opinion What Does The Domain World Need? (That we don't have now)

[Bob Hawkes]

Looking for creative ideas. What service, product, etc. would you like to see that does not currently exist in the domain world?

I am thinking of doing an article that would be a compilation of several ideas. If I mention your idea, I would, of course, credit you for proposing it.

Looking forward to your ideas!

Thanks,
Bob

 

[topdom]

1. A landing page with "contact owner" option, just like Epik's landing page, but the company
offering this service should have no interest in domain business, and not try to steal leads, by hiding contact info, and IP of potential buyers. .. Also , if this is done via nameserver change, then, email forwarding option should exist.

2. Expiration date for prices. Also sorting domains by add date, and price , should be possible.

3. At Sedo contact info of sellers should be hidden at all times, or at least, until payment is made.
Same for others of course, if they are making the same mistake.

4. Buyers go to their registrars, their registrars offer backorder, if accepted then an agent play both sides and try to make 2 separate deals, which could mean, low selling price, and killed sale (similar problem for buyer also).
Instead I propose a discount-coupon method, which would give the agent a sure way to make profit, but without
trying to screw both sides. Buyer would get a trackable coupon from the agent, but given to him by domain owner, and when applied , price drops, and agent takes his money from remaining profit of the seller. Also such a thing, can be used to make people do outbounding for someone else's domain.

 

[Bean]

Not strictly domains but I would love to be able to sell websites as easily as domains.
Transferring the entire website to the buyer would be as simple and painless as pushing the domain name to the buyer's account and everything attached to the domain like code, files, hosting account would get transferred automatically.

 

[satsdifference.com]

np still secret elite tops
put 'em up
who owns what, and circulate
for me, i can't wait on a .com filipinofood another 23 years..

 

[Altetra]

Domaining world needs more sales, the current situation is more into registry/registrars favor, all this forums in reality might be another of their tools, to generate more regs from newbies.
Look who make sales, probably they work for Godaddy, Google and other registrars, therefore they own millions of domains, their small sales is from that huge pile but different users.
Yes I m happy to own top keywords combos in com, but what use from them if there are no sales (?).

We need end users to buy from us simple domainers, so they not buy only from big beasts of Domaining industry like Godaddy, simple as that.
IMO

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

Understanding

Accountability

Integrity

If we can create and develop sales based off the above ^ we could generate never before seen value in the domain industry

Too many people in this industry lack the above ...

 

[satsdifference.com]

if there was domain trading up for grabs, escrow, my 5 .coms for your 1 .com offers), acceptable names would then circulate as popular like 80s baseball cards barter trade (instead of holding on to filipinofood.com for 23 years/endusers)

 

[HDmarketing]

A tool where I can paste a list of, let's say, 150 .com domains, and see what other extensions are developed, for each name.

ExpiredDomains has that feature.

https://member.expireddomains.net/tools/bulk-domain-search/

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Some more new gTLDs for us to argue about.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

ExpiredDomains has that feature.

https://member.expireddomains.net/tools/bulk-domain-search/

The paste in list is really helpful, and it will show which domains with those names are registered and listed, but does it show which ones are developed? Maybe I am just missing something. I mean I guess you could use some of the SEO parameters like links to probably detect which are developed, but I don't see a direct way to do it.

 

[CraigD]

I dont think we need anything that doesn't already exist.

Its a simple business of buying, holding, renewing and selling for the right price via existing marketplaces.

Keep it sweet and simple. IMO.

 

[td11]

Domain name marketplaces don't have an app. An app would be useful. In the app you can also chat with potential interested parties to close a deal faster.

 

[dncafe]

Not strictly domains but I would love to be able to sell websites as easily as domains.
Transferring the entire website to the buyer would be as simple and painless as pushing the domain name to the buyer's account and everything attached to the domain like code, files, hosting account would get transferred automatically.

"hosting account would get transferred automatically."

