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.

 

[GoDaddy]

Sold a domain on Afternic (fast transfer) on 8/12.

In the email it said "we will send you an email within 7-10 days regarding your payment..."

On 8/14 I received an email saying the transfer was complete.

Payout date is scheduled as 8/17.

I am not sure about others, but I have noticed faster payments lately.

Brad

Thanks for your feedback, @bmugford! That's great to see. We will be updating the emails this year. Stay tuned.

 

[411domains]

Sold a domain on Afternic (fast transfer) on 8/12.

In the email it said "we will send you an email within 7-10 days regarding your payment..."

On 8/14 I received an email saying the transfer was complete.

Payout date is scheduled as 8/17.

I am not sure about others, but I have noticed faster payments lately.

Brad

Same here.

 

[kor]

I've been waiting for a small payment (~ $150) since 3 months.

That's all the joke.

 

[411domains]

Question for @GoDaddy /Afternic in reference to DAN landers via Afternic.

During a lander test, I discovered a potential privacy issue for sellers.

All domains utilizing DAN landers in each Afternic portfolio are exposed, searchable and shareable via the DAN "Domain Seller's Domain Shop" that is generated for each specific Afternic account.

All one needs to do is search the domain on DAN, click on "Domain Seller" and voila! There's everything in that portfolio using a DAN lander.

For the sake of those interested in utilizing the DAN landers at Afternic, but prefer privacy and do not wish to have their portfolios publicly displayed for all to see and share, would it be possible to disable access to the Domain Shop that's created when DAN landers are selected?

Much like our Privacy settings at Afternic, we have this option at DAN as well. (See "Promote your Domain Store" below.)

Edit: Note: If you just changed to DAN landers and you're trying to duplicate this, it takes approximately 15-20 minutes for the domains to begin showing up in the DAN search results. (Give or take a few minutes)

 

[Rhinnnn]

I am again seeing delays in price updates - I have new prices in my Aftenic account for some domains but these are not reflected on GoDaddy or any other Afternic partner.

Plus, when I updated the price of a .xyz domain, said domain just... disappeared from my account Though I can still see it in Classic Afternic.

 

[Future Sensors]

@GoDaddy When I click on the Buy Now button on an Afternic BIN Lander, I get the following error, over and over again. Only in a few cases does the domain end up in the cart successfully.

A submission error occurred​

Please try refreshing the page or return in a few minutes.


I'm seeing this error in Firefox latest, with all extensions disabled for testing purposes. It's an intermittent problem. Not able to reproduce this in Chrome.

Please investigate and fix this, thank you.

 

[Jeff_Libert]

I'm posting to acknowledge that domain sales on Afternic are moving much faster from domain transfer to funds transfer (to me ). This is much more satisfying than waiting 7, 10, 12+ days to receive payment post-transfer. So, allow me to say "Yay!" and "Amen!" and thanks for fixing this.

 

[Future Sensors]

I just recently noticed that Afternic now has a full TLS implementation on customer domain landers. About 10-15 seconds after a first visit to the lander, a custom TLS certificate issued by "Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2" is created for each individual domain.

I want to congratulate the Afternic team on this milestone.

Now that full TLS has been implemented, I am ready to test the Afternic landers again.

I missed the announcement of this. Has there been any communication about it at all?

I'm still looking forward to getting a little more insight into the overall conversion data of DAN- and Afternic BIN landers respectively. Which are currently performing best?

 

[kor]

Although not directly linked to afternic, I need the following function for the godaddy domain portfolio page:

It would be great to be able to bulk update DNS records using existing DNS templates.

Frankly, it is very tiring and time-consuming to go to each domain name one by one and click on the same points over and over again when performing batch operations.

Also, the domain portfolio home page is too cumbersome for me. While scrolling the domain list, the page stutters. I guess it needs some optimization.

 

[user128]

Hello all, I would like to sell domain (register is porkbun) Does Afternic provide any way to get payout if I'm from Ukraine. On the page Manage payment details I can see only 3 payment methods Wire Transfer (huge form to fill in), Good as Gold (don't work anymore as I know) and Hold My Payments. Is there a simpler way to get money to PayPal or visa card. Or Could you advice an another marketplace that more eligible for my goal?

 

[cabotower]

paypal is available in ukraine, afternic pays out via paypal. what is the problem? it is explained here, under selling your domains.

https://www.afternic.com/domain-help

 

[user128]

On the page "Manage payment details" I can see only 3 payment methods Wire Transfer, Good as Gold and Hold My Payments.

