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Just saw this and the 7.5% commissions stood out!. Nice to have another option.
https://www.namesilo.com/Support/Marketplace
https://www.namesilo.com/Support/Marketplace
Regarding additional landing page designs, maybe you could introduce one with a payment plan button and include some data to promote this option. Maybe something along the lines of buy now for $2000 OR get this domain today for just $153.8, followed by 12 monthly payments of $153.8.
Would also be great if you could introduce another landing page template that is integrated directly with the namesilo.com site (like template #1).
Can we rent out a domain name at NameSilo marketplace? No fix period, buyer will continue to pay every month as long as he wants to use the domain? Would be a great feature.
Do you support EUR payments from the buyers?
Or USD only?
But how to list my domain(s) on your marketplace in EUR? Then buyer will be able to checkout them via EUR wire...
This is possible?
I'm asking, because I see only USD-listings on your markeplace...
@namesilo
Can you please add the option where buyer pays fees in addition to the agreed price or the fees is split between the buyer and seller, like Escrow.com. It will be very useful for me. Because when I use Escrow.com, and the buyer and I agree to a price, say $2000, I just let him know he will have to pay additional escrow fees but when using namesilo marketplace, I feel it's awkward to ask them to pay $2060 when we agreed at a price of $2000.
At Escrow.com, it's also clear to the buyer that if he wants to pay less fees, he needs to use wire transfer instead of PayPal/CC but at NameSilo, the buyer will probably use the easy method of paying via PayPal/CC and 7.5% fees will get deducted from the sale price. So I will have to specifically tell the buyer that he must pay via wire.
Not a big deal but will help.
Thanks a lot!
Another big update to announce....
We have just implemented a complete re-design of the sales page for our BIN (offer/counter-offer) landing page template in our Marketplace. The design is now very streamlined and simplified and reacts based upon the configuration options you select for your sale. I've attached a "before" and "after" image for this page.
Please keep in mind that if yours is a "Pure BIN" sale (meaning the reserve equals the Buy Now price), this page is skipped entirely and anybody who would have ended up there (from our Marketplace, landing page, etc) gets the domain automatically added to their cart or to the payment plan setup page since there are no options selected to receive offers at a lower price.
Anyway, take a look when you have a minute and let us know what you think. Thanks!
Just reviewed a few forsale pages in a new format.
@namesilo you did a great job
My 2 cents to consider:
- linking to google fonts, or anything else google-powered, may slow the pageload process for Chinese visitors, as google is blocked in China, and so is their fonts service. At least this was the case some time ago. Chinese visitors will still see the page though, but more slowly and with their default fonts, where english letters may or may not be cool. Of course this issue is not NameSilo code specific in any aspect, most sites with english as basic language do not specifically care about Chinese visitors, but a domain-for-sale page, probably, should...
- Contact Us forms asking for name and email on non-https pages should soon show unsecure warnings in google chrome (if not already). Google emailed this "good news" to webmasters some time ago. Pages I reviewed were non-https with the domain name itself shown in address bar (not namesilo .com / something / domain ).
@namesilo - Could you build in a minimum offer expiry period into the "Offer Expires" form on the offer-counter offer page? Many buyers make offers and set the offer to expire on the same day. Some just give you a few hours to respond. This changes the negotiation dynamic unfavorably for sellers. This also means we have to be alert and ready to log in and respond to offers at any time, every day, or else and offer may be made and expire before we become aware of its existence. When somebody makes you an offer on Sedo or Afternic, their offer is valid and binding for 7 days. You don't necessarily have to make every offer be valid for at least 7 days, but would it be possible for you to "gray out" at least two days (or more) on that offer validity period calendar, so that offers made by buyers will be valid for at least a set minimum period?
Also, how does your system deal with time-zones when it comes to offer validity? For example, if a buyer in China sets an offer to be valid until 2017-11-12 10:00, when will that offer expire for a European seller? According to the Chinese buyer's local time, the European seller's local time, or according to an American time-zone that neither of them is in? The conundrum here is that Beijing is 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles, while Berlin is 7 hours behind Beijing (and Beijing, in turn, is 3 hours behind Sydney). Due to the international nature of domain sales, it would probably be better to let buyers/sellers set days of offer validity, rather than dates of offer validity (since these dates and times are going to be out-of wack between buyers/sellers in various time-zones around the world).
