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When you go to Afternic.com there's no option to search for domains. There is a link to GoDaddy where you can search but it doesn't show every name that's available on Afternic.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Thanks; I'm trying to wrap my head around this in simple terms, because you're double-speaking what you say.Hi everyone,
We appreciate the feedback on Afternic search. As Afternic mentioned on X, we're transitioning search from Afternic.com to GoDaddy. The strong buyer connection to GoDaddy, along with the multi-currency, global checkout process, and the trusted brand name mean that we chose to direct Afternic searches to GoDaddy.
This move allows Afternic to remain focused on giving sellers the best tools and resources to sell their domain names through Afternic's vast distribution network (85 million searches/month across 100+ partners and resellers for the Premium Network), and the range of optimized landers, all backed by an expert team of brokers. This consistent work will continue to help sellers at Afternic to produce a high sales velocity through the entire network.
For anyone separately looking to take a deeper dive into Afternic's inventory, Domain Academy's toolkit contains an advanced search tool to connect you with inventory.
Again, we thank you all for your feedback on Afternic.com's search directing to GoDaddy.
Maybe , I should redirect all Nameservers to Dan , Squadhelp or Sedo.
Here's one... and it's about as honest as it gets!!any honest answer you feel you can provide
@GoDaddy - I sent it up earlier today. The developers are working on it.Thanks for sharing, @411domains and @Dane. We'll take a look at what's causing this error.
lolHi everyone,
We appreciate the feedback on Afternic search. As Afternic mentioned on X, we're transitioning search from Afternic.com to GoDaddy. The strong buyer connection to GoDaddy, along with the multi-currency, global checkout process, and the trusted brand name mean that we chose to direct Afternic searches to GoDaddy.
This move allows Afternic to remain focused on giving sellers the best tools and resources to sell their domain names through Afternic's vast distribution network (85 million searches/month across 100+ partners and resellers for the Premium Network), and the range of optimized landers, all backed by an expert team of brokers. This consistent work will continue to help sellers at Afternic to produce a high sales velocity through the entire network.
For anyone separately looking to take a deeper dive into Afternic's inventory, Domain Academy's toolkit contains an advanced search tool to connect you with inventory.
Again, we thank you all for your feedback on Afternic.com's search directing to GoDaddy.
Thanks; I'm trying to wrap my head around this in simple terms, because you're double-speaking what you say.
When you mention that you are transitioning search from Afternic over to Godaddy, that's not accurate;
Afternic visitors come to Afternic to LOOK FOR AN AFTERMARKET DOMAIN ON THE MARKETPLACE. That's been the entire business plan behind Afternic, for as long as it's been operating. That's what the Afternic search field was for.
The Godaddy search isn't a search for aftermarket domains on the marketplace; it's a simple search field to show whether a domain is registered or not. It's the same search field all visitors who are looking for a NEW domain to register, see when they go to any registrar. It's not a marketplace search.
So those are two different search fields.
Now, instead of letting every single visitor do what they came to Afternic to do, which is search through the inventory, each visitor is being sent to TWO DIFFERENT THINGS THEY DO NOT WANT TO USE:
1 - to a different site, from Afternic (marketplace) over to its parent Godaddy (registrar);
and:
2 - straight to Godaddy's search field, which does not show keyword inventory at Afternic, rather it - tadaah - just searches to see if that domain is available. Just like every other registrar.
In other words: it looks like you're phasing out any need for Afternic, other than using it to send all traffic to Godaddy's domain search field?
And in future, we probably won't even need Afternic anymore?
This seems to be an obvious conclusion, since the inventory has been entirely removed from easy access -- you've made it so difficult to access, now it's just a random link that doesn't even work, on a website most visitors have never even heard of and do not want to visit - Domain Academy - and, even worse, it's on a vague link that's even hidden somewhere on that site. On the main page of Afternic, it does not even give any directions to find the Afternic domain inventory... which is what the visitors came there looking for in the first place!
So GD does not want visitors to easily access the Afternic marketplace inventory. And, since Afternic is a marketplace, its entire reason for being is now useless. The only conclusion can be: GD now only wants to use Afternic as a traffic-forwarding tool to the Godaddy new-domain search field.
