Enom -> Resellerclub How to migrate thousand of domains ?

[altomarketing]

Hi ! Id like to receive ideas about this:

 

I have 1000 domains in ENOM, that are renewed automatically every year when every customer pays the invoice, so i would like to migrate them to Resellerclub but on every time each domain is renewalled.

 

The idea is to gradually renew to each customer that pay the renewal to Resellerclub.

 

I had this idea:

 

1 -Change the ENOM keys within whmcs so not renew automatically at ENOM.

2- After each error, manually make a transfer to resellerclub.

2 -I do the transfer and update the domain within whmcs to another Registrar.

 

I ask because I do not want to invest 10,000 dollars in a lot of domains that may transfer customer then not renew it.

 

Ideas?

[Troy]

I was working on transferring all our Enom domains to ResellerClub, but occasionally ResellerClub would suddenly have difficulty acquiring whois information out of the blue and what had been a fairly smooth process became annoying, going back and forth between the two trying to get one of them to figure it out and resolve the issue. I eventually stopped and am trying to decide whether to just stay with Enom or go with RC. Both have caused me problems from time to time--it'll eventually come down to which one I dislike less I suppose.

 

At any rate, my process was mentioned in this post. Hope it helps give you some ideas.

[othellotech]

a lot will depend on how "early" the clients pay for the domain renewal and whether they'll understand they have to "auth" the transfer between registrars.

 

i'd suggest just leaving the existing domains there, and registering new domains with the new registrar

[Troy]

You can change the contact info and do the authorization yourself--the client doesn't necessarily have to do anything as long as the domain gets registered early enough.

[nobaloney]

Years ago we set up a reseller account with Dotster. No real automation, but the site was fully configurable and it looked just like ours.

 

Then years later we started using Logic Boxes (as used by ResellerClub, NEO, etc.). We offerred our clients on Dotster lower pricing to let us move their registration for them, and most said yes. Some didn't, and we just let them continue to renew through our Dotster reseller platform.

 

But Dotster was sold, and they switched to a new system. No customization to speak of; we couldn't even install our logo and when people logged in to their account it said "My Webhost" (couldn't be changed).

 

And there was no longer a way to turn off the offering of Dotster webhosting to our webhosting clients. Their tech support team suggested we just show it at selling for $1,000/month so our clients wouldn't order it.

 

Sounds like a great geek solution, but we're marketers as well as geeks, and it didn't sound good to us.

 

So we had to move them all in a hurry. By that time there were hunder a hundred domains left there, so we took over their accounts... We found out by happy accident that when we did a change of email address they didn't notify our users, so we changed the email address to our own inside address.

 

Then we transferred all the domains to one account in the LogicBoxes platform, our name and email address, and 'proxy private registration'. We've been sending out our own renewal notices, and when the clients pay, we move the domain to their own account on our new platform, and send them the login details.

 

Yes, we notified them all when we started doing it (we told them we were changing our back-end systems to one which would offer them free features with their registrations, and slightly lower pricing ongoing as well.

 

So far all have renewed, though one late (we sent his DNS to our own 'expired' page for a while until he finally contacted us to pay late). We may end up with a few we own ourselves and need to figure out whether to keep, sell, or abandon, but in all, it was worth it.

 

Jeff