New Namesilo Marketplace

Keith said:

Yes, by the registrar surely. They won’t admit it but lots of evidence says it wasn’t the registrant. I was looking at this domain over a year ago when typing in the url resolved to a namesilo default page that said it was expired. Then it was renewed for 2017 and the page still said it was expired.

Now by magic it gets renewed at the last second. Mind you, prior to expiration, multiple GoDaddy reps sent offers on behalf of their clients. Big offers too. There was not one response to a single offer. The dns also still says “delete” “drop” which is what it changed to upon expiration.

Moral of the story is don’t trust namesilo. They’re another netsol who houses domains in client hold for years because they feel they’re entitled.

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MS-Domains said:

& then? if they keep ignoring/rejecting offers? whats the point?

Thanks

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Arca said:

@namesilo - Could you add some preventative security measures to the sub-account manager, especially with regards to outward domain transfers and account pushes?

Mainly the ability to limit a sub-account to unlock no more than X amount of domains within each 24 hour period.

This would limit potential loss/theft if a sub-account is compromised. If a sub-account can unlock a maximum of say 1-2 domains within each 24 hour or 30 day period they can’t get much done in terms of theft, even if they technically have access to thousands of domains in your account.

Would be good to see more sub-account configurations that could safeguard the main account in case the sub-account is compromised. Some examples would be to disable the “Deactivate Domains” option and barring the sub-account from editing for sale listings as well as creating new sales listings (listing valuable domains for $10 would be another way to facilitate a mass ownership transfer if they can’t unlock the domain to do a regular transfer/push). Disabling manually expedited transfer outs for sub-accounts would also be a good idea.

Right now the sub-account manager permissions are so broad that if the sub-account is compromised it constitutes a great risk to the main account. If we could set more detailed safeguarding limitations on sub-accounts it would be make this useful option less risky, and as a result more useful. The above suggestions are just some the first things that came to mind that could restrict a sub-account in order to protect the main account, you might take another approach to it as well.

I haven't used the sub-account manager option so far because the current authorizations given to the sub-account seem to be too broad/permissive, and therefore too risky. If we had more options to restrict the sub-account I would certainly use this option in situations where it would be convenient/necessary to let others manage my portfolio for various reasons.

Also, if an account holder is travelling, it would be very useful to be able to set up a restricted sub-account that we could use to access our domains in order to push/transfer the handful of domains that will sell via third party platforms during that period. Dealing with your domains is always tricky when you're traveling due to often having to log into various untrusted wifi networks, as well as 2FA often not working smoothly if you're in other countries, as well as easy of losing your 2FA device while travelling. The ability to be able to access your account via a sub-account that only allows a handful of domains to be pushed/transferred out would be a much better and lower risk way of logging in to the account while using various iffy hotel and other open wifi networks during the travel, so that even if your password gets stolen, the thief can do much less damage with the sub-account access, than they could if they got access to the main account.

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Michael Ehrhardt said:

Honestly
I have an namesilo account
But if I want to sell my domain I have to search to upload them
How is that ?
This is not simple and easy
I don’t want to study the market place before listing domains
Pls get back to me

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Keith said:

The owner wasn’t rejecting offers, they vanished. Namesilo will sell the domain in the future under privacy protection. After I pointed it out, they realized they sold a domain for $75 that was worth thousands.

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namesilo said:

You have for some reason taken it upon yourself to disparage us publicly and now you are accusing us of unethical activity. We have tried to ignore your posts since we do not want to even give them oxygen, but yet you continue to take every opportunity to make accusations which are entirely false and bordering libelous. We are sorry you did not win the domain auction you wanted to bid on, but we request that you stop spreading lies about our company.

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namesilo said:

Hi @Arca. Thanks as always for your suggestions. while we certainly agree that more granular control over sub-account permissions could be useful, please note there is no security risk with sub-accounts as they are currently configured. sub-accounts cannot do the things you listed as being concerned about such as creating/modifying sales, unlocking domanis, approving transfers, etc. They are basically restricted to managing DNS/name servers.

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Arca said:

In that case, could you enable the option of having them unlock/push/transfer out domains?

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namesilo said:

Yeah, we can certainly look at adding permissions to allow sub-accounts to perform more actions. This would take a while for us to put together, but I'll be sure it gets added to our ongoing "list". Thanks

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Arca said:

Some thoughts/suggestions regarding the BIN/payment plan/make offer page:
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I think the wording here could benefit from a slight edit, because "Submit a minimum offer of $500" arguably instructs the buyer to make an offer of the minimum amount allowed.

It would be better to say "Submit an offer, minimum $500" or "Submit an offer (min $500)". Here the emphasis is shifted towards the fact that they can make an offer and that there is a minimum, rather than that they should submit an offer of the minimum.


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Add a period to the end of the sentence to be consistent with the rest of the page. All other "star point" sentences on this page end with a period or an exclamation mark.

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I think not showing any numbers here undersells the payment plan option. Instead of saying “Start using the domain upon processing of down payment!” (which is rather abstract without indicating how much the minimum down payment is), maybe you could say “Start using the domain today for as little as [lowest down payment available]”.

Or alternatively: "Pay [minimum down payment available] to get the domain today, followed by [longest period of installment payments available] equal monthly payments of [lowest monthly payment available if choosing lowest down payment]."

That would come out something like this: "Pay $200 to get the domain today, followed by 12 monthly payments of $200."

