advice Afternic Sales Landing Page

[CakeCode]

Hi Guys

I need some help with Afternic sales page

I am new to using Afternic ... though I am not a big fan of their UI but my parked domains are getting good exposure with their premium network integration.

Cut to the chase.

I have listed around 20 of my domains on Afternic, Parked and with a BIN price.

But when I type the domain name in the browser I am seeing the Landing page with Ads but I dont see the Price I l listed

I there a way to see the Landing Page display the BIN price I set ?

I guess I explained my concern correctly


your help is appreciated .

 

[toughdomains]

Am I missing something?
Since afternic charges crazy commissions if you sell the name

20% ($15 minimum)
$0 to $5000
$1,000 +15% of amount over $5k
$5,001 to $25,000
$4,000 +10% of amount over $25k
$25,000 and over

wouldnt it be best to just list your name with afternic in their marketplace?
if the market place sells it then they earned their commission.
but why would you want to forward your domain traffic to their sales page? Many of the parking sites offer a free sales page and charge no commision if you sell the name with them.

If the buyer comes from afternic marketplace I can see they earned their % but if the buyer goes directly to your site why would you want to share the commision with afternic.

 

[NameGroove]

Am I missing something?
Since afternic charges crazy commissions if you sell the name

20% ($15 minimum)
$0 to $5000
$1,000 +15% of amount over $5k
$5,001 to $25,000
$4,000 +10% of amount over $25k
$25,000 and over

wouldnt it be best to just list your name with afternic in their marketplace?
if the market place sells it then they earned their commission.
but why would you want to forward your domain traffic to their sales page? Many of the parking sites offer a free sales page and charge no commision if you sell the name with them.

If the buyer comes from afternic marketplace I can see they earned their % but if the buyer goes directly to your site why would you want to share the commision with afternic.

This is exactly how I feel. Not going to pay them if someone finds me directly. Now I have to figure out how to list with them and yet point elsewhere. How can one do that?

Nameservers have to be pointed to Afternic to list with them, correct? So would the best (only) way to point elsewhere be to use the "forward" feature? Any other options?

 

[Joe N]

This is exactly how I feel. Not going to pay them if someone finds me directly. Now I have to figure out how to list with them and yet point elsewhere. How can one do that?

Nameservers have to be pointed to Afternic to list with them, correct? So would the best (only) way to point elsewhere be to use the "forward" feature? Any other options?

Nameservers don't have to be pointed to Afternic to list with them. Just add the names, set the pricing info, and you're good to go.

 

[NameGroove]

Nameservers don't have to be pointed to Afternic to list with them. Just add the names, set the pricing info, and you're good to go.

Unbelievable. My VIP GD acct manager told me otherwise months ago. So I thought I had no choice. Here was the convo:

Me: "And may I unpark the names? Just show "for sale" landing pages instead? Or are my only options to park with afternic or a competitor?"

GD VIP rep: "Unfortunately not. If you’re pointing to Afternic nameservers, they will automatically be added to cash parking. There is no way to separate the two at this time. You can find more info on Afternic’s parking service at https://www.afternic.com/domain-parking.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
xxxxx xxxxxx"

 

[Joe N]

Unbelievable. My VIP GD acct manager told me otherwise months ago. So I thought I had no choice. Here was the convo:

Me: "And may I unpark the names? Just show "for sale" landing pages instead? Or are my only options to park with afternic or a competitor?"

GD VIP rep: "Unfortunately not. If you’re pointing to Afternic nameservers, they will automatically be added to cash parking. There is no way to separate the two at this time. You can find more info on Afternic’s parking service at https://www.afternic.com/domain-parking.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
xxxxx xxxxxx"

Yeah, that's not a very informative answer. Basically you have a few options... Either park with them and point the nameservers there, list with them (no parking) and point the nameservers or set a redirect to the landing page, or just list with them and point the nameservers to your own landing page.

An earlier poster made a great point that creating your own landing page is a great way to go... That way you're avoiding the Afternic commission if the buyer directly navigates to your domain.

 

[toughdomains]

Unbelievable. My VIP GD acct manager told me otherwise months ago. So I thought I had no choice. Here was the convo:

Me: "And may I unpark the names? Just show "for sale" landing pages instead? Or are my only options to park with afternic or a competitor?"

GD VIP rep: "Unfortunately not. If you’re pointing to Afternic nameservers, they will automatically be added to cash parking. There is no way to separate the two at this time. You can find more info on Afternic’s parking service at https://www.afternic.com/domain-parking.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
xxxxx xxxxxx"

I get a request once every four months to move my portfolio to afternic or unireg....

this one just came in this week
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Hi
I wanted to make contact to discuss transferring your domain names to Uniregistry.com and the associated benefits of using our platform, such as:

• Personal Account Management
• Competitive Pricing
• FREE WHOIS Privacy
• Powerful platform to manage and organize your domains
• Mobile App (Android and iOS)
• Marketplace and Monetization

If this is of interest I'd be happy to set you up with preferential pricing. To proceed, I'd need a bit more information about your portfolio such as how many domains you currently own and what extensions etc.

We could probably cover this on a quick call. What's the best time to call and what number should I use?

Let me know how I can help.

Best,

I replied and said I use the system I built with zero commisions and no reply.

 

[toughdomains]

im a little bias but i think all parked domains should have a bin button. a well optimized page can increase offers by over 100%

 

[NameGroove]

Amazingly Afternic just came out with free landers that come without parking! Just point to ns3.afternic.com and ns4.afternic.com and off we go. I swapped all my names listed with them to this... hopefully this helps sales.

 

[Premiums]

Amazingly Afternic just came out with free landers that come without parking! Just point to ns3.afternic.com and ns4.afternic.com and off we go. I swapped all my names listed with them to this... hopefully this helps sales.

any example please

 

[NameGroove]

any example please

Go to ekittens and be sure to type in the dot and the com at the end to see the Afternic lander

 

[alcy]

Go to ekittens and be sure to type in the dot and the com at the end to see the Afternic lander

this is their standard contact form that's been around for years.

 

[NameGroove]

this is their standard contact form that's been around for years.

I was told by Afternic directly that it was not allowed to be used solely w/o parking pages showing and that it was something new (or perhaps they meant brought back). Either way, it wasn't available to me until recently.

 

[Haroon Basha]

Go to ekittens and be sure to type in the dot and the com at the end to see the Afternic lander

Here is example:
JEWISHSUPERSTORE.COM

 

[DNGear]

how about a landing page displaying min offer and bin prices?
@Joe Styler

 

[Joe Styler]

We are looking over the landing pages and have some ideas that we will test for conversion internally and then when we find the ones that perform best roll them out for our customers to use. Right now you can point to ns3 and n4.afternic.com for a for sale lander on Afternic which we announced two months ago but not everyone knows.

 

[Nattydomain]

I got an email about 1-2 weeks ago about new afternic landers. @Joe Styler if I point my domains to that DNS will it appear with the new lander and that is all I need to do?

 

[Joe Styler]

We don't have an answer for that yet. We are still working on the new lander ideas for testing.

 

[siravi]

Nice and thanks for sharing this information.

 

[namescan]

Here is example:
JEWISHSUPERSTORE.COM

Very clean looking. Have you had any emails on it? I was going to make a lander but with a photo image in the background. Now I'm wondering if that might be too distractive.