Help us test the new Efty.

[Doron Vermaat]

It’s been more than four years since @lionel_efty and I set out on a mission to change the way domain name investors manage, market and monetize their portfolio’s. And what a ride it has been!

After a private beta with a small group of users, we decided to turn to NamePros.com in December 2014 to announce our public beta and with an open invite for anyone to sign-up and provide feedback. And feedback we got. A lot. In fact, the feedback has never stopped and it is safe to say that it is thanks to the community here that Efty transformed from our humble vision of a domain portfolio management tool into the full-fledged sales platform it is today and that we’re continuing to build for you.

Pretty much all of the new features we shipped over the past few years were build on top of the original framework that we developed for Efty back in 2014 which resulted in a somewhat bloated application that isn’t always as fast and bug-free as we like it to be and frankly, has started to look a bit tired.

That’s why we set out to completely revamp the application, streamline the menus, simplify navigation and build a responsive layout for all devices and operating systems. The result is a platform with a strong emphasis on helping you make more money, by driving more sales and better reporting.

We think it’s turning out awesome but we need some unsalted feedback before we flip the switch and roll it out to our entire userbase.

And what better place to turn for feedback than here on NamePros? The very same place we announced the first version of our platform

The new Efty is not just old wine in new bottles. We already incorporated a lot of feedback and delivered on a lot of the popular request posted by members in the many Efty threads on the forum.

With the new Efty, you can:
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• Create custom categories for your marketplace (yay!)
• Rearrange the order of premium domains on your homepage
• Remove the Make Offer form from the marketplace (for your BIN domains)
• Get in-app notifications for new inquiries and transactions.
• Turn on/of logos in your marketplace or For-Sale landing pages.
• Show listings on your marketplace in chronological or alphabetical order.
• Activate two-factor authentication for added security
• Quickly see which of your domain names are under review.
• Add a Privacy Policy page and place Active Consent checkboxes on your Make Offer forms.

To help us test drive the #NewEfty you sign into your Efty account via https://app.efty.com/login/
Not an Efty user yet? Feel free to sign up for a 30 day, free trial here.

And please, do let us know what you think in the comments. Did we miss something? Spotted a bug? Love it, hate it? All feedback, comments, questions, and suggestions are very much appreciated.

This is a paid post.​

 

[Chris Russell]

Hi Doron, I have been using efty about year now. I have few issues but the main one I will talk about today is that facebook blocks my efty url (see attached screenshot).

Everytime I try to send a link to someone on facebook or making a post with it I get this message

"The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe:
brandotive.com
Please remove this link to continue."

Is there anything that can be done about this?

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I am liking the #NewEfty spent quite a bit of time arranging things, had to edit and confirm all details for every name, in bulk edit format, because it does not auto update whois.
Was just looking for that check box, but i cant find it

It would be nice to be able to edit Show on efty market and Premium Domain while doing bulk edit
I can't remember, some I clicked no market cause they were fresh reg, or did not want to sell at the time.
Maybe people want to change the premium domain look. All driverless/crypto

Theme picker still not alphabetical.. cannabis is between internationalized domains and gambling
made bulk edit much more difficult.

I added a category, hemp, it seems to have bumped one of my other categories off my marketplace page.
Not sure which one.. Would like to see in settings-domain category, a list of all categories. With number of domains, like marketplace, if possible.
Is 10 the maximum number of categories that show on my marketplace home page. I have more than that.
I think, can't find a way to tell how many.

Maybe USP's for INDRP and UDRP would be nice, but its not that big of a deal. USP does not have to mean unique selling point

Is there any way to update whois in bulk? As your system doesn't update whois for me, a lot of my names expire in close time frames, and without namesilo link manager would be lost.
Also, that would show me when netfirms/directnic changes nameservers to expired, as your system picks up the extra year the registrar seems to add when the name expires.
ORIGINAL REG DATE 2017-05-14
PURCHASE DATE 2017-05-14
EXPIRY 2019-05-14
REGISTRAR DNC Holdings, Inc
NAMESERVER EXPIRED-DOMAIN-NS50.DIRECTNIC.COM

To sort by expiry, this domain would appear to be active expire next year and be down at bottom of list, but it is expired. Can be confusing.
With dNS showing I see it is expired.
I hate that, for whatever reason my domain management systems pick up the extra year, after a name drops from some registrars. Above name shows 2019 expiry at other places too.

