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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
Any chance Payoneer or Skrill is added. Already Skrill is accepted by you.Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we are planning on allowing payouts for Marketplace sales to be made via Bitcoin and also company check shortly. These new options will be in addition to PayPal, NameSilo account funds and wire transfer which are already offered.
@namesilo It seems we can't list domains which are less than 60 days old in your marketplace. Why is that? For example,on GoDaddy you can list as premium listing as soon as you reg it. Something along those lines would be great.
@namesilo - Can you enable sorting by the "portfolio" table in the Active Domain Sales (https://www.namesilo.com/account_marketplace_for_sale.php) section? It's possible to sort by domain, expiration, payplan, remaining, private, offers/high bid, reserve and buy now - but not by portfolio.
Hello Namesilo,
Some more suggestions (no particular order):
MARKETPLACE
If an "auction" listing has a visible reserve, then allowing bids below said reserve should be optional (listing config)
If a "below reserve" bid is received, then it should NOT lock the owner from editing the listing properties. Some time-wasting bidders submit $10 bids, and what? They cannot and will never get the domain, but they effectively lock the listing from any changes the owner may wish to routinely perform
Please introduce pure BIN listings. No offer/counteroffer, no auctions. Right now this can technically be achieved by setting a listing where reserve=bin, but it is illogical. As it implies that the domain price may still be somehow negotiable, even if it is definitely NOT the case
If the listing landing page has just "buy now" button configured to be shown, without "more info" button, then the wording in right column (" If there is no price listed, that means the domain is for sale via either an auction or an offer/counter-offer sale. You can bid/offer to buy this domain using the "More Info" button") is irrelevant and should not be shown. No need to show irrelevant information to a potential buyer...
After the domain is sold instantly, it would make sense to change the dns to yours AND show "welcome no namesilo, please click here to manage your new domain" page. Why? Because, currently, the sellers dns settings are simply copied. If the domain was lets say parked with "buy it now" link to namesilo - then the buyer will see the same "domain for sale" page until they either change DNS or the seller manually removes the domain from parking/hosting company. So the buyers may be somehow misleaded
At this time of this writing, using namesilo dns for domains for sale on marketplace is limited to www+domain and "naked" domain with no 404 traffic. Anything else would not resolve (subdomain) or show some error page. Even though a vistor of an expired link or subdomain is less likely to purchase the aftermarket domain, enabling this ( wildcard subdomains and all 404 traffic) would not harm. The same may be the case for "market sites"
Please add an opportunity to export all listings with properties as excel or csv table. Maybe even more - for all registered domains regardless of their sale status
Please make at least forsale landing pages multilingual with autodetected visitors language (and up to the whole website..). Reason - just check public GoDaddys info for their shareholders, how doing this _positively_ affected their business
SEDO/AFTERNIC
Please add better integration with Sedo MLS and Afternic. I am unfamiliar with Afternic, but in my Sedo account I have for example the following: "Your Registrar Listing ID: (long code). Use this ID when you want to change your domain’s sale status directly from your registrar account. All you need to do is enter your personal Registrar Listing-ID in your registrar account and you can update changes at your registrar control panel. Of course, you can still continue to make changes in your Sedo account as well.". Moreover, on some other registrars it is possible to view/edit Sedo listing status even without said ID
DNS management and domain forwarding
It would make sense to allow wildcard subdomain configuration (*) records in all aspects including forwarding. A common thing indeed...
If a domain which is using namesilo DNS is manually pushed (which in most cases means that it is sold with no website attached), AND is using namesilo DNS, then it would make sense to reset namesilo dns config to "no records" (or to ask what should be done with dns config, and/or push with no dns servers)
(bug). Try to perfrom bulk dns change for a list of domains, where one domain (in the middle) already has the new desired list of dns servers attached. The system will stop on this domain, and the whole task will never be completed. Maybe fixed already, I saw this once but was too lazy to report...
