What can DNZoom do for you? As a buyer or as a seller, what issues do you face which we may be able to help? As a portfolio owner, what features could we add to DNZoom that would make your life easier?
To make this worth your time we’re offering USD 1,000.00 for what we think is the best concept submitted within the next ten days.
Rules:
1. When submitting your concept to this contest, you must have a DNZoom account with at least 20 domains under management (we will verify this at end of contest)
2. Your concept must be submitted in this thread (”Comments Area”) within the next ten days (contest ends March 16th 10 EST)
Recommended: Before submitting your ideas to this thread please spend at least 20-30 minute exploring the current features in your DNZoom account so you can better advise us on what needs to be improved or added
Notes
1. We may adjust rules of contest during contest as we hear contest feedback.
2. The contest is meant to help us build a better domain management platform for you. In addition to choosing a winner (which we may use his/her concept to enhance DNZoom), for any concept submitted that we decide to adopt we will reward the creator USD 500.00
Good luck, and thanks in advance for participating!
Sahar
Never have to believe a screen-shot again. Give a user the ability to share a READ-ONLY view of domain statistics with a potential buyer.
Cool contest!
Lets get the ball rolling here.
These are a few suggestions in no particular order:
1. Have active offers with expiration dates or without expiring. I have seen way too often in the domain forums how sellers of the domain claim that they once received a “$x,xxx”? offer for the domain once. Well, make this process transparent. I want to buy xyz.com, I give them a $xx,xxx offer that will expire in 2 months. I give them a $xx,xxx minus $x,xxx offer that will never expire. This offer is visible - it is active. Other buyers can see the active offers on the domain. The seller can choose to execute the sale based on these active offers any time they want.
This adds value to the market by establishing floors on demand for domains. This further increases the amount of data available for calculating the value of comparable domains. Active offers by reputable buyers could even serve as collateral for the owner of the domain to take out a loan.
2. Expiration dates for domains should be active. By this, I mean that there should be buttons for me to click on and have it add the date to my calendar. Palm, Google, Outlook. This way, as I search for domain names, I can click on this active link and instantly integrate it into my calendar system which will remind me when that domain is going to expire.
Furthermore, you could have a paid service of receiving an SMS alert when a domain is close to or has expired.
3. Group data on an industry and provide a perspective to domainers on how well they are performing on their monetization. (OK this is a bit hard to do) But imagine if I was in the “travel”? industry. How are my travel domains performing relative to the entire pool of travel related domain names? Which parking service is performing best for that industry. Perhaps lead generation by xyz parking company is proving to be more lucrative in this industry. Perhaps it is Cost Per Click by abc company.
4. On that same note, let domain holders know when specific industry domains are being sold. If I have a strong portfolio on “car”? domains, it is more likely that I will pay a premium for a domain related to “cars”?, because among other reasons, I have a multiplier effect in income when I hold many domains from one industry. So, identify or ask domain holders which industries they are interested in, and notify them when a domain has been put on sale or expiring auction.
5. Transparency on traffic and revenues! Offer the option to share certified income reports and/or traffic with prospective buyers, or simply to share it in a public space. If publicly shared, then integrate it into the whole search experience. This way, people can search the whois and see the field for traffic and revenue of that domain. Or search by traffic and/or revenue. Buyers can then make their offers in the style of Suggestion #1.
6. Open is the new black! Once you have gathered enough data, put it out to the world in the form of APIs. This will make the industry stronger, unleashing valuable data for bright minds that want to build applications we haven’t even imagined.
I hope many of you choose to participate in this contest and make this industry better.
I like what I see but I truly want it to be my dashboard to monitor all my domains.
Allow the displaying of IDN names in native language.
Here are some feature I would like to see.
1) Currently, DNZoom allows only 25 domains from DirectI account to be imported. (I have 200 domains with them wont let me import all) (Existing Bug)
2) Allow import of folders from Namedrive or any other parking service.
3) Show Summary of earning from each Parking company.
4) Show earning/vistors only for top 5 domains in the dashboard, but allow for drill down to show all domains.
