Dynadot Official Thread

[Dynadot]

Hi all!

We’ve created this thread to make it easier to communicate with us here on Namepros, and we’ll also be posting regular updates on our offers and products. Please feel free to share any feedback and suggestions with us, or to let us know if there’s anything we can assist with.

We’d like to kick things off with an extension of our $7.99 .COM transfer sale, the code “COMTRANS4” has been extended until 23:59 PST on May 31, and there’s no limit on how many domains you can transfer using the code. Every month we have great prices on a wide selection of domains, and you can find a full list of our sales here:

https://www.dynadot.com/sales.html

We’re also excited to share that our CEO, Todd Han, will be hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) right here on Namepros in the near future, with more information on a date and time coming soon.

Dynadot is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web host headquartered in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2002 by a software engineer, our primary focus is engineering and design excellence. Our custom written, state-of-the-art domain and hosting software is stable, fast, and easy to use. From humble beginnings, we have grown steadily and now are home to over 2.6 million domains.

Our goal is to provide our customers with world class registration and hosting services for a reasonable price. Most of our site is fully automated, allowing us to offer some of the lowest prices in the industry. At the same time we strive to provide excellent customer service, and helpful responses to all questions. If anything is not to your satisfaction, feel free to contact us, and we will do our best to resolve the situation.

We individually respond to every email we receive - no cut and paste responses. Customer service is handled by highly trained customer service representatives that work closely with our software engineers, so you are likely to get an intelligent response to your question.

Contact information:
Live chat support: https://www.dynadot.com/chat/login_resp.html
Email support: [email protected]
North American phone support: +1.866-262-3399 (toll free) and +1.650-262-0100
Chinese phone support: 400 803 5591

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[Skyvisum]

I wanna know why dyna now has 50usd per io.

and also when why and how they stopped caring to be competitive with prices. this is insane.

I have been observing and seeing what they are doing and hope they don't go the way of Godaddy .I don't like to see suggested appraisal near my names. If they go the path of Godaddy ,I would move all my names .

 

[alcy]

I have been observing and seeing what they are doing and hope they don't go the way of Godaddy .I don't like to see suggested appraisal near my names. If they go the path of Godaddy ,I would move all my names .

how can any registrar think there is anything more important to clients than prices. because there isn't. snd yet here we are..dyna went from top.10 best prices to top 50.

 

[Jannes]

I wanna know why dyna now has 50usd per io.

I only see $49.99 as a fake comparison price (at GoDaddy it's $71.99).

 

[alcy]

I only see $49.99 as a fake comparison price (at GoDaddy it's $71.99).

what's a fake comparison price?
anyway it's a promo now but regular is 50.. and no 49.99 doesnt make it better hahaha

 

[Jannes]

Probably perpetual promo. And that list of yours has some limit per customer pricings, e.g. Spaceship.

 

[alcy]

Probably perpetual promo. And that list of yours has some limit per customer pricings, e.g. Spaceship.

yea right perpetual that wasn't there a while ago. anyway it says a date no?

look I dont care about spaceship or other promos. I'm talking regulr prices. dyna is at 50. which stinks. I was gonna go to dyna from sav. .but with crap com prices and io and most others... they leave no reason to join

 

[Caleb Tweed]

yea right perpetual that wasn't there a while ago. anyway it says a date no?

look I dont care about spaceship or other promos. I'm talking regulr prices. dyna is at 50. which stinks. I was gonna go to dyna from sav. .but with crap com prices and io and most others... they leave no reason to join

The current .IO price ($37.99) is a Registry Sale that ends at the end of this year (but the Registry may decide to extend it as they have done previously). Once the Registry decides they no longer wish to continue the sale, essentially all Registrars will have to go back up to around the $50 mark.

Our Super Bulk prices are some of the most competitive on the market! https://www.dynadot.com/domain/tlds-prices?price_level=2

 

[tonyk2000]

Recently I started using the marketplace more actively. A number of observations:

1) It is too hard to configure hundreds/thousands of marketplace listings in bulk. Ok, I have a number of "favorite" pricing points (lets say $888, $2999, etc). While I can bulk select all domains that should be priced @ $888 for example, and submit those for sale, there no obvious way to bulk set categories and CamelCase. The best thing one can do here is to submit domains in small batches (up to dozen or so @ the same price), ordered alphabetically, and ONLY in this case the system would accept CamelCases line for all domains in the same submission. It is far from convinient. Would it be possible to provide just two extra forms: bulk submit CamelCase for any subset of marketplace listings and bulk submit category? What I expect here is just an opportunity to copypaste and submit domain lists from my internal database either with CamelCase how it should be, or belonging to the same category...