Overall, love #NewEfty couldn't live without it, maybe i could live, but quality of life would be much worse.
Makes domain management so much easier, marketplace, landing pages are very good.
Remember those slow load times, thats history
I have no problemo paying for the service i receive from efty, and i have to add 30% cause of my loonie

Thanks for helping me make an informed decision based on data @Michael Cyger

Thank you @Doron Vermaat for replying quickly to emails in the middle of the night, even though it may be middle of the day where you are. Excellent customer service

@lionel_efty thank you too!

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Thank you, everyone, for the continuing feedback. It's incredibly helpful.

Hi guys!

Just something I noticed, and I don't know if it's connected to the latest update. But when uploading a logo to one of the landing pages, how can that be removed if I came to change my mind?

The only option is to reupload an image.

Good point. I will see if we can add a little X to remove logos as well.

@Doron Vermaat Nice work. Will DN.com be integrated also?

I don't think we will give that high priority unless it will become a popular request. You are the first one to ask so far.

I think I figured out why the weird results when you type something in the search box...

The system tries to match the input string against *anything* in the domain's record, even nameservers or domain category ! not just the sld or tld.

For instance, it shows an IOT domain of mine when I type "net", because the category is "Internet of Things (IoT)" !!!

Correct, it will search all fields. This is a bit different than it was in the previous version.

Hi Doron, I have been using efty about year now. I have few issues but the main one I will talk about today is that facebook blocks my efty url (see attached screenshot).

Everytime I try to send a link to someone on facebook or making a post with it I get this message

"The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe:
brandotive.com
Please remove this link to continue."

Is there anything that can be done about this?

I suspect a user might have been "sharing" his EftyMarket.com links a bit to aggressively across the Facebook site which might have triggered this temporary warning. There's not much we can do about that in the short term but something you can do yourself is report the link as NOT spam when you get this notice. Alternatively you can share the domain name itself (www.hug.com instead of https://eftymarket.com/hug.com for example). Visitors that click your domain name are then redirected to the SSL-secured page on EftyMarket.com

I am liking the #NewEfty spent quite a bit of time arranging things, had to edit and confirm all details for every name, in bulk edit format, because it does not auto update whois.
Was just looking for that check box, but i cant find it

It would be nice to be able to edit Show on efty market and Premium Domain while doing bulk edit
I can't remember, some I clicked no market cause they were fresh reg, or did not want to sell at the time.
Maybe people want to change the premium domain look. All driverless/crypto

Theme picker still not alphabetical.. cannabis is between internationalized domains and gambling
made bulk edit much more difficult.

I added a category, hemp, it seems to have bumped one of my other categories off my marketplace page.
Not sure which one.. Would like to see in settings-domain category, a list of all categories. With number of domains, like marketplace, if possible.
Is 10 the maximum number of categories that show on my marketplace home page. I have more than that.
I think, can't find a way to tell how many.

Maybe USP's for INDRP and UDRP would be nice, but its not that big of a deal. USP does not have to mean unique selling point

Is there any way to update whois in bulk? As your system doesn't update whois for me, a lot of my names expire in close time frames, and without namesilo link manager would be lost.
Also, that would show me when netfirms/directnic changes nameservers to expired, as your system picks up the extra year the registrar seems to add when the name expires.
ORIGINAL REG DATE 2017-05-14
PURCHASE DATE 2017-05-14
EXPIRY 2019-05-14
REGISTRAR DNC Holdings, Inc
NAMESERVER EXPIRED-DOMAIN-NS50.DIRECTNIC.COM

To sort by expiry, this domain would appear to be active expire next year and be down at bottom of list, but it is expired. Can be confusing.
With dNS showing I see it is expired.
I hate that, for whatever reason my domain management systems pick up the extra year, after a name drops from some registrars. Above name shows 2019 expiry at other places too.

Overall, love #NewEfty couldn't live without it, maybe i could live, but quality of life would be much worse.
Makes domain management so much easier, marketplace, landing pages are very good.
Remember those slow load times, thats history
I have no problemo paying for the service i receive from efty, and i have to add 30% cause of my loonie

Thanks for helping me make an informed decision based on data @Michael Cyger

Thank you @Doron Vermaat for replying quickly to emails in the middle of the night, even though it may be middle of the day where you are. Excellent customer service

@lionel_efty thank you too!