Two more suggestions for @namesilo :
- please allow to set "dns server profiles", I mean pre-configured sets. Each time I need to assign or change DNS for a number of domains to lets say my webhosting company, it becomes necessary to type or copypaste my desired dns server names. It would be more convinient to have the sets of dns I use more frequently saved somewhere inside namesilo account, each set with some short unique name. This section may start with just one default "namesilo dns dnsowl" set.
Also, unless I missed or overlooked something, the following features are not available in namesilo dns manager:
1) Wildcard dns records: (*)
2) Wildcard forwarding: (*.mydomain.com)
It however has "cloaked forwarding", something that is in many cases incompatible with modern technologies in different aspects - frames (deprecated in html5), cookie tracking (may be unavailable if the site is opened in a frame), http-vs-https security warnings during forwarding etc. Anybody still knowingly using cloaked forwarding @ namesilo ? If no, then this feature can be safely disabled (or probably should be disabled)
The last but not the least, NameSilo may gain many new registrations and transfers just by adding a specific "ANAME" dns record type into its dns manager. It is a cname for naked domain. Yes it returns A record as dns rfc requires, but internally it is still CNAME. Many developers on heroku, amazon and other platforms are actively looking for this feature, and very few dns providers support it. Since this forum is not about such specific dns management aspects, I'll not post more details about this feature here, but a ggl search for ANAME will show why is this feature necessary.
I did not mean the content of dns zones hosted on your dns. Those temaplates are indeed available. I meant sets of dns server names "ns1.someparking.com,ns2.someparking.com" saved as "my favorite parking" template, "ns1.somehosting.com,ns2.somehosting.com" saved as "my hosting" template.We also do offer setting up your own custom DNS templates
I have a feature request not specific to the marketplace, but I hope I can post it here:
In the Domain Manager section, it would be nice if it were possible to include only the extensions that a customer owns in the advanced search field. As it is now, all extensions offered by NameSilo appear.
Thanks.
I have a feature request not specific to the marketplace, but I hope I can post it here:
In the Domain Manager section, it would be nice if it were possible to include only the extensions that a customer owns in the advanced search field. As it is now, all extensions offered by NameSilo appear.
Thanks.
I was just notified that the request you made has been implemented and should be available on the site already. Thanks
Even though may be convinient in some cases, such a change would be incompatible with normal security settings. Less sensitive info theoretically accessible from internet is always better. What if namesilo system or db will be hacked someday. Nobody is guaranteed. I saw no issues with filling bankwire details as bankwire form fileds (at least with my browser settings) were "remembered" and appeared immediately after 1 mouse click if I did not clear cache/cookies/whatever. I'd prefer to see no changes in this aspect.Saving a wire transfer payout profile
I did not suggest making it required for everyone to have a payout wire transfer profile on file. I said it would be great if we could have this option (i.e. an optional convenience for those who wish to take advantage of it, not a mandatory requirement that should be imposed on all users). For example, you can still enter sales listing details every time you list a domain for sale, even though we also have the new option of saving sales listing profiles. The option of saving a sales profile did not eliminate the option of setting up a sale every single time you want to do so.Even though may be convinient in some cases, such a change would be incompatible with normal security settings. Less sensitive info theoretically accessible from internet is always better. What if namesilo system or db will be hacked someday. Nobody is guaranteed. I saw no issues with filling bankwire details as bankwire form fileds (at least with my browser settings) were "remembered" and appeared immediately after 1 mouse click if I did not clear cache/cookies/whatever. I'd prefer to see no changes in this aspect.
Namesilo is very fast with implementing most if not all requests Your post might possibly be interpreted as an "upgraded" feature request without explicit "100% volunatary" setting, if not by @namesilo forum member - then by their programmers...I am not sure how introducing this feature would have any impact on your preference