A new alternative for parking .co.uk names

NameDriver · 22-08-2005, 05:47:52 PM

UPDATED 22ND AUGUST 2006.
Original post was 22nd August 2005, so no need to read anything other than the last page

Just wanted to celebrate a Year of ND!

Ed

Original post 1 year ago:

Hi everybody,

This is my first post on this forum, so, hello, it's a pleasure to be here.

My name is Ed Russell. I believe some of you may have dealt with me in the past. I was once Director of UK Marketing at that great establishment, Sedo. I have since moved on, and, I would like to think, Up.

I'm here to introduce a new parking service for you people in the UK, namely, NameDrive. It seems there is a glut of new companies starting up in this sector (not specifically in the UK, but parking in general), so I'd like to show you how we're different.
I have to say that, having worked for Europe's current #1 parking company, I'm really excited about this new venture with its great features and advantages over the rest of the parking programs out there. I'm sure you'll all be very impressed and satisfied with our service.

What we offer:

- The obligatory Google feed to ensure extremely competitive payouts. Additionally, we are currently implementing other feeds so that each domain receives the most targeted, highest-paying advertising.
- A team of domain parking professionals who realise that there cannot be only one solution for every domain parked with us. We offer you a choice of industry templates to customize the way your page looks, one-click and 2-click pages to match your domains' traffic and have more options in the pipeline so that your entire portfolio is not stuck with the same, static one-click parked page solution.
- Very much in line with this, we offer a service that no other parking company offers: If you park your portfolio of 100 domains or 100,000 monthly views for 30 days, then we will carry out a full portfolio analysis free of charge and advise you as to how best to monetise your traffic. We can naturally provide solutions for all of our recommendations! This includes, among others, professionally-customized pages for high-performance names.
- If you are looking to sell your domains, you will be able to receive offers on your domains directly through your parked pages and our site. No need to pay commission on your sales!
- The first 50,000 domains that park with us will receive a 10% bonus on their first 3 months' parking revenue (and highly competitive payouts thereafter, of course).
We are launching this week and are currently only taking private registrations, so, if I have whet your appetites or you would like any further information, feel free to contact me at ed@namedrive.com.
I very much look forward to hearing from you and hope you'll join us as we inject the UK market with a dose of much-needed impetus.

Thanks for your time!

Ed from NameDrive

retired_member9 · 22-08-2005, 08:02:32 PM

Hi Ed!

Well, this sounds promising.. I dealt with many parking providers and have not found anything yet which would suit all my domains and how I would like them to look.

I have not seen a decent parking provider who would utilize Google's feed.
SEDO does it well, but their revenue share is not attractive.

What is your commission by the way? :)

I am currently looking for a parking provider who would allow me to have feed
implemented on my site the way I think it should be done. With personalized design for every domain. Overture and E-spotting / MIVA do exactly this,
but with every big company their rules, demand and restrictions are far from reality.

Do you think NameDrive could offer something of that sort?

charlie · 22-08-2005, 08:38:35 PM

Good questions - also interested Ed would like to see your answers to vizzys points

Nigel · 22-08-2005, 08:48:52 PM

Hi Ed

Good to hear from you again. Sedo is a fine ppc company who look after their customers but there's certainly room for a little bit more competition here in the UK. It seems as if most of the major ppc providers (apart from sedo) have always concentrated on the US market which has left options a little limited for UK domainers.

I would be interested in seeing a sample site (as soon as one is up and running) and am also interested in commission share information as already requested. All the best.

Kind regards,

Nigel

NameDriver · 23-08-2005, 10:08:17 AM

Hello everybody,

Thanks very much for your interest. The replies here and in my inbox suggest that our concept has not fallen on stony ground.

I'd just like to address the issues that have been raised on here. I will write to all those who contacted me personally during the course of the day.

Firstly, here are some sample pages that we are currently servicing: www.animation.com
http://www.computadoras.com and http://www.b2binfo.net/

You may think that they are not the prettiest pages in the world, but we have consulted several of the world's biggest players in he domain parking industry and they are all convinced that the prettier a parked page is, the fewer clicks it receives. They are all very positive about these pages and I have to say that we are very happy with the performance of these pages.

This brings me nicely onto the next item: Customization. This comes in several forms. Firstly, we offer industry templates so that your domains in the travel section will have a travel header, business with a business header etc. This will be available for all domains.

The next stage is customization for high-performance pages: It is clear that, in a portfolio of 500 domains, 400 of them may perform averagely with the remaining 100 performing well, and in some cases, extremely well. It is therefore obvious that there must be a different solution for high-performance names. We will offer professionally-customized solutions for high-performance names. If anyone is interested and receives around 1000 hits a day on their top pages, then send me an email and I can send you an idea of what we can offer.

