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How To Track and Manage Your Domain Names – The Best Domain Management Software

In this article - "How To Track and Manage Your Domain Names - The Best Domain Management Software" We're going to look at 1) How To Track and Manage Your Domain Names and then 2) The Best Domain Management Software

1) How To Track and Manage Your Domain Name

• When people first start out they have maybe one and two domains names, and what they usually use to track them is "Nothing". If they're lucky, they put a note on a post-it, and hope they can count on their email records in Gmail.
• People assume their Domain registrar will do it's job properly and there will be no issues (We personally had the experience of registering a domain for 10 years and the records "vanishing".. thankfully we caught it in time.. and still remembered our account details).
• As people get more domains 5 to 10.. then start to rely on the domain registrars on domain system, and this is workable if all your domains are in one place and you can know exactly what you've done with the domains.
• People can export this data to csv or excel, but rarely do in practice.
• The data is there.. but is not working for us.. it's just the raw data and often is very technical - ie about the dns records etc..
• People then start to build their own excel sheets and try google docs. However soon this becomes unwieldly, be it the lag times, or the inability to do complex searches quickly. Also the number of useful fields requires thinking through and people spend days and weeks trying to build something that might work.
• More technical people build databases (again spending weeks. and costing themselves hundreds and thousands of dollars - in wages, opportunity cost and time)
• Both the self made excel and more complex database plans.. have some pros and cons.. on the plus side.. you build them so they do what you want at the time, on the cons - they are difficult to build, manage and maintain, are not optimized for sharing data with your team, partners and outsourcers; each one is different and often people find themselves reinventing the wheel, time and time again.

There are a few attempts at building domain management software but these are often built by "domainers" who are focussed on people with 100,000 domain portfolios and are not looking to actively work with, and optimize their portfolios.

You want to know the software can:

• scale with you
• handle flexible data
• handle tags
• enable easy sharing with multiple parties
• handle notes
• handle complex search queries
• be built for purpose

To that end.. we'd suggest you check out and try www.TheDomainDashboard.com - it's what we've been using to manage our domain portfolios for a while and share with all our clients and partners.

The Domain Dashboard has been called the killer web app for people interested in virtual real estate and who are looking to manage, maintain and optimize their web domains.