Wanted: Service Parking

[bonusmedia]

I want to put up a basic holding page for our undeveloped domains (about 300) saying we own the domain and inviting offers. I need the page to include whichever domain the user arrives from.

I seem to remember someone requesting this before but I can't find the thread.

I'm not a coder, maybe could figure it out but don't really have the time.
If anyone can help I'm happy to donate to your beer fund or charity.

 

[Retired_Member39]

I used 123parked.com for a few months, 250 slots - €16.99 per month, might be a consideration. An example of the default contact form: http://www.adg.co.uk/.

 

[DarrenDarren is verified member.]

<?php

$domain = str_replace('www.', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

echo $domain;

?>

 

[Adam HAdam H is verified member.]

I used a wordpress theme from themeforest which someone else recommended.

Although after purchase i realised it didnt do what i needed it to do so ive had to customise it but i would think in most cases it would suit peoples needs. Its the link in my signature.

I think the theme on themeforest is called domena 2.0 or something, but i would only recommend purchasing if you know your way around problems and wordpress because the creator doesnt respond at all.

 

[timter51]

I'd love a system where I could just change the nameservers on a domain to my server, and everything else is automated. Or at most, then go and set the page up in Wordpress. At the moment, I have to set each domain up a page on my website, then add each domain to my hosting account, then in cPanel set a redirect for the domain to a page I have just created. Get's very tiresome... how does that theme work Adam, in terms of the process to add a new domain?

 

[Adam HAdam H is verified member.]

Basically you change your nameservers on the domain, park the domain in cpanel and then login to your wordpress install and add the domain to the control panel.

The only problem with the default theme from themeforest is that it has no function to add a homepage , so for example the way i wanted to do it was to have a homepage/main domain which all domains were listed and then for each domain to have its own page.

So i had to customise it to do that, but as default the theme will do all of the above but one of your domains will have to be the main domain and it will display the same sales page on all the domains.

Customising it to do what i needed was more complicated than it normally would be with wordpress because you cant use custom page templates to set a homepage because the theme relys on the root domain being a parked domain etc, which then has a knock on effect that page titles and other parts of the site need work aswell, Ive also nofollowed all linked domains on each landing page incase it was seen as a farm of some kind.

But out of the box it will do what most want , in terms of creating a landing page by simply parking a domain in cpanel and changing nameservers.

I also dont like using the default contact form plugin, so i switched out to Gravity forms as its much better ( imo )

 

[SkinnerSkinner is verified member.]

With a little php, and cURL, you can park domains like

//$u = username, $p = password, $h = host, $prk = domain to park, $theme is your cpanel theme name.
// prk should be just domain.ext no http or www. 
$url = "http://" . $u . ':' . $p . "@" . $h . ":2082/frontend/$theme/park/doaddparked.html";
$par = "?domain=" . $prk;

Then run your chosen method of loading the page (I suggest CURL), search for "Success" and done, anything else is a fail.

If you had wildcard nameservers you could avoid this, but then there is nothing stopping someone parking ANY domains under your banner.

Customising the page is already posted.

 

[Retired_member41]

I used 123parked.com for a few months, 250 slots - €16.99 per month, might be a consideration. An example of the default contact form: http://www.adg.co.uk/.

After you mentioned it, I added 500 parked domains to our £8 a year package, if anyone wants a contact form which shows like the above, just submit a ticket and it will be set up for you. Or install wp and use examples shown above etc. Only mentioning it as its very cheap and as we use whb servers its very quick and secure.

 

[bonusmedia]

Thanks everyone, very helpful

 

[freddyfreddy is verified member.]

If anyone wants to add their domains to domainaftermarket.co.uk just drop me a pm.

Just add the domains in your account and change the name servers for parking pages like this www.weddingphotographers.co.uk

looks good. I have an own system, asked my developer to do it, but of course after weeks it is still not finished, there is always something that you forget and want to add. a little good paid thing out of the box is always better.