We added a simple API to access our domain services. So far, the only command is to search for domains. We will be adding a command to register domains, and a command to delete domains soon.
http://www.dynadot.com/domain/api.html
[This post has been edited by dynadot_staff on May 18, 2007 2:29pm.]
Once again the people who supply a large hunk of DynaDot's profitable revenue miss out AGAIN
Revenue parkers are VERY profitable for DynaDot. They take a good share of the income, they get free advertising plus referrals, all without paying anything from the parker's site - yet they don't recognise the spending from the program as "legit". I've spent over $700 with DynaDot (and by the end of June it will be over $1200) but they only recognise $250 of it.
We don't get bulk pricing and now we can not use the API as a result.
Poor form and it stops me (and many others) from moving more domains here.
Remember DynaDot -there is HEAPS more profit in revenue sharing than there is in selling domains. You make a buck or two from a domain sale but can make considerably more from your share of the revenue and the FREE advertising that the domain owner gives you!
To date I've had over $500 worth of revenue credited from all my domains. Your share is around 30% of the base revenue - about $220. That means it would take 110 full priced .com domain sales to match that profitability. This is equivelant to a client spending $880 yet that revenue is a one off, while that advertising revenue is for just 3 months or so.
For all the other good things you do - you become very unstuck because of this policy. Sedo worked out ages ago the money is in revenue sharing not new domain name selling.
It's about time DynaDot reviews this policy.
[This post has been edited by hekler on May 21, 2007 2:43am.]