5) Provide alerts on expiring domains on the Dashboard.
6) Allow monitoring of keywords and list the expiring names for keyword or criteria match.
7) a) Import the for sale info of the members domain from sedo/other providers.
For Criteria being monitored, provide the list of domains listed in Dnzoom with stats and earnings.
9) Allow Customization of what can be seen on the first page of the Dashboard.
10) For parked domains, reports which would show ytd income will help user decide keep it or drop it.
Another service I would like to recommend is the Domain Custodial service.
Allow defining Secondary Person on the accounts.
In most case the domainer’s spouse or significant other have no clue about the domain value and how it works.
In the event of death of the domainer. The spouse can contact DNZoom for their recommendation for a nominal fee and DNZoom can further help the spouse/significant other to liquidate the holdings for upto 20% of the sale value.
Thanks for participating guys. Some good ideas so far.
Good luck,
Sahar
Dear Sahar and the rest of the DNZoom Team,
I would like to see DNzoom expand beyond domain parking services and become the leader in domain monetization reporting. A great feature addition I would love would be if you could integrate API for adsense. It would be such a big help if I could see in one place how much revenue my sites generate per day, month, etc. It really would be nice to see how my built out adsense domains do against some of my nice parked domains. This would also give me another supporting document to help sell a domain or portfolio of domains.
Parking domains is great, but building domains out with your own unique content is better. I got so frustrated with how my parking accounts were under performing that I took control of my domains and built the sites out on my own. Revenue increased 100 fold in some cases, but now I don’t have the nice and clean reporting.
Best Regards and Good luck to all that participate!
DnZoomer Jeff
Ravi,
The directi integration has been fixed. We worked with them last week to get the API call corrected. Sorry for the issue.
Dan
Here are my BIDO and/or DNZoom Ideas.
1) BIDO IDEA: Have a contest everyday to guess the winning bid for the auctioned domain. First to guess closest to the winning bid wins. Sort of a domain name fantasy league. This would give many more domainers a vested interest in the outcome of the auction. It might also provide some market intelligence for the prospective actual auction participants to look at when purchasing the name. The daily prize could be sponsored by a Domainer type organization. Ex: 1 Free domain a day provided by the Sponsoring Registrar. If you publish the name (online name) of the Fantasy Bidders you also give the bidder an incentive to be more accurate in their estimates. Also, you might have a long term contest “Most Accurate Fantasy Player” over the past months auctions would win an even larger prize. This would prevent “junk” guesses that would cloud the accuracy of the fantasy market and prevent the fantasy player from winning the “big” prize.
2) DNZoom IDEA: Some of my domain names that I would like to keep track of in DNZoom are developed sites. I would like to also check my Affiliate marketing payouts, similar to managing my PPC revenues. You would need an API to Linkshare, Performix, Commission Junction, Amazon… . This would broaden the market for the DNZoom tool to Affiliate Marketers and also hedge against the possibility that PPC revenues may drop to the point that development is the most efficient monetization option for domainers. By adding this feature now, you would already have in place the tools they would desire to track these other revenue stream.
I hope this help.
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Great ideas, thanks!
Sahar
Sahar,
Would suggest that you move the contest end date to Mar 31st.
In addition, make this article to appear as the 1st post.
Did any idea get choosen as the winner?
Jeff Blum
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Yes but we did not yet announce it. We will announce soon.
Sahar
I already would be happy if my expiration dates dont show as UNKNOWN.
What could be improved:
1. A delete all domains feature (currently only per page)
2. If someone changes parking co. (and nameservers) dnzoom should update parking status automatically, same for a registrar change,
generally I dont see anytime any whois info were updated
If you dont update regularly I can go ahead with any software.
3. Portfolio: Domains expire in 30 to 60 days view (and so on) does not work), it just shows the domains that were after initial upload deleting in such a period
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Thanks for the feedback. We’re aware of these issues and will fix ASAP, may take a couple of weeks though as there are currently other issues with higher priority.
Cheers
Sahar