Order.com Looking For Product Feeds For Testing Phase
If you run an ecommerce site and would like to get your products on Order.com now is the time.
We are currently accepting qualified merchants into our database during our alpha-testing phase.
Order.com will be bringing flat rate pricing to our customers
- no more click fraud
- no more bid management
- no more limited catalog loads due to overpriced CPC costs
We will strive to deliver the most effective traffic for your products while keeping your costs fixed.
Accepted merchants products will be loaded into our system free of charge for our testing period (approx 2 months), after which we will offer participating merchants special discounts on our new flat rate pricing.
To Qualify:
1. You must be a direct reseller of products, no affiliate sites or shopping comparison sites will be accepted.
2. You must be able to provide us with a feed file built to our specifications as defined here – http://www.order.com/feedspecs.php
3. Your site must pass an Order.com site review for quality and usability.
To Participate:
Please review our feed file specifications here – http://www.order.com/feedspecs.php ,
If you would like to participate please email your product feed file or link to a feed file on your server in a CSV or XML format to — Shai AT Order.com—-.
ANY FEEDS NOT MEETING THE ABOVE FEED SPECIFICATIONS WILL BE IGNORED.
Fridges.com Looking for ideas
I am looking to develop the domain name Fridges.com and looking for ideas. Would be interested to partner up with an established business. If anyone has any ideas or know anyone that would be interested email me Shai AT Order.com
Moniker Whois email problem
Last night I was randomly in my Moniker account and noticed nearly all of my domains contact email address had a misspelling in them. I hadn’t changed anything so I knew it wasnt my error. When I went into the backend to change the mistake it showed the correct email address. I clicked on update anyway to see if that would correct the problem and it did. Moniker didnt get back to me until this morning when it was already fixed so they were confused at first but now are looking into it deeper.
This is obviously a major problem due to two things. One, potential buyers are not able to reach you for a potential sale. I have no idea how long this error lasted but I regularly get offers through the whois.
Secondly, if someone posts incorrect info in the whois I believe that is grounds to have the domain taken away. This is scary stuff, especially considering the response I am getting from Moniker which are basically blaming me and telling me I must have went in and changed my contact information. I did no such thing. I will await there response on this one to see what they come up with. I cc’ed Monte on all the emails.
If this has ever happened to anyone please share. In my 8 years in domaining I have never heard of such a story.
Takes.com Scare today
I realized that I was getting emails from GoDaddy that the name was expiring soon. I had neglected the emails because I knew the name was in my Moniker account and didnt expire until next year. There was some sort of GoDaddy glitch because it was previously registered through them but the name is safe in Moniker with Rick Latona for now and I can sleep easy tonight.
My uBuy Story
In 2001 when I first got into domains one of the first names I got which I was luckily able to register was the name uBuy.net. I remember thinking how lucky I was to get the name for less than $20 after it was previously dropped. I quickly asked around the forums for an appraisal on the name. A few distinct answers I can remember was that the name is not worth much without the .com. I quickly started looking into who owned the .com and noticed it was a previously publicly traded company but the name was no longer in use. I sent numerous emails to the owner which were never answered and found numerous other interested parties wondering about it as well.
I will fast forward the story to today and then go back. I received an email today asking if uBuy.com was for sale and if so how much. I quickly responded to the buyer that I own uBuy.net and he can make an offer. I can understand how a mistake like that is made by mixing up the .com with the .net. The buyer emailed me back and said he would be interested in the .net only if the .com was included. I thought that was fair enough and again reminded him that I do not own the .com. He responded with a link back to the whois which to my surprise stated I was the owner. First thought in my mind was that this was a huge mistake. I quickly looked to see who the registrar was and found it to be a GoDaddy reseller. I called them up and was shocked that they did indeed confirm the name was in my posession. I started to think back on how this came to be and started to remember something.
Back in February 2004, while I was still interested in the uBuy.com name I was getting deeper into the domain business and started learning about expiring names and how they work. I ran across a site that can backorder a domain for you in case it gets dropped and paid the $18. It ended up being this GoDaddy reseller who was now the registrar for the name so I finally realized what had happened. 5 hours later I got the confirmation that uBuy.com had been captured through this backorder service.
I am not sure what the chances are of this happening but I think it was very unlikely to say the least and I consider myself very lucky. I think uBuy.com is a pure generic premium domain name.
UPDATE: 10 days into my ownership of the name and its receiving nearly 100 visitors per day and I already have 3 unsolicited offers and 6 total offers. I dont really sell any of my names and would always rather develop. If anyone has any ideas or plans for possible co-development please contact me. That goes for any other name I own.
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