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This article is often being updated with new tips and guidelines about maximizing your earnings at Public Name Contests. Quick Tips Subscribe to Contest Alerts. First entries get more attention and points. When adding names to the contest, use the Star icon … Continue reading
The List Suffixes search now has an option to choose between popular suffixes (such as io, ify, ly, isto) and generic nonsensical suffixes (such as eum, ead, sar, sen). Suffixes are added randomly each time you generate new results. This … Continue reading
Recent updates to entries sorting had a negative effect on voting – Contest Holders started using voting to manage shortlisted entries, and downvoted entries that were originally upvoted – to narrow down their shortlist. Therefore we have separated shortlisting entries … Continue reading
We’ve added a couple of new options for sorting and filtering contest entries: Unrated – gives the Contest Holders a better overview about which entries need to be rated. Voted Up/Down – filters by total score. Includes votes by other … Continue reading
Starting today, payments of $100 are issued each time you’ve received another 1000 Points. Previously we issued Paypal payments of $50 every time 500 Points was reached.
When a public contest has 0 votes, each participant can post up to 10 names. As soon as there is at least 1 vote, you can post more. Contestants with a 30-day average vote ratio of less than 0.25 can … Continue reading
An update to the scoring system was released yesterday. Previously, when a name was posted to a Contest, an upvote by the name’s creator was added automatically. New names got 1 vote immediately after posting. We have removed this automatic scoring, … Continue reading
As a heads-up, all contest participants should be working on improving their Up/Down votes ratio. Your 30-day average ratio will determine, how many entries you can post to a contest per day. These numbers may be subject to change: A ratio … Continue reading
You can now select the language when generating domain names with Overlapping words or Alliterations. In the example below, we’re looking for a name for a strategic consulting business. We want the name to reflect reliability, vision, intelligence, inspiration etc. So … Continue reading
To take advantage of NameStation’s most powerful domain search tools, it’s important to know, which keyword lists to use. There are over 170 preset lists that can be combined and merged, so a more efficient way of selecting and finding the … Continue reading