The best way to do large bulk edits is with the new Bulk Import and Update tool. It allows you to download your entire portfolio in a CSV and you can edit any fields you like, upload the file again, choose "overwrite" and the changes are made. This works for a 100 or thousands of domains at once and it includes all fields, including Premium, Efty market yes/no etc.

The marketplace only shows your top 10 categories on the homepage. So the categories that have the most domains will show on the homepage. This is done by design so this is not something you can change at the moment.

Bulk Whois updates are available in the new Efty but only for those domains that have hit the expiry date in the system. You can find those under Domains > Expired via the main navigation. Here you can select all the domains you have renewed, click Edit Selection and then click Update Whois. We are thinking about bringing bulk whois updates to the entire portfolio but there are some challenges there mainly related to cost and scalability.

Thanks again for the feedback (and the very nice, encouraging words!)

 

[Chris Russell]

I suspect a user might have been "sharing" his EftyMarket.com links a bit to aggressively across the Facebook site which might have triggered this temporary warning. There's not much we can do about that in the short term but something you can do yourself is report the link as NOT spam when you get this notice. Alternatively you can share the domain name itself (www.hug.com instead of https://eftymarket.com/hug.com for example). Visitors that click your domain name are then redirected to the SSL-secured page on EftyMarket.com

Thanks Doron but I am not sure I understand much of what you said. I dont use the eftymarket links at all, I only use my domain brandotive.com. I have never really promoted my domain on facebook before so I dont see how it can be abused or spammed. Brandotive.com already has the ssl installed so why would facebook call it unsafe, kinda defeats the purpose of the ssl.

 

[Haris]

Looks great. The upgrade took time but it was worth it.

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Thanks Doron but I am not sure I understand much of what you said. I dont use the eftymarket links at all, I only use my domain brandotive.com. I have never really promoted my domain on facebook before so I dont see how it can be abused or spammed. Brandotive.com already has the ssl installed so why would facebook call it unsafe, kinda defeats the purpose of the ssl.

Sorry, my bet, i didn't read your comment properly. In that case your domain name might have been flagged for spam, perhaps under the use of a previous owner? The solution remains the same, you should click the report button to tell Facebook the domain isn't spam.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Is there no 404 redirect anymore
For backlinks, indexed pages?

 

[creataweb]

Thanks Doron but I am not sure I understand much of what you said. I dont use the eftymarket links at all, I only use my domain brandotive.com. I have never really promoted my domain on facebook before so I dont see how it can be abused or spammed. Brandotive.com already has the ssl installed so why would facebook call it unsafe, kinda defeats the purpose of the ssl.

Sometimes FB flags posts as spam even if it's not. You have to file the appeal with the link on FB and wait til it's sorted or expired.

 

[Asfas1000]

One more small bug to report :

When adding a domain, the purchase date and the renewal price are not auto-completed, as before.

 

[Nem0]

So far so good on my end. Just one tiny problem. I use iPad pro almost exclusively and I cant drag and drop the Premium domains. Been using my Mac for that feature but it sure would be nice if it worked on iPad as well.

Otherwise, loving all the other changes and everything else is working fine so far.

 

[DomainBarracksRob]

ok one thing I can't figure out

when I go to Premium Names and click and drag the order of the names up and down and hit "save" then I go back and view my market place, names are still in old order from when I first added them??

What am I doing wrong or not doing?

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Is there no 404 redirect anymore
For backlinks, indexed pages?

Thanks for flagging - this should be fixed now!

One more small bug to report :

When adding a domain, the purchase date and the renewal price are not auto-completed, as before.

Thanks for spotting this. I will make sure we look into this

So far so good on my end. Just one tiny problem. I use iPad pro almost exclusively and I cant drag and drop the Premium domains. Been using my Mac for that feature but it sure would be nice if it worked on iPad as well.

Otherwise, loving all the other changes and everything else is working fine so far.

Not sure if we can fix that but I will pass it on.

ok one thing I can't figure out

when I go to Premium Names and click and drag the order of the names up and down and hit "save" then I go back and view my market place, names are still in old order from when I first added them??

What am I doing wrong or not doing?

