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Hi there, I'm considering listing my names at Dan or Afternic. Just was wondering which got you more sales, Afternic or Dan?
Thank you in advance!
Thank you in advance!
Well, you do have to ask for special permission to do so---at least when I first signed on. The advantage is that someone interested in one type of domains gets to see those types.This is an excellent strategy. Good to know.
That's good to know. Have you had more success overall with DAN or Afternic?The guys at dan are great, more friendly and less robotic. The site is super user friendly and functioning, and the landing pages are the best bar none. However, the amount of false inquiries on there is out of control. So I recommend just setting BIN prices and disabling offers of any kind. That way, you will know when they sell.
Same here. Thanks for the insight.I've had more inquiries on dan but more actual sales on afternic.
Noted. If each account was treated independently I could see the requirement applying to both.Note though that this could affect your status as a trusted seller. There was, at least in the past, the need for five sales before you were given the label.. If there are multiple accounts, it's unclear that you can have that designation across the board, unless each had the required number of sales. That may be worth checking on, before you proceed with splitting the portfolio in to the "niche" collections.
You would think that they would mirror the functionality of things that are working on both platforms.Both are owned by GoDaddy, as you probably know already.
Yes, that would be nice.You would think that they would mirror the functionality of things that are working on both platforms.
Landing pages for example.
I list each my domain with one price on all marketplaces.Yes, that would be nice.
Why not have BIN allowed on both Afternic AND Dan? BIN is quoted generally to have a 3x higher likelihood of sale, over the "make offer." This could be an immediate improvement under GoDaddy's leadership.
Isn't it strange.
We have the godaddy/DAN merge since some months now, and still one have to manually list domains there and here...
instead of having the option of syncing.
So what's the right way? Host mini site writing Domain is for sale for {price} ?They are all bad. I repeat everywhere, but NONE improves themselves.
Because being bad means more profit in a dishonest way.
MARKETPLACES SEEM TO HAVE TWO PURPOSES:
-Collect leads from real endusers
-Buy from domainers anonymously
Start from Epik. It was great. It was working. Their registrar was the best. Their marketplace was the best.
Now their marketplace works, but they get all the profit, they used their MASTERBUCKS scambucks-1 until recently, and they separated MASTERBUCKS-Scambucks1 from Epik, together with your money, and don't accept any responsibility for your money they left at their MASTERBUCKS-scambucks1-wallet. Pure instult to everyone's iq. Next, they invented MARKETPLACE-Scambucks-2. New sales money goes there. They claim money went to instore, but no, it really goes to SCAMBUCKS-2 wallet of Epik. And next thing they will do:separate their scambucks-2 from EPik, and accept no responsibilty for your money left there.
They switched from being the best to being a domain terrorist (killing your domains and money earned from domains, also killing our time and patience). NEW: YOU CAN'T REMOVE DOMAINS FROM THEIR MARKETPLACE. THEY CAN BUY ALL YOUR DOMAINS WITH THEIR OWN SCAMBUCKS.
Dynadot: They are too dependent on cloudflare. Cloudlfare can block anything, and they really do. Things get worse everyday.
SEDO: Their search engine sucks totally. it is totally useless, plus, people may not find your domain with almost exact search. Sedo's purpose is clearly to collect leads, rather than making a fair sale possible. You will get lowballs, and fake offers, which indicate domainer/agent activity rather than real enduser activity. And all this is intentional: they hide buyer info, and give seller's info to fake buyers for free; while it should be the exact opposite. Also once the buyer is ready to pay by cc, they discourage payment, by adding CC fees, this way they collect leads, and prevent sales.
DAN: As said above. Dan first killed itself, instead of fixing bugs, they added more bugs. And they were killed by AN/GD.
Now we are left with AN/GD. We should be happy with only 15 percent commission, and high prestige of GD right? No, first their landing pages are not indexable. Second, your fixed prices are not visible. People need to call GD, or send a message to GD. You will never know about those messages. GD agents then can do one of these:
1. Not do anything, keep the lead, and wait until the domain expires, and then drop catch or grab via registrar auctions without much competition. PURE LOSS for the seller.
2. They can try to buy from another marketplace, lowball at Sedo, or Dan to secure a low price, and separately negotiate with the buyer. Or make price request at Afternic.
3. Contact you directly. They can be completely honest about it, but they will think they will get away by not being so, They can buy and sell simultaneously, to make things look like 2 legitimate purchases.
How could we prevent arbitrage attempts, and avoid killing sale from such attempts: Add a visible price somewhere, which should be a little over your asking price. this way you can keep agents motivated enough,
and scared enough at the same time, to make a reasonable sale possible, with some small arbitrage amount. BUT THEY DON'T SHOW PRICES ON LANDING PAGES, and landing pages are not indexable, so if you want to let endusers see your price easily, you need a non-AN/GD landing pages. But this would mean 25 percent , instead of 15 percent commissiion. May still be worth it.
But where should you list them. Epik: No, Epik will buy with scambucks. Sedo: Sedo is also trying to prevent sales. also making listing domains time consuming, and promising to give your info to any fake buyer for free. and agents know this.
Domaining is getting naster everytday.
Dynadot has many good aspects, but: cloudflare is extremely annoying, insulting visitors by saying "are you human", before visitors can learn it is a for sale landing page. it can block access from any party. Also Dynadot has an ugly name, no reason to trust such as an awkward sounding site. We like it as domainers, but because we know how it is like. For newcomers it is a turnoff.
So what's the right way? Host mini site writing Domain is for sale for {price} ?