 

[cabotower]

On the page "Manage payment details" I can see only 3 payment methods Wire Transfer, Good as Gold and Hold My Payments.

under 'domain sale payments from afternic' is there an option to add a new payee? if there is you can try to setup paypal.

 

[GoDaddy]

Question for @GoDaddy /Afternic in reference to DAN landers via Afternic.

During a lander test, I discovered a potential privacy issue for sellers.

All domains utilizing DAN landers in each Afternic portfolio are exposed, searchable and shareable via the DAN "Domain Seller's Domain Shop" that is generated for each specific Afternic account.

All one needs to do is search the domain on DAN, click on "Domain Seller" and voila! There's everything in that portfolio using a DAN lander.

For the sake of those interested in utilizing the DAN landers at Afternic, but prefer privacy and do not wish to have their portfolios publicly displayed for all to see and share, would it be possible to disable access to the Domain Shop that's created when DAN landers are selected?

Much like our Privacy settings at Afternic, we have this option at DAN as well. (See "Promote your Domain Store" below.)

Edit: Note: If you just changed to DAN landers and you're trying to duplicate this, it takes approximately 15-20 minutes for the domains to begin showing up in the DAN search results. (Give or take a few minutes)

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Hi @411domains,
We've tested this out today, and it brings us to this page. Can you send us a DM with what you're seeing?

I am again seeing delays in price updates - I have new prices in my Aftenic account for some domains but these are not reflected on GoDaddy or any other Afternic partner.

Plus, when I updated the price of a .xyz domain, said domain just... disappeared from my account Though I can still see it in Classic Afternic.

Hi @Rhinnnn,
Sorry to hear that. We will ask our engineers to look at this possible sync issue. Thank you for reporting this.

@GoDaddy When I click on the Buy Now button on an Afternic BIN Lander, I get the following error, over and over again. Only in a few cases does the domain end up in the cart successfully.

A submission error occurred​

Please try refreshing the page or return in a few minutes.


I'm seeing this error in Firefox latest, with all extensions disabled for testing purposes. It's an intermittent problem. Not able to reproduce this in Chrome.

Please investigate and fix this, thank you.

Hi @Future Sensors,
We tried to replicate this, but we couldn't. It's something we'll look out for and we will alert our team.

On the page "Manage payment details" I can see only 3 payment methods Wire Transfer, Good as Gold and Hold My Payments.

Hi @user128,
If you aren't able to see a PayPal option, we'd recommend contacting the Afternic customer service team: https://www.afternic.com/contact-afternic

 

[GoDaddy]

Any news on this? I am still unable to select payees for not-yet-scheduled payouts.
Losing existing and useful functionality is unacceptable.

Hi @tonyk2000
This has been fixed, and the option is available again. We're sorry it took a little longer than expected, thanks for your patience.

 

[user128]

That's response Afternic Support. Also I'm from Ukraine.
"Thank you for contacting Afternic Support.
We understand that you would like to know the available payment methods to you.

If you do not see a payee type in the drop-down (PayPal, Check, etc.) that means the payment method is not supported in your country. Please note: Good as Gold is no longer available as an option."

 

[VadimK]

@GoDaddy

Hey guys, what's up with never ending ''pending'' status on some of the names? Can't you just throw them one side or another, so we don't contemplate pending names till the end of the eternity?

Another thing - would be nice to come up with some sort of filter to be able to copy-paste names in bulk and call them out in the system for repricing or deleting purposes in bulk - not one by one).

Thanks!!

 

[ArielT]

@GoDaddy

i found some domains that are not visible in my account

I know they are in my account because if I try to add them they appear as "in my account" but I don't see them by using the search box

Any known reason for this?

Also, another question:

After a price update, how much time does the propagation take? ( Both, on Afternic and resellers )

Thanks

 

[phaethon]

@GoDaddy

i found some domains that are not visible in my account

I know they are in my account because if I try to add them they appear as "in my account" but I don't see them by using the search box

Any known reason for this?

Also, another question:

After a price update, how much time does the propagation take? ( Both, on Afternic and resellers )

Thanks

I had the same issue, they will appear shortly. Patience.

 

[ArielT]

I had the same issue, they will appear shortly. Patience.

Today I made some price updates. I wonder if that could be the reason

I'm patient but there could be a bug