Domaining.com update to fee based site

So glad to hear it.I always like coming here and checking out how the pros do it.

I paid the $25 fee. Since I use the domaining.com service on a daily basis, I had no probelm paying for it.

Nice compromise, Francois. I paid for the sub the day I got it because I think its much better and more timely than the checking my Google Alerts or rummaging through everyone’s blog to look for any good updates. It saves me time, and time is money.

Regarding the listing fee:
- All we want free promotion for our names for sale.
- All we think our names are the best: we rarely accept the critic and often overvaluate them.
- All we prefer make money with our unwanted names and keep the best ones.
For these reasons the result when you accept to feature names at no charge is:
Much more garbage submitted, with a higher volume that probably we could not satisfy and with unreasonable BIN prices.
In others words: More work, more members complaining, and less sales.
The idea behind the listing fee is try to refrain these negative points responsabilizing the domain seller.
Now between the theory and the reality there is a gap.
Probably the listing fee is still insufficient as I am obligated to cancel some listings and fight to have BIN prices decreased.
The next that is going to be implemented is a realtime calculation of domain metrics of the submitted name.
Basically the BIN you could set should be capped based on the domain metrics.
This I hope should allow to propose better priced domains and maximize sale chances.
If this happen then we could decrease the current maximum listing fee from $25 to $20 or even $15.

Jim,
you are right, maybe I should ask to the bloggers to participate in the payment of the +$200k domaining.com already costed me.
And maybe better, ask an advance on future expenses as it look likes it’s not tomorrow this service will have his monthly expenses financed (hosting, advertising, development and management).
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Most serious:
First, all the bloggers accepted, or asked to be present in domaining.com I did not added myself any feed without the full consent of the blog owner. Worst, for few months we are asking a symbolic $100 setup fee for new bloggers that join.
With bloggers it’s a WIN/WIN situation where the blogger get or improve his recognition and traffic in exchange of his approval to show his blog headlines in our pages.
Now as I am (probably too much) a “good guy”, it’s in my TODO list to find a way to share benefices with bloggers (I have absolutely no obligation).
But if some bloggers continue complaining or putting barriers every time I try to launch a financing idea then I can tell you it’s not tomorrow I could share any benefice (today we still not cover a quarter of our monthly expenses).
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I admit I start to be seriously tired of comments like your when I invested myself so much money, time and the only one that benefit for the momment are the bloggers.

Well its a good news bad news thing for me Francois. There goes my latest and greatest domain venture afterdomaining.com. I even dressed it up for you. Looks like u will survive and I may have to look for a ‘mystery’ domainer to market my now defunct website.

We all learn out of this Frank and Im sure you will benefit from what has happened moreso than others. Afterdomaining.com is really tounge in cheek and I hope you dont take to much offense, but if we take domaining too seriously and dont take time to small the roses and have a laugh at ourselves then where is the fun in doing anything.

I applaud you for trying to recoup costs for your website, hell we all try to do that but its unfortunate that on this occassion that strategy hasnt worked as you had planned. But you will survive and prosper and my now defunct afterdomaining.com wont.

Its obvious you are on a good thing with domaining.com, even the negative responses agree and in time you will make your money. I hope for your sake and ours its sooner than later.

Mick from Downunder

So long, and thanks for all the fish! This is greed. Have fun rationalizing guys.

There are too many great domaining newsletters, boards, and forums that would love to have any of us on their mailing list. There’s nothing here that can’t be found elsewhere.

Nobody has to PAY for any of this.

Fortunately for F, there are always fools and their money…

I am outta here.