Most people will already have their own hosting account and wont want to switch to the existing sites hosting.

Personally I don't like any of the automated website transfer tools or export plugins you will find in Wordpress.

When I buy a website I want a ZIP file of all the files with the SQL database file in it. I don't want to use any kind of migration tool.

We do need another website marketplace though, as Flippa sucks

 

[Bean]

"hosting account would get transferred automatically."

Most people will already have their own hosting account and wont want to switch to the existing sites hosting.

Personally I don't like any of the automated website transfer tools or export plugins you will find in Wordpress.

When I buy a website I want a ZIP file of all the files with the SQL database file in it. I don't want to use any kind of migration tool.

We do need another website marketplace though, as Flippa sucks

Experienced webmasters will for sure have their own hosting accounts.
I should've mentioned I mostly sell low value websites (low to mid xxx) to be newbies who just want to experiment with having their own site. They generally have very little technical knowledge, most don't really know what hosting accounts are or how they work which can make the transfer process quite tricky.

 

[cooljub]

What service, product, etc. would you like to see that does not currently exist in the domain world?

A level playing field.

 

[DomainsGENERAL.com]

The paste in list is really helpful, and it will show which domains with those names are registered and listed, but does it show which ones are developed? Maybe I am just missing something. I mean I guess you could use some of the SEO parameters like links to probably detect which are developed, but I don't see a direct way to do it.

ExpiredDomains indeed seems to only show the number of TLDs registered, not developed. Maybe you can rely on the number of Archive.org crawls? ("ACR"). Obviously if archive.org crawls the domain, it means there is something to crawl. There is a question of what it means to be "developed" or not. Does a simple contact form, or a landing page, or a "under construction" page count as "developed"?

The problem with ACR is that it doesn't tell you if it's current or in the past (maybe the domains doesn't point anywhere since a while).

 

[NameFather]

I started WhatsApp "Domain Buyers Group".

If you like the idea, you can join and share the group.

 

[J.D.]

I'd like to see credit lines made available by largest registrars to high quality domain investors.

In-house credit line could be based on existing portfolio, past sales on platform, and purchases of domainer.
A registry like GoDaddy has the economies of scale to offer credit line based on the value of a domainers portfolio.

This valuation should be based on GD's "app appraisal" tool. They claim it is of the highest quality, of course you learn quickly even they don't value their own in-house appraisal tool as much as they claim.

Try to buying of their domain names based on their own appraisal tool, good luck

A credit line extension based on the value of your portfolio at their in-house appraisal would be innovative. Of course, this credit line would be secured by your portfolio.

*extension amount based on in-house appraisal value at a percentage
*avail to customers with proven track record of sales and paid for purchases
*limit credit line purchases to domains registered or sold on the platform
*portfolio is security against non-payment
* higher the credit line, the more manual the valuation needed

For example, say a domainer has 1,000 domains registered at GoDaddy, sold 20 domains over the course of time on the platform for a sum of $50K, made purchases from registrar of $25K over time, and GD extends an account credit line of $10K. As credit line is paid back, over time line is increased.

Just brain-storming.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Would want Afternic/Godaddy to allow listing of .in ccTLD.

As I understand it the reason is a requirement set by the .in registry that prohibits any company that is a registrar for .in domain names to also sell aftermarket .in domain names. That is why you can list them at Sedo or Dan (not sure if GD acquisition will change) but can't for example list them at a registrar marketplace. I don't understand the logic for the rule, but the resolution lies at the .in registry, not with Afternic/GoDaddy.
-Bob

 

[Cooldevil007]

I started WhatsApp "Domain Buyers Group".

If you like the idea, you can join and share the group.

Can you Please Share the Link of Whatsapp Group?

 

[NameFather]

I started WhatsApp "Domain Buyers Group".

If you like the idea, you can join and share the group.

Can you Please Share the Link of Whatsapp Group?

I think WhatsApp links are not allowed.
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