domains Afternic introduced new Buy-Now landing page

Recons.Com said:

Wow. This would be a huge waste of traffic/sales.

Not just for the investors, but for GD/Afternic, as they lose the 20% of the cut. You'd think they'd focus on implementing this simple pre-requisite feature since browsers have started strictly requiring this couple of years ago, yet still not done...

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Agree. Godaddy never ceases to amaze me.

It's 2021.

Godaddy is a well-known CA authority, member of the CA/Browser Forum, and their G2 Root Certs are present in our browsers. With the complete redesign and testing of the new 3/4 and 5/6 landers, you would expect TLS to be part of the new landers. But it's not.

Recons.Com said:

@Joe Styler @Paul Nicks

New bug of GD/Afternic integration.

I select names in my GD interface to list then click list for sale as I have done many times before and since today I get "you have no domains to list" error. Repeated few times (which is a hassle in itself, as I need to re-sort, get to the pages I need, find the names, select those after struggling with another bug that doesn't show listed status - reported in GD bugs thread with zero reaction, btw - and then get this error) and the same happens every time.

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Thank you, I'll fwd to the product team

Future Sensors said:

you would expect TLS to be part of the new landers. But it's not.

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Although the http:// itself is not secure, but once you enter a domain it goes to a secure Godaddy page.

Perhaps they have left the initial entry point unsecure on purpose in order to make it easier to get to the Landers from all different places around the World (just guessing).

We got to assume that Godaddy has designed their system to produce the maximum number of sales and as such there might be some justification for certain things that don't look right on the surface.

Perhaps @Paul Nicks or @Joe Styler can chime in to address this issue better,

IMO

Paul Nicks said:

Thank you, I'll fwd to the product team

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There might be a limit on the number of domains that you can do at the same time,

I have noticed that when I want to forward a bunch of domains to one of my websites it only lets me do 10 at a time (otherwise it gives an error message when I click on "save").

IMO

oldtimer said:

Although the http:// itself is not secure, but once you enter a domain it goes to a secure Godaddy page.

Perhaps they have left the initial entry point unsecure on purpose in order to make it easier to get to the Landers from all different places around the World (just guessing).

We got to assume that Godaddy has designed their system to produce the maximum number of sales and as such there might be some justification for certain things that don't look right on the surface.

Perhaps @Paul Nicks or @Joe Styler can chime in to address this issue better,

IMO

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The problem is that this is not about people entering a domain manually in their browser. This is about already existing https backlinks on websites, and indexed https links in Google. All these https links don't work now, simple as that. Read what @Recons.Com wrote about this as well.

You're assuming a lot here about Godaddy's intentions, but in case of Afternic with their bare naked services and ancient domain management interface, I would not assume things too fast. The best is to let Afternic answer first, and then have them fix it. I'm still trying the new ns5/ns6 Afternic landers for the majority of my domains, and since I noticed this, I think about switching back to my old landers. For 20% commission on a lander, I expect this to work.

Future Sensors said:

The problem is that this is not about people entering a domain manually in their browser. This is about already existing https backlinks on websites, and indexed https links in Google. All these https links don't work now, simple as that. Read what @Recons.Com wrote about this as well.

You're assuming a lot here about Godaddy's intentions, but in case of Afternic with their bare naked services and ancient domain management interface, I would not assume things too fast. The best is to let Afternic answer first, and then have them fix it. I'm still trying the new ns5/ns6 Afternic landers for the majority of my domains, and since I noticed this, I think about switching back to my old landers. For 20% commission on a lander, I expect this to work.

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Thanks. This is unbelievable, honestly. With the size of my portfolio, even with 0.1%-0.2% loss in STR, this would mean loss of 10-20 sales a year, which would translate into tens of thousands $ lost for me and Afternic. For the whole Afternic platform, the annual loss is definitely in millions $.

@Paul Nicks could you guys focus on fixing this urgently? The simplest solution is just forward the https:// to http:// if you have issues with the certificates or need time to handle this.

Just today sold a name that has an Afternic lander via ... DomainAgents where it is not even listed. This easily could have been due to the fact that the buyer landed on a dead page and sought out a broker. I am sure there are bunch of cases where buyer just moves on assuming a name is not for sale.

Recons.Com said:

@Joe Styler @Paul Nicks

New bug of GD/Afternic integration.

I select names in my GD interface to list then click list for sale as I have done many times before and since today I get "you have no domains to list" error. Repeated few times (which is a hassle in itself, as I need to re-sort, get to the pages I need, find the names, select those after struggling with another bug that doesn't show listed status - reported in GD bugs thread with zero reaction, btw - and then get this error) and the same happens every time.

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Thanks. I let the person in charge of that know and also about the https vs http above in the thread.

Recons.Com said:

Wow. This would be a huge waste of traffic/sales.

Not just for the investors, but for GD/Afternic, as they lose the 20% of the cut. You'd think they'd focus on implementing this simple pre-requisite feature since browsers have started strictly requiring this couple of years ago, yet still not done...

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So I simply tested this thing further, just to find that the https issue occurs with both ns3 ns4 as well as the ns5 ns6 landers.