I think Vizzy may have been talking about customizing your own page and implementing a Google feed into it? Is that correct? This is something that we'll have to go into on a one-to-one basis. Obviously, implementing parking adverts on a developed site is contrary to the idea of a parking page, whereas, a customized parking page for highly-targeted traffic is well within our capabilities.

I will be honest here: Currently, we are offering a great PPC program with proven results. We are so confident in our ability, our team and our strategy that we will guarantee to match your portfolio payouts if you park with us for 30 days. If you continue to park with us for 3 months, then you will receive a 10% bonus on your earnings.
On the other hand, we are new and new internet companies invariably suffer bugs. We have a tip top technology development team and have done everything we possibly can to ensure that the site and member area works perfectly. Our parking program has been tested time and again and we are very confident you will be satisfied. Addmitedly, there may be times when we will have to ask you to bear with us when the gremlins hit. However, you really have nothing to lose as, if you move your portfolio over for the 30 days test (and free portfolio analysis), we will guarantee that we match your first month's payout, continue to payout extremely competitively AND pay you the 10% bonus at the end of 3 months! We really are that confident. Now I'm sounding like a washing powder ad... Seriously, though, we are extremely grateful to anyone willing to test with us and feel that you should be fittingly rewarded.

On a 'commission' basis, I'm sure you can understand that, as the only other major player in Europe with a Google feed, we are not particularly keen on saying an exact percentage that we pay out. I can assure you that our payments are highly competitive, without wanting to go into too much detail.

Now, I'm sure you're all itching to get going. We are currently only taking registration by email so, what I'd like from you if you are interested is an email to ed@namedrive.com with the sort of numbers of domains you would be looking to park and just a little bit about your portfolio. I know some of you have already written to me with this info and I'll get back to you before the end of play today.

Thanks again for your time. I'm hoping my posts will get shorter as time goes by! I very much look forward to hearing from you.

Ed

domaingenius · 23-08-2005, 04:58:50 PM

Hello Ed

Just out of interest, who is Gregory Manriquez ?

DG

rob · 23-08-2005, 05:11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by domaingenius

Hello Ed

Just out of interest, who is Gregory Manriquez ?

DG

http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Gregory_Manriquez

NameDriver · 23-08-2005, 05:37:56 PM

Hi there DG,

I can't say that was exactly the question I thought I'd next be answering on this thread. But, to answer your question, Greg Manriquez was head broker at Sedo and, after seeing the limitations in its and other parking company's services, set out to found a parking company more comprehensive than any other on the market.
Focussing on his credentials, despite including brokerage of some of the industry's biggest sales and praise from the highest quarters (DNJournal, would, I feel, take the focus from NameDrive's competances and what we can offer the UK parking community. Let me just say that he has built a solid team around him that is absolutely dedicated to providing the most extensive, dynamic, rewarding parking program possible.
I have to say that I am delighted at the response that the Acorn group has shown to our new program. Keep the emails coming and I'll keep showing you how we can implement you into our services.
Thanks so much for the support guys. Feel free to post your ideas on this thread. I work domainer hours, so am usually around to reply

Ed

NameDriver · 23-08-2005, 05:41:32 PM

LOL, Rob. I asked him if I was allowed to put that picture up and he professed it was the worst picture of him of all time.
At least no-one will be jealous of his dashing good looks!
You'll be harder pressed to find a photo of me though.

This is not it.
Not Ed

Seriously, though. Feel free to post any ideas or thoughts you have on what we can offer you, what you'd like us to offer you etc. We are open to any ideas whatsoever, that's the only way to go...

I look forward to it.

Ed

charlie · 30-08-2005, 08:00:07 PM

Has anyone taken a serious look at this yet?

Ed has sent me the details and i did have quick browse around but havent got time at the moment to give it the focus it deserves.

I've used sedo from the start and got onto them just through recomendations. I got to say that ease of use is the best thing about sedo. Personally i'm not into spending time changing my parking screens prefering to spend my time doing actual websites.

