Dan.com - Problem with landing pages

[Kostas]

I have my portfolio at Dan.com and today I noticed that landing pages do not work properly.

The problem is apparent the first time you visit a new domain. It just won't load.

I have tried this over several iphones, browser safari and brave, different IPs (Greece)
The same happens on Mac but not on Windows or Android from my tests.

After 2-3 tries of waiting 5-10seconds, the domain will load and after that it continuous to load without problem for several minutes.

To demonstrate, pick any domain from your dan portfolio that you haven't visited recently (within the day) and try to load it on an iphone. I hope it works for you and the problem is only local. I have contacted Dan and they will investigate.

I understand this is very weird but it is what's happening, most probably a problem with the SSL certificates (the message I get on some browsers is "can not establish a secure connection"). Why it works after you try 2-3 times to visit the domain I don't know.

 

[Dane]

I'm sure this is a temporary (302) redirect that doesn't affect any ranking but it's not a great solution either.

I'm testing the following approach:

1. Use my own hosting & DNS for a group of domains for sale
2. Link an image or text etc. to the Dan internal page
3. Internal lander is make offer or request price only (because if it has a BIN that it's clicked on GoDanny wants you to pay 25%)

Of course if it's listed on Afternic and just happens to sell anywhere via the GoDaddy network, that's 25% commission.

 

[Acroplex]

Assuming you only list them via Dan.com, removing the BIN on Dan removes the domains from Afternic.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Dan/Afternic/Godaddy are almost completely silent about it here an where it is posted about in official thread(s).

My assumption why they are not jumping on fixing this problem is they are working on integration...it simply isn't important to them.

In the domain world, one decent sale can carry a portfolio for months...the potential to lose a sale/lead due to 12 second or more load time is unacceptable.

Looks like I've got to point names elsewhere and wait for things to settle out (if they do). It will be a colossal error if they let Dan die...best platform for name selling that has been developed in a decade.

 

[Dane]

My assumption why they are not jumping on fixing this problem is they are working on integration...it simply isn't important to them.

My thoughts exactly. They want everyone to move from Dan to Afternic. They bought Dan to shut down the competition and to take their technology. Once the technology is copied it would be redundant (aka: not cost effective) to keep both services running.

In the domain world, one decent sale can carry a portfolio for months...the potential to lose a sale/lead due to 12 second or more load time is unacceptable.

Bingo.

Looks like I've got to point names elsewhere...

But where ??

 

[Mister Funsky]

But where ??

I've got 1000+ pointed to afternic or dan. The trouble is, some brokers are great, some are good and others not (it is like that everywhere and in every industry).

I'm a sales guy from way back so handling my own leads is what I've always done but I wanted to give the afternic/dan system a chance. I might write about it all in great detail later but about 10-15% of leads through afternic/dan end up selling...my close rate is nearly 50%.

So, I will likely move names back to PCrew and Bodis and handle the leads myself. If they leave Dan alone and put effort into keeping it top notch, I will move names back there as I like the ability to have a sales pitch ('sellers notes' they call it).

 

[Dane]

I will likely move names back to PCrew and Bodis and handle the leads myself.

This idea is starting to look more and more attractive to me. I also handled the leads myself before Afternic. Back to the good 'ol days, I guess.

 

[Altetra]

I was thinking before this issue to try SH as I have allot of brands on Dan, now I should give it a try, or else develop and advertise more my own website.

 

[NameGroove]

I find this issue on certain landing pages when having an ad blocker installed (or when using Brave Browser). It happens for example when using Bodis sales landing pages as well.

 

[Acroplex]

Has anyone heard back from Dan?

The issue is widespread. Go to https://gtmetrix.com and enter your domain with & without https and share the results here.

I get mostly this error:

 

[Mister Funsky]

Has anyone heard back from Dan?

I've heard nothing other than the response to me in this multi-person post:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dan-com-domain-marketplace-official-thread.1148567/post-9114469

 

[Acroplex]

At least half the page visits end with an unresponsive server, or an error generated by failed http/https requests. This is widespread and independent of network. Checked over wifi/ISP and on wireless and the results are the same.

 

[rh2000]

I was thinking about parking all my domains at Dan but after reading all these complaints, I will have to think of another parking provider.

 

[Kostas]

I’m sharing the complete chat from yesterday. They don’t want to acknowledge there is a problem. Everything is fine on their side.

 

[Acroplex]

Thanks Kosta. It seems their network is dropping packets/connections. There's no way this is normal.

 

[Webmail]

I am running into the same issue as everyone else with my Dan domains.

On the initial page load nothing loads but when you refresh the page it loads normal the second time.

I'm not sure if it's a firewall or cache issue but it seems to be happening across all my domains on Dan.com

Location: California
Browser: Chrome / Firefox
My DNS provider: Cloudflare

 

[Acroplex]

Dan uses a CDN network for delivering a bunch of shared assets that exist on landing pages. The reliability of that network should be examined as well.

 

[Altetra]

I have an idea, let's test our domains, I check yours and report you check mine and between others.
The only thing I face is slowness on my domains, here is one of my recent recent hand reg.
altetra.com

 

[Future Sensors]

I can confirm that each "first" visit on https produces delays and errors. That's DAN's problem. It seems like a certificate is instantly created, or otherwise not immediately available. Once it has been created/made available, the TLS problems disappear. To test this, you certainly have to pick a different domain every single time...

(@DomainNature's domain below)

$ openssl s_client -servername altetra.com -connect 3.64.163.50:443 < /dev/null | openssl x509 -text

 

[Altetra]

I m waiting someone to share their Dan domains, because I not get errors just 6 to 8 second slowness when first time visiting a domain, possible until browser closes and deletes cookies.

 

[DAN.COM]

Good evening everyone,
Thank you for sharing your experiences. All indicators show us our platform is running normally, so we’re currently digging deeper to see what’s causing the loading issues you’re facing. We’ll keep you posted on the outcome as soon as we can.

We are grateful for your assistance and patience.

Best regards,
Dan.com