The DomainFace Blog

I’m going to start utilising the blog for any updates we do to Domainface. It makes sense that I should do that anyway, but the updates we do are usually small and incremental in nature and often don’t feel like they justify a blog post, but this results in nobody knowing what’s going on with Domainface at all, which is a worse situation to be in. So, expect very short blog posts from now on whenever there is something new to announce.

So on to the updates for this post…

We’ve got a whole new registration process in place now. Part of the reason for this is that as more integration partners come on board over time, we need to be able to reconfigure things to help them promote Domainface to their users, plus we need to be able to easily make small changes and test different version of individual steps in the process. The way the old signup process worked was a bit too difficult to easily update under the hood as needed. On top of that, these changes help pave the way for direct credit card payments which we’re hoping to make available once our merchant account is ready (the approval process is long and drawn out in the UK for web-based companies).

As a side effect of all of this, it gave me a chance to add Facebook, Twitter, Google and other login methods as part of the login process. I also updated the Account recovery screen so you can recover your account both by username or email, rather than just by email, which was the case before.

The other major update was to the plans. Our paid plans now all come with a seven day trial as standard. We’ve updated the basic plan so you can do your searching in Domainface directly if desired, though it still integrates with the great products from the folks at Noble Samurai. We’ve raised the price of the basic plan to $19/month to make it a bit more financially viable for us, though if you signed up at $14/month and don’t cancel your subscription, you’ll be grandfathered in at that lower price permanently.

What’s next?

Right now we’re working on:

• A new help and training area (this is more than 50% finished now)
• A big update to the autobidding system (I’m working on this personally)
• A new version of the domain search results grid

I’ll post another update when there’s something new to report, so make sure you subscribe in Google Reader or whatever your feed reader of choice is.