2) Actually, domain categorization @ Dynadot serves no purpose at this time. If I am not mistaken, there is no way to search by category anywhere. The category is shown only if the visitor is reviewing domain listing he found by other means ( https://www.dynadot.com/market/user-listings/somedomain.com ), which makes no practical sense. Can Dynadot either a) implement search by categories everywhere, including homepage OR 2) eliminate categorization completely. As a matter of fact, eliminating it would be more practical, as most domains are showing default "business" category - many sellers did not bother to set it (and would not bother).

3) The page https://www.dynadot.com/market/user-listings/somedomain.com contains a lot of irrelevant information which should be eliminated. "Registration Date" and "Years Old" are irrelevant, as perfect domain is not necessary old, but could be just dropped and registered again. Category is irrelevant, as noted above. Inbound Links cannot be correctly counted in current SEO market environment, and this unknown number tends to decrease for dropped/expired (changed content!), and, in any case, the number of such links has nothing to do with domain quality. Number of "Other TLDS" is irrelevant for purchase decision. So are "Web Archive Results" and "Similarweb Results" (why you are linking to Chinese /zh version of similarweb, btw?). So is "Sold By" field, as the domain delivery is guaranteed by Dynadot.

4) Please provide an option to edit DNS for domains using "For sale landing page". Records for www and naked domain can and should be locked from editing, but an option to edit other records is a must. For example, how can I confirm domain ownership @ dan (sedo, afternic) if I want to eliminate fraudulent listing of my domain by somebody else? I need to edit TXT record @ Dynadot DNS, but there is no way to do so.

5) For domains with "For sale landing page" DNS, please add additional DNS records indicating that there is no email service for domain in question. This is to make sure that spammers would be unable to use our forsale domains in (random) "From:" fields of their spam emails. Also, incoming spam attempts will be decreased (now they are unsuccessfully trying to deliver incoming spam to domains IP). The following records should be sufficient: { IN MX 0 . } and { IN TXT "v=spf1 -all" }. Afternic and Sedo are doing this already.

6) Dynadot (.com) is inaccessible from India. Please confirm that Indian visitors of forsale domains are forwarded to appropriate destination (ddot dot in), and, if not, please imlement this logic in "For sale landing page" forwarding setup.

7) Serbian language landing pages ( https://www.dynadot.com/sr/forsale/somedomain.com?drefid=2071 ) are buggy, as there is the following extra text shown right on the pages: "Molimo vas da sve znake zvezdice, simbole, oznake HTML, navodnike i specifične formaterske sekvence ostavite netaknute u prevodu." It means - "Please leave all asterisks, symbols, HTML tags, quotation marks and specific formatting sequences intact in the translation."

8) Please amend cloudflare rules simplifying access to forsale landing pages. It CAN be done, as cloudflare allows such a setup (up to completely unrestricting some parts of the website from their antibot technologies). If Dynadots wants to constantly ask innocent humans for captchas and human checks on the homepage / login, which is the case now, let it be so. However, as a marketplace seller, I obviously do not want to decrease sales with the current overly restrictive setup.

9) Dynadot implemented an option to generate AI descriptions to improve SEO. But why are you using meta name="robots" content="noindex" directive in forsale landing page header? You are prohibiting SE indexing this way. Please remove this directive ASAP. With or without AI descriptions, forsale pages must be available for search engines!
Edited: it appears the noindex applies to listings without optional description only, which is still illogical (IMO).

10) At this time, "For Sale landing page" setup forwards each "naked domain", www+domain, http and httpS (4 variants in total) to "https://www.dynadot.com / forsale / forsaledomain .com". It is logical, but there is a SEO problem. What is "canonical" URL for forsaledomain.com then? Google will have difficulties to decide. Resultingly, it may select it randomly or may show any subset of (www, no-www, https, http) as different entities, with different/outdated content. To solve this issue, the following may work. Lets help Google. Lets select https-without-www as "canonical" for example. So:

http+www should be 301-forwarded to https-without-www;
https+www should be 301-forwarded to https-without-www;
http-without-www should be 301-forwarded to https-without-www;
https-without-www [and only it] should be 302-forwarded to dynadot-hosted forsale page.

/maybe somewhat complicated stuff, but your SEO guys will get the idea/

11) The last but not the least. I always use USD-English version of Dynadot website, but I just checked a few localized versions, in particular for 2 other languages I am familiar with. It was a total shock. In all aspects. Just a few examples. "Aftermarket" became "After the market", while it should be as simple as "secondary market". "Resellers" were translated as "cheapjacks" (yes, literally!). What does Dynadot expect calling somebody a cheapjack? "Aftermarket search" was translated as "Search for products after the warranty period has expired". Etc, etc, etc. Please hire human translators ASAP. It may well be that all localized versions are affected... Also, unsure about Arabic translation, but it is common knowledge that Arabic is written and read from right to left. Which is why Arabic version must be also different in design and navigation! Just compare common godaddy and https://ae.godaddy.com/ar to see what I mean. Dynadot did not change the design and navigation in Arabic version unfortunately...