22-08-2005, 05:47:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
NameDriver NameDrive Staff Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 729 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (0% / 0)	A new alternative for parking .co.uk names UPDATED 22ND AUGUST 2006. Original post was 22nd August 2005, so no need to read anything other than the last page Just wanted to celebrate a Year of ND! Ed Original post 1 year ago: Hi everybody, This is my first post on this forum, so, hello, it's a pleasure to be here. My name is Ed Russell. I believe some of you may have dealt with me in the past. I was once Director of UK Marketing at that great establishment, Sedo. I have since moved on, and, I would like to think, Up. I'm here to introduce a new parking service for you people in the UK, namely, NameDrive. It seems there is a glut of new companies starting up in this sector (not specifically in the UK, but parking in general), so I'd like to show you how we're different. I have to say that, having worked for Europe's current #1 parking company, I'm really excited about this new venture with its great features and advantages over the rest of the parking programs out there. I'm sure you'll all be very impressed and satisfied with our service. What we offer: - The obligatory Google feed to ensure extremely competitive payouts. Additionally, we are currently implementing other feeds so that each domain receives the most targeted, highest-paying advertising. - A team of domain parking professionals who realise that there cannot be only one solution for every domain parked with us. We offer you a choice of industry templates to customize the way your page looks, one-click and 2-click pages to match your domains' traffic and have more options in the pipeline so that your entire portfolio is not stuck with the same, static one-click parked page solution. - Very much in line with this, we offer a service that no other parking company offers: If you park your portfolio of 100 domains or 100,000 monthly views for 30 days, then we will carry out a full portfolio analysis free of charge and advise you as to how best to monetise your traffic. We can naturally provide solutions for all of our recommendations! This includes, among others, professionally-customized pages for high-performance names. - If you are looking to sell your domains, you will be able to receive offers on your domains directly through your parked pages and our site. No need to pay commission on your sales! - The first 50,000 domains that park with us will receive a 10% bonus on their first 3 months' parking revenue (and highly competitive payouts thereafter, of course). We are launching this week and are currently only taking private registrations, so, if I have whet your appetites or you would like any further information, feel free to contact me at ed@namedrive.com. I very much look forward to hearing from you and hope you'll join us as we inject the UK market with a dose of much-needed impetus. Thanks for your time! Ed from NameDrive __________________ Email: Craig@namedrive.com Last edited by NameDriver; 23-08-2006 at 08:17:35 AM.

22-08-2005, 08:38:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
charlie Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: No fixed abode Posts: 2,592 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 39)	Good questions - also interested Ed would like to see your answers to vizzys points __________________ domains for sale: Cowrie.co.uk SEDO sites:iroses ichocolate sportsunderwear personallingerie Italy Hotels magazinediscounts

23-08-2005, 10:08:17 AM	#5 (permalink)
NameDriver NameDrive Staff Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 729 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (0% / 0)	More info on NameDrive Hello everybody, Thanks very much for your interest. The replies here and in my inbox suggest that our concept has not fallen on stony ground. I'd just like to address the issues that have been raised on here. I will write to all those who contacted me personally during the course of the day. Firstly, here are some sample pages that we are currently servicing: www.animation.com http://www.computadoras.com and http://www.b2binfo.net/ You may think that they are not the prettiest pages in the world, but we have consulted several of the world's biggest players in he domain parking industry and they are all convinced that the prettier a parked page is, the fewer clicks it receives. They are all very positive about these pages and I have to say that we are very happy with the performance of these pages. This brings me nicely onto the next item: Customization. This comes in several forms. Firstly, we offer industry templates so that your domains in the travel section will have a travel header, business with a business header etc. This will be available for all domains. The next stage is customization for high-performance pages: It is clear that, in a portfolio of 500 domains, 400 of them may perform averagely with the remaining 100 performing well, and in some cases, extremely well. It is therefore obvious that there must be a different solution for high-performance names. We will offer professionally-customized solutions for high-performance names. If anyone is interested and receives around 1000 hits a day on their top pages, then send me an email and I can send you an idea of what we can offer. I think Vizzy may have been talking about customizing your own page and implementing a Google feed into it? Is that correct? This is something that we'll have to go into on a one-to-one basis. Obviously, implementing parking adverts on a developed site is contrary to the idea of a parking page, whereas, a customized parking page for highly-targeted traffic is well within our capabilities. I will be honest here: Currently, we are offering a great PPC program with proven results. We are so confident in our ability, our team and our strategy that we will guarantee to match your portfolio payouts if you park with us for 30 days. If you continue to park with us for 3 months, then you will receive a 10% bonus on your earnings. On the other hand, we are new and new internet companies invariably suffer bugs. We have a tip top technology development team and have done everything we possibly can to ensure that the site and member area works perfectly. Our parking program has been tested time and again and we are very confident you will be satisfied. Addmitedly, there may be times when we will have to ask you to bear with us when the gremlins hit. However, you really have nothing to lose as, if you move your portfolio over for the 30 days test (and free portfolio analysis), we will guarantee that we match your first month's payout, continue to payout extremely competitively AND pay you the 10% bonus at the end of 3 months! We really are that confident. Now I'm sounding like a washing powder ad... Seriously, though, we are extremely grateful to anyone willing to test with us and feel that you should be fittingly rewarded. On a 'commission' basis, I'm sure you can understand that, as the only other major player in Europe with a Google feed, we are not particularly keen on saying an exact percentage that we pay out. I can assure you that our payments are highly competitive, without wanting to go into too much detail. Now, I'm sure you're all itching to get going. We are currently only taking registration by email so, what I'd like from you if you are interested is an email to ed@namedrive.com with the sort of numbers of domains you would be looking to park and just a little bit about your portfolio. I know some of you have already written to me with this info and I'll get back to you before the end of play today. Thanks again for your time. I'm hoping my posts will get shorter as time goes by! I very much look forward to hearing from you. Ed __________________ Email: Craig@namedrive.com Last edited by NameDriver; 23-08-2005 at 10:52:15 AM. Reason: Added Animation.com

