skimma

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I forget to mention that I have removed the hosting account WP installation and transferred the site 3-4 times, but the problem remains.