Coming soon!

[fred]

Only 8 minutes....


... and then the site disapears and Ed runs off with our earnings? :mrgreen:

 

[NameDriver]

Ed's in Amsterdam... You can only imagine what would happen to the earnings :S

I was wondering if anyone would notice about the added time.... Though midnight is a fun time to launch something in a vampire sort of way, we realized it's probably a little bit better to actually be awake during a launch phase

Ed

 

[retired_member6]

2 minutes, I bet it's a naked chicken being taken up the harris by a Budgy.

 

[retired_member6]

all that for routine maintanance...

 

[retired_member6]

Now we're going back in time... what a sham. :mrgreen:

 

[fred]

now says -1 day, -1 hour, -1 minute - 44 seconds :mrgreen:

 

[bb99]

I'm going to get a cup of tea. It had better have appeared by the time I come back...

 

[retired_member6]

I got up at 5am Romanian time especially for this event, can I have my money back please?

 

[stevie]

Mr Blogs syas..

May 17th, 2007

We are pleased to announce Routine Maintenance.
After a sixteen day countdown, we are undergoing maintenance…

Clearly, a new website deploy can’t happen instantly, but our brand new Homepage with new products will be launched very shortly…

Mister B


lol -

 

[yesterday]

so its just a frig...g listing page.

yesterday

 

[retired_member6]

See, now you can all leave sedo because they're competing with you.

 

[fred]

Error

Please check your input for :*****.co.uk

- Cannot post a domain more than once each 30 days

 

[yesterday]

Is it a negotiation platform too or is just a "make offer" link?

Can't tell from the blurb.

yesterday

 

[fred]

Well, dispite the error, it does appear to have worked, domain is listed in my 'portfolio - ND Factory - Sell' list as under "Ownership Review"

 

[fred]

Is it a negotiation platform too or is just a "make offer" link?

Can't tell from the blurb.

yesterday

...

Park & Sell offers you the opportunity to sell domains to NameDrive's qualified buyers based purely on traffic value. Once you have parked a domain for a minimum of one month, you can submit a domain to Park and Sell .To do this, enter any folder in your portfolio, click the check box next to the domain you wish to submit and click the 'Park & Sell button in the grey bar above the domain. You will then receive an offer on the domain from our buyers. You can view this offer by clicking on 'ND Factory' at the top of the control panel. Any new events are logged here.
Once you receive an offer, you can accept, submit a counter offer of decline.

If you decline, the domain will be removed from Park & Sell.
If you counter offer, you will receive a new offer or it will be declined by our buyers.
If you accept, you will be contacted by a NameDrive representative who will inform you how to proceed with the sale.

Note to Ed: typo-> "submit a counter offer of decline."

 

[yesterday]

Oh, ok - great.

Some real progress.

And no commission fees?

That's impressive.

yesterday

 

[NameDriver]

Phew. Busy 180 minutes...

Hello everyone,

So the secret is out and I'm glad that the reception has been generally positive. I know we couldn't do everything everybody wanted, but we are working on those too.
Just a sort of collective post to expand on some issues.
- It is a bid/ask system. Any bids you make / receive on domains can be found in the ND Factory "Buy domains" "Sell domains" section.
- The spotlights are free for the first 10 days and we will do them as much as possible on a first come, first served basis, but as it is free, we have already seen some not particularly great domains listed... We had over 100 applications in the first 30 minutes. The first batch of SDs will go live within the hour.
- All listings will shortly be searchable / sortable by category etc.
- Many of the improvement ideas which were posted involved parking and this launch is definitely not a departure from that rather an addition to it. We still continue to work on improving our parking and there will be some very interesting developments in the coming weeks and over the summer.
- As well as parking developments, we will continue to flesh out this beta launch to include Buy It Now offerings, buyer/seller ratings, auction and a full scale listing service.
- All of this is non commission. We do recommend you use an escrow agent for bigger sales and we're happy to recommend various services such as escrow.com or our friends in Boston for this service.
- I hope the countdown was worth it, even if it was just for the fun of guessing what we'd be doing.

We feel that Spotlight Domains - soon available by RSS - really gives you a great chance to show off your domains to some of the top professionals in the domain industry for a guaranteed time period rather than momentarily and Park&Sell is the only market worldwide for domains based entirely on traffic revenue, so we see a lot of potential there.

I'm sure there'll be more feedback good and bad, the more the better in this case.

We hope you enjoy the new products and look forward to hearing your experiences.

Ed

P.S. - The typo has now been fixed...

 

[yesterday]

When will you do escrow? 150:23:59:59 ?

yesterday

 

[bb99]

Bit of feedback for you Ed:

a) Some of the names on the front page are a bit hard to read because of the underline (those with g's, y's, etc). Perhaps change the style so they're not underlined?

b) There's too many names on the front page, particularly in the spotlight. Sure, demand for places will be high, but I think it would be better if you had fewer names (say 10 spotlights) and made them stand out better. Less is more.


That's all for now

 

[bb99]

And another one:

c) Why not randomise the display of the domains in each section? So do keep them the same for 24 hours but change the positioning on each page view.