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Efty adds SSL to marketplaces

by Andrew Allemann — December 14, 2017 Domain Parking 0 Comments

Marketplaces can now be secured with SSL, opening up the option to have secure landing pages.

Domain name landing page service Efty has added an SSL option for marketplaces.

Customers who park their domains with Efty landers and have a marketplace for their domains can add an SSL to the marketplace. Here’s an example of an Efty-powered marketplace.

This is important because the most popular browsers (including Chrome) now alert users if they are entering information in a form field on a site that is not secured with SSL.

Bringing SSL to individual domain name landers is a bit more complicated. It could be done with free certificates from Let’s Encrypt but some engineering would be involved.

Domain landing page services tend to get around this by hosting the form on a main domain name. For example, when a user submits an inquiry on a domain at Uniregistry, they are forwarded to a contact form on Uniregistry.com.

With the new SSL feature at Efty, the company also introduced an option to forward your domain names to the corresponding page on your marketplace. If you add SSL to your marketplace and activate the forwarding feature, your domain landers with forms will now resolve to a secure page.

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Domain inquiries could drop next month. Blame SSL.

by Andrew Allemann — September 22, 2017 Domain Parking 25 Comments

Start filling out a form on for sale landers and you’ll see a “not secure” message.

Yesterday I wrote about how landing page companies are adding SSL support for domains on their platforms in order to meet Google’s deadline next month. Starting next month, domain names with any sort of user submission form that don’t have an SSL certificate will be marked as “not secure” in Google Chrome when people enter text in the form.

This is also going to be an issue for domain name for sale pages that have a contact form. A “not secure” message in the browser will surely lead to some drop in conversions. The message will only appear when someone starts typing in the form, but that will probably catch their eye. It would be much better to have the green secure padlock.

You might say “Hey, if they really want the domain, they’ll find a way to contact me”. But domain sales companies have worked tirelessly to improve the conversion rate of their sales forms, so dismissing this issue out of hand doesn’t make sense.

Most of my domains are parked with Afternic and Uniregistry, and both of these should be OK.

Afternic parked pages don’t have a form on the landing page. Instead, like many parking companies, they include a banner with a link to a form on a secure site.

Uniregistry is the same for standard parked pages. If you choose the sales form option, the domain forwards to a page on Uniregistry.com that has SSL. For example, go to Sweller.com and you’ll be forwarded to Uniregistry.com.

I also have a few domains at BrandBucket. These have a contact form and will be marked as “not secure” starting next month if someone starts typing inside the form. Ditto for domains at Efty.

SSL certificates can be obtained for free, so there’s a solution for these companies that will not require shelling out lots of money on SSL certs. However, it’s going to require some technical work to make this happen. I recommend domain sales companies get working on this. Fast.

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Accepting PayPal for domains makes sense but there are risks

by Andrew Allemann — May 25, 2017 Services 9 Comments

There’s no seller protection for domains but it makes the buyer more comfortable.

I saw that Efty has added the option to accept PayPal payments for domain names listed on its platform. I can see how this could boost sales; PayPal is trusted and much more recognizable to the general population than an escrow service like Escrow.com and Payoneer.

In a blog post, Efty wrote:

At Efty we do recommend using a licensed escrow integration partner such as Escrow.com or Payoneer Escrow for higher priced domain names but we also understand there are benefits of adding PayPal buy-it-now buttons for your lower priced inventory such as receiving instant payment for your domain name and allowing buyers to pay for your domain name in a matter of seconds instead of going trough the often longer, escrow process.

I agree with this.

Keep in mind that PayPal protects buyers of intangible goods like domain names but not sellers. So you’re taking some risk when you sell a domain with PayPal. Click here to continue reading…

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Payoneer gives free escrow to Efty users, half off promo for others

by Andrew Allemann — April 5, 2017 Services 2 Comments

Company makes big April push to win over domain investors.

Domain name sales platform Efty has integrated Payoneer as an escrow service and is offering a good promo to its users in April: all Efty users will get free Payoneer escrow in April when they sell domain names through the platform.

Separately, Payoneer is offering half off an escrow transaction to users in April. A $10,000 transaction will cost $62.50 rather than $125.00.

Payoneer entered the domain name escrow business last year and competes with Escrow.com. Although the company is relatively new to domain name escrow, it has been in the escrow business for several years and is also a massive payments processor.

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Efty releases “UDRP-safe” landing pages

by Andrew Allemann — October 6, 2016 Domain Parking 4 Comments

New options make it harder for potential complainants to show you were trying to sell a domain name.

Domain name selling platform Efty has launched new landing page designs that the company says will help prevent UDRP and INDRP (India) losses.

While not the only requirement for finding cybersquatting under UDRP, complainants often try to show that the domain name owner registered the domain name with an eye toward selling it to the alleged trademark holder.

Instead of saying that the domain name is for sale, the Efty landers say it may be for sale. Click here to continue reading…

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