[Idea] NamePros Parking

[RegisterRants]

So...you have 10 domains at NamePros. You want to earn some NP$. What do you do?

NamePros Parking.

Its basically a parking page, with a cron script that runs hourly. It gets the revenue generated in the past hour from the domain in question, determines which user owns it, and adds x NP$ into the user's account. Just like NameDrive, except its automated and pays in NP$.

Example:

VARIABLE DEFINITIONS:
p-Payout
r-Revenue generated from the names
m-Modifier (i.e. percentage to pay out divided by 100)
e-Exchange rate between NP$ and USD (0.02)

FORMULA (EXAMPLE):

p = (r(m))/e

Something like that. If you wanted, for example, to give the user 5% of revenue, at a .02 exchange rate:

p = (r(.05))/.02

Assuming that r is...$5

p = (5(.05))/.02
p = 12.5
User gets 12.5 NP$ added to their account.

Just a thought :tu:

 

[shockie]

interesting thought, although i would like to see larger values of m, lol. i think to make it off the drawing board, the only major issue is to get google/yahoo to approve.

hilarious sig btw.

 

[RegisterRants]

Thanks...my sig is pretty good

Well, Google/Yahoo don't have to be the medium. I know that I personally would pay for an advertisement on something like this...probably other members will also.

Another thought..m in the formula could be random, if RJ were so inclined

 

[Morph]

A fully self contained parking system would be pretty neat. Users pay NamePros to have ads on parked pages, NamePros pays user in Np$ for clicks.

This could even lead to an NP$ style adsense, with external ads on sites generating NP$ for user.

Cool Idea JRB.

 

[RegisterRants]

I want 10% :hehe:

Just kidding...it would be nice to have a cut, though :lol:

Ah! Another idea...add another modifer that calculates if the user goes to NamePros from the page (assuming that a link to NamePros is on the page, which one would assume would happen), that both adds to the domain owner's referrals and gives them a "Referral Bonus", so to speak.

Another idea! Have some ads, and have some "Sponsored Threads" exported via a RSS feed. Thread owners pay NP$ or USD to have their thread added to a rotation.

:tu:

 

[Alex.]

i have to say its a good idea!
i spoke to the webmaster of NP geek about something similar a while ago, but i suppose itd be much more sensible to have it incorporated directly into NP!

np adsense would be good for webmasters too!

 

[JBebbington]

Great idea... -RJ- get coding we won't let you out till it's finished :lol:

This could be really great for the number 1 domaining forum on the internet!

 

[Matthew.]

I actually like this idea JRBHosting, consider this another + vote for RJ to think about

GJ :tu:

 

[RegisterRants]

Can a mod make this a poll?

I could code it for NP if RJ were so inclined...

*Pushes the rest of his work to the side*

 

[dhscott]

Not sure if its on the cards due to -RJ-'s involvement at 1plus:

See http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/256214-congratulations-rj-and-badger.html?highlight=1plus for what I mean

 

[Joey]

Sounds like an interesting, not to mention useful, idea!

 

[WiiSaid]

This would be awesome but wouldn't the value of NP go down because everyone will have it... Unless they have domain's that get no traffic :P Oh crap I have domains that get no traffic.

 

[RickM]

Something like this: http://park.npgeek.com/domain.php?domain=w0w.eu but instead with adverts that people pay in NP$ to put on there

 

[iNod]

I would have to agree.. I do not think RJ is interested in doing such a thing because of his involvement with 1Plus. It would not be in 1Plus's best interest to create another competitor in an already full market.

However I love the ideas thrown around in this thread and I see JRBHosting really wants to help lol.. Maybe abit too much.

You also have to add to your calculation administrator fees. Since this would also put a load on the probably already clogged server, so we would need another server probably or a third party server. In which case there would need to be some profit going towards the people who plan on managing/taking care of this project.

Than there would need to be a few members dedicated to Parking Support.. I don't know many support people that are willing to volunteer their time so throughly to get nothing out of it.. This is also in reference to the above paragraph.

What I am thinking is that this would probably end up being a third party service, seeing as how there would probably be atleast 1,000+ domains interested in this service.. That would mean with an average of 100 uniques a month there would be 100,000 uniques a month + the normal website views.. So lets say 120,000 uniques alone.. This would probably add up to atleast 10GB's of bandwidth and 1GB of space.. These are all estimates mind you.. So the website costs on another VPS or server would be around $30 a month. Meaning we would have to generate around 3000+ clicks with the admin getting 2 cents of each click making roughly $60 to divide amongst the server fees, support people, and overseer/owner/founder/dude in charge.

Than we would have to worry about click fraud and how we plan to handle that and the application process.. And lots more..

The parking idea is a VERY nice idea and one of the best I have seen. But I do not think it would be good to do such a program because of the lack of advertisers/publishers that wish to turn away from making real currency to making fake NP$ which can be turned into real currency, but if everyone parks.. Than nobody will buy NP$. Also we are limited to just namepros members..

Sorry to be so negative :/ lol

- Steve

 

[RegisterRants]

I see JRBHosting really wants to help lol.. Maybe abit too much.

Can never be too helpful

Than there would need to be a few members dedicated to Parking Support.. I don't know many support people that are willing to volunteer their time so throughly to get nothing out of it.. This is also in reference to the above paragraph.

You also have to add to your calculation administrator fees.

Keep in mind that the user is getting x% of revenue. The other x% (probably 50% or more) will go to the administration and/or whomever keeps the ball rolling. This includes support personnel, RJ, etc. etc.

 

[Alex.]

Also, in regaurd to 1plus, this could be integrated into their system, which would be very useful, and would possibley avoid having to splash out on another server, though i may be wrong.

I am not very knowledgable in this area.

 

[RegisterRants]

Another server...$60 per month or more. That's the minimum price I have seen around.

Potential revenue from this..let's just go with "more".

 

[RJ]

Yes, I am involved with 1Plus.net now. I've been talking with Ian about ways to integrate some of the services into NamePros. Perhaps a NP$ based parking option is possible thru 1Plus?

Another idea is to use our current NP Clicks system (or have a new, similar system) to serve incentivized ads on parked pages, giving the payouts to the domain owner instead of the visitor. The ads wouldn't be as targeted as you'd get from a parking provider though, but you could encourage visitors to click them unlike most PPC methods.

I like the outside the box thinking. :tu:

 

[WiiSaid]

Yay I can't wait to see what it turns out like I bet it's gonna be awesome :D

 

[RegisterRants]

RJ, If you need help with this, I'm always here :tu: