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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[NameGroove]

A. Dynadot's initial price is low. I prefer to sell in the first year, not after renewal. Not all registrars have marketplace. Dynadot is good as registrar and marketplace, except this intentional evil lead-stealing trick.

B. Why should they collect my mails, and then I should believe they will be forwarded to me (does it make any slightest sense). It would be much easier for them to allow buyers to contact me directly, instead of contacting them.
WHY BELIEVE they will keep those messages: I wrote dozens of lines explaining WHY THEY MADE SUCH A CHANGE:

Obviously they want to steal leads. Because it is much better for them to sell for 200, than letting me sell for 1,500. (200>150), and such a sale is much easier to complete. Also Dynadot knows buyer's name, address, company, email, and know which buyers are serious, which ones are agents from somewhere else, can guess who the actual buyer is if visible buyer is an agent. And they know if the buyer has big pockets. Also if the buyer is an agent from Godaddy , such an agent is encouraged to make a corrupt deal with Dynadot and bypass the actual owner. infinitely many evil possibilities all hurting actual domain owners who spend, money, time, make effort, use their precious skills to choose domains to invest in. Dynadot is obviously acting parasitically. Theur ignorance and resistance points to one thing only: THEY PROFIT FROM THIS CHANGE, and they rely on naiveness/stupidity of most domain owners.

DOMAIN OWNER'S ONLY PROTECTION: RENEW forever, but KNOW that your domain WON'T SELL, because someone else will collect leads, and manipulate buyers and prevent sales.

If you make a mental simullation, everything would be obvious.

A big pocket buyer shows up.. contacts Dynadot. Dynadot gets excited. If you are lucky , you will be get a brokered-sale-offer; or get a lowball from Dynadot. If domain is about to expire , Dynadot can do a fake negotiation with the buyer "on behalf of the actual seller". while actual seller is just sleeping, and after 30 day grace period ends, they would GRAB the domain for free (just spend renewal cost, which is nothing when there is an active buyer whose info is given to Dynadot).

ONCE , I got an offer during REDEMPTION, I restored the domain for 100 USD (approx), and sold for 4 figures.
SHOULD I THANK DYNADOT FOR IT: maybe, maybe they had to..not sure.. BUT, if not sold, after redemption they CAN'T GRAB, domain goes to PENDING DELETE.. so 10 percent made lots of sense to them. But if domain was still in GRACE instead of redemption, they would just grab the domain afte grace period ends, instead of telling me there is a buyer so I should renew.

YOU CAN BE EVIL INSIDE REASONABLE RULES: no problem, but if you force unreasonable rules and push them down our thorat, this is not acceptable.

SOMEONE SELLS POISONOUS DRINK at his store,.. and when you learn about it, a third party tells you "why not go to a better store ". Does it make any sense.
..or... if someone says: Why did you reincarnate on Earth, you should have chosen a better planet. does it make any sense. ..I may have spent thousands of hours to list domains at Dynadot, type unique descriptions, contacted endusers, and Dynadot inserts its ugly nose into our private affair, and kills all this business opportunity.
Dynadot changed rules in the middle of the game. Twice at Dynadot, someone made an offer, and and after making deals, buyers dropped their prices: how fair is this, how can I know that the buyer was not Dynadot.

Dynadot manages 6 million domains across thousands of sellers. And you believe they'd jeopardize this by syphoning off leads from your names? The concept you're proposing is so ludicrous it's entertaining. I suggest you start a YouTube channel. I'd like to watch it for entertainment purposes.

 

[BrandingGo]

A. Dynadot's initial price is low. I prefer to sell in the first year, not after renewal. Not all registrars have marketplace. Dynadot is good as registrar and marketplace, except this intentional evil lead-stealing trick.

B. Why should they collect my mails, and then I should believe they will be forwarded to me (does it make any slightest sense). It would be much easier for them to allow buyers to contact me directly, instead of contacting them.
WHY BELIEVE they will keep those messages: I wrote dozens of lines explaining WHY THEY MADE SUCH A CHANGE:

Obviously they want to steal leads. Because it is much better for them to sell for 200, than letting me sell for 1,500. (200>150), and such a sale is much easier to complete. Also Dynadot knows buyer's name, address, company, email, and know which buyers are serious, which ones are agents from somewhere else, can guess who the actual buyer is if visible buyer is an agent. And they know if the buyer has big pockets. Also if the buyer is an agent from Godaddy , such an agent is encouraged to make a corrupt deal with Dynadot and bypass the actual owner. infinitely many evil possibilities all hurting actual domain owners who spend, money, time, make effort, use their precious skills to choose domains to invest in. Dynadot is obviously acting parasitically. Theur ignorance and resistance points to one thing only: THEY PROFIT FROM THIS CHANGE, and they rely on naiveness/stupidity of most domain owners.