Or maybe "Start using the domain today for just $200. Full ownership after 12 monthly payments of $200." When people get to see these numbers I think that's more effective in terms of getting them to see the benefits of this option right away. Not sure what would be the best way to formulate these numbers in a sentence though (the down payment + up to 12 monthly payments system makes it a bit more complicated to succinctly convey these numbers in a brief sentence).

Moreover, saying "Make automated monthly payments" makes it sound like the buyer is committing to pay the amount in full/"subscribing" to buy the domain for the full price, which is not the case. Also, many online services that have you sign up for automated monthly payments to pay for something make it notoriously hard to cancel these payments, so this hardly reads like a selling point for a hesitant buyer.

One of the main selling points of the payment plan is less commitment upfront. If the main goal is to get more people to sign up for this option, I think something like "No obligations. Cancel any time!" would be more effective in terms of getting more hesitant buyers to buy domains via the payment plan. If they know that they stand to lose no more than the first payment if they regret their purchase shortly after, it's easy for them to justify an impulse buy. So pushing them in that direction by pointing out that there are no obligations for them could be helpful in terms of more effectively capitalizing on impulse buys.

While this would possibly lead to more payment plan sales, it could also lead to more less committed buyers that don't complete the payment plan. Personally I don't mind such buyers, as I get to keep the funds paid (which usually more than covers my acquisition cost) + I get the domain back and can put it up for sale again and sell it again to somebody else. In my own experience so far buyers defaulting on their payment plan is very rare. And when they do, it's usually after making payments for months.

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thekiller said:

@namesilo I don't know if this was previously covered or not but can we have filters that can be bookmarked?

Like Dynadot does, for example https://www.dynadot.com/market/auct...exact=18&order_by=8&page_size=50&page_index=0

This is easy when we want to see list using certain filters without going through all?

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Arca said:

@namesilo - Can you let us disable the use of any domain under ownership as a log in username?

GoDaddy, DynaDot, Epik.com, NameCheap, Uniregistry, NameBright, Name.com don’t allow users to log in with any domain name in their account as the username. I just had a quick look at all of their log in pages and they require a username and/or account email, while GD uses the username or customer # approach. NameSilo is the only registrar among the more popular ones in the industry that uses every domain registered as a potential username. It's possible to keep usernames and account emails private, and it's easy to change them from time to time. On the other hand, every domain you have in your NameSilo account is a publicly “exposed” username to your account that can't be hidden/changed. Maybe you could give users the option of hiding their account username(s) from public either by letting us disable the domain as username option, or by creating several different log in options to choose from:

- username or any domain in account
- username only
- username or account email

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MS-Domains said:

Hi, actually, GD allows it. I tried out of curiosity, selected forgot user name, number etc.

I agree though, multiple options is the way to go.

Please always use "2 step auth" , safety is paramount in this business.

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Arca said:

@namesilo - Can you let us disable the use of any domain under ownership as a log in username?

GoDaddy, DynaDot, Epik.com, NameCheap, Uniregistry, NameBright, Name.com don’t allow users to log in with any domain name in their account as the username. I just had a quick look at all of their log in pages and they require a username and/or account email, while GD uses the username or customer # approach. NameSilo is the only registrar among the more popular ones in the industry that uses every domain registered as a potential username. It's possible to keep usernames and account emails private, and it's easy to change them from time to time. On the other hand, every domain you have in your NameSilo account is a publicly “exposed” username to your account that can't be hidden/changed. Maybe you could give users the option of hiding their account username(s) from public either by letting us disable the domain as username option, or by creating several different log in options to choose from:

- username or any domain in account
- username only
- username or account email

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bertrellakajadox said:

@namesilo

I've been using (and enjoying) NameSilo quite a bit for registering domains and have only one suggestion/issue.

Regarding DNS Templates, is there a way to create one that only modifies nameservers? I don't think NS records are editable. The reason I ask is, it would be more convenient (as in it would take fewer clicks) to bulk modify nameservers (non-NameSilo defaults) via the "Apply DNS Template" (https://www.namesilo.com/account_domain_manage_dns_bulk.php) method than it would to do so via bulk editing using the current "Change Nameservers" (https://www.namesilo.com/account_domain_manage_nameservers.php) function.

I did notice there are a number of existing templates. I have made a couple, myself. But there aren't any that just change the nameservers to the ones I'd change them to (e.g., Above, Voodoo, Bodis, etc.)

If there's an easier way to do this, I'm all ears. I think I got spoiled by having this functionality on Epik and GoDaddy. I'm fine with the extra clicks if what I'm asking for isn't implementable.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

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namesilo said:

Thanks for the kind words!

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namesilo said:

The DNS templates are reserved for DNS record changes, not name servers.

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namesilo said:

You can update the name servers for as many domains in your account as you like at one time. Just check the box(es) next to the domain(s) to update and then click the "Change NameServers" icon.

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bertrellakajadox said:

@namesilo

Speaking of nameservers...are there any plans to have the ability to sort domains via the first associated nameserver (if any) column? I don't think that functionality currently exists.

Thanks in advance!

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bertrellakajadox said:

@namesilo

Speaking of nameservers...are there any plans to have the ability to sort domains via the first associated nameserver (if any) column? I don't think that functionality currently exists.

Thanks in advance!

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namesilo said:

I think we should try to keep this thread to Marketplace-related questions if possible

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