That landing page design appears to be good and eye-catching, but I haven't had the opportunity to check with a point to domain.

Joe Styler said:

Thanks. I let the person in charge of that know and also about the https vs http above in the thread.

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I was wondering what is the timeline on this?

For the whole huge IT team it shouldn't be problem to make sure that the https:// works as normal?

Supposedly, the landing pages has gone through all the beta testing and have been launched. How can a tech company launch something that works only on INSECURE protocol and DOESN'T support AT ALL a secure protocol?

Again, every day this protocol is not working Afternic/Godaddy is losing tens of thousands of $ given 20 million+ domains listed.

Again, I have 10000+ domains (doubling every year) with GD/Afternic and I am using this landers and if this cannot be fixed, I will send my business elsewhere, both as registrar and the landing service.

It is annoying that bugs reported years ago are still there and if there is any change, it is only towards worse, never towards fixing anything.

Recons.Com said:

Wow. This would be a huge waste of traffic/sales.

Not just for the investors, but for GD/Afternic, as they lose the 20% of the cut. You'd think they'd focus on implementing this simple pre-requisite feature since browsers have started strictly requiring this couple of years ago, yet still not done...

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In addition to what you've already said earlier in this thread about browsers upgrading the connection automatically to https, all domains with HSTS Preload enabled (this includes the complete .app TLD, whether developed domains or not) will not work without having this configured correctly at Afternic/Godaddy.

Nikhil Jain said:

So I simply tested this thing further, just to find that the https issue occurs with both ns3 ns4 as well as the ns5 ns6 landers.

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Thanks for the heads up. I made sure the person in charge of that knows.

Any way to make the domain name appear as DomainName.com instead of domainname.com?

@Joe Styler please pay attention to the SSL problem that @Recons.Com and others mentioned, I switched recently to Afternic Bin landers and I confirm that there is a problem. Here what is happening:

• When you enter domain name in browser for first time it opens without problem
• If you later type the same domain in browser the autocomplete will format the url as https://domainName
• Then the domain fails to resolve
• This only happened for me with Chrome browser not Firefox

To be honest this is a killer bug, now I am considering switching back to Dan until this problem is resolved.

Ostrados said:

@Joe Styler please pay attention to the SSL problem that @Recons.Com and others mentioned, I switched recently to Afternic Bin landers and I confirm that there is a problem. Here what is happening:

• When you enter domain name in browser for first time it opens without problem
• If you later type the same domain in browser the autocomplete will format the url as
• Then the domain fails to resolve
• This only happened for me with Chrome browser not Firefox

To be honest this is a killer bug, now I am considering switching back to Dan until this problem is resolved.

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Has this been resolved?

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Recons.Com said:

Wow. This would be a huge waste of traffic/sales.

Not just for the investors, but for GD/Afternic, as they lose the 20% of the cut. You'd think they'd focus on implementing this simple pre-requisite feature since browsers have started strictly requiring this couple of years ago, yet still not done...

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Still not fixed. Don't they sell SSL certificates lol? This is ridiculous

astronaut said:

Still not fixed. Don't they sell SSL certificates lol? This is ridiculous

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They do. See here.

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Still not fixed. Don't they sell SSL certificates lol? This is ridiculous

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I removed all my domains from Afternic BIN and switched back to Dan landers, until this problem is fixed!

Big things coming to afternic in 2021
@joejoestyler said so. Unresponsive control panel, insecure landers. Daddy loves those traffic stats. And only 20% .comish

Ostrados said:

I removed all my domains from Afternic BIN and switched back to Dan landers, until this problem is fixed!

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Seems like the way to go at this point we can't expect them to ever fix this. I'll be switching to Bodis. At least they can handle https lol

Domains parked with Uniregistry don't resolve with https either. At least the ones using buy.internettraffic.om name servers..

@Joe Styler Can you give us a status update on the TLS issues? Appreciate it.

I just took a huge portion of my landers from Afternic and moved over to DAN.

Ostrados said:

@Joe Styler please pay attention to the SSL problem that @Recons.Com and others mentioned, I switched recently to Afternic Bin landers and I confirm that there is a problem. Here what is happening:

• When you enter domain name in browser for first time it opens without problem
• If you later type the same domain in browser the autocomplete will format the url as https://domainName
• Then the domain fails to resolve
• This only happened for me with Chrome browser not Firefox

To be honest this is a killer bug, now I am considering switching back to Dan until this problem is resolved.

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In Firefox when you type in KEYWORD and click ctrl+enter the browser adds .com to the end of the KEYWORD and https://www. before the keyword.

That's a type in.

And since Afternic cannot handle https, the page does not resolve so that's basically blackholing type in traffic

Future Sensors said:

@Joe Styler Can you give us a status update on the TLS issues? Appreciate it.

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no new news. The Afternic team is aware of it but I do not have any ETA.

Joe Styler said:

no new news. The Afternic team is aware of it but I do not have any ETA.

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Thank you. Another marketplace fixed this within one week after reporting the same issue. And they are not such a huge player in the TLS certificate field as Godaddy is. In fact, they don't sell any certificates at all.