DOMAIN OWNER'S ONLY PROTECTION: RENEW forever, but KNOW that your domain WON'T SELL, because someone else will collect leads, and manipulate buyers and prevent sales.

If you make a mental simullation, everything would be obvious.

A big pocket buyer shows up.. contacts Dynadot. Dynadot gets excited. If you are lucky , you will be get a brokered-sale-offer; or get a lowball from Dynadot. If domain is about to expire , Dynadot can do a fake negotiation with the buyer "on behalf of the actual seller". while actual seller is just sleeping, and after 30 day grace period ends, they would GRAB the domain for free (just spend renewal cost, which is nothing when there is an active buyer whose info is given to Dynadot).

ONCE , I got an offer during REDEMPTION, I restored the domain for 100 USD (approx), and sold for 4 figures.
SHOULD I THANK DYNADOT FOR IT: maybe, maybe they had to..not sure.. BUT, if not sold, after redemption they CAN'T GRAB, domain goes to PENDING DELETE.. so 10 percent made lots of sense to them. But if domain was still in GRACE instead of redemption, they would just grab the domain afte grace period ends, instead of telling me there is a buyer so I should renew.

YOU CAN BE EVIL INSIDE REASONABLE RULES: no problem, but if you force unreasonable rules and push them down our thorat, this is not acceptable.

SOMEONE SELLS POISONOUS DRINK at his store,.. and when you learn about it, a third party tells you "why not go to a better store ". Does it make any sense.
..or... if someone says: Why did you reincarnate on Earth, you should have chosen a better planet. does it make any sense. ..I may have spent thousands of hours to list domains at Dynadot, type unique descriptions, contacted endusers, and Dynadot inserts its ugly nose into our private affair, and kills all this business opportunity.
Dynadot changed rules in the middle of the game. Twice at Dynadot, someone made an offer, and and after making deals, buyers dropped their prices: how fair is this, how can I know that the buyer was not Dynadot.

Wow
I am OK if Dynadot reads msgs. The problem is unpaid auctions. Such bidders should be banned

 

[topdom]

Wow
I am OK if Dynadot reads msgs. The problem is unpaid auctions. Such bidders should be banned

Nothing to do with what I say. They can read messages, and even if they say they don't, they still can.

What I'm saying: THERE IS A BUYER, and DYNADOT KNOWS WHO THAT BUYER IS, and can do anything with that info BUT I DON'T EVEN KNOW THERE IS A BUYER for my domain, so I may not renew that domain, which is exactly what Dynadot wants, because Dynadot, and only Dynadot can SURELY get that domain after grace period, not even the strongest drop-catch tool can get that domain.

Currently I can't list any domains, maybe they are changing the system again (hopefully in a positive way)... BUT maybe, they made a deal with a buyer (on my expired domain which renewed 1 day before grace period ends), so if I list the domain, it will contradict everything Dynadot was telling the actual buyer so far. Instead they may try to buy via Godaddy, to hide their identity.

 

[topdom]

Dynadot manages 6 million domains across thousands of sellers. And you believe they'd jeopardize this by syphoning off leads from your names? The concept you're proposing is so ludicrous it's entertaining. I suggest you start a YouTube channel. I'd like to watch it for entertainment purposes.

It doesn't matter if there are 6 million or 6 billion domains (actually, the more the better).
We are talking about DOMAINS WITH ACTIVE BUYERS.
You can create an algorithm to decide which domains to grab automatically. Say, 10,000 domains have buyers and contact Dynadot, and 1,000 of them are willing to pay 1,000 each, then grabbing those domains means 1,000 x 1,000 = 1 million dollars WITH NO EFFORT. It is pure scam, but still looks legal, and if domainers don't complain about it, they will keep it this way.

If there are too many domains, this is an advantage, not a disadvantage.
Otherwise this would be like saying: a billionaire dies from hunger, because he can't decide which of his money to spend to buy something.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Let's hope they get the 'Live Chat' button removed (or allow toggle on/off by seller) and get the "Contact Us' button changed to Contact Dynadot' (and moved under description-less prominent position--also with toggle on/off by seller) before the end of the week.

