Domain Management Tool

Does my idea exist? if not would anyone want this tool?

[maherphil]

Hi,

I have a fair amount of domains that redirect to aff. program offers and are parked at the sedos of the world.

Here is the problem:

When aff. programs go offline sometimes the network will let you know, other times they redirect to 'simular' offers that might not fit your domain as well.

Also, the sedos of the world sometimes do not serve the most relavent ads and the can be tweaked to get better results.

I'm thinking of designing a tool that would allow a domainer to check the landing pages of 1000s of domains.

Basically here is my vision. The tool would take each domain and travel to the site and take a snapshot of the landing page. Then I could glance through the results and mark any domains as needing maintenece. I would compile a list of domains that need to be fix and then fix them accordingly.

Its actually a pretty simple little app I could write in no time at all.

But, there is no point in re-inventing the wheel, so...does anyone know of such a service/tool?

Also, anyone have ideas for addtional features or uses?

[jtara]

There are a number of services that automate this completely (why would you want to have to glance through results periodically?) and notify you by email/pager/etc. when a site goes down.

There are also such services that are integrated with DNS services, so that if a site goes down, it will automatically switch to a secondary server. (The secondary server might be a duplicate site, or might just be a "we're having trouble" page - it's your choice - you just tell it where to point the domain.)

Generally, they only check to see if there is an HTTP server operating. (Not sure if there are more advanced services that check content.)

Edit: just re-read your post. Sounds like you are just looking for an easy way to view all of your sites. You can't do a content comparison, since the sites are serving ads that will constantly change. And you're really not looking for a "site down" situation, since the parking company will deal with that already.

Am I understanding this correctly?

You might want to look into some of the Firefox extensions. There are several that deal in this area. (Opening multiple sites, showing you home page thumbnails, etc.)

[maherphil]

thx for your input jtara. I just went ahead and wrote a script to do what I needed. My main concern isn't the parked domains, its more of the domains that redirect to aff. net programs.

I found a couple of services that check your sites for downtime and then act accordingly:

adsupervision.com -checks your adwords and will pause if your site goes down.

adwatcher.com - full service version of the aforementioned with click fraud monitoring.

Hope this help ya'll.

[jtara]

checks your adwords and will pause if your site goes down

This is a great idea. I've occasionally seen complaints from advertisers about Google disabling adgroups when a destination URL is unavailable. This avoids that problem.

[maherphil]

yeah i've seen ads for some BIG sites end up on a 404 page. The site was down for a few minutes and prolly lost a lot of money because clicks kept coming in (and back buttons were pushed ;) instead of conversions made.

Anywho, back to my original post. I went to a domain I have today and it was forwarding to a database error page.

It would be cool if you could setup your domains to redirect to all these aff. network offers and then take a snapshot of that landing page and get alerted if the landing page changed.