Afternic NS3 and NS4

Their handling fee is a little high,
I remember 20% of the transaction fee,

The Durfer said:

im sorry

how do you get it to go to that page, what nameservers do you use? ty

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I was just pointing out that the BUY NOW button works when you DON'T use Afternic NS landers.

It's not a landing page, that's why I called it a listing page.

To get to that page, you need to click on the listing from the Afternic search results.

You can link to the listing page via html, or do some sort of forwarding or redirect via original NS or host.

CraigD said:

do some sort of forwarding or redirect via original NS or host.

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Can the forwarding be done in bulk and if so what do you redirect the domains to at Afternic.

For now I have decided to switch to NS1 and NS2 for Parking, I like to get some stats for my domains, having accurate count of the number of true unique visitors for my domains is very important to me as it is one of the metrics that helps me with sorting out my domains as far as the level of interest that there is for each domain.

Ideally I wish we could have Sales Landers with the "Make Offer / Buy Now" buttons and a way to get Accurate Stats for our domains that is not comprised of all bot traffic. And to have the option of the "Make Offer" button to link directly to the Sales people at Afternic so that they can handle the negotiations in good faith according to our price expectations. (and of course to have the GoDaddy name at the top of the Sales Landers since that's what most people know and trust).

Make it happen GoDaddy

IMO

That bulk forwarding capability is in you GD domains panel.
You select the check boxes of said domains, then select forward tab at top, and you have options for 301/303 redirects etc. but doing it that way will not provide stats.

You could set NS to 3rd party host, then forward/redirect from the host and access their stats pages.

CraigD said:

That bulk forwarding capability is in you GD domains panel.
You select the check boxes of said domains, then select forward tab at top, and you have options for 301/303 redirects etc. but doing it that way will not provide stats.

You could set NS to 3rd party host, then forward/redirect from the host and access their stats pages.

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I know, but what do you put as the url that you want the domains to be forwarded to if you are doing this in bulk for all your domains.

For my second example of using 3rd part host stats?
You cannot bulk edit because each address at Afternic will be unique.

... also, that method will only count incoming traffic via the domain name or search traffic. It won't count direct traffic on the Afternic lander.

I think you should contact Afternic and have a chat. They may be able to sort something for you.

CraigD said:

For my second example of using 3rd part host stats?
You cannot bulk edit because each address at Afternic will be unique.

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That's what I thought, for people who have more than a handful of domains forwarding the domains one by one can become very time consuming,

It's time that GoDaddy fixes this problem and give us the Sales Landers that we want ( with accurate and detailed stats).

IMO

oldtimer said:

That's what I thought, for people who have more than a handful of domains forwarding the domains one by one can become very time consuming,

It's time that GoDaddy fixes this problem and give us the Sales Landers that we want ( with accurate stats).

IMO

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This is what I do.
List on GD auctions and use their landers for stats, but dont set a buy now.
List on Afternic seperately, with buy now (and anywhere else you choose, eg Sedo)
The Afternic listing also gets pulled across to Godaddy.
You don't get stats for Afternic lander, so its a compromise.

Edited.
and I'm still using a 3rd party host for hosting my own lander and stats.

CraigD said:

This is what I do.
List on GD and use their landers for stats, but dont set a buy now.
List on Afternic seperately, with buy now.
The Afternic listing also gets pulled across to Godaddy auctions.

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That sounds good, but I believe that you have to set a Buy Now price for the domain to be accepted as Premium and qualify for fast transfer.

IMO

oldtimer said:

That sounds good, but I believe that you have to set a Buy Now price for the domain to be accepted as Premium and qualify for fast transfer.

IMO

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Possibly. I disable fast fast transfer for security reasons.

CraigD said:

Possibly. I disable fast fast transfer for security reasons.

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You are right when it comes to ultra premium domains that are worth in the six or seven figures, but for most other domains having the option for fast transfer is a good convenience both for sellers and buyers.

As I have akready mentioned I haven't had too much experience selling domains since I am basically a collector, so I guess I will have a better idea about all this after I sell a domain or two.

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I just wanted to provide these url's of 3 registrars for bulk forwarding to Afternic sales landers.

EPIK:
https://www.afternic.com/domain/{DOMAIN_NAME}

Dynadot
https://www.afternic.com/domain/$domain$

Namesilo
https://www.afternic.com/domain/domain=%%DOMAIN%%

Hope this helps.

oldtimer said:

You are right when it comes to ultra premium domains that are worth in the six or seven figures, but for most other domains having the option for fast transfer is a good convenience both for sellers and buyers.

As I have akready mentioned I haven't had too much experience selling domains since I am basically a collector, so I guess I will have a better idea about all this after I sell a domain or two.

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I hear you. I'm an 'old collector'

Have a play around with one of your less premium names and explore all the options and you will find what works best

The Durfer said:

im sorry

how do you get it to go to that page, what nameservers do you use? ty

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That is a direct link to one of CraigD domains listed on Afternic that specific page is not produced with nameservers it is a direct link to that specific domain listed on Afternic

Please indicate which one of these Landers looks better in your opinion:

http://5gWirelessServices.com
(Currently points to GoDaddy Lander)

http://SmartHomeFortress.com
(Currently points to Afternic Lander)

The Afternic Lander is more mobile friendly and gives the option to have a lower minimum offer, also shows the phone number for the Sales Agents.

The GoDaddy Lander has more recognition amongst end users because most people know GoDaddy, but unfortunately is not very mobile friendly and you have to scroll to the right to see the Buy Now button without having any indication that it’s there, also because of the Premium listing it starts at very high Make Offer amount.

