It has nothing to do with that. That is not the answer on many of the things people ask or of course it would be done. It is not a wordpress site or something where you can just go in and make a 5 minute update.
The main reason we do not offer this now is that we use a third party software on the back end for that part of Afternic. It is not our software we can just change. That is how Afternic was when we bought it. In the current state we would have to purchase a license for each customer to see their info. We have purchased additional licenses for our top sellers.
We have a balance of spending time redoing our older code, integrating the companies we buy into our code base, and releasing new features, or onboarding new sales partners, etc. We do all of this and have over the past several years done some amazing things on the back end to be able to integrate services better and faster and also allow for scale, worldwide. Like opening and supporting a European sales team that has landers in local language and support and sales teams in those languages in Europe. China is underway as well. Navigating through International compliance and infrastructure takes real time and hard work to get things to work on the front end seamlessly when someone comes to buy your domain on a registrar in China in Chinese that we added and had to do dev work to get onboard in the last year, or a sales lander in German in Germany getting to a broker on our team who is in Europe and Speaks German and gets them on the phone right then on their time zone. on our backend (most of the time).
We have also been redoing the back end code for things like Smartname. Behind the scenes now that code is all pretty much redone and retired. There is now an easy way to get the domains that have duplicate records on parking to be removed from the person who doesn't own it and added automatically to the correct account on GoDaddy's cash parking using that code base. A solution for the smartname side will come in the near future. That work on the backend involved many other things as well for parking and now we are able to scale easier. We serve pages and ads faster and better, have a better performing template and are performing much better revenue wise for people who use us than at any time in the recent past with more improvements on the way in the near future.
We have been heavily focused on improving sales reach, but we have also focused on a lot of things in the back end which will allow for other changes in the future to be faster and easier. The sales focus has helped our sellers overall see a dramatic increase in their average sales price, and average sell through rate over the past couple years.
We have been having some meetings lately focusing more and more on the customer experience and that will continue to improve over the next year. Things like stats being available were discussed. Most if not all of the suggestions from customers on here were included.
I appreciate all the feedback. That's why I am here, so please keep it coming. My point is that often there are other things going on. We are not ignoring you, quite the opposite.
Firstly, Many thanks for your reply Joe, and engaging with the domaining community.
Could I clarify, the new ns3/ns4 landers launched in 2018 aren't part of legacy Afternic are they? They run on AWS, launched recently.
Since 2016 there hasn't been any good reason to use proprietary or 3rd party. It's all Linux, LAMP etc since then.
The redirect anyway is just a redirect, done at the HTTP level, it's one line of code that checks the resolving name, and does an HTTP 302 redirect
ns3/ns4 runs on your AWS server 54.208.77.124 are you in control of this machine to make the changes?
$ wget acecakes.com
--2019-09-11 09:56:57--
http://acecakes.com/
Resolving acecakes.com (acecakes.com)... 54.208.77.124, 35.169.58.188
Connecting to acecakes.com (acecakes.com)|54.208.77.124|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location:
https://www.afternic.com/forsale/ac...C&traffic_type=TDFS_DASLNC&traffic_id=daslnc& [following]
--2019-09-11 09:56:57--
https://www.afternic.com/forsale/ac...C&traffic_type=TDFS_DASLNC&traffic_id=daslnc&
Resolving
www.afternic.com (
www.afternic.com)... 23.55.23.86, 2a02:26f0:a1:583::364d, 2a02:26f0:a1:5a2::364d
Connecting to
www.afternic.com (
www.afternic.com)|23.55.23.86|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12680 (12K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’
Can this HTTP 302 redirect be logged in mysql?
While Chinese or German speakers may benefit some buyers, all our Chinese or German buyers write to us in English for our portfolio.
This ns3/ns4 has to be the no.1 issue at GoDaddy. We've just lost a whole year with the buggy new Domain Manager, still buggy, our GoDaddy account manger does his best, manually fixing many things, but it's probably wasted 200 hours of our staff time. The old Domain Manager was great, much better. Feels like a lot of time might be being spent on things that aren't a good focus.
Thanks again for engaging with the community.
Let me know if you want me to fly in for a top level meeting!