The reason could be that your marketplace still runs on the old A-record. A lot of the newer features are only supported on marketplaces that run on the new A-record which is 159.8.40.55 - let me know if this is the case with you.

 

[DomainBarracksRob]

Thanks for flagging - this should be fixed now!


The reason could be that your marketplace still runs on the old A-record. A lot of the newer features are only supported on marketplaces that run on the new A-record which is 159.8.40.55 - let me know if this is the case with you.

this was the FIX, Thank You...Took about 5-10 mins after the change but they are now showing up in the order I set.

Thanks @Doron Vermaat

 

[Domainted.com]

Minor thing but would be nice: in the 'Inquiries' section, when you click on an inquiry you get the delete option for that inquiry; might be nice to also have a 'spam' button, so that inquiry's email addy gets flagged as spam and further inquiries from that sender are blocked. For example, lately my Efty landing pages (for a few different domains, not just one) have been receiving a few spam mails from:

[email protected]

Phone
416-385-3200

IP Address
104.194.139.122

Offer


Message
Hi,

My name is Randy and I was looking at a few different sites online and came across your site beautyshed.com. I must say - your website is very impressive. I found your website on the first page of the Search Engine.

etc etc etc

Not super-annoying (yet), but would be nice to have the spam option. Minor point, because I'm loving the Efty system. Great work, guys

@Bannen I think I am understanding this correctly that you are receiving spam leads from your landing pages? If so there is a clickable box that is verify in your settings of efty. If you click this box anyone who inquires will have to opt in that they did in fact inquire. The on lo y downside is if someone does and does not check verify their email you could potentially loose a good lead. It definitely has its ups and downs but using this feature would be helpful to detour some this for you if this is what is happening. I am not sure if this is what your referring to but if it is I hope it helps. Hope you have a great night. J

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Transferred a couple .ca last night for renewal reasons.
Checked now and registrar and expiry date updated automatically

 

[Joshua Harding]

Really digging the fresh UX on the new site. A marked improvement on the last iteration without question.

Just a quick suggestion in the portfolio manager window - I'd love to see a "domain length" column integrated, if possible.

Keep on keeping on!

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Really digging the fresh UX on the new site. A marked improvement on the last iteration without question.

Just a quick suggestion in the portfolio manager window - I'd love to see a "domain length" column integrated, if possible.

Keep on keeping on!

Nice idea - I will see if this is something we can include in a future update.

A couple small tweaks we've made based on feedback recently:

Categories in the search filter of your marketplace now rank in alphabetical order.
When you click the Edit button on a domain you're taken directly to the Marketing tab of said domain.

 

[Nem0]

When you click the Edit button on a domain you're taken directly to the Marketing tab of said domain.

I noticed this one recently, thank you. Love the small improvements that save you a click or two.

 

[MrConor]

Signed up today for Efty @Doron Vermaat - A great platform it is mate

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

Where is the option to edit "About Us" page? I was unable to find it...

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Where is the option to edit "About Us" page? I was unable to find it...

You can find it under Settings > Custom Pages.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

You can find it under Settings > Custom Pages.

Thanks for your as always swift response.

Just took the snapshot to share and was unable to find until I clicked the link you gave. I think there should be some prominent contrast color of bar which keeps on even the mouse on not rolling over that area. Else it looks like there are only 3 options Marketplace, Domain categories and Premium domains.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I was just trying to edit the profile for a domain that is using the lander phone call to action 3
and a different lander. The phone call to action 3, the profile did not update when i changed it.
Is the profile not editable for those landers?

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Thanks for your as always swift response.

Just took the snapshot to share and was unable to find until I clicked the link you gave. I think there should be some prominent contrast color of bar which keeps on even the mouse on not rolling over that area. Else it looks like there are only 3 options Marketplace, Domain categories and Premium domains.

Thanks for sharing. Which browser and screen resolution are you browsing from?

I was just trying to edit the profile for a domain that is using the lander phone call to action 3
and a different lander. The phone call to action 3, the profile did not update when i changed it.
Is the profile not editable for those landers?

That is correct, the Call To Action templates have limited editing options.

 

[RobertoG]

I sold a name and the current owner wants me to remove my listing.
How do I do this?
eftymarket-dot-com/buy_it_now_paypal/ domain/iqwe/

Sorry for hijacking your post, but I am not allowed to PM anyone.
nor am I allowed to post links