A little over a year ago I started consolidating my domain names at a single registrar. At that time, I decided to use Fabulous.com for a number of obvious reasons: low pricing, extensive backend to manage the domains, great tech support.
As time passed by, I still have domains in a handful of other registrars, but the big exodus from eNom is in its final stages. Despite the equally great backend manager, eNom lacks in a couple of fields that I’ve found Fabulous.com to win hands down.
Mass-acquisition of EPP codes is not available via eNom’s interface, thus making the mass transfer of domains a pain in the butt. Fabulous offers that and in general such mass-handling features are where you expect them to be, including renewals via the Expiry Control section.
Secondly, when it comes down to billing notifications, Fabulous.com is second to none. You get emails for every activity, including very well-thought invoices with detailed break down of the charges involved. The mere fact that PDF files are attached, makes my life so much easier around this time of the year.
Tax time is around the corner and if you can’t manage the volume of your transactions anymore, consider hiring a CPA for the job. Stay away from the H&R Block guys.
Fabulous.com retains detailed records of all your charges and expenses – and revenue, if you park domains with them. It’s just a matter of printing out the monthly PDF files for the entire year. Meanwhile, at eNom you have to run a report, which is generated in the background. Although eNom has improved in the past year and can now generate reports older than 6 months, there are errors that frustrate the heck out of me, e.g. no renewal dates are included in the CVS files.
For the remaining domains of my eNom portfolio, I have to do a lot of manual labor in order to produce the documents I need for tax purposes. Not so with Fabulous.com which I thoroughly recommend as a registrar for domainers.
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I’ve been consolidating at Moniker for most of the same reasons. Some of the best known registrars have the crappiest mass-management options. Based on your criteria and mine, I’d say that Moniker and Fabulous are two registrars that take the needs of large portfolio holders seriously.
That’s why they are called Fabulous !
Well said Acro! I couldn’t agree more- on both Fabulous and… ugh, enom. Richard, if you’re out there, someone must go over and kick some ass at enom.
Roy Flanders
Good to hear others having a great experience with Fabulous.com 😀