What should NamePros add?

NP already has a marketplace that is for domains and is huge!

The so called big sharks are those PRO members, the ones who think most rules are for us little fish.

I have no problem with search,
You want better search or something?
Use freaking google.

Lastly, ever looked at the total membership of NP?
How many guests are on at any given time?
How many new members come here every day?

There are really great ideas in this thread. Please continue posting your ideas. We have an entire development team working on many of these suggestions, and we can't wait to share them with you.

It takes a long time to build and test everything to handle the amount of traffic we receive, but we are working on it every day, even on weekends! Coming soon...

I'd love to see "Popular Today" on the sidebar instead of "Popular This Week". Namepros has become so busy and there are so many new and interesting threads, I think it's time for an update! The weekly one can be moved in between "Popular This Month" and "Favorites" at the lower bottom where "Popular Today" currently is.

I was just thinking, why don't we have a "Bump" button?

Should enable ability to not display signature when posting. It use to be an option.

When an inbox message comes in, the NamePros tab in browser would blink (or add some hint text). Often communication is done through the website here, so the online members would react promptly to messages.

#people watching thread
especially forsale forums. but if yo do that, then might as well do it for all
next to #thread views
it's just a tiny little number. shoudl be more than doable imo
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Comment on Sep 8, 2016: if I may add to your request collection, and this also I requested long time ago.. is it possible to add #count of people watching a thread? this is particularly useful for marketplace.. but once you go do that, I think its really easy to just add it for all threads.. a bit like #watchers on ebay or such... so just a small # next to #views on top. plz consider. ty.

alcy said:

#people watching thread

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It's nice to see who's lurking in a thread so it's more who's looking. This would be +1. You used to be able to be "invisible" if you didn't like.

Any way to subscribe to the blog but [not a particular author] ? It's not personal against [anyone] but I'm interested in guest blog postings but not the main editorialized content each and every day. I subscribed, for example, to Equity78 's post but get notified on all. {Of course I derailed his last post so hopefully I didn't stop him posting }

Please introduce multi-post joins:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dynadot-steal-your-domains.887181/

This is an example where 2 people want to destroy a reputation on a single issue and each posts consecutive posts to make a point. It now looks like a useful/active thread when it's just a witch hunt imho. That kind of thread is what will keep people away - noise warnings, feedback by business lost in the mix etc.

Thx

menzl said:

Should enable ability to not display signature when posting.

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There is a checkbox to "Show people's signatures with their messages" under Preferences. Does that help?

No Eric as that would be site wide. There use to be an option do disable signatures on a post by post basis.

I was unable to locate a Forum Acronym thread, most general forum shorthand can be found by search engine search, would be simpler if there was a guide here, and adding more domaining specific terms might be helpful to newer members

<--Or naive and silly members who don't know what STS means

The Promote your Auctions for free should be a sticky thread. As of now it serves as a double post knocking everyone down a notch that is actually listing/bumping an auction.

Restrict new users from listing in the request domains thread. I see one user that has a listing with budget of $xxx - $xxxx and 5 reviews, 4 of which are all either trades or as seller mostly from name giveaways. They have only been here since this last Monday (6/27/2016) and when you look at trader rating those total trades appear to go back 2 years because of NP's system. It gives a wrong impression.

IMO that is much too early to trust a seller so new. I'm not sure what the answer is shy of forcing them to acquire names via Escrow.com which you cannot do. I do know charge backs could be an easy outcome of this.

so @Eric Lyon .. any concrete plan or chance for implementing that fb I made months ago, repeated since in few places and was liked by quite the few... it was about adding a tiny little (usually no longer than 3 digit) number on top of each post (but mostly on the marketplace), right next to the #views a post got, which indicates how many people are watching a given post.

