discuss DAN or EFTY?

[DanBingham]

can't decide..

Given the option, which one would you choose?

 

[Steven McEvoy]

Dan or do your own

 

[DomainsMaven]

Dan is better...

 

[Bayan]

Never tried Efty. Dan is great , but to me, Epik is even greater and I am planning to transfer all my domains to Epik. Rob and his team are doing a great job. The landing page is fantastic ,clear and straightforward. I see Epik as a game changer and a revolutionary platform that will be soon the leading platform for the global domain name market . Register, buy, sell , list, transfer in or out easily , quickly and securely , and most importantly available useful data and information , and good registration and services prices.

 

[namemarket]

Efty is far better since you get inquiry details like email, phone and zero commission!

I strongly prefer DAN.COM over Efty and I am fine with the low DAN commission and feel that it is well-deserved since the DAN platform is excellent. However a DAN negative to me is not giving any inquiry details (sometimes only a first name) which info is extremely important so you may be able to figure out if offer is from someone with deep pockets or not, and also increased chance of a sale by calling, emailing and texting.

That way you can adjust BIN price. i.e. 25k if a Sr VP of Apple Computer or a Bank President vs 5k BIN for a small business for example.

A place like domainnamesales shares all inquiry details if they are the broker or it is self-brokered by you it makes no difference, a big plus for UNI.

P.S. regarding EPIK at first glance to me and with only a few names there it seems to be more complex and far less user friendly vs DAN who I rank #-1 but also think EPIK is good with some advanced features and the fact Epik is a registrar and DAN is not is a plus for Epik.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Perhaps it is useful to ask a few questions before deciding.

1. How many sales do you anticipate making per year, and how big is your portfolio? Do you expect to mainly use PayPal or Escrow if at Efty. Then plug the commission, subscription, etc. charges in a spreadsheet and compare the numbers for you.
2. Re the landers, I like the clean appearance of DAN a lot and agree they build trust (I have almost half my portffolio on DAN landers). That being said, the EFTY ones offer more design choices and customization features. Would you use those? Efty has bullet-point options. Do you like those?
3. I disagree with those who say Efty are ugly (sorry I try not to be disagreeable ) but what I do agree is that you can readily make Efty ones look ugly, whereas the standard ones on DAN protect you from yourself. Why not try Efty free for a month and see how you like them and how you do design wise?
4. Do you like long descriptions? Do you like bullet points? DAN allow longer descriptions, but no support for bullet points, while Efty have easy to modify bullet points, but restrictions on description length (that may be positive to protect you from yourself).
5. How important is information on buyer to you? Some like to negotiate differently with different people, etc. While you will interact with the customer via DAN it is through them and anonymously.
6. Are the management tools within Efty valuable to you? It is rather elegant how easy it is to enter and get the data re registrar, expiry date, etc. all presented in Efty. Also tons of stats on how you are doing financial wise and portfolio stats. But if you already are perfectly happy with software or spreadsheets you use for this, it might not matter.
7. How much time do you have? How easy do you want the process? I find DAN the fastest of any option I have used (that includes Sedo, Afternic, DAN, Efty in past, Namecheap Marketplace, NameSilo, Epik Marketplace, Dynadot) to actually get listed or change details of a listing, It is so intuitive.
8. Do you want basic analytics easy or more sophistication with more work? With Efty you can integrate Google analytics with either your Efty marketplace, or with each domain individually, but it is of course more work but yields more than the simple number of visits on DAN.
9. Do you want someone to handle the transfer or do it yourself?
10. Are you planning to use payment plans?

As others have mentioned, these are not the only options available. Dynadot are easy to set up and while darker images than I like, they do look professional (not sure of their policy re incoming links presentation and age as that is not always relevant information). I really like how the NameSilo marketplace landers look (#3 is my favourite design in their choices) - I would rank them with DAN in professional appearance. The flexibility of being able to make essentially mini sites with links in Epik is industry changing in my opinion. You can have it all: images, media, social media interaction, links, bullet lists, formatting, etc. But are you ready to put that effort in.

