question I am getting Afternic leads but not sure where from

[umpire]

Hi all,

Noob question

I have an atom premium domain pointed at their nameservers, so going to the URL directly goes to my atom listing. It is also listed on Afternic at >10% higher BIN.

Despite this I am still getting leads appearing in Afternic every so often, showing active communication with godaddy brokers.

So I can understand the buying process, where are these people likely/potentially coming from? If I type the domain into godaddy or another registrar, it just shows up as a premium domain with a BIN - no "use a broker" option.

The only thing I can think is people are using the godaddy domain brokerage service but this doesn't make much sense to me given there is an active landing page with a price.

Thanks

 

[AEProgram]

Hi all,

Noob question

I have an atom premium domain pointed at their nameservers, so going to the URL directly goes to my atom listing. It is also listed on Afternic at >10% higher BIN.

Despite this I am still getting leads appearing in Afternic every so often, showing active communication with godaddy brokers.

So I can understand the buying process, where are these people likely/potentially coming from? If I type the domain into godaddy or another registrar, it just shows up as a premium domain with a BIN - no "use a broker" option.

The only thing I can think is people are using the godaddy domain brokerage service but this doesn't make much sense to me given there is an active landing page with a price.

Thanks

they might be calling godaddy to buy a domain, many people call them, and then your name came up as an option.

 

[pb]

Where is it registered? They might be contacting GD through whois.
But most likely they just see the listing and then contact GD about the price.

 

[umpire]

they might be calling godaddy to buy a domain, many people call them, and then your name came up as an option.

This could make sense, the leads tend to have "call logged" 10-15 minutes or so after "lead created".

So basically people call GD and say "I am making a mobile payment app" or whatever, request relevant domains, then the broker searches for relevant Afternic inventory, and logs the lead under any name the buyer expressed tenatative interest in, or something like that? I always assumed I'd never see this sort of thing because it would just be some GD agent pushing the domain, not a named broker who'd put it in