 

[Caleb Tweed]

Wow
I am OK if Dynadot reads msgs. The problem is unpaid auctions. Such bidders should be banned

For the most part we do ban non-payers, as our system automatically bans users who don't pay for auctions.

For unbanning there are some exceptions here and there but if we believe they never intended on paying/wanted to waste the auction we do perma-ban their account.

 

[BrandingGo]

For the most part we do ban non-payers, as our system automatically bans users who don't pay for auctions.

For unbanning there are some exceptions here and there but if we believe they never intended on paying/wanted to waste the auction we do perma-ban their account.

For-Sale.co unpaid

 

[Caleb Tweed]

For-Sale.co unpaid

Looks like the buyer still has some time, but they'll be banned if no payment comes through.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Sure would look more professional if this were not the case:

Pay in Installments $12277.4/mo

Adding in the 0 behind the 4 is the thing to do.

 

[Caleb Tweed]

Sure would look more professional if this were not the case:

Pay in Installments $12277.4/mo

Adding in the 0 behind the 4 is the thing to do.

Hmm now that you mentioned it I think it's been like that for a while. I'll get that changed. The other changes should be coming this week.

 

[NameGroove]

At the moment no, the domain has to be using one of the verification options to stay listed, otherwise we don't know if the domain is still owned by the original owner/actually listed or not.

I'll ask the team if we can somehow make other options for users who don't want to change their DNS/NS settings (like a Fast transfer system), but that might be a bit before they can come up with a workaround.

Makes sense. But as long as we keep a TXT record in the DNS, we can point NS elsewhere, is that correct?

Is there any way to bulk add TXT to all our names?

 

[Mister Funsky]

Hmm now that you mentioned it I think it's been like that for a while. I'll get that changed. The other changes should be coming this week.

I see changes have been made...thanks!

 

[Caleb Tweed]

Makes sense. But as long as we keep a TXT record in the DNS, we can point NS elsewhere, is that correct?

Kind of, it depends on what your host allows as you can point the other records wherever you want.

Is there any way to bulk add TXT to all our names?

That would depend on the other registrar you have your names at sorry. Or are you talking about listing Dynadot names from within Dynadot? As you don't need either the TXT/CNAME if the names already at Dynadot to list it!

 

[Caleb Tweed]

Next Round of Premium User Auction submissions is now open!
https://www.dynadot.com/market/premium-user-auction

Submission period ends August 5th, Auctions Start August 30th.

 

[topdom]

A. Dynadot's initial price is low. I prefer to sell in the first year, not after renewal. Not all registrars have marketplace. Dynadot is good as registrar and marketplace, except this intentional evil lead-stealing trick.

B. Why should they collect my mails, and then I should believe they will be forwarded to me (does it make any slightest sense). It would be much easier for them to allow buyers to contact me directly, instead of contacting them.
WHY BELIEVE they will keep those messages: I wrote dozens of lines explaining WHY THEY MADE SUCH A CHANGE:

Obviously they want to steal leads. Because it is much better for them to sell for 200, than letting me sell for 1,500. (200>150), and such a sale is much easier to complete. Also Dynadot knows buyer's name, address, company, email, and know which buyers are serious, which ones are agents from somewhere else, can guess who the actual buyer is if visible buyer is an agent. And they know if the buyer has big pockets. Also if the buyer is an agent from Godaddy , such an agent is encouraged to make a corrupt deal with Dynadot and bypass the actual owner. infinitely many evil possibilities all hurting actual domain owners who spend, money, time, make effort, use their precious skills to choose domains to invest in. Dynadot is obviously acting parasitically. Their ignorance and resistance points to one thing only: THEY PROFIT FROM THIS CHANGE, and they rely on naiveness/stupidity of most domain owners.

DOMAIN OWNER'S ONLY PROTECTION: RENEW forever, but KNOW that your domain WON'T SELL, because someone else will collect leads, and manipulate buyers and prevent sales.

If you make a mental simullation, everything would be obvious.

A big pocket buyer shows up.. contacts Dynadot. Dynadot gets excited. If you are lucky , you will be get a brokered-sale-offer; or get a lowball from Dynadot. If domain is about to expire , Dynadot can do a fake negotiation with the buyer "on behalf of the actual seller". while actual seller is just sleeping, and after 30 day grace period ends, they would GRAB the domain for free (just spend renewal cost, which is nothing when there is an active buyer whose info is given to Dynadot).