IMO

oldtimer said:

Please indicate which one of these Landers looks better in your opinion:

http://5gWirelessServices.com
(Currently points to GoDaddy Lander)

http://SmartHomeFortress.com
(Currently points to Afternic Lander)

The Afternic Lander is more mobile friendly and gives the option to have a lower minimum offer, also shows the phone number for the Sales Agents.

The GoDaddy Lander has more recognition amongst end users because most people know GoDaddy, but unfortunately is not very mobile friendly and you have to scroll to the right to see the Buy Now button without having any indication that it’s there, also because of the Premium listing it starts at very high Make Offer amount.

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I vote for Afternic. Interface could use a bit of update, but those numbers make a lot of difference, especially for higher value domains.

Both sites and (and per extensions, both landers) are ugly as all hell, but GD seems a bit uglier.

On the plus side (for GD) is that it's localised and supports various currencies.

pb said:

Both sites and (and per extensions, both landers) are ugly as all hell, but GD seems a bit uglier.

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And with UX issues (button to the right) + no phone.

It's made for desktop only, I think. And high res.

Edit: And that "Domain Detail" section is more confusing than informing. I get a headache just looking at it. What he hell am I seeing here.

pb said:

Both sites and (and per extensions, both landers) are ugly as all hell, but GD seems a bit uglier.

On the plus side (for GD) is that it's localised and supports various currencies.

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Well those are the only choices that are currently available, although it's good to have an attractive Lander, but it's more the performance that I am interested in and was wondering which Lander people have had better results with.

Maybe GoDaddy will finally give us the nice Landers that we all want.

IMO

twiki said:

And with UX issues (button to the right) + no phone.

It's made for desktop only, I think. And high res.

Edit: And that "Domain Detail" section is more confusing than informing. I get a headache just looking at it. What he hell am I seeing here.

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Well these are actually the search result pages at GoDaddy that I am calling a Lander, but it would be nice to have a real Sales Lander that combines all the good things from Afternic and GoDaddy in one place, after all they are both part of the same company.

IMO

Forget about work arounds.

Use epiks' or Dan's until they have a better landing

oldtimer said:

Well those are the only choices that are currently available, although it's good to have an attractive Lander, but it's more the performance that I am interested in and was wondering which Lander people have had better results with.

Maybe GoDaddy will finally give us the nice Landers that we all want.

IMO

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good luck. They cant even improve the control panel after 10 years

MasterOfMyDomains said:

good luck. They cant even improve the control panel after 10 years

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I have a small portfolio of mostly hand registered domains and the control panel seems to be working okay for what I want to do, I don't want this thread to go off topic, but please briefly say what improvements do you like to see to the control panel at GoDaddy and does that make selling domains any easier.

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For now I have decided to park my domains at ParkingCrew (through Fabulous) and have the for sale link on the parking pages to go to Afternic.

But,

I still wish that Afternic had a Buy Now button on their contact form. I basically have to trust the sales people at Afternic to do their best to market my domains, but some of the ways that GoDaddy employees have been conducting themselves on this forum and all the political and personal attacks and animosities that they have been directing towards other members makes me a little worried as to if they really are going to help me with my domains or are they just going to take the leads that my domains are generating and use them to market their own domains to the potential buyers.

I am a very strong advocate for the rights of the unborn children and am against the fact that children are systemically being executed because some people want to follow a lifestyle that is centered around drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity and seem to have mistaken lust for love which causes them to have to murder more and more children every year. I also believe that we as the human race should not be suckered in to having more and more Wars that keep taking so many of the innocent amongst us as it has been happening throughout the history not to mention the conveyor belts of the military machines all around the World that need to be continuously fed by the fittest and the sharpest amongst us to fight those wars. I like to see the day that humanity as a whole can advance to the level that we are not going to need so many weapons anymore (yet I also can't ignore the fact that the way that the World currently is if the unborn children were somehow armed perhaps they wouldn't be getting torn apart limb by limb in the womb in such a vicious and cruel way). I am also a very strong advocate for all people having adequate and timely healthcare regardless of their condition or their status and believe that we need to use all our abilities and technologies (such as AI and Automation) as a force for good to help save the humanity and the environment from all that has been ailing our World for so long. Having such strong beliefs makes me somewhat worried as to how I am going to be treated by the GoDaddy and Afternic employees who might not agree with some of my views considering that some of them are using their position of control and influence over people's domains to get back at others such as when they canceled one of my websites in the past as I had mentioned in another thread here about couple of years ago (AiMedicalCenter.com which I had to redo). You can't blame me for being a little alarmed about certain things since I have been tortured and humiliated by all sides over the years for the simple fact that some elements of the status quo are not very happy with my opinions and views that they find to be against their interests and agendas and have tried their best to misrepresent and discredit me in order to silence my voice for the fact that I have been speaking truth to the power as an activist for so many years now.

The fact that GoDaddy is so stubborn about not putting a Buy Now button on the contact forms, means that they want to have 100% control over the leads that our domains are bringing to them and as such it means that we are completely at the mercy of their staff as to what they want to do with those leads and if they really are going to use the leads in good faith to help us with our domains.

I hope that they can control their employees from betraying the trust that we are putting in GoDaddy and Afternic, but to be on the safe side we need to keep a very close eye on this situation so that if there is some kind of a racket going on by some bad actors at GoDaddy and Afternic that we can detect and document it quickly.

There is also the matter of Favoritism which we have seen with some domainers who were having an unusual boost with the number of their sales which in my opinion was artificially created by the sales staff to promote the Afternic platform.

One thing is for sure, Big Data patterns will eventually emerge that will show us what is going on both on this forum and the way that some employees operate at GoDaddy and Afternic.

Disclaimer: my domaining strategies are based on my personal situation as a hobbyist and collector and the way that I acquire, promote, and price my domains is suited to my own circumstances and may not necessarily be the best way to follow for others.

IMO