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.

 

[dmblea]

For my own edification if someone happens to know what that reason is, and you believe it is your place to say, your insight is appreciated.

 

[411domains]

Appreciate the suggestion, but I already did that. Just very frustrating, as I would have rather had my listings at one marketplace (much like going to only one grocery store, in lieu multiple stores for different items). I can’t even imagine what those specific three GoDaddy registered domains have in common to prevent a GoDaddy platform (Afternic) to allow me to list them for sale. Not the end of the world. I will look at Atom, as many of you have suggested).

@dmblea - That was just a best guess.

If you added the verification nameserver before re-adding them and it didn't work, then it sounds to me like an issue for @GoDaddy ...who's place it is to say.

 

[wwwweb]

Last week I decided to move some of my GoDaddy domains back over to Afternic after several years of using Sedo and Dan, and my experience so far has been somewhat disappointing. Allow me to explain. So far I uploaded about 30 names, of which three of them (PVBF .com, HMFD .com and LVAU .com) have shown Pending Sync for about a week now. This morning I called Afternic to see why, and how I am able to bypass this, and the rep told me that they could not listed with Afternic "for compliance reasons". The rep could not tell me why. So basically 10% of the names I tried to list with them, I am unable to so. I should also mention that these three domains have been owned by me for years, and have never had a problem listing them with other marketplaces. Here is my predicament. Moving forward, as I upload more domains for sale, I do not want to have 10% of my names going through this same issue. Is there a workaround to get these three names listed at Afternic, or should I just move these domains elsewhere to avoid a similar situation moving forward as I list more names? Thanks in advance.

4L's get tagged in that sync, takes about a week, it had something to do with an incident that happend a few months back when someone went and added all these 4L's that they didn't own onto the system, and kept doing it, when they deleted them, so they put a block on them, and they have to sync in.

 

[silentg]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861133485764743585

They enabled the traffic data on all domains.

 

[dmblea]

4L's get tagged in that sync, takes about a week, it had something to do with an incident that happend a few months back when someone went and added all these 4L's that they didn't own onto the system, and kept doing it, when they deleted them, so they put a block on them, and they have to sync in.

Thank you for this explanation wwwweb.

 

[zomainhacks]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861133485764743585

They enabled the traffic data on all domains.

What a stupid idea

 

[wwwweb]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861133485764743585

They enabled the traffic data on all domains.

Might be a good idea to have domain owners opt in , opt out like boost. You are simply giving confused inquires more reason to low ball your domain offers if they have no traffic stats. This is a very dangerous game that is being played, and godaddy never even asked the domain holders about this. Even domain appraisals on unpriced domains is a dangerous game, but we keep going deeper down this rabbit hole, it's time domain owners are given some rights on what they choose to share in regards to their domains.

 

[Dane]

Might be a good idea to have domain owners opt in , opt out like boost.

Good luck with that.

This is a very dangerous game that is being played, and godaddy never even asked the domain holders about this.

Typical GoDaddy bullcrap. We're all getting very, very tired of it.

 

[DomainRecap]

2028 hopefully. I'm curious as to why they never answer this question. That's the main issue affecting sales.

I beg to differ and IMO the main issue affecting sales is the lack of a seller brokerage tool combined with the often-ludicrous response times of brokers (at least 2 days on average). Sure, platform issues and delays affect the number of offers/buys, but these are people who have already jumped through all the hoops and actually submitted an offer... and they're being made to wait even longer.

A buyer offering a price on your domain, then having to twiddle their thumbs for 2-3 business days before getting a response, is an absolute killer of sales. And it's not just me, as most of the big domainers are complaining about the exact same thing on X.

The sooner Afternic provides a functional seller brokerage tool, the sooner I can get back to making money.

 

[Janoss]

I find it hard to believe showing traffic data of 0 or low number of visits for undeveloped names helps sell them better. Will @GoDaddy keep testing if this is actually holds true over a longer period of time or have they already made the decision to keep showing this traffic data long term? Did they test whether it helped increase sales across all price points or was it different among lower or higher priced domains? Was there any difference in conversion rate increases for domains showing high visits opposed to those with low visits?

In my opinion even with large sample size it is hard to reliably test for these and come to a firm conclusion when it comes to domain sales especially if the experiment was only run for 1 month.

 

[kesen]

Hi Godaddy/AFTERNIC, when will we get our payment of Notiflow.com sold last month? we waiting for 27 days now. You told us your company checking, what are you checking?

 

[kesen]

Hi Godaddy/AFTERNIC, when will we get our payment of Notiflow.com sold last month? we waiting for 27 days now. You told us your company checking, what are you checking?

 

[Recons.Com]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861133485764743585

They enabled the traffic data on all domains.

@GoDaddy

1. I don't have much faith in Godaddy's ability to do proper scientific a/b tests, or anything scientific for that matter. Look at boost and all that claimed up to 10% increase. There is no way it can add anything given the search results offered and even boosted names not showing. I tested it for couple of days and it wouldn't show, e.g., Myrtles.com when searching for singular Myrtle. And for other cases, the boosted names were something like 30th-50th in the list with lots of bs before that.

2. GD should ban its developers from working on "new" features and ways to increase sales until they take care of basics, like shopping cart loading under 10 sec, bugs and issues getting reported automatically to QA/QC team and getting resolved within hours and lots of other things reported in this thread and GD thread.

3. The traffic, backlink etc. info can be confusing and can hurt the sales. At least, people should be able to opt out. Also, what if you don't have the lander of a name? So you will put just zero for a name that has great traffic? It seems just like another tactic to force people to use Afternic landers. You've got good traffic name, but it is pointing elsewhere? Tough. We will just tell buyers it doesn't have any traffic.

 

[carob]

A good friend called Dan told me a new joke:

Q: How many Godaddies does it take to change a lightbulb?








A: One. They buy the bulb, then they break it.

 

[AEProgram]

A good friend called Dan told me a new joke:

Q: How many Godaddies does it take to change a lightbulb?








A: One. They buy the bulb, then they break it.

status of light bulb change? confused or stalled. We are in the dark.

 

[Yanosh]

Got an offer on a domain since yesterday
The lead broker has yet to reach back to the buyer
Not a great amount , but this is not the way to do things

 

[Jannes]

1. I don't have much faith in Godaddy's ability to do proper scientific a/b tests, or anything scientific for that matter.

Indeed, why should be believe that their non-peer-reviewable research methodology is somehow less buggy than their platform?

 

[BigTree]

A good friend called Dan told me a new joke:

Q: How many Godaddies does it take to change a lightbulb?



A: One. They buy the bulb, then they break it.

I am not sure how many.
But I am sure it will take ages.

 

[Jannes]

Well in any case they change an LED (Dan) to an incandescent bulb.

 

[Vivere]

@GoDaddy, @Paul Nicks, @Joe Styler

The community has spoken: many of us don’t want the “insights” feature.

If doing away with it entirely isn’t feasible, how about these suggestions:

1.) As others have mentioned above, allow sellers to opt in or out of the insights feature. This gives flexibility to those who value the insights and those who don't want them shown.

2.) Display insights only when the metrics are favorable, similar to how domain value estimates appear when the BIN price is below GoDaddy’s estimated value. This approach positions insights solely as a selling point (RTB) to encourage purchases, rather than a potential deterrent or dissuading factor that could diminish the perceived value of a domain in buyers’ minds.

Implementing either—or both—would be a win-win for everyone involved.