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.

 

[Jannes]

Today I don't need to do 2FA every half an hour. I hope this is permanent.

 

[Mlebo]

Having an issue with my landing page on afternic. Instead of buy it now icon showing it showing a "Shop at 101domains.com icon" Obviously I will not be leaving the it as my landing page. Seems to be just on this domain. I even just changed it to the buy it now lander instead of the custom and it does the same thing.
Has anyone else ran into this?

 

[Future Sensors]

Having an issue with my landing page on afternic. Instead of buy it now icon showing it showing a "Shop at 101domains.com icon" Obviously I will not be leaving the it as my landing page. Seems to be just on this domain. I even just changed it to the buy it now lander instead of the custom and it does the same thing.
Has anyone else ran into this?

Don't know, but...

https://www.namepros.com/threads/afternic-official-thread.1295231/page-99#post-9249830

 

[GoDaddy]

@GoDaddy please retrain your employees (or AI SI agents), this level of professionalism is mind-boggling


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You're right, and we're updating this. .si domains don't require a 60-day lock. We'll be able to handle these without 60-day notices.

 

[Name2go]

How is this possible @GoDaddy:

I put my domain name ky .si on Afternic as "not listed". I did this years ago to avoid scammers respectively previous owners.

Today a potential buyer brought this to my attention:

 

[campout]

Having an issue with my landing page on afternic. Instead of buy it now icon showing it showing a "Shop at 101domains.com icon" Obviously I will not be leaving the it as my landing page. Seems to be just on this domain. I even just changed it to the buy it now lander instead of the custom and it does the same thing.
Has anyone else ran into this?

Yes it's a widespread glitch appearing on all sorts of seemingly random domains: both ccTLDs and new gTLDs that I've seen. I keep finding more of my domains effected by it. It not only renders the lander useless, but it also blocks your domain from being bought via the GoDaddy reg path. It will show as "not available."

And there's no way to know which of your domains are effected unless you happen to navigate to your lander and notice it. Your Afternic account will tell you everything is fine with the domain.

Also: if you click through the 101Domain link, an error message comes up. So it can't even be bought on 101Domain!

 

[DaveX]

Is the afternic site down right now?

 

[Mlebo]

Yes it's a widespread glitch appearing on all sorts of seemingly random domains: both ccTLDs and new gTLDs that I've seen. I keep finding more of my domains effected by it. It not only renders the lander useless, but it also blocks your domain from being bought via the GoDaddy reg path. It will show as "not available."

And there's no way to know which of your domains are effected unless you happen to navigate to your lander and notice it. Your Afternic account will tell you everything is fine with the domain.

Also: if you click through the 101Domain link, an error message comes up. So it can't even be bought on 101Domain!

Would deleting the listing and adding it again resolve the issue?

 

[campout]

Would deleting the listing and adding it again resolve the issue?

I tried that and while it appeared to cure the lander issue, the domain is still not available in the reg path.

 

[Mlebo]

Briefly called afternic customer service today and they had no idea what I was talking about.

 

[Mlebo]

I tried that and while it appeared to cure the lander issue, the domain is still not available in the reg path.

Godaddy reached out they are looking into it. But I was curious what extension was the domains you had this issue with?

 

[wwwweb]

Anyone else not get there LTO payment emails last night?

 

[campout]

Godaddy reached out they are looking into it.

They've known about it for over a month.

Afternic @afternic September 6, 2026

Thanks for flagging this. This is down to a sync issue between Afternic and GoDaddy for your listing. We're already investigating and expect it to reflect through the GoDaddy purchase path again very soon.

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[campout]

what extension was the domains you had this issue with?

.me
.network
.link
.trade
.band
.kids
.team

The list keeps getting longer every day or two as I stumble upon more.

 

[DomainRecap]

One of my pet peeves with Afternic is that the brokers never seem to update the Offer Price or Status fields on the transaction, other than Stalled or Confused.

I have accepted multiple offers over the past few months, and none of them ever say "Offer Accepted" (as they used to), and often remain at Qualifying or Negotiation before falling into Stalled or sometimes Accepted. Since I have like a billion Stalled negotiations, I actually use these Status Indicators to determine which transactions are still live, and at what stage they're at.

They also don't update the Current Offer Price on the transaction, and I'm constantly trying to figure out what the buyer's highest offer is. Each time I have to parse through the transactions (which don't have the correct Status), then search inside each individual negotiation, rather than just looking the Offer Price in the Lead Center. For example, get an initial offer of $1000, and over a period of a week or more, I counter at $10000, he counters at $4000, I counter at $7000, he counters at $5500... etc., etc.

And what's on the Lead Center as the current Offer Price? $1000.

It's irritating to have to search each and every transaction to find basic data that should be displayed on the Lead Center, and although in the past Afternic hasn't been perfect with updating these fields, right now is about the worst it's ever been. If brokers are not going to use the Offer or Status fields, then just get rid of them, as continually displaying incorrect data is even more confusing for sellers.

 

[Yanosh]

Anyone else experiencing this on Afternic ?

 

[Future Sensors]

Anyone else experiencing this on Afternic ?

Yes, it was discussed recently ^



@GoDaddy has been silent, though.

 

[Yanosh]

Yes, it was discussed recently ^



@GoDaddy has been silent, though.

Oh , thanks

Guess i’ll move the domain elsewhere

 

[point2021]

Why don't you have a marketplace for public display on the homepage?

 

[DN_Hunter]

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