I am not skilled coder, but for your skilled coders, I presume this is a matter of about 15 minutes total of work time. since you already have a "watch thread" feature in place, so it is all just a matter of summing it up on top of screen.

and those who are familiar with flippa or gd or even ebay, will know just how useful/wonderful it is to know how many people are folloiwng/watching your for sale post (agan, this is mostly for marketplace posts, but I assume once you do that, you might as well at no extra timecost add it to all and any posts). thanks!!

Namepros search is not good. Does not show the relevant results most of the time. It needs improvement.

And add a world clock in NP Chat so that everyone knows whether it's still friday somewhere or not

Thanks.

Some widget that shows me threads I may be interested in based on my forum browsing habits. If for example I'm always talking in the "Break Room" this widget should show me the most popular threads and/or new threads from that category. If for example I'm often to be found in the gTLD discussion thread it could immediately show me new threads from that category when I log in, etc...etc...

Not sure if this has been posted before
But it is difficult to keep track of auctions I have bid in and whether those have reach end time or not
A timer on auctions will be great or A list in ones profile section showing just the auction threads

A complete auction system will be fantastic though (Just being greedy )

alcy said:

I am not skilled coder, but for your skilled coders, I presume this is a matter of about 15 minutes total of work time.

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Remember you said that next time a large professional company tells you it should only take you about 30 mins or so to find a decent domain name for them

In a tiny website, sure 30 mins or an hour maybe (depending on the platform and code). However on a site of this size with a plethora of users and code and functionality, nothing will take 15 mins to dev.

This could require Database things, and definitely needs front end.

Likely discussions to determine best approach - eg how often the thread watched list is updated, so if it's better a script calculates on each page load, or save a total in the DB and update whenever the thread watch list changes (just an example).

So - Planning, coding, testing locally, code review, testing in QA/staging, roll out live and testing on live, etc And that's a clean flow, without failed testing and thus more code writing and testing again, etc.

alcy said:

since you already have a "watch thread" feature in place, so it is all just a matter of summing it up on top of screen.

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AFAIK, the "watch thread" feature is simply a button which adds or removes you from a list for that thread.
There is currently no total or code to manage that



I'm pointing all this out just so people know that changes on a site this size are likely not as simple as they may seem. Even a change like "total watchers", while is likely fairly 'simple', it's not quick or easy nor likely without a fair amount of work

All of this feedback is excellent and truly appreciated.

We will work on most of these features in due time. At the moment, we're working on a big project, and while the feature requests in this thread may seem like they wouldn't take too long, they would all add up and distract us from our primary focus: finishing our current project. Once we finish this project (the largest project NamePros has ever undertaken in its history), then we will add a bunch of these smaller feature requests.

Please be patient and trust that the wait will be well worth it!

I came to suggest an auction form idea I had, similar to what @silentg posted


BASIC IDEA
I'm not suggesting make a new auction platform like Sedo etc, the forums and thread setup would still be used. Just something extra added to it.

When creating an auction you are presented with some choices - auction for "single domain name", "multi domain names" (as the forms would differ). You are then presented with a form to fill in with various things.

Some elements will be read only, not edited later, mandatory, optional, etc.

We should definitely still have the normal (as is now) text area for posting as not every eventuality can be thought of and catered in a form. And people can still write other things eg "10 years old" etc.

After it's all submitted, this new form data/auction info could be displayed inbetween the thread title and the top post in the thread. This would make it official looking, like it's actually auction info and not just a forum post

I suggest this has a marketplace forum of it's own, so that there is no "create new thread" button just "Create Auction" button, so people cannot bypass using the form. Any created in some other forum be quickly identified, reported, and closed.


FORM FOR STARTING AN AUCTION
I think we'd need two options for "single name" "multiple names". There'd be different fields, such as single name auction could provide expiry date, whereas multi auction (ie 60 names) probs not. The normal thread text area would cater for that.

