news Will you be signing up for a paid Namebio membership?

[equity78]

Namebio rolled out memberships today, Michael Sumner announced it on the Namebio blog. A lot of new features: Sales Below $100 Search In Bulk Export Your Search Results Saved Searches With Email Notifications There are three paid membership categories Collector $10.00/Month 500 Results Per Search 2,000 Bulk Search Results 5 Saved Searches 10% Off Featured … [Read more...]

 

[vravis9]

I just copied the link and thought of opening a thread because it is everyone quoted source...

It is just done I think...

I will be interested in basic plan...

Interesting new feature sales data of less than $100...that will give some idea...

 

[MapleDots]

So many subscriptions now.... wow
My credit card gets hit over 30 times a month with subscriptions already.

I am much more in favor of a one time membership fee. This way you can evaluate the cost against the value of the service and decide if you want it or not.

 

[Brands.International]

The new feature "sales below $100"

hm, what this is going to be useful for?

 

[MapleDots]

The new feature "sales below $100"

hm, what this is going to be useful for?

Ok... you left yourself open to this one......

New gTLD sales

 

[equity78]

The new feature "sales below $100"

hm, what this is going to be useful for?

It will show some of the Emperor's who have no clothes. People who for years love to take shots at others anonymously who might throw out a sale they made, knowing Namebio did not chart sales under $100. Now more fact checking can be done. It will also be a secondary validation when someone like Mike Mann says he acquired a name for $20 on Twitter. Many a time I read someone questioning Mike if that actually happened and asked for proof.

 

[JudgeMind]

I think it’s great to have the new options available, especially the bulk search. Fees do seem a bit steep, there’s a huge price leap between Domainer and business

 

[Bob Hawkes]

It will show some of the Emperor's who have no clothes. People who for years love to take shots at others anonymously who might throw out a sale they made, knowing Namebio did not chart sales under $100. Now more fact checking can be done. It will also be a secondary validation when someone like Mike Mann says he acquired a name for $20 on Twitter. Many a time I read someone questioning Mike if that actually happened and asked for proof.

Another take on the inclusion of lower price sales data, but only for subscribers in the upper two levels, that Michael makes is as a way to early on see trends before they get to big bucks. In the blog post he uses a specific example to demonstrate the idea.

 

[D Haynes]

I won't be paying for anything. I don't have any paid subscriptions to any domain related services....

That I can think of...

 

[tonyk2000]

It appears that namebio makes money from advertising. With adblock technologies becoming de-facto standard for surfers, paid subscription (preferably with zero ads) is a natural development. It would be great.
Should namebio become 100% paid service, it would also benefit all domainers who are selling to endusers (as it would be harder for an average enduser to obtain unnecessary info - how much this or that domainer paid /wholesale/ for domain they are trying to purchase /retail/).

 

[MapleDots]

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Should namebio become 100% paid service, it would also benefit all domainers who are selling to endusers (as it would be harder for an average enduser to obtain unnecessary info - how much this or that domainer paid /wholesale/ for domain they are trying to purchase /retail/).

If I'm an end user I will not pay for namebio but to have the service not available to an individual doing research on a purchase would be a shame.

Remember domainers are only a small part of the market and nambio is useful to the general public as well.

 

[Furquan]

No, I am not.

 

[Brands.International]

Ok... you left yourself open to this one......

New gTLD sales

Witty comment

But, imo one should really distinguish what is reported there - for example, in case of new gTLDs, you will see lot of "sales" under $100, where venue will be Dynadot. This is because all of their expired auctions are reported there.

So what does it mean: when I like some new gTLD name and buy it (for reg fee) at Dynadot expired auction, you will see it reported there. Although you can consider that as "aftermarket sale" it is not really that: it is just that domainer is overtaking name from another domainer, particularly when we speak about names with higher renewal fees.

There are many more subtle things when it comes to new gTLDs and their reported sales, but I am too lazy to describe them today here. I wrote entire articles about it:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/re...re-still-comparing-oranges-to-apples.1107878/

GL with ccTLD sales

 

[offthehandle]

I think namebio should charge money since so many people trust it as gospel. Excellent news if an auditable, high integrity resource.

They deserve to become a source of accurate real estate comp’s like information. Up until now, I have been a pundit of data integrity and only considered it entertainment news and questioned it all because DNJ reports and disclaims that sales proof are exempted from certain “well known sources”. That or sales that are reported but questionable or even sketchy with parked pages, no nameserver changes, or non paying buyers will be removed.

So my assumption before publishing private large sales, such sales data to be included will ALL be verified through Escrow or third party verification.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/ar...s-accurate-or-even-true.1113246/#post-7011526

Their huge contribution to parsing out all the reams of data on the Shill bidding scandal in 2017 was done for free, and posted was never compensated for by anyone afaik. Kudos to them for offering a paid service, they deserve all of our support. I do hope with some sort of tiered pricing depending on usage volume.
As I don’t care about $100 sales or Ngtld’s.

If they charge a fee, I can only assume they will be self auditing for continuous scrutiny of sales that are reported that after they are published from auctions or reported on DNJ then later they fall through, with non paying bidders or buyers those prices are erased. This must mean the sales price integrity will be filtered and screened and fully checked. Great news. One thing would be a field declaring the sale as end user or wholesale. Probably not cost effective, but would be nice. DNW, @GeorgeK and Dotweekly all contribute to corporate sales data which is an important barometer of true sales value. @Grilled contributed a ton of work also in this subject as well back in 2017.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/another-bidding-on-your-own-names.1050978/#post-6443853

https://www.namepros.com/threads/th...y-no-to-shady-practices.1055604/#post-6485212

 

[Fancy.domains]

I understand that they want to find new ways to monetize their website.

However, personally I don’t think I will have any use of this service. So I will not sign up for now.

 

[BestDomains2828]

Namebio is a useful tool.
Subscribing for a service like namebio is not a waste of money and time.
I found out that businessbuyers.com sold for $25,000 private sale I was able to get businessbuyers.co
Much luck mates....

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

No

 

[frank-germany]

no

I think the internet should stay a "free" space of "like-minded individuals"
happily sharing the fruits of their programming capability
and server power
-they would pay for anyway-

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I'm somewhat torn. I do like especially the larger number of sales reports, the sales under $100 in top two tiers, and the ability to export results. The email notifications might be helpful too.

That said, it seems to me a bit high the subscription levels, especially for the top two plans that have most of the features.

I would like to show support for NameBio, but it is a lot of money for the scale of my domain operation.

Not sure.

Bob

 

[Name Trader]

It partly depends on the results per search, and how they are ordered. For $10/month you get 500 search results (which should be enough), For $25/month you get 2500 search results. How to get relevancy for the results? If you need to spend $25/month to get relevant results, which you might not get with 500 search results. When most domainers (I know) cannot afford the $10/month, let alone the Domainer Level of $25/month. Personally, like others, I think the pricing is too high. I definitely would not spend $25/month for Domainer Level.

Will there still be any free level. Or is it totally subscription now.