GD does not even need for people to list at Afternic anymore; you can set it up so we list all domains for sale at GD (this is already done, when we list them on Afternic), have GD landing pages (this is already done, all my landing pages - made through Afternic - show only Godaddy, no mention of Afternic on them), and complete the payments through GD services (which is already done, all my 'Afternic' payments for domains sold actually come from Godaddy).
Clear question: looks like Godaddy's plan is to entirely let go of Afternic's marketplace - and 'marketplace' is the entire word that describes what Afternic is - and now just use Afternic's traffic to steer visitors to Godaddy's search;
Is that an accurate assessment of what Godaddy intends? -- I know that it's an accurate assessment of what has already happened; I was just asking if you know whether that is GD's intent.
Thanks for any honest answer you feel you can provide...
Once they went public, customers or quality service were/are no longer important to them. The only thing that matters to GD now is their stock price and how to just increase it. smh.Godaddy went downhill as soon as Bob Parson left. I moved all my names out of Godaddy that I had there over 20 years. Greed and incompetence will be there downfall.
If they are propagatingAfternc and Dan listings to the Godaddy search, can we even be reassured that the domains presented fo sale at the higher prices are even registered?The Godaddy search isn't a search for aftermarket domains on the marketplace; it's a simple search field to show whether a domain is registered or not.
If someone is not a Domain Academy customer, would they really want to an online training site to search for domain names? Is the focus here really to expand enrollment in their "academy?"Here's the link for searching Afternic: https://www.godaddy.com/domain-academy/tools/afternic-advanced-search
Hi everyone,
We appreciate the feedback on Afternic search. As Afternic mentioned on X, we're transitioning search from Afternic.com to GoDaddy. The strong buyer connection to GoDaddy, along with the multi-currency, global checkout process, and the trusted brand name mean that we chose to direct Afternic searches to GoDaddy.
This move allows Afternic to remain focused on giving sellers the best tools and resources to sell their domain names through Afternic's vast distribution network (85 million searches/month across 100+ partners and resellers for the Premium Network), and the range of optimized landers, all backed by an expert team of brokers. This consistent work will continue to help sellers at Afternic to produce a high sales velocity through the entire network.
For anyone separately looking to take a deeper dive into Afternic's inventory, Domain Academy's toolkit contains an advanced search tool to connect you with inventory.
Again, we thank you all for your feedback on Afternic.com's search directing to GoDaddy.
Just move your DNS somewhere for the time being so you don't lose any sale.Since Afternic is shutdown are there any other changes coming? I need a heads up so I can plan accordingly.
When I click that link it takes me to Godaddy, to the LOGIN page. So it no longer seems to be affiliated with an 'Afternic Marketplace' as such. Now, even to just look at the inventory, we (and new searchers) have to sign in to Godaddy?Here's the link for searching Afternic: https://www.godaddy.com/domain-academy/tools/afternic-advanced-search
Don't forget to pay da' man first!!!Here's the link for searching Afternic: https://www.godaddy.com/domain-academy/tools/afternic-advanced-search
So...now endusers must join Domain Academy so they can look for a domain they're interested in? Not sure how that is a wise move on GD's part.
@Sperry8 I think that's exactly the problem. The afternic inventory isn't easily findable on Godaddy. At least not in a straightforward way.
Head over to Godaddy.com and imagine that you're a buyer who wants a domain that starts with the word 'love' accompanied by an unknown second word. There's no filtering system so you just have to write 'love' in the search field. On the next screen you get the obvious message that Love.com is taken and you aren't given any decent filtering options that would allow you to look for all the names that start with 'love' and accompanied by a second word. So what are you supposed to do? There's a whole afternic inventory that you can't search, that has hundreds of Love + Word domains, but you aren't given the option to search it. You can't even choose which extensions you're willing to consider for the domain you're thinking about buying. Godaddy just bombards you with random suggestions.
Godaddy should provide visitors a good filtering system that isn't hidden behind a paid wall, or requires visiting auctions.godaddy.com and choosing the 'type': 'buy it now' filter together with other filters, so they'll be able to scan and filter Afternic's inventory right from the main godaddy search.
Has that been fixed? Multiple issues have been raised in the past on NP, about sellers being unable to find their listings on GoDaddy auctions--even with typing in an exact match in some instances?Visitors can search the inventory properly if they head over to auctions.godaddy.com and choose the type- 'buy it now' or 'make offer' option together with other filters.