23-08-2005, 05:37:56 PM	#8 (permalink)
NameDriver NameDrive Staff Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 729 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (0% / 0)	A little background info Hi there DG, I can't say that was exactly the question I thought I'd next be answering on this thread. But, to answer your question, Greg Manriquez was head broker at Sedo and, after seeing the limitations in its and other parking company's services, set out to found a parking company more comprehensive than any other on the market. Focussing on his credentials, despite including brokerage of some of the industry's biggest sales and praise from the highest quarters (DNJournal, would, I feel, take the focus from NameDrive's competances and what we can offer the UK parking community. Let me just say that he has built a solid team around him that is absolutely dedicated to providing the most extensive, dynamic, rewarding parking program possible. I have to say that I am delighted at the response that the Acorn group has shown to our new program. Keep the emails coming and I'll keep showing you how we can implement you into our services. Thanks so much for the support guys. Feel free to post your ideas on this thread. I work domainer hours, so am usually around to reply Ed __________________ Email: Craig@namedrive.com

23-08-2005, 05:41:32 PM	#9 (permalink)
NameDriver NameDrive Staff Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 729 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (0% / 0)	LOL, Rob. I asked him if I was allowed to put that picture up and he professed it was the worst picture of him of all time. At least no-one will be jealous of his dashing good looks! You'll be harder pressed to find a photo of me though. This is not it. Not Ed Seriously, though. Feel free to post any ideas or thoughts you have on what we can offer you, what you'd like us to offer you etc. We are open to any ideas whatsoever, that's the only way to go... I look forward to it. Ed __________________ Email: Craig@namedrive.com

22-08-2005, 08:02:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
retired_member9 Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 522 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (80% / 3)	Hi Ed! Well, this sounds promising.. I dealt with many parking providers and have not found anything yet which would suit all my domains and how I would like them to look. I have not seen a decent parking provider who would utilize Google's feed. SEDO does it well, but their revenue share is not attractive. What is your commission by the way? :) I am currently looking for a parking provider who would allow me to have feed implemented on my site the way I think it should be done. With personalized design for every domain. Overture and E-spotting / MIVA do exactly this, but with every big company their rules, demand and restrictions are far from reality. Do you think NameDrive could offer something of that sort?

22-08-2005, 08:48:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
Nigel Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 823 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 30)	Hi Ed Good to hear from you again. Sedo is a fine ppc company who look after their customers but there's certainly room for a little bit more competition here in the UK. It seems as if most of the major ppc providers (apart from sedo) have always concentrated on the US market which has left options a little limited for UK domainers. I would be interested in seeing a sample site (as soon as one is up and running) and am also interested in commission share information as already requested. All the best. Kind regards, Nigel

23-08-2005, 04:58:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
domaingenius Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,387 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 1)	Hello Ed Just out of interest, who is Gregory Manriquez ? DG

30-08-2005, 08:00:07 PM	#10 (permalink)
charlie Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: No fixed abode Posts: 2,592 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 39)	Has anyone taken a serious look at this yet? Ed has sent me the details and i did have quick browse around but havent got time at the moment to give it the focus it deserves. I've used sedo from the start and got onto them just through recomendations. I got to say that ease of use is the best thing about sedo. Personally i'm not into spending time changing my parking screens prefering to spend my time doing actual websites. __________________ domains for sale: Cowrie.co.uk SEDO sites:iroses ichocolate sportsunderwear personallingerie Italy Hotels magazinediscounts

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