Example form input fields for single name auction:

• Domain Name
• TLD (not sure if useful separate. Could provide nice stats about what TLDs are selling etc)
  
• Expiry
  
• Registrar
  
• Starting bid
• Min Increments
  
• BIN (can leave blank, or enter either numeric value or "TBA")
  
• DROP DOWN: Auction ends after (hours) || Auction ends in (hours) || etc, THEN enter hour value (eg 72 hours)
  
• Etc

(We all know a BIN ends the auction immediately, no need to state this)
Some could be optional.


The form fields for a multi domain name auction would need some thought. For example "Domain Names" field could be a text box area and can enter names separated by comma, new line, etc.
Option to choose if individual domains, or lot sale.
Etc


FORM FOR PLACING "BIDS"
I also suggest a form input for placing bids.

So when user clicks new button "Bid", using the new form data from the auction the bidder could be presented with:

• The input field to enter their bid
• The current highest bid (or "none")
• The increment required
• The next lowest possible valid bid based on last highest bid and increment (or if no bids the start bid)

For people who choose to ignore this new field and just use the form post text area, their bid won't be counted. The auction data will show "Highest bid $10 by USERNAME" and that won't be them.

A new rule can be added to reflect this "Bids placed outside the official bid input are invalid". The next bidder will just be shown the previous valid bid.

Also, if a user has not used the bid form, then their post can be labelled "This is not a bid". So essentially the site will manage and show valid and invalid bids, the highest bid, the next lowest bid possible, and this will reduce staff intervention too!

Bidders can still post with a normal reply text area as currently, eg to ask for clarification, etc (it is still a forum platform).



USER SETTINGS FOR DISPLAY
Not sure if too much overhead, but being able to choose how we see the auctions would be great. Such as order of the fields displayed "domain name first, then registrar, then ....etc".
This would be in main user settings in profile area "Auction thread view".


ADVANTAGES
Mandatory fields will ensure people provide the bare minimum and only change things they can, as per the rules (eg BIN) (they could just post in the normal thread text area, but people abuse that now, so this doesn't introduce a problem).


With this suggestion, auctions could have:

• The same layout for important information
  
• No important information missing
• No confusion or uncertainty about an auction's details
• The domain name being in a field can be passed through validation to determine if it's IDN, what the chars are exactly (and the site could even list the name in lower and upper case)
• The auction details can be listed at the top of every page in that thread (no more going pointlessly back to page 1)
• The current highest bid can be displayed by the site scripts, at the top of the thread, in the title, etc
• More info can be given in alerts, instead of "Username replied to this thread" it could have "Username bid $XX in ThreadName, your highest bid was $xx"

STATS:
The data stored like this (rather than text field) means stats and other functionality can be provided based on each auction form field and bid.

BIDDING:
The info gathered by the auction form can be presented to a bidder, save scrolling up and down etc. Just click "bid" and you see "increments", "highest bid" etc.
When a user tries to enter an invalid bid - too low from required increments or below the previous bid, etc - the form will return an error and not post, so no invalid bids will be placed!


OTHER:
There are likely all kinds of useful things that could come from this. Stats such as "average sold price on Namepros" "highest bid ever" etc etc (these might not be useful or welcomed, but are just examples).

Mandatory fields on auction forms would reduce the amount of reports on auctions, and thus less staff time.


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I totally get this would be a huge huge change, it's just an idea, as there are many auctions in Namepros, and handling all aspects with a forum platform is not always ideal

An online poker room

I do like @james haw input on standard auction format.

Follow Seller feature : https://www.namepros.com/threads/suggestion-follow-seller-feature-yes-or-no.968265/

Dynamic buttons/badges loaded off your server that show the up-to-date member status.

NamePros members can immediately show their up-to-date credibility and NamePros gets tons of back links from sites in the same circle (domain aftermarket). I'm no SEO expert but that should significantly increase your search engine traffic.

Win-Win situation

Thanks,
Brandon

While on the topic of the WTB & repeat offenders, can we get a form implemented which each thread creator must completely fill out? It's tiring seeing people create threads and either not have a budget or not have a budget according to the rules. This is a daily occurrence.