ONCE , I got an offer during REDEMPTION, I restored the domain for 100 USD (approx), and sold for 4 figures.
SHOULD I THANK DYNADOT FOR IT: maybe, maybe they had to..not sure.. BUT, if not sold, after redemption they CAN'T GRAB, domain goes to PENDING DELETE.. so 10 percent made lots of sense to them. But if domain was still in GRACE instead of redemption, they would just grab the domain after grace period ends, instead of telling me there is a buyer so I should renew.

YOU CAN BE EVIL INSIDE REASONABLE RULES: no problem, but if you force unreasonable rules and push them down our thorat, this is not acceptable.

SOMEONE SELLS POISONOUS DRINK at his store,.. and when you learn about it, a third party tells you "why not go to a better store ". Does it make any sense.
..or... if someone says: Why did you reincarnate on Earth, you should have chosen a better planet. does it make any sense. ..I may have spent thousands of hours to list domains at Dynadot, type unique descriptions, contacted endusers, and Dynadot inserts its ugly nose into our private affair, and kills all this business opportunity.
Dynadot changed rules in the middle of the game. Twice at Dynadot, someone made an offer, and and after making deals, buyers dropped their prices: how fair is this, how can I know that the buyer was not Dynadot.

WOW , someone disagrees , and NOONE agrees, NOONE likes, I don't care about any of these, but am I the only smart (or at least non-idiot) user at Namepros (and reading this thread). Unbelievable !!!! I suffer because of your low iq.

You don't build good karma, if you suffer from your own mistakes. You should have known those are mistakes.
Instead maybe you would accumulate karmic debt. If there is a terrror, and you approve it, and just watch it, I don't know how, but you will eventually pay for it.

 

[BrandingGo]

Hi @Dynadot @Caleb Tweed please delete Sedo partnership from Dynadot, because impossible to delete fraudulent listings from Sedo.

You have a great and powerful marketplace, you don't need Sedo linking.

Dynadot is the best marketplace.

 

[scithe]

Hi @Dynadot @Caleb Tweed please delete Sedo partnership from Dynadot, because impossible to delete fraudulent listings from Sedo.
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You have a great and powerful marketplace, you don't need Sedo linking.

Dynadot is the best marketplace.

If you add TXT records to those domains, you should be able to add them to your Sedo account. From there, no one else should be able to add them to their account because they won't be able to use a txt record.

 

[Mister Funsky]

you don't need Sedo linking

I agree.

Many years ago I let my Sedo go dormant. As I acquire names, the old (and far underpriced) listing still show.
They want me to create a new account to get things 'fixed'. Not going to happen.

If Dynadot will not end the linking, they should give us the ability to toggle it off. Maybe it is available and I simply have not found it.

 

[UncleBrand]

I agree.

Many years ago I let my Sedo go dormant. As I acquire names, the old (and far underpriced) listing still show.
They want me to create a new account to get things 'fixed'. Not going to happen.

If Dynadot will not end the linking, they should give us the ability to toggle it off. Maybe it is available and I simply have not found it.

you can remove the domain from sedoMLS network from your DYNADOT Dashboard

step1: select the domain in the "Manage Domains" dashboard

step2: Click on "Set SedoMLS" from the "Action Menu" like Below

Step3: now you can select to "Confirm/Delete from SedoMLS" like show in the picture below

the dynadot dashboard is a very nice one for domainers, and make it easy to manage and control the Afternic/SedoMLS listing

all the best,
Hal

 

[Caleb Tweed]

Hi @Dynadot @Caleb Tweed please delete Sedo partnership from Dynadot, because impossible to delete fraudulent listings from Sedo.

You have a great and powerful marketplace, you don't need Sedo linking.

Dynadot is the best marketplace.

I appreciate the feedback, but think one of our main selling points is that we're a middle ground between the big marketplaces like Afternic/Sedo, so we allow both their listings to show up on our site (obviously if your name is listed not by you the sale won't complete). If you list your name for sale on our marketplace it'll also show up as the listing, so the Afternic/Sedo price won't show up at all.

The old/unverified listings are kind of an issue with most domain marketplaces in general (Sedo, Afternic, and others will have the same issue, so it's not a specific Sedo issue.). It's why we introduced the TXT/NS confirmation requirement for our Open Marketplace.

If you do want to remove the listings from Sedo, you can do as another user suggested above and use their TXT records to verify the name and list on their site (or you might have to contact them directly)! Never hurts to have your name listed on as many avenues as possible in my opinion.

Thanks for thinking we're the best though