NameDrive has a new feature, where you can add a custom sales link URL to ALL your parked domains at once!

The new feature can be found on the user options page.
Login —> My Account —> User Options

If you scroll down, you will see it in the Parking options.
- Custom For Sale Link URL and
- Custom For Sale Link Text

The idea is to direct any sales enquiries to a specific page you have set up, like http://www.mydomains.com.

You can, however, use a more complex url like http://www.mydomains.com/specificdomain.com. In order to do this, you will use the variable [domain_name] in the link. The link format will be http://www.mydomains.com/[domain_name], or http://www.yoursite.com/domainsforsale.php?domain=[domain_name].

Next you will put in place a nice PHP script with information on each domain and sales price. Now, let the review process go, ND will visit your page and you’ll get the approval of the url!

Now this is where things start to get interesting because you can now, make “some” changes on your side.

First, add a nice .htaccess RewriteRule, to change

http://www.yoursite.com/domainsforsale.php?domain=sextapes.com
into
http://www.yoursite.com/sextapes.html

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)\.html /domainforsale.php?domain=$1

Next change the domainsforsale.php into something like this:

$domain = $_GET['domain'];
$keyword = explode on "." and get part 1
$content = scrapwikipedia ($keyword);
(...)
add adsense script

You should now have a custom content and adsense page based on the keyword of your domain. Oh, and if you care to you can still keep the “this domain is for sale for ####” on the bottom of the page, just to avoid breaking ND TOS, but that doesn’t really matters, does it?

Also, on the “Custom For Sale Link Text” be sure the anchor text on the link is good for pass the review process and to your black hat intentions. Something like “More information” would work, but you can get more creative; keep in mind you can’t change this afterwards.

Commentary

1. Ed from NameDrive wrote on 27. Sep 2007

   Fascinating. Thanks for the info. I’ll certainly be trying that one out. Nice way to find new accounts to block for abusing our system.

   Ed
2. k wrote on 27. Sep 2007

   I am sorry Ed, I didn’t realise you consider that abusing your system, since:

   1. You allow the redirection to a unique page for each unique domain

   2. The landing pages are outsite your system

   If it violates your TOS, plz let me know I’ll post a warning on the article.

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