7 Things We Did For Domainer Income Members

We have had a tremendous amount of positive feedback since making our domain investment platform available to the public. Many people have taken the time to write to us saying thanks and some people have made some great suggestions as to how we can make it even better!

“great you are actually looking for feedback, most people don’t care.” – Samuel.

Well – we listened AND we took action after receiving your feedback. Here is just some of what we have done:

1. More Help !

Quite a number of people were overwhelmed with all the different analysis and metrics we provide. While we have descriptions of each column, people wanted more information. We heard you and have added an additional 21 detailed explanations into our existing help section.

2. Clarifying Expired Domains

Many of our Free Members were used to seeing the term “expired domains” misrepresented. They saw expired domains in the context of an auction! For example: a domain had expired and then they could bid on it. They were certainly not used to having a REAL list of genuine expired domains, that they could hand register straight away!

To clarify, it is updated DAILY with new domains. Each day we remove the old data and add new information about domains that have expired. Our aim is to give you the most accurate, up to date information, anywhere. You certainly won’t find any information on domains that expired last week!

3. Enhanced Checking & Data Integrity

We radically improved our existing “fake pagerank” checker algorithm. It used to do multiple checks to detect fake PR, but now its just about bullet proof! I love it! The other great thing you can do is exclude domains that have fake PR from your search results.

4. Enhanced Reporting

Aside from the typical accounting reports like YTD, 30 days, 90 days etc.. we have added some customized reports. You can how report on specific date ranges, as well as “all time”.

5. Keeping Track Of Your Costs – Including Development !!!

We have added the ability for you to keep track of development costs AND hosting costs. Both cost structures can be applied to individuals domains. Now you can see how much you REALLY spent on development!

6. Keeping Track Of Additional Revenue – eg: Product Sales & Affiliate Commissions

Some of our more advanced investors wanted to “separate out” affiliate sales, product or service sales, parking revenue etc… So that is exactly what we did. You can now enter all this information in and allocate it to a specific domain. Of course you can also report on it too and see your real ROI !!

7. Enhanced Portfolio Filtering

Its no secret that domainers can have very large portfolios. As such, some people wanted to have the ability to “cut and dice” their portfolio in different ways. For example, lets say you wanted to view a list of .com domains only, along with their expiry dates. Yes – you can do that. Maybe you just wanted to see a list of domains with a specific keyword or letter in them? You can do that too. We listened, and within 5 days rolled out an upgrade to the “My Domain Portfolio” section.

Summary

There are a lot more changes than I can post here and many more being worked on right now. The satisfying thing for me is that our users are REALLY benefiting from Domainer Income.

If there is anything that you would like to see, please feel free to get in touch. Of course, we can’t do absolutely everything, but we do have a very active development team and plan on continuing to grow and expand our services.

Domainers Go Wild

Two days ago we went public with our Domain Investment Platform. The response was more than we could have imagined. People have been pouring in – signing up day and night. In fact, I stayed up to 3am just answering emails and talking to people who called us on the telephone or jumped on Skype to have a chat.

The great thing for me personally is knowing that people are already reaping the benefits from Domainer Income. I’m not going to mention names, but I thought I’d share some things:

This morning I spoke with a guy who develops domain names in a particular niche. He wanted to know how to use Domainer Income to find specific keyword domains. e.g. weight loss. When I told him he could search our database of 1 million+ domains that are for sale/auction, and showed him how to do it in just 2 clicks, he was blown away. “OMG – there is nothing like this – LOOK how fast THAT is!“.

Last night I had a call from someone who couldn’t believe he could find and buy domains with high PageRank. He went crazy – REALLY over excited – it sounded like he was jumping for joy! He just couldn’t believe it! In Australia, we call it a eureka moment.

As I type this, its 6pm on Friday night – I just got off the phone with another customer who has 5,000 domains – he wanted to know if Domainer Income could help him track his portfolio. Absolutely! Excel spreadsheets are a thing of the past – we keep track of expiry dates, DNS records – the LOT! I think I just got him his life back!

I was also appreciative of the kind comments offered by people on Facebook and Twitter.

Over the past couple of days, *many* people have reached out and shared with me their stories and frustrations with existing tools. The thing is – I agree! We created this investment platform well before anything else was out there. Now the cat has been let out of the bag. We have raised the bar considerably and we are going to keep raising it!

Out of all the people I’ve talk to, chatted with and received emails from, one common theme has emerged. Its the the lack of information sharing in the domaining industry. People just can’t believe we have published the information we have on Domainer Income. In fact, pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to has said “thank you”. One prominent domainer (who will remain nameless) cautioned me that many domainers might feel threatened that we have “levelled the playing field“. My response was “too bad, so sad“. I used to have the scarcity mindset, but not any more.

One final example: one of our Free Members emailed me personally to say he would love to upgrade to the Professional membership and get all the analytics and metrics from domain auctions, as well as the portfolio management tools. In the email he said thanks for creating the Free membership as it gave him access to our Expired Domains database (which we update daily). He said that he is going to work his way up to participating in larger auctions. That was really nice to hear because I know $$$ can be tight for some people.

To see which membership is right for you, go here.

Getting Ready To Change Domaining Forever!

Very soon, we will be launching a new and exciting Domain Investment service. It will set the standard for the industry.

Our email subscribers will be given both advanced notice and priority. If you haven’t signed up for “7 Tips For Profitable Domaining” (see the box on the right) – do it now. Consider this advanced notice, so you don’t miss out!

For The Technical People

After 497 days of uptime, we are decommissioning the main Domainer Income webserver that has served you over the past 2.5+ years. For the techos  amongst us, here is a little “top” statistic for you:

The Domainer Income website will be migrating to the new server in the next few days. Fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly.

See you on the other side!