Dub.io - A new tool for parking your domains

[Kevin Johnson]

Hi guys,

My name is Kevin, been following this forum for quite awhile, but joined because I wanted to share a news. I am a VP of product at Dub.io, which is a small tool that our team has been building for a few weeks.

We wanted to see if we can create a new (and hopefully better) domain parking tool. We've named ourselves "Dub.io" - nice and short. It works like this.

1. Sign-up and you will get a website - to which, you can of course point your domain to. However, if you don't want to, that's ok. We will give you a Dub.io sub-domain.
   
   
2. Once that's done, you can start "populating" the site with contents. This can come from RSS feeds, YouTube videos or just from the web articles. Dub.io takes care of automatically crawling these and inserting into your site.
   
   
3. Each content can also be automatically tweeted to your designated Twitter account (this will usually bring more traffic and also get you some followers). You can also set up so that it's automatically posted to Blogger or Tumblr sites too.
   
   
4. And of course, you can monetize it. Right now, we allow you to insert your own Google AdSense ads and VigLink code. The best part? You keep all the revenue generated from your sites. We don't take anything.
   
   
5. Each site is all responsive to different screen-sizes. We try to include a variety of media types like images and related videos so contents are more engaging. Right now, we are in a "testing" phase, so everything is free! We would love for you to come and check us out and let me know if you have any questions.

Would love to discuss via this thread or if you have any questions, you can email me at hello @ dub.io

Thank you so much for your time guys.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Hello Kevin,

I've looked through the thread and on your site trying to find an answer to a question (I am sure it has been addressed but can't find it). The question is: can we place a link to our 'for sale page' for each domain on the landing/content page or is it up to someone to use the 'contact us' form? Thanks.

 

[Kevin Johnson]

Hi @Mister Funsky

Funny that you asked. We temporarily disabled this feature just yesterday. We are trying to make it a bit better. Very soon, there will be an option for you to choose which will let you place a message about your domain for sale.

Will update once we enable this back on!

 

[Mister Funsky]

Funny that you asked.

After all, 'fun' is part of my name!

Will update once we enable this back on!

Thanks...good idea what you are doing. I'd approached a few people about building something similar but I am glad you beat us to it! LOTS of work and time to do it properly.

I look forward to trying your site out and hope you will keep the pricing reasonable once you have dialed everything in...it would be interesting if you could give the option of charging a flat rate per 'x' amount of domains with a sliding scale for every added 'x' amount or give the option to somehow share in any profits...let the domainer decide quarterly or yearly which route he/she wants to take...just brainstorming and/or braincrashing...long day here on the east coast...thanks!

 

[daica85]

I deleted my account on Dub last month because I can not control which information or which sources, websites that I want to get news. Now do you have those functions? I want to choose some specific websites to get their posts and I need to review posts before publishing to the public.

Cheers,

 

[Kevin Johnson]

Hi @daica85

I like the idea of "choosing some specific websites" - Let me put that on our list.

We do have "filters". Which will filter out posts based on a variety of conditions.

You actually can review posts before they are being published! It's in the "settings" > "contents".

Sorry about things are not being too clear or hard to find. We are working to make sure that things are more user-friendly in the future. I'll send you a PM to help you get going!

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@Mister Funsky

Totally agree with you. There are LOTs to do. Hopefully we'll get there. Definitely listening to suggestions on what the future paid plans will be. We'll make sure that it's friendly. But for now, we are just focused on our little tool so that it brings value! Look forward to hearing more of your ideas.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Definitely listening to suggestions

One just hit me...content (relevant content) is very important when 'parking' in this manner so can you make it possible for the domain owner to insert his/her own articles? One of my 'hobbies' is a freelance commercial/ad copy writer and it would be awesome for me to be able to include highly relevant material on some of my better names.

 

[Stick]

@Kevin Johnson I'm repeating myself, but I really like your dub.io platform. it's a nice, easy showcase for your domain. As to monetizing it eventually, maybe one avenue is sharing ad revenue (if there is any, natch, haha).
Anyway, one of my domains is for a 'future' magazine on AR Augmented Reality, and I thought dub.io could be a good way to make a sorta-site work. url is ARMagazin /DE
For some reason, there is a double- '..' after the www, so the page won't load. I selected my domain to have a 'www', maybe that is why, and a typo got in somewhere? I can't find a place to edit it though. Not sure if I made a mistake, or the machine - any insight?
thanks!

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@Stick

My goodness, what a terrible bug from us. So sorry.

Fixed your site's issue. It should resolve now. Will make the "www" prefix editable in our next release, which should be in about an hour or so.

My apologies again!

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@Mister Funsky

Funny that you say that (! I said that again! haha)

If you go to "settings" and "content", you should see a "Submission" tab. You can allow people to submit posts.

Let me know how that works out and if you need that feature to be more expanded then we can work on it.

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@Stick

! Nothing should take an hour.

It should be fixed now.

 

[Kpett]

Articles on all of my sites aren't showing - getting a
Whoops, looks like something went wrong.
message when you click on any article from either the main site or from a Twitter post.

 

[Mister Funsky]

If you go to "settings" and "content", you should see a "Submission" tab. You can allow people to submit posts.

Thanks for letting me know...I didn't see it.

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@Kpett

Sorry for that issue - was in the middle of releasing a fix on the previous problem. Should be all good now!

@Mister Funsky - I think we need to do better to make things more "visible". Working on it.

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@Mister Funsky

Just letting you know, we've re-enabled "selling your domain" option. You can enable this in the "domain" settings.

It's quite simple (or rudimentary) at the moment. We'll definitely expand it in the future so that you can make a more fancy "for sale" page. But this is a start. Let me know if you need any other help!

 

[Sudiono Muji]

how to change the keyword?

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@Sudiono Muji

When you login to your admin (www.dub.io website), you can click on "manage" for your site and you should see "keyword search" menu item under "content import".

 

[NitroJunkie]

Hi Kevin,

In the ad manager, when we are adding a specific ad code, it would be great if we have an option to enable it for only "custom pages" instead of "site wide". Is it doable?

By the way, I've just checked the "submit content" section and it now accepts pictures as well, it was text only before. It was in my mind to bring it to your attention, you beat on that.

 

[Kevin Johnson]

@NitroJunkie Let me look into that site wide ad thing. I think we might allow custom pages to also add individual ad components. Will get back to you on that one.

 

[Sudiono Muji]

@Sudiono Muji

When you login to your admin (www.dub.io website), you can click on "manage" for your site and you should see "keyword search" menu item under "content import".

Yes, thank you very much kevin