Update whois information – buyers can’t find you to make offers if it’s not
Update your nameservers
This article is about updating your nameservers, so why is it important?
When you purchase a domain name and do not change the nameservers, chances are the previous owner is getting paid for your traffic. That’s right, if the previous owner had the domain parked then they are still collecting profits from your traffic. Perhaps you are new to domaining and don’t know how to update this information. In this case you can simply contact your registrar and they will walk you through the process.
I promise it’s easy, if I can do it so can you
If you don’t care about the possiblity of lost money, maybe you should. It is very easy to park your domains and you have absolutely nothing to lose, especially if your domain names are just sitting there collecting dust.
If you did not catch last week’s episode you can check it out here.
No podcast for this week’s episode, again. Last week I asked if you guys wanted them or not and I didn’t get any responses. I’ll take a shot in the dark and say there is no interest or if so not by many. Saves me some time
This is a no brainer deal for Parked and a win win for everyone involved. The combination of WhyPark’s develop technology and Parked’s ad feeds are a great marriage.
Some quick highlights:
WhyPark and Parked will continue to run as two separate services
Craig Rowe will continue as President of WhyPark
Parked grows customer base by a little more than 3%
Parked already has over 4,000,000 domain names with their services while WhyPark has about 150,000 on their nameservers
Parked has one of if not the best ad feed in the parking industry
Here is the official release from WhyPark earlier this morning.Continue reading…
One quick note about the service, in principle it sounds good. In this economy people need cash, putting a domain down for collateral is a good idea. Just be careful with services like this. If you do not pay back the loan you will lose your domain name and whatever equity is left in it.
Here is the official press release directly from RickLatona.com. Continue reading…
Ironically enough I brought this conversation up with my Twitter friends last night. I received several responses all saying they are on the forums less.
Why do you think people are spending less times on forums?
I can only speak for myself but the main reason is the diverse crowd that Twitter brings. I went from averaging 8-12 posts per day on NamePros.com to 8-12 per week. At the same time I am at about 30-40 updates per day on Twitter. Twitter allows me to hold more conversations about everything and anything with short, to the point answers. Twitter has no rules. If I were to post an lol or something with no meaning on a forum I would be penalized and possibly banned. Plus the majority of forums frown upon self promotion. For the most part I am not allowed to throw up a forum thread saying, check out my new blog post. On occasion I will get away with it if it’s a valuable post.
There are days that I want to have my domainer conversations. I can still do that with Twitter. Whatever type of comment I put out will dictate the people that respond. If I talk about a TV show that I like, I get responses from my fellow TV viewers. The same works for talking about domain names.
Not to be negative but I really can’t think of too many reasons for a forum. One possible reason, at least for the domain industry, would be domain sales. Other than that all conversations could be held on Twitter and any articles housed on individual blogs. Now having said that I still plan on being a part of a forum or two. I do enjoy reading some threads and chatting with the members. Not all of them are on Twitter.
One last thing, all of my references above have been about public forums. There are too many reasons why a private forum is different, that is an entirely different subject.
What do you think, do you spend less time on forums and why?
