discuss Close selling threads from search engines

[Dmytro]

Hi all,

What do you think if NP closes all selling threads from search engines?

If I was a buyer, first of all I would try to find the value of domain name that I want to buy. Now these threads open for search engines and you can easily find the needed one.

Of course you don't have to sell the domain cheaper only because the buyer knows the old price, but it may be the beginning of psychological/manipulation games.

Any ideas?

 

[NickB]

Would be nice....but i don't think it will happen...

Edit
Have taken away the link as it was irrelevant

 

[karmaco]

If you ask the seller to remove the details from the title and the first post you should be good. Its the downside of buying domains here but most sellers will cooperate. Also ask them to remove that name from all platforms.

 

[frank-germany]

yeah indeed
and take it out of archive.org as well!


--- and tell us how you did it successfully afterwards ---

 

[karmaco]

Average person doesn’t use archive.org IMO

 

[Dmytro]

If you ask the seller to remove the details from the title and the first post you should be good. Its the downside of buying domains here but most sellers will cooperate. Also ask them to remove that name from all platforms.

Yeah I make always like that but you can find a lot of closed threads with open domains.

It's more like extra protection, if you forget to remove the name. or for people who don't know about that feature.

 

[Ostrados]

NP should not allow indexing on marketplace pages in first place, I created a thread about it in the past:
Simple solution to prevent google indexing

Mods didn't like it and closed that thread and refereed to this post as an answer:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/be...-index-by-search-engines.970956/#post-6420735

The short answer is that "the option to set a thread to noindex is in the to do list", and that answer is from 2017

 

[D Haynes]

I've not bought names on here (LLLL) because when I googled them the NP sales page came up on the first page of results. Not indexing the sales pages would be good.

 

[Lord Antares]

If you ask the seller to remove the details from the title and the first post you should be good. Its the downside of buying domains here but most sellers will cooperate. Also ask them to remove that name from all platforms.

No, that doesn't work. It still comes up. I tried when I saw this thread.

I agree that, ideally, marketplace domains shouldn't be indexed but it's how NP gets a lot of their traffic, I imagine, so they won't be willing to make that change.

 

[Internet.Domains]

I've not bought names on here (LLLL) because when I googled them the NP sales page came up on the first page of results. Not indexing the sales pages would be good.

Completely agree.

 

[wwwweb]

I know this has been brought up before, so what is the downside to wiping these threads?

They provide no content, so what’s the point of keeping them indexed.

 

[Lord Antares]

I know this has been brought up before, so what is the downside to wiping these threads?

They provide no content, so what’s the point of keeping them indexed.

They provide traffic.