Bob

 

[topdom]

No experience in either, but Efty is not marketplace anyway. You need another service for transfers, probably.

 

[werty]

I have had success with both but Dan because efty is a pain to manage if you have plenty of domains...

 

[sharastar]

DAN is the first choice with their great interface and fast transfer and support.DAN listing and selling is very easy and hassle free.

Efty would be good if you want to handle all the details yourself.As @BuyBrandWeb.com said it's best if you are going to have leads and also do outbound's for your domains more and follow up more or researching the buyer's buying potential to get the best buck for your domain.

I am trying Epik also now as their support is very fast and reliable.Lots of options and great customization for options like lease,purchasing while on lease and also buy now with make offer.As said by @Bayan Epik are revolutionizing the domain world.

 

[Moosan]

DAN also tracks your expiring names, if you didn't renew, they will. I guess thats the business model.

 

[BrandingModel.com]

DAN

 

[Tia Wood]

I like DAN better. Much easier to use. Efty's user experience could use cleaning up. I've had smooth transactions on both ends at DAN.

 

[thekiller]

DAN, I have grandfathered efty.com account which is free but still I need to take customer to email communication, while DAN has in build message box in which we can take offers and make counter offers.

Personal experience is that the transaction completed within 24 hours most of the time. For those asking, you can import lead to DAN for 5% commission and there is not payout fee. Great service great people.

 

[jagdotme]

I like DAN because I can easily see how much traffic I am getting - I cant see that on Efty unless Im not looking in the right place.
I like to know how much traffic I see after I send out emails or tweets to see whats working

@uglydork Login to Efty and go to >> Settings / marketplace << Find one called "GA Tracking code" ( GA = Google Analytics )

You can get the code via google >> http://analytics.google.com

 

[jagdotme]

can't decide..

Given the option, which one would you choose?

Dan.com if you want things to be easy, when an offer comes in, make dan work for the 9%

Efty.com if you know what you are doing, from closing the deal and transferring the name. And generally understand this field.

 

[uglydork]

@uglydork Login to Efty and go to >> Settings / marketplace << Find one called "GA Tracking code" ( GA = Google Analytics )

You can get the code via google >> http://analytics.google.com

Thanks Jag, I had it setup but its a pain in the ass and didnt always work. Dan is simple - easy adn I dont need to do anything on my end

 

[SuperBrander]

Regarding Dan.com's traffic stats- from what I see, there's only a 'Monthly Views' column. That doesn't seem super helpful if sellers can't also see traffic in previous months, be able to compare, see trends etc. Does that entire column turn to '0' at the beginning of each calendar month? Is there something I'm missing or is the 'Monthly Views' column the only indication of traffic? If anyone could chime in, I'd appreciate it.

 

[Dodo Domains]

Regarding Dan.com's traffic stats- from what I see, there's only a 'Monthly Views' column. That doesn't seem super helpful if sellers can't also see traffic in previous months, be able to compare, see trends etc. Does that entire column turn to '0' at the beginning of each calendar month? Is there something I'm missing or is the 'Monthly Views' column the only indication of traffic? If anyone could chime in, I'd appreciate it.

Can't say for sure, but I think the monthly views is a rolling 30-day total maybe?

The total monthly views on my dashboard resets to zero at the start of the month, but not the individual numbers in the portfolio view.

 

[Kai W.]

I more like Dan.
Efty more like a person with development ability, and Dan is very friendly and doesn't need to do too much work.

 

[Jv1999]

DAN = if u hab small portfolio
Efty = if u hab large portfolio

why? cuz dan = 9% commission mostly for each tx
efty = flat monthly / yearly fee taht's cheaper than the 9% commission if you get lots of sailz per month due to having a simply massive port.

 

[KDN]

Dan!