 

[NameGroove]

Recently I started using the marketplace more actively. A number of observations:

1) It is too hard to configure hundreds/thousands of marketplace listings in bulk. Ok, I have a number of "favorite" pricing points (lets say $888, $2999, etc). While I can bulk select all domains that should be priced @ $888 for example, and submit those for sale, there no obvious way to bulk set categories and CamelCase. The best thing one can do here is to submit domains in small batches (up to dozen or so @ the same price), ordered alphabetically, and ONLY in this case the system would accept CamelCases line for all domains in the same submission. It is far from convinient. Would it be possible to provide just two extra forms: bulk submit CamelCase for any subset of marketplace listings and bulk submit category? What I expect here is just an opportunity to copypaste and submit domain lists from my internal database either with CamelCase how it should be, or belonging to the same category...

2) Actually, domain categorization @ Dynadot serves no purpose at this time. If I am not mistaken, there is no way to search by category anywhere. The category is shown only if the visitor is reviewing domain listing he found by other means ( https://www.dynadot.com/market/user-listings/somedomain.com ), which makes no practical sense. Can Dynadot either a) implement search by categories everywhere, including homepage OR 2) eliminate categorization completely. As a matter of fact, eliminating it would be more practical, as most domains are showing default "business" category - many sellers did not bother to set it (and would not bother).

3) The page https://www.dynadot.com/market/user-listings/somedomain.com contains a lot of irrelevant information which should be eliminated. "Registration Date" and "Years Old" are irrelevant, as perfect domain is not necessary old, but could be just dropped and registered again. Category is irrelevant, as noted above. Inbound Links cannot be correctly counted in current SEO market environment, and this unknown number tends to decrease for dropped/expired (changed content!), and, in any case, the number of such links has nothing to do with domain quality. Number of "Other TLDS" is irrelevant for purchase decision. So are "Web Archive Results" and "Similarweb Results" (why you are linking to Chinese /zh version of similarweb, btw?). So is "Sold By" field, as the domain delivery is guaranteed by Dynadot.

4) Please provide an option to edit DNS for domains using "For sale landing page". Records for www and naked domain can and should be locked from editing, but an option to edit other records is a must. For example, how can I confirm domain ownership @ dan (sedo, afternic) if I want to eliminate fraudulent listing of my domain by somebody else? I need to edit TXT record @ Dynadot DNS, but there is no way to do so.

5) For domains with "For sale landing page" DNS, please add additional DNS records indicating that there is no email service for domain in question. This is to make sure that spammers would be unable to use our forsale domains in (random) "From:" fields of their spam emails. Also, incoming spam attempts will be decreased (now they are unsuccessfully trying to deliver incoming spam to domains IP). The following records should be sufficient: { IN MX 0 . } and { IN TXT "v=spf1 -all" }. Afternic and Sedo are doing this already.

6) Dynadot (.com) is inaccessible from India. Please confirm that Indian visitors of forsale domains are forwarded to appropriate destination (ddot dot in), and, if not, please imlement this logic in "For sale landing page" forwarding setup.

7) Serbian language landing pages ( https://www.dynadot.com/sr/forsale/somedomain.com?drefid=2071 ) are buggy, as there is the following extra text shown right on the pages: "Molimo vas da sve znake zvezdice, simbole, oznake HTML, navodnike i specifične formaterske sekvence ostavite netaknute u prevodu." It means - "Please leave all asterisks, symbols, HTML tags, quotation marks and specific formatting sequences intact in the translation."

8) Please amend cloudflare rules simplifying access to forsale landing pages. It CAN be done, as cloudflare allows such a setup (up to completely unrestricting some parts of the website from their antibot technologies. If Dynadots wants to constantly ask innocent humans for captchas and human checks on the homepage / login, which is the case now, let it be so. However, as a marketplace seller, I obviously do not want to decrease sales with the current overly restrictive setup.

9) Dynadot implemented an option to generate AI descriptions to improve SEO. But why are you using meta name="robots" content="noindex" directive in forsale landing page header? You are prohibiting SE indexing this way. Please remove this directive ASAP. With or without AI descriptions, forsale pages must be available for search engines!