API
Please allow adding of sub-users with limited access (listing commands 1-by-1). Reason: If want to set something namesilo-account-related on my VPS, which is not intended to replace my full namesilo login. Just something small... The VPS is accessble from internet, and, for security reasons, I do not want to have even a remote possibilty for my full-access namesilo "key" to be compromised
Miscellaneous
Please add optional "intermediary bank" filed into bankwire payout configuration. Some non-US banks do requre such a field, especially smaller banks that may not have direct corresponding banking relationships with US-based banks; and, in all cases, it will make $$$ moving faster between banks
Please consider introducing account levels - enduser, domainer, reseller. As a domainer, I do not actually need to resell anything. Enduser who just purchased the aftermarket domain does not need to have market functionality, and may only be lost in all the features available. This will also add some more security (bad sellers, etc)
Are you accepting amex cards for marketplace sales? If so, this increases chargeback possibilities. I heard that amex is the only card issuer that accepts almost all cardholder claims with no questions asked
If not already done, please consider checking visa/mc credit card purchases with "verified by visa" and "mastercard secure code" systems where supported by issuing bank. Something that is not too popular in US I think, but widely used in Europe etc. Reason: if the cardholder confirmed their online purchase with said code (which they receive by sms from their bank, or maybe a separate password) then they are not allowed to chargeback. You'll even be able to remove 1 week $$$ hold
for such sales if enabled
The last but not the least, please do not try to fullfill each and every request you see here, mine included Some are not compatible with each other any may not be compatible with your business logic. Which is fine of course
Thanks again for being one the best registrars around!
Any chance Payoneer or Skrill is added. Already Skrill is accepted by you.
@namesilo - When your landing page template first launched, it only showed the price of the domain. Now "Annual Renewal Price: $8.99" has been added to that template. I assume this might have come about due to the many different renewal prices and premium renewals found in the ngtld program? However, since all .COM domains renew for the same standard pricing on the registry level, this is not necessary info to display on the landing page. Can you perhaps let us have the original landing page design as an option too, by making it optional whether or not to display "annual renewal price" on the landing page for standard-priced legacy extensions like .COM, .ORG, .NET?
Thank you! I’m currently in the process of moving all of my domains over to namesilo, and once that's done, I'll shift them over to NS marketplace landing pages.Sure thing - there is now a "yes/no" option for displaying the annual renewal price or not on the landing pages.
Thank you! I’m currently in the process of moving all of my domains over to namesilo, and once that's done, I'll shift them over to NS marketplace landing pages.
Considering how well Afternic's standard landing pages + premium network syndication is performing, I’m confident that the combination of NS’s payment plan enabled landing pages, along with Afternic premium network syndication working in the background, will produce some really good results.
If an "auction" listing has a visible reserve, then allowing bids below said reserve should be optional (listing config)
If a "below reserve" bid is received, then it should NOT lock the owner from editing the listing properties. Some time-wasting bidders submit $10 bids, and what? They cannot and will never get the domain, but they effectively lock the listing from any changes the owner may wish to routinely perform
Please introduce pure BIN listings. No offer/counteroffer, no auctions. Right now this can technically be achieved by setting a listing where reserve=bin, but it is illogical. As it implies that the domain price may still be somehow negotiable, even if it is definitely NOT the case
If the listing landing page has just "buy now" button configured to be shown, without "more info" button, then the wording in right column (" If there is no price listed, that means the domain is for sale via either an auction or an offer/counter-offer sale. You can bid/offer to buy this domain using the "More Info" button") is irrelevant and should not be shown. No need to show irrelevant information to a potential buyer...
