life instantly. Moniker offers two free URL Forwarding options; URL redirect/masking and frame forwarding. These options allow you to either carry the domain name in the browser or take the name of the site you are forwarding to. Many domain owners register variations of their domain names and forward the variations to their main site to increase traffic and to build brand value.
Email Forwarding
With Email Forwarding service, you can transparently forward email directed to any of your domains to your own current Email address. For example if you have a domain related email set up such as steven@moniker.com, you can forward any emails directed to your steven@yahoo.com address so that you can read all of your email in one mailbox. Another great use of Email Forwarding is to have variations of a domain email set up to all forward to one email address. For example, you can have: sales@Your Domain.com, webmaster@Your Domain.com and service@Your Domain.com all forward to your personal email. This is a great way to look like a bigger company with many employees. Email Forwarding is free with domain registration at Moniker.
Enhanced Security
With domain theft on the rise, enhanced security is critical to ward off unauthorized changes of domain names. Moniker is proud to offer the very highest levels of security in the domain industry. This includes admin notification and approval in order to change contact information, DNS, and transfer requests. Moniker's system prevents the theft and unauthorized changes in your account even if someone were able to access your account using your account number and password. Because our system makes the former authorized email approve any changes to your account first, no one can make these changes unless you have approved them. In addition, in an effort to prevent wide spread domain theft, Moniker is the only registrar that has management approval for every domain transfer out request before a second approval is sent to our customers to approve through the system. If you have to transfer a domain for any reason, simply notify us from the current admin email on file, and your transfer request will gain Admin approval before sending a message to your account.
Online Reporting
You can use several online reports to assist you with your domain management needs. You can view such items as pending transfers and status, applied credits, recently registered domains, expiring domains, invoices and payments and much more. In addition, Moniker has recently added two more specialized reports accessed through the "Report Center" inside the domain manager. The first report supplies you with the following information - domain name, auto renew setting, expiration date, forwarding setting, and dns. The second report provides domain name, admin email, auto renew setting, creation date, expiration date, forwarding setting, and dns. Online Reporting is Free with your domain registration at Moniker.
Global Change Capabilities
With Global Change Capabilities, you can view and modify up to 5,000 names at one time within your domain manager. Moniker has developed the very best management tools to assist domain managers in making day to day management tasks as efficient as possible for both the individual and large customer.
Domain transfers
Moniker.com offers free assistance to transfer and consolidate all your names registered at Moniker. If you want to transfer small numbers of domains to Moniker, you can simply use the "Switch to Moniker" tab from anywhere on the site. If you have more names than you want to deal with or if you would just like our assistance, Moniker can process your domain transfers for you. All you need to do is to make sure that you have enough credits in your account to process your transfers/renewals and send the list of your domains along with your account number to Support@Moniker.com and Moniker Customer Service will be very happy to assist you. Remember that all transfers come with an additional year of renewal from the expiration date so you do not loose any time for transferring your domains well before expiration from another registrar.
Ownership transfers
Ownership changes are free with registration at Moniker; they are simply performed by using the "Push Domain" button in the domain manager. All you need is the new registrant's account number and you will have the option of pushing the domain to that account with your account information remaining in tact. Or, you can push the domain without your account information. Changing ownership of domains is simple, free and only takes seconds to perform.
Live Customer Service & Support
Most registrars charge for service calls or are not available by phone. Moniker.com is proud to offer the industries only award winning, personal, toll-free customer support with seven day a week coverage. Moniker's Mission is to provide the very best in customer service in the industry, we make it a point to answer the phone and address any issues that you may have while you are on the phone. In addition, you can always send any support issue to our customer support email - support@moniker.com and your issues will be addressed in a timely manner.
Moniker.com offers a suite of value added services, most of which are free to our customers. Each of these services increases online identity presence and protects domain asset value, while providing efficiency in management.
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