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Just received this email from Dan.com about commission increases (snippet of email):
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
This is gonna sound cruel, but it really seems GD just used James and Cyger as pawns for GD to keep a positive perception in the community, because they are well loved with domainers. But GD knew that the community will be stirred up with the commission changes.@Joe Styler
This is a disturbing mess it is time to show up and make some responses, don't leave poor @James Iles dealing with this mess alone, he is trying to help but it is obvious that he has no influence on decision making at Godaddy.
Do you have any comments on this:
And this:
Well it kinda backfired, but they really have a monopoly and they know it, we are kinda stuck with their great reach of potential clients with the Afternic Network, we kinda depend on the network for smaller domains.Exactly! it is clear that their intention was not making profit from extra small commission BUT to eliminate competition and hurt them as much as possible.
I bet they tried to buy SH but they turned down the offer. Now they are cornering them.
As I said before you should compete by providing better services and product NOT by buying out and eliminating competitors one by one!! That will hurt customers.
There must be some sort of customers protection entity for internet services
Good news. A new pricing plan is coming soon.Yes, now is the time for him to get aggressive. A reasonable pricing plan for 1500 and below as @Dane says above would be ideal.
Thanks for letting me know...hopefully it will come in at a good price point.Good news. A new pricing plan is coming soon.
thanks. an example (of a domain parked this way) would be great. Also wondering whether Sedo still shows our info to fake (or any other) buyers.Sedo's new Domain Sale Landers(sl1.sedo.com & sl2.sedo.com) are of good quality, no lesser than Dan's.
Sedo's own example from their article about the new for Sale Landers is virtualkey dot net.thanks. an example (of a domain parked this way) would be great. Also wondering whether Sedo still shows our info to fake (or any other) buyers.
Leaving aside my general opinion about the 25% fee for sales with non-GoDaddy nameservers active at the time of sale, the domaincontrol.com nameservers should be included in the list of GoDaddy network nameservers. Currently, they're not included:
There's plenty of investors who sell domains after expiry. If the domains are still at GoDaddy, they're still GoDaddy parked pages. They think it's ok to charge 25% is just ridiculous.
The challenge for GoDaddy is probably to differentiate between regular GoDaddy customers using standard domaincontrol.com nameservers that they can configure themselves (GoDaddy has less control over that), and other uses of the same nameservers such as with expiring domain names. But there are plenty of smart people at GoDaddy who can find a solution for this.
I believe Topdom was asking for an actual website example from you. But thanks for clarifying some of the potential benefits, especially the one citing that you are not providing traffic to help sell someone else's domains!
Could you explain further why you feel that Daaz's use of the Cloudflare landers renders them mostly unusable? Daaz still seems like an interesting alternative, so I'd love to understand your perspective here.I would have used DaaZ (just a lander alternative for those in need of one; while I'm still 100% at Afternic). tried them for a bit long time ago. Except their landers are through Cloudflare, which renders them mostly unusable.
I'll never understand that.
And this is exactly what Afternic is demanding right now to their users. It's not enough for them to punish their Afternic users by increasing by a 10% (from 15% to 25%) the fees if you don't point your landers to their nameservers, but now they also want everybody to put the same price on their landers if they are not pointing to their "network" of nameservers. I guess they want to break the World Guiness record of Monopolistic behaviour.Russia's anti-monopoly agency has fined Booking.com a record €14.9 million for alleged market dominance.
Booking.com was accused of preventing Russian hotels and hostels from offering their services at lower prices on other platforms.
"For hotels, this meant that they could not set the prices for their services lower on other sales channels than on Booking.com."
"Such actions restrict competition in the market and harm the interests of hotels," it added.
Source:
https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/27...com-record-14-9m-for-alleged-market-dominance
Demanding that the pricing being the same across the board, even on non-GD-related sites, does raise some anti-trust concerns.And this is exactly what Afternic is demanding right now to their users. It's not enough for them to punish their Afternic users by increasing by a 10% (from 15% to 25%) the fees if you don't point your landers to their nameservers, but now they also want everybody to put the same price on their landers if they are not pointing to their "network" of nameservers. I guess they want to break the World Guiness record of Monopolistic behaviour.
I bet the European Commission would like to know about their "fixed price" and Anti-competitive behaviour, along with the US Anti-trust Agency.
They don’t mark them unparked. They are either resolving or they are not. You need to check your dns settings, type the names into browser etc. Problem is on your end.Not sure if this has been mentioned in this thread but......
I just checked through my domains for sale on Dan.com and about 1/2 the domains that it has marked as un-parked are actually parked.
I'm guessing that if any of those incorrectly marked domains get sold, I am going to get charged 25% commission, rather than 15%.
Anyone else seeing this issue ?
Has anyone sold a domain and then got incorrectly charged 25% ?
Thanks
I sometimes experience sporadically that the Parked symbol disappears from a domain in Dan's dashboard. Simply requesting the lander again fixes this immediately. So this could definitely be a (temporary) glitch at Dan as well.They don’t mark them unparked. They are either resolving or they are not. You need to check your dns settings, type the names into browser etc. Problem is on your end.