domains GoDaddy acquiring Uniregistry's registrar & marketplace, and Name Administration's domain portfolio

equity78 · Feb 11, 2020

The first blockbuster deal of the decade. GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, today announced it is acquiring Uniregistry's leading domain registrar and marketplace businesses. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close sometime in Q2 2020. The Uniregistry domain registry is not part of the … [Read more...]

Quintin · Feb 15, 2020

wwwweb said:
What happend to the IP location on inquiries, it doesn’t give a geo location anymore, many times reads unknown for the past month or so.

This is a known issue. I'll see about fixing it for you.

Name Trader · Feb 16, 2020

Does that mean Frank is out of the domain reselling business? Or does he hold portfolios outside of Domain Administration?

elevator · Feb 16, 2020

Silentptnr said:
Holy moly! Just got the email.

Now gd can dump their site and relabel the uni site.

Dumping the site means dumping the domain name. If I am right, that will not be okay with GD because the former Owner can pick up the name and redevelop it. You know GD will not like it that way

elevator · Feb 16, 2020

stub said:
Does that mean Frank is out of the domain reselling business? Or does he hold portfolios outside of Domain Administration?

According to the cover story by @James Iles

Interestingly, the deal did not include the Uni registry which owns and operates domain extensions such as .LINK. That news is also a major discussion point here.

Godaddy acquired Uni registrar and left uniregistry
To me it seems Frank is not out of domaining but sold major part of his domain names portfolio

elevator · Feb 16, 2020

However, as at now; uniregistry is carrying two logos - uniregistry and that of Godaddy's logo and the new on the website says
"Uni joins GoDaddy"
In that case it seems they are working together even at uniregistry

Lox · Feb 16, 2020

stub said:
Does that mean Frank is out of the domain reselling business? Or does he hold portfolios outside of Domain Administration?

Uniregistry has emerged as a leader in the Backend Services Industry
read more (uni)

Regards

wwwweb · Feb 16, 2020

elevator said:
Dumping the site means dumping the domain name. If I am right, that will not be okay with GD because the former Owner can pick up the name and redevelop it. You know GD will not like it that way

These are complex deals usually include non compete clauses for so many years, doubtful they would stop him from buying domains, but godaddy is taking the name also, you better believe if, what they do with it who knows, but doubt paying $8 a year to shelf it will put them out of business.

CrazyOldGoat · Feb 17, 2020

Will this result in a commission % change?

Doesn't Godaddy/Afternic take something like $x + 30% or something? I remember that being a reason I haven't sold on there.

Name Trader · Feb 17, 2020

CrazyOldGoat said:
Will this result in a commission % change?

Doesn't Godaddy/Afternic take something like $x + 30% or something? I remember that being a reason I haven't sold on there.

I ALWAYS add 25% to my net sales prices = $80 + 25% = $100 - 20% = $80 At GoDaddy & Afernic

CrazyOldGoat · Feb 17, 2020

stub said:
I ALWAYS add 25% to my net sales prices = $80 + 25% = $100 - 20% = $80 At GoDaddy & Afernic

Ah yeah that was it. They told me that they add the 25% on, I'd want to offer a price that I think it would sell at though so in my case, I'd be taking a 25% loss essentially. Granted, they do alot - act as middlemen, advertise the name etc, it just seems like a lot for high-value domain names.

manpreet · Feb 17, 2020

Hmm...Good times ahead ?

oldtimer · Feb 17, 2020

As far as commissions go I believe a passive commission of 3 to 5 percent is okay when the domain is pulling the buyer in itself, 7 to 10 percent is reasonable if the buyers have been attracted to the Sales Landers that have showed up in different search results, and 12 to 15 percent is acceptable if the domain has been widely advertised across all sales platforms and networks. 20 percent commission is only justified if an actual broker is going to actively promote and market the domain which even then it probably has to be adjusted to the satisfaction of all parties for domains that are priced in six or seven figures.

IMO

equity78 · Feb 21, 2020

https://www.namepros.com/threads/go...uniregistry-sales-price.1178014/#post-7643965

wwwweb · Feb 25, 2020

oldtimer said:
As far as commissions go I believe a passive commission of 3 to 5 percent is okay when the domain is pulling the buyer in itself, 7 to 10 percent is reasonable if the buyers have been attracted to the Sales Landers that have showed up in different search results, and 12 to 15 percent is acceptable if the domain has been widely advertised across all sales platforms and networks. 20 percent commission is only justified if an actual broker is going to actively promote and market the domain which even then it probably has to be adjusted to the satisfaction of all parties for domains that are priced in six or seven figures.

IMO

A credit card premium of 3.88% is charged to one side of the transaction also, so take that fee out of it, so it is a bit of a stronger margin, especially if you have lots of traffic, and can scale it something which godaddy can bring to the table.

Quintin · Feb 25, 2020

wwwweb said:
What happend to the IP location on inquiries, it doesn’t give a geo location anymore, many times reads unknown for the past month or so.

The location information should be better populated going forward. Please let me know if there are any issues with it.

oldtimer · Feb 26, 2020

wwwweb said:
A credit card premium of 3.88% is charged to one side of the transaction also, so take that fee out of it, so it is a bit of a stronger margin, especially if you have lots of traffic, and can scale it something which godaddy can bring to the table.

The figures that I provided were to illustrate the different levels of effort that might be required for selling a domain, whether it's the inherent value and popularity of the domain that pulls in the potential buyers or whether a domain is sold because of all the promotions and marketing efforts that were done by the marketplaces or the brokers, the details have to be worked out so that perhaps we can have some kind of a Standard across all sales platforms.

IMO

decades80 · Feb 28, 2020

Hopefully they will not delay Uniregistry parking payouts, since I still havent got mine furthermore Godaddy is known for delaying domain sales payments at least in my case.

wwwweb · Feb 28, 2020

decades80 said:
Hopefully they will not delay Uniregistry parking payouts, since I still havent got mine furthermore Godaddy is known for delaying domain sales payments at least in my case.

I think the plan is to keep Uniregistry running as it is, until they figure out how to incorporate the two companies, or otherwise they could use it as a stand alone for BrandSight, lots of options, but the enterprise is already established so hopefully they don't anger the million domain clients over there to keep everything good.

How delayed are you with your payment, usually releases around this time, end of month?

decades80 · Feb 28, 2020

Yeah usually they sent wires the last business day of the month, but I still didnt get HSBC payment advice. It could be it will come later in the evening.

tasaki25 · Feb 28, 2020

unexpected and unbelievable in same time!!!! Omg

wwwweb · Mar 2, 2020

decades80 said:
Yeah usually they sent wires the last business day of the month, but I still didnt get HSBC payment advice. It could be it will come later in the evening.

Did you get your payment yet?

decades80 · Mar 2, 2020

Not yet, I will simply reach to the support tomorrow, if I dont get it by then.

decades80 · Mar 3, 2020

Contacted Uniregistry support and they told me that the payments have not been processed yet....
They will be processed today.

wwwweb · Mar 4, 2020

decades80 said:
Contacted Uniregistry support and they told me that the payments have not been processed yet....
They will be processed today.

Never seen them this late.

What is interesting many of the brokers emails changed from at uniregistry to at domainnamesales, not sure what the significance of that is?

equity78 · Mar 11, 2020

elevator said:
According to the cover story by @James Iles
Godaddy acquired Uni registrar and left uniregistry
To me it seems Frank is not out of domaining but sold major part of his domain names portfolio

Or he working on a deal to sell that next, GoDaddy said years ago they would not run a registry and compete with their customers.

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