10) At this time, "For Sale landing page" setup forwards each "naked domain", www+domain, http and httpS (4 variants in total) to " https://www.dynadot.com/ forsale / forsaledomain .com". It is logical, but there is a SEO problem. What is "canonical" URL for forsaledomain.com then? Google will have difficulties to decide. Resultingly, it may select it randomly or may show any subset of (www, no-www, https, http) as different entities, with different/outdated content. To solve this issue, the following may work. Lets help Google. Lets select https-without-www as "canonical" for example. So:

http+www should be 301-forwarded to https-without-www
https+www should be 301-forwarded to https-without-www
http-without-www should be 301-forwarded to https-without-www
https-without-www [and only it] should be 302-forwarded to dynadot-hosted forsale page

/maybe somewhat complicated stuff, but your SEO guys will get the idea/

11) The last but not the least. I always use USD-English version of Dynadot website, but I just checked a few localized versions, in particular for 2 other languages I am familiar with. It was a total shock. In all aspects. Just a few examples. "Aftermarket" became "After the market", while it should be as simple as "secondary market". "Resellers" were translated as "cheapjacks" (yes, literally!). What does Dynadot expect calling somebody a cheapjack? "Aftermarket search" was translated as "Search for products after the warranty period has expired". Etc, etc, etc. Please hire human translators ASAP. It may well be that all localized versions are affected... Also, unsure about Arabic translation, but it is common knowledge that Arabic is written and read from right to left. Which is why Arabic version must be also different in design and navigation! Just compare common godaddy and https://ae.godaddy.com/ar to see what I mean. Dynadot did not change the design and navigation in Arabic version unfortunately...

You are hired as Dynadot's consultant!!! But seriously, some of this stuff is VERY concerning. Especially the SEO & Cloudflare issue. Clearly the translation stuff matters to those using it from abroad. I hope Dyna takes your list seriously

 

[NameGroove]

Trying to transfer a few domains away from Dynadot and came upon this

"After the Domain Transfer has been Initiated
Once the domain transfer has successfully started, the 5-15 day waiting period begins. There isn’t a way to speed up the transfer process, so you’ll be waiting for the standard domain transfer process to complete. Domain transfers can occassionally be processed faster then this 5-15 day period, but will depend on the two registrars involved in the transfer."
https://www.dynadot.com/community/blog/length-of-domain-transfers-and-process

This is the only registrar I know of that has no way to speed up the transfer process.

 

[Hypersot]

@NameGroove ,
there is an option that you can 'allow' the transfer at 'My Domains' -> 'Transfer Domains' -> 'Transfer Out'
Are your domains transferring out showing there?

 

[NameGroove]

@NameGroove ,
there is an option that you can 'allow' the transfer at 'My Domains' -> 'Transfer Domains' -> 'Transfer Out'
Are your domains transferring out showing there?

yes, as it turns out their own website FAQs are incorrect and they do allow it as you showed me. Clearly they need to update this page https://www.dynadot.com/community/blog/length-of-domain-transfers-and-process

 

[Hypersot]

yes, as it turns out their own website FAQs are incorrect and they do allow it as you showed me. Clearly they need to update this page https://www.dynadot.com/community/blog/length-of-domain-transfers-and-process

Hmm, I think that paragraph is supposed to describe the transfer-in . If you notice at the end, it mentions the transfer of a domain ending in it being in your account.

It probably tries to say that, being a transfer-in, you do not have control over it via Dynadot's interface.

 

[Sutruk]

yes, as it turns out their own website FAQs are incorrect and they do allow it as you showed me. Clearly they need to update this page https://www.dynadot.com/community/blog/length-of-domain-transfers-and-process

Maybe that's a generic response for all tlds. Maybe not all extensions can be speed up.
But they could specify in their FAQs that for .com domains, they allow to speed up the transfer out process, yes.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Happy 22nd Birthday Dynadot!

All active Dynadot customers should check their email ASAP...there is a little present waiting that some might find useful.

 

[Rich]

Happy 22nd Birthday Dynadot!

All active Dynadot customers should check their email ASAP...there is a little present waiting that some might find useful.

Everyone who works there looks 22, think they're hiring?

 

[Mister Funsky]

Everyone who works there looks 22

LOL...Todd has assembled a young team indeed!

 

[Embrand]

It would be great if we could filter our domains at Dynadot according to Total Searches/Unique Searches. But I am not sure if this is technically possible. I remember GoDaddy saying it is a difficult task (their stats don't work at all for my domains, by the way).

 

[Kyle Tully]

It would be great if we could filter our domains at Dynadot according to Total Searches/Unique Searches. But I am not sure if this is technically possible. I remember GoDaddy saying it is a difficult task (their stats don't work at all for my domains, by the way).

GD can’t get popups or login cookies working so take what they say about technical things with a grain of salt.

 

[NameGroove]

@Caleb Tweed I asked one of your CS reps what would happen if I was the only bidder for a name in your .ai auction. How much would I pay? His response;

Yet, someone on Twitter told me this is incorrect and I would've only paid $140 (same as if I hand regged it) and had the name for 2 years.

Can you please let me know which is correct?