DAN will now allow you to publish sales data or keep private

[equity78]

DAN (an advertising partner) announced they updated their privacy policy regarding the posting of domain sales data. You can go into your settings and choose your preference. Great move on their part, let the customer decide and those who want more data out there can now provide that.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273230464183083011

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[carob]

I have checked my sold domains using the mentioned URL...
And I see: The domain name example.tld has been deleted.
So "SOLD" is visible only for pending sales.

To prevent such "SOLD" banners via direct URLs...
For already closed sales - on Dashboard click on your sold domain and then click "Delete".

Hi thanks for that info. When a domain is sold it leaves your >Portfolio listing and you can no longer find it or manage it there at all, as far as I know. I thought it was 100% gone from the account.

>Dashboard >Activity >Example.com >Delete is presumably the path to delete that you are describing? I had no idea that was still there - not sure about deleting it as it does keep some records of sale and price, but an invoice would be good enough I guess.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Hi thanks for that info. When a domain is sold it leaves your >Portfolio listing and you can no longer find it or manage it there at all, as far as I know. I thought it was 100% gone from the account.

>Dashboard >Activity >Example.com >Delete is presumably the path to delete that you are describing?

Exactly.
I always do it.

 

[carob]

One thing not getting mentioned is buyer privacy. There seem to be no options for that. By default any sale is published to blockchain, to front page, to landing page, and to dan.com/buy-domain/example.com, though seller can opt out of the first two via Settings and, if they know it and think of it and have worked out how, can correct the second two.

But fixing the landing page must be done before pushing the domain, and Dan or the buyer could change DNS back to Dan.com and so show the SOLD landing page again.

Sedo for example lets buyers spec that sale is private - I have seen that in transfer centre page. So if a company or person wants to buy in stealth mode, they could get a real shock at Dan.com - and not want to buy there again.

Interestingly, I can see no option at Namebio @Michael to search for domains sold at Dan.com - is there an agreement between the two to not list Dan.com sales, even if individuals try to report them to Namebio? Ditto Dnjournal? @Ron Jackson

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Sedo for example lets buyers spec that sale is private

Your point about buyer privacy option at DAN is a good one, although it should be noted that Sedo do charge an additional fee for privacy.

 

[carob]

Your point about buyer privacy option at DAN is a good one, although it should be noted that Sedo do charge an additional fee for privacy.

No, Sedo do NOT charge for privacy on sales - that myth keeps coming back. ToS let Sedo charge 2.5% for privacy on brokerage only - see
https://sedo.com/uk/what-we-offer/price-list/

You can globally set all your sales at Sedo to be private, no charge for that.

I don't think any platform charges for privacy of sales. Some do not publish sales at all.

Sometimes a company, or person, wants to acquire domains quietly for a later project, or without people noticing they are buying certain keywords or groups of words - that could reveal a project or put prices up on domains they intend to acquire.

 

[Michael]

Interestingly, I can see no option at Namebio @Michael to search for domains sold at Dan.com - is there an agreement between the two to not list Dan.com sales, even if individuals try to report them to Namebio? Ditto Dnjournal? @Ron Jackson

Users sometimes manually report DAN sales to us, and we add them, but it isn’t with enough frequency to warrant DAN getting listed in the Venue filter.

If/when they start reporting sales we’ll definitely add them as a filter option.