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Just received this email from Dan.com about commission increases (snippet of email):
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
One of the most affected by recent GD actions is Bodis. First, GD purchased DAN and destroyed Bodis partnership. Now, GD prompts customers to stop using bodis parking with built-in afternic/godaddy (!) forsale banner. Hope Bodis will survive....
Yes, don't get this move mistaken... The 25% fee is to compel people to use GoDaddy landers.One of the most affected by recent GD actions is Bodis. First, GD purchased DAN and destroyed Bodis partnership. Now, GD prompts customers to stop using bodis parking with built-in afternic/godaddy (!) forsale banner. Hope Bodis will survive....
That seems to be what they (Afternic) have responded on social media. It will be a flat 15%, without tiers, so as you and others have posted, an actual significant increase for higher-priced names. Apparently some Afternic users have received an email outlining changes, but I have not yet.If they are going to a flat 15%, they are actually raising the rate on higher dollar sales.
It might be a good opportunity for Efty and Sedo.
Interest rates are far from finished their upward trajectory. I don't know if that affects Godaddy directly, but it's definitely affecting the economic environment.
So at the start of that trajectory, we have already have a 67% increase for many.
So they might be thinking... when is the next increase happening from Godaddy? And so they might turn to Sedo and Efty.
That's a nice option, 10% using their landing pages. Don't do much with Sedo nowadays but in the past used to get steady sales and it went pretty smoothly.Funny Story:
in the past i had all my domains by Sedo.com and the fees was 15%.
I switched to Dan.com and told Sedo.com they should change the fees and create the same seller page like Dan.com
In August 2022 Sedo.com changed the fees to 10% and clone the same DAN.com page
https://sedo.com/us/about-us/news-p...le-template-brings-attention-to-your-domains/
Sedo.com Demo Selling Page:
https://sedo.com/search/details/?domain=virtualkey.net&origin=sales_lander_15&language=us
Now i go back to Sedo.com...
So they raised Dan.com rates from 9% to 15%-25%.That seems to be what they (Afternic) have responded on social media. It will be a flat 15%, without tiers, so as you and others have posted, an actual significant increase for higher-priced names. Apparently some Afternic users have received an email outlining changes, but I have not yet.
-Bob
What will you be using for your own landers?Thanks. I will be replacing Dan with my own landers and escrow
I agree. Sedo recently improved, imo, their landers. If they stay with the 10% commission for sales from those landers, and added a lease-to-own option, it could be really compelling.Now, they could really push it and go at Dan/GoDaddy by offering up a Lease to Own option.
Why not just use SEDO and pay 10% instead? Is there a downside that I don't know of? Their new landers look great.
They need to build a syndication system like afternic and get registrars on board.I asked Namecheap on social media if they could, finally, introduce landers (other than the pathetic solution of redirecting to their marketplace listing). Just landers, like Dynadot, NameSilo, Sav, Porkbun, etc. all have.
Their account first told me they would forward it as a suggestion. But then, their CEO Richard Kirkendall replied to my Tweet saying that Spaceship (their new platform in closed beta testing) would have landers. Good news.
He went on to add in a second tweet in the thread:
"What I plan to do at Spaceship is offer domainers registrations, renewals and transfers at cost. No fee for being part of the "club" or whatever. Offer landers and a low percentage on any commissions." It looks like they are approaching it from a domainer friendly way, make the money as a percentage of aftermarket sales, not on the actual domain registrations and renewals. Their current NC Marketplace commission is 10%.
And then someone asked if it would be just for names registered at Namecheap (which is the case for their existing marketplace) and he responded:
"Will be open to all."
So assuming that really means that a domain name registered anywhere can be listed, and that their marketplace is good (the current one is slow at search) this could be significant competition.
-Bob
How will you solve payments? Through Escrow? I am not that fond of Escrow. Too many hoops to jump through for the buyers.I'm about to just make my own Landers with a phone number.
GoDaddy forgot that for example their ns5/ns6 landers have issues, such as:
1. No support for httpS forwarding via ns5/ns6
2. No visitor stats
3. Blocked from being indexed by Google, by design (confirmed by Joe Styler in afternic thread).
4. Not multilingual (at least last time I checked)
5. No way to contact support in reasonable way (since GD disabled email support and does not have built-in tickets system)
Punishing for NOT using this landers system? How about fixing all the above? Members who host their own landing pages, or who are using alternate DNS and forwarding solutions, where the visitors do end up @ godaddy, but the domain DNS are different, are working hard to INCREASE sales for both themselves AND GoDaddy. Now they are punished for doing this.
How will you solve payments? Through Escrow? I am not that fond of Escrow. Too many hoops to jump through for the buyers.
What will you be using for your own landers?