GD is trying to suck blood from a corpse. They killed Afternic already. Now if you put your dot com name into GD Search Field (the exact match, just without ''.com'') - it doesn't give your name and does not provide it anywhere close at all. Maybe for some it's different, but I tried 5 different names and it's all the same story - you don't see your name at all. You see all the other extensions and then made-up similar words in com, but not yours.
And with this reality GD is trying to offer ''self-brokerage'', with a lame attempt to sign up domainers for their shit-''premium''?? To self-broker on what exactly? No one sees your names unless you have the lander with them, but that's the whole different story, and hardly you need Afternic/GD for type-in visits - huge fat zero as a benefit in return of crazy-ass commissions they ask for.
GoDaddy seems to be viciously anti-domainer. I was aware they did something terrible with their Search Field but I didn't know it was that bad.
I just tried it now and it did not display my .com domain anywhere on the page. In fact, it displayed everything but the .com.
And this is despite the fact that the domain name is registered with GoDaddy and listed on Afternic with fast transfer activated.
It's horrible.
I checked other popular registrars to see how they handle it.
Here's what I found:
On Namesilo, .com is number 1 everytime.
On Dynadot, .com comes 5th every time.
On Namecheap, .com is number 1 everytime.
On Porkbun, the position of the .com changes but it never drops below the 3rd position.
Even on NetworkSolutions, .com is the default extension.
But GoDaddy makes the .com disappear if it's premium.
That is strange and wicked.
