It definitely too bad to see that all of this knowledge and communication from numerous different members is gone, but it doesn't mean the communication has to stop moving forward. We do have our forum at
WhyPark Forum - Powered by vBulletin, which I'm working to revamp, but the NamePros discussions help to bring in new users who wouldn't otherwise been a customer. It's definitely a shame to see a 172 page forum disappear overnight though.
To happier news, we have a new contest we're running with Chef Patrick to win a new Amazon Kindle or Netbook. Details are here on our blog:
WhyPark Domain Parking Blog: WhyPark September Contest: Win an Amazon Kindle or Netbook Computer and this is open to new and old customers. So, if you were on the fence about moving domains over, this should give you an extra incentive.
As Stephen mentioned, we're definitely not a magic platform that will generate riches overnight for you. What we do have though is a refined set of tools to help you mass develop your domains in a scalable environment and pull in top-tier monetization on those sites as well. It's still a site though and it has to play by all of the same rules as traditionally developed sites. You need quality incoming links and adding custom content will always help too.
Samit - I've answered your questions below...
3. I still haven't figured out how to add incoming rss feeds and am a little confused where the posts from these feeds do display on site.
>>>> When adding or editing a domain, you'll see the field for incoming RSS feed. Add the feed's URL there and we'll pull in the contents on a scheduled basis. In the layout, make sure that you have the placeholder where you want the feeds to be shown. That's done with the [[rssfeed-in]] placeholder. Many of the older templates don't have this in place by default.
4. Unlike other people, I have found that the minisites DO NOT get auto indexed, you still have to submit them to search engines and other indexing systems.
>>>> Getting high quality links is still important. Once you get even one or two good links from sites that also get indexed frequently, you'll see the spiders starting to crawl. It's still important to keep building new incoming links and that's one of the nice things about having a real site online instead of a parked page. You can attract new incoming links, use a small amount of link exchanges with quality partners and submit to quality directories.
5. Some exotic cctld minisites don't get indexed at all, even after submission.
>>>> A lot of that goes back to the links again, but search engines also take the tld into consideration, especially if you're running an english site on a TLD not normally for English sites. I've seen just about everything get indexed, but a co.uk is still going to likely perform better on google.co.uk than google.com.
6. Whypark support is excellent, usually someone there within your control panel's right sidebar to answer questions and handle support immediately.
>>>> Thanks!
7. Its an easy way to mass develop, though managing 100s of domains is not as easy as it could be, the user GUI could be streamlined a lot further. Also reporting could be made more granular.
>>>> The old NamePros forum was just starting to discuss different ways we could make bulk editing a bit easier on things like text links and general site settings. Hopefully we can continue discussing that. Reporting is something that we'll continue to enhance as well.
8. I'd love to have a system to add 100s of links to each site so that the sites can link to each other, but there isn't any 'text block' above the footer to do the same.
>>>> Text links seem to be the one area where people are always asking for better ways to bulk manage them. You can link to other sites you own, but it would be through using the text link section on each domain. I would recommend not getting carried away on inter-linking your domains though, or you'll look like a mini-net to search engines. If you want to push traffic between related domains, I'd recommend adding a short custom page that has new content and talks about the subject of the other domain, and then include a link at the end of the page to your other site. You'll also likely drive more traffic that way.
Well, I hope we can keep this thread active and see the same level of contributions that were in the past thread. It's certainly been an interesting month on NamePros.
Craig