Afternic - Official Thread

[GoDaddy]

Hello NamePros!
By popular demand, we have launched a dedicated feedback thread for Afternic, the GoDaddy-owned domain name marketplace.

We have created this thread as a way for you to tell us what works, what doesn't work, and what features you'd like to see at Afternic (please be constructive with your feedback). We're looking forward to hearing from the domain investment community to help us shape the future of Afternic.

We will also be sharing Afternic product updates in this thread.

Please note that this thread is not meant for support. Please email our support team at [email protected] for assistance.

 

[ISD Domains]

Had an inquiry a couple of days ago. Are these new detailed descriptions? I'm used to seeing "email sent to buyer" or "email received from buyer" - are the messages some sort of Chat interface (instead of email)?

The broker sent a message
The buyer sent a message


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Here is an explanation from a broker:

“The broker sent a message" is me directly reaching out to the buyer through their GoDaddy account where the offer was submitted. “email sent to buyer” is me sending them an email. I alternate between the two incase they are not seeing one or the other. If they had a phone number, I would call as well but they did not provide one.

This was the case with an offer received from Custom Lander.

 

[rh2000]

Do these Afternic brokers ever close a sale? I wonder what they are saying in the emails.

 

[love4ever]

Do these Afternic brokers ever close a sale? I wonder what they are saying in the emails.

Every month they pick up some domains from our portfolio and send the copy paste emails that endup stalled to create a show infornt of afternic head of sales department, ''That we are doing our job with evidences'' .
So when sales manager evaluating this brokers het get image that our boys are good and doing their best .
This scenarios not happing only in afternic, its a common practice/games played by some companies staff to survive at work and not lose job .

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[campout]

Anyone notice that Godaddy has removed the LTO option in the reg path from most/all names that have a premium renewal, even if the renewal is low.

 

[URL Stream]

Given the importance of this issue, I'll take the liberty of repeating repeating myself over here in this thread, in the hope that @GoDaddy and @Afternic might take notice:

Has anyone here used a custom Afternic 'checkout link' for a .si name?

Good question @URL Stream, thanks for bringing up this important topic.

Folks, it's good that I have this anxiety to always check the custom link before sending it out.

When I tried it now, this came up:

After speaking with customer service, it seems that while Afternic supports .si, GoDaddy doesn't.

If that's the case, Afternic should never allow a checkout link to be created in the first place, only for the transaction to blow up in the buyer's face.

Tagging @Afternic and @GoDaddy for clarification ASAP.

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Edit: Copy of AN support email:

Hello,

Thank you for calling Afternic today.

As mentioned during our conversation, we discussed that you were having issues generating* a custom checkout link for _____. As mentioned, Custom Checkout Links go through GoDaddy and .si domains are not currently supported at GoDaddy. I'll need to escalate this to confirm if a custom checkout link can be used to purchase ______. Our team will let you know as soon as we have further updates regarding this.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,
Lyubov
Afternic Support

*uploading

 

[Optinom]

Over the past few days, two of my domains reached "On Hold" status, but neither ended up converting into a final sale. Usually, once a domain hits "On Hold," the conversion rate is near 100%, so having two fall through in such a short window feels unusual.

Are any of you noticing similar issues or uncompleted transactions in your accounts lately? Curious if this is just a statistical anomaly on my end or if there might be an platform issue going on.

 

[Name2go]

Over the past few days, two of my domains reached "On Hold" status, but neither ended up converting into a final sale. Usually, once a domain hits "On Hold," the conversion rate is near 100%, so having two fall through in such a short window feels unusual.

Are any of you noticing similar issues or uncompleted transactions in your accounts lately? Curious if this is just a statistical anomaly on my end or if there might be an platform issue going on.

I have additional anger with third-party actions. Listings on Afternic and Dynadot marketplaces which are not mine. (The domains are mine but not the sale listings.)
Sedo no such problems.