Comments on: How SnapNames.com Killed It’s Affiliate Program

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:33:48 +0000

Look what Moniker did – I’m tickled! I put its Moniker Escrow link all over my site, and enjoyed a sale through Escrow, which record is missing from my Moniker account – not the balance! – but they changed the terms from 30% commission to – hey! It disappeared!

http://trademarketable.com/images/MonikerAffiliateFAQThen_and_Now.jpg

Found an old cached copy when Escrow commission paid 20%.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:47:03 +0000

We need to band together and boycott programs that do not have 100% transparency. If we are to do work for them then we need to have oversight.

By: Jarred Cohen

Jarred Cohen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:47:46 +0000

We’re gearing up to release our affiliate program at Bido.com
It will be lucrative for all who are on board with us and active affiliates. To be the first to know when its ready, please email me now and express your interest, at jarred@bido.com

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:24:34 +0000

@Francois,
Yes, Sedo is REALLY bad as well! I saved them for a different posting.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:23:03 +0000

Good point Sameh. Yes it could be a CCC and I guess I didn’t even think of that. It is hard to tell with i**.com. I will make an adjustment to my post as well.

By: pickle813

pickle813 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:17:35 +0000

Well, I just signed up with that program. Guess i’ll unsign now. Thanks, Mike Lee

By: Simon - The Domain Dashboard

Simon - The Domain Dashboard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:16:11 +0000

yes.. we’ve noticed a lot of issues with affiliate programs, that don’t look after the affiliates.

We spend a lot of time ensuring..1) we pay affiliates for lifetime referrals, and on a two tier basis.. so they get paid for any clients their referrals refer as well.

Making sure, you get the full enchilada so to speak, with transparency, trust and dialogue..

Domain Names are a growing market.. and working with good companies.. is essential.. quick changes to affiliate programs.. can kill a product/company.. especially when affiliates have manually inserted links in 1000s of places..

By: Francois

Francois — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:51:44 +0000

I have no experience with SnapNames affiliate program (just that Evan looks a nice guy) but I can tell you Sedo affiliate program results are not much better!
As a result I decided to shut down ClosingAuctions.com tired to earn $75/month for dozen thousands of hyper targeted traffic monthly. I calculated it was less than 1 cents per click for click.

Be paid less than 1 cents for a bid by a domainer bidding in a closing auction and generating bid war?
They don’t have shame!
I am tired to get abused…

By: Sameh

Sameh — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:31:02 +0000

Jamie, maybe it was ccc.com sale not lll.com

Let’s calculate it together, since Essociate stats says “EXISTING USER” then your commission was 5% which means SnapNames commission was $55.4 .. so the winning bid was $221.6

5% of SnapNames comm (your comm) = $2.77
100% of SnapNames comm ($55.4) = 20% of the Winning Bid
Winning Bid = $221.6

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:51:48 +0000

I have emailed and talked with Evan of Essociates a couple times and he is a very nice guy and helped with any questions I had. As with any affiliate program, they are a middle man and problems can happen. Snapnames reports to Essoicates and Essoicates reports to the affiliate etc. Sadly, the affiliate program happened to not convert for me when switching to Essoicates and using the system seemed to fail when I had a proven system already in place and working. Why you would get $2.77 commission on selling an LLL.com I have no clue, but I think it is pretty clear what commissions would be if you are promoting smaller dollar domains as well.

By: Chef Patrick

Chef Patrick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:19:39 +0000

I like essociates and have nothing but good things to say about their company. Unfortunately though, the new SnapNames program hasn’t been very profitable for me.

By: Belmassio

Belmassio — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:09:39 +0000

Almost every time a new company takes the reins of an existing affiliate program you can be sure they will squeeze the life out of it and you will be holding a bag of dust in the wind.

Thanks for the info on Essociates.com. Just another junk affiliate network to add to the trash heap.

By: Kevin M.

Kevin M. — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:59:01 +0000

With a new ‘payee’ now in the middle, I think it sums up pretty well as:

Somebody(s) ‘are’ getting robbed, and somebody else ‘is’ eating steak dinners on you!

..too bad..