How to setup over 100 sites (to sell the domain name)

Not sure why you would want to use WordPress for this. You could simply hand-code a one-page “This domain is for sale” page in HTML.

The easy way to do this is to follow kjodles advice and set up a single “This domain is for sale” page on a host somewhere. Then you will need to set up a wild-card DNS entry so that any requests routed to that IP address are sent to that page. That way you only need one page, one account, and no configuration no matter how many domains you point towards it. You can still get the domain name using PHP’s $_SERVER[] values, so it’s very easy to know what’s being looked and and what peole are intersted in.

kjodle. But one needs to know html code and I do not. I tried to learn it but found it was not for me.

catacaustic: You speak as if these things are common and known to most, when they are not. One must know html code and all the other things that you speak of. I do not.

I do not know how to create a page as you describe, nor what you go on to suggest and describe.
That is the whole purpose of learning wordpress, so I don’t need to get involved with all the nitty gritty of programming, which my mind is not suitable for.

Unfortunately, using WordPress for this will make it a lot harder than not using WordPress. I do try and suggest the right tool for the job, and in this case WordPress is not it.

With saying that, I’d suggest that if you are serious about doing this, either read up and learn about these things for yourself, of figure out a way to have osmeone else do it for you. that can either be paying a developer to do the work, or bringing in a partner with the technical expertise that’s needed.

I do not have the money to spend on paying someone else to do this.
Someone local quoted me $700 to design the for sale page template and I don’t have that kind of money.

I am not a technical person, I never have been nor ever will be as my mind is not wired right for that. What things I know are things that someone has helped me with, that are very simple to understand or what I have seen through easy/clear youtube tutorials. I find much in this landscape to be too technical for me and also, I find the folks who dish out tuition or expertise seem to assume everyone knows certain things already, things that they thus do not need to explain or spell out (the above replies are an example of this).

Yes, its arduous to have to go through the process of setting up each domain at my hosting provider, do the email setup, then the WP installation and finally, the various small amounts of customization for each for sale page, as I have the domain appearing on the for sale page and on the contact form. Plus, the work required when WP or the plugins/themes need updating,…
But it looks like this is the only choice I have given my circumstances.

I should be done by the end of this month, I think.

If there is a step by step set of instructions somewhere on how to do this the recommended way and also, with the assumption that the reader has more or less just landed from Mars, then please let me know and I will follow it.

I find it hard to learn without a tutor in from of me, but if the steps are clear and understandable, it is more likely that I can follow it successfully.

Any step-by-step instructions would still involve technical tasks. As an example, the first step would be “Create a HTML page landing page for the for-sale domains”. That part may be easy for some people, while it’s pretty much impossible for others. If you want step-by-step instructions, this is about what you’ll get:

1. On a separate site, set up an offer form where people can make offers on your domain names.
2. Set up a hosting account with a company that allows wild-card domain entries (not many do so you’ll need to search for one that can).
3. Create a HTML landing page for the for sale domains.
4. Add a link on the landing page thorugh to your offer form.
5. Set that landing page up on the wild-card server.
6. Set the nameservers on all of your domain names to point to that hosting service.

If you’re going to do it the “right” way there’s a lot of additoinal steps that you could do, things like setting up a bit of PHP code that will determine which domain has sent the user to your offer form and other enhancements like that.

Honstly the best thing that I think that you could do is to list your domains for sale on one of tha various domain broker websites around. They will be able to give you easy steps on how to set up the domains to point to their servers for the maximum effect, and you don’t have to worry about anything more than listing them for sale.

I have had my domains on a domain broker’s website for a while and stopped it about 2 years ago as I sold only one name.

I think these brokers take too much in commission, in my opinion, for doing not very much. I also found their attitude to values objectionable and their manners are shoddy.
Their only desire, it seems, is to sell a domain regardless of the price, not to achieve the maximum they can for their customers. This is much like realtors. These brokers are partially responsible for the low values on domain names today. They claim to know the values for domains but they are responsible for setting low values and then they point to the prices achieved as “proof” of their valuations. Laughable and amateurish.

So I thought I would try this way and see what happens. It can’t be any worse than the broker’s “efforts” and providing my URLs work, I don’t see what they do is any better to what I have created.
The hosting cost is negligible.

I am not expecting a lot but if I provide a for sale page and contact form rather than just park the domain and have an anonymous email address in my privacy whois, perhaps I might get some results this time.

If I do sell a few names, I might be able to afford to pay someone to do what you have suggested.

I’m closing this topic and I’ve deleted @thepixelme last post here. Nothing personal, but that last post and this whole conversation is drifting into “I can do that for you ” territory and that’s not what this support forum is for.

These are WordPress support forums. @skimma There are somethings that WordPress is not for and as explained above, you’re looking at building a WordPress house to put up a for sale sign.

That’s overkill. This topic isn’t about WordPress, it’s about “How to setup over 100 sites (to sell the domain name)” and that doesn’t need WordPress for a for sale page.

Good luck andI suggest you consider talking to someone for that paid work. Just please do that away from these forums.