After the domain is sold instantly, it would make sense to change the dns to yours AND show "welcome no namesilo, please click here to manage your new domain" page. Why? Because, currently, the sellers dns settings are simply copied. If the domain was lets say parked with "buy it now" link to namesilo - then the buyer will see the same "domain for sale" page until they either change DNS or the seller manually removes the domain from parking/hosting company. So the buyers may be somehow misleaded
At this time of this writing, using namesilo dns for domains for sale on marketplace is limited to www+domain and "naked" domain with no 404 traffic. Anything else would not resolve (subdomain) or show some error page. Even though a vistor of an expired link or subdomain is less likely to purchase the aftermarket domain, enabling this ( wildcard subdomains and all 404 traffic) would not harm. The same may be the case for "market sites"
Please add an opportunity to export all listings with properties as excel or csv table. Maybe even more - for all registered domains regardless of their sale status
Please make at least forsale landing pages multilingual with autodetected visitors language (and up to the whole website..). Reason - just check public GoDaddys info for their shareholders, how doing this _positively_ affected their business
Please add better integration with Sedo MLS and Afternic. I am unfamiliar with Afternic, but in my Sedo account I have for example the following: "Your Registrar Listing ID: (long code). Use this ID when you want to change your domain’s sale status directly from your registrar account. All you need to do is enter your personal Registrar Listing-ID in your registrar account and you can update changes at your registrar control panel. Of course, you can still continue to make changes in your Sedo account as well.". Moreover, on some other registrars it is possible to view/edit Sedo listing status even without said ID
If a domain which is using namesilo DNS is manually pushed (which in most cases means that it is sold with no website attached), AND is using namesilo DNS, then it would make sense to reset namesilo dns config to "no records" (or to ask what should be done with dns config, and/or push with no dns servers)
Please allow adding of sub-users with limited access (listing commands 1-by-1). Reason: If want to set something namesilo-account-related on my VPS, which is not intended to replace my full namesilo login. Just something small... The VPS is accessble from internet, and, for security reasons, I do not want to have even a remote possibilty for my full-access namesilo "key" to be compromised
Please add optional "intermediary bank" filed into bankwire payout configuration. Some non-US banks do requre such a field, especially smaller banks that may not have direct corresponding banking relationships with US-based banks; and, in all cases, it will make $$$ moving faster between banks
Please consider introducing account levels - enduser, domainer, reseller. As a domainer, I do not actually need to resell anything. Enduser who just purchased the aftermarket domain does not need to have market functionality, and may only be lost in all the features available. This will also add some more security (bad sellers, etc)
Are you accepting amex cards for marketplace sales? If so, this increases chargeback possibilities. I heard that amex is the only card issuer that accepts almost all cardholder claims with no questions asked
If not already done, please consider checking visa/mc credit card purchases with "verified by visa" and "mastercard secure code" systems where supported by issuing bank. Something that is not too popular in US I think, but widely used in Europe etc. Reason: if the cardholder confirmed their online purchase with said code (which they receive by sms from their bank, or maybe a separate password) then they are not allowed to chargeback. You'll even be able to remove 1 week $$$ hold
for such sales if enabled
The last but not the least, please do not try to fullfill each and every request you see here, mine included Some are not compatible with each other any may not be compatible with your business logic. Which is fine of course
Thanks Namesilo
"Please add optional "intermediary bank" filed into bankwire payout configuration. Some non-US banks do requre such a field, especially smaller banks that may not have direct corresponding banking relationships with US-based banks; and, in all cases, it will make $$$ moving faster between banks"
This has been completed.
I meant both bank name and its SWIFT code of course. Only one text field was added for a bank name. It may be possible to insert both bank name and its SWIFT code in a single line, but still..
Hi @namesilo I have a query about the actual sales: if I buy a domain this way have I bought it from the seller or from Namesilo? Will my receipt show the seller and their contact details?
A name sold on Sedo is sold by the owner to the buyer with Sedo just facilitating it, and the invoice shows the seller and buyer.
Hello. We facilitate the sale so our information would show on any financial intermediary you paid with, not the Seller's.
But do you generate a receipt or invoice showing buyer and seller? Not that I need one, I just want to know how it works.
Would it be possible to add a “portfolio” dropdown selection tab @ the "Active Domain Sales" page?:
@namesilo
It seems that MarketSites down in the last 2 day (Mar. 18 and 19)?
We have been the target of a massive DDoS attack for the last 48 hours against a few of our servers that host MarketSites. We are continuing to work to mitigate the attack with our upstream providers and most traffic has been re-routed to other servers. Of course, as we do this, those servers come under attack so we will continue to provision resources to ensure as little disruption as possible. It might take a little longer than normal to load MarketSites in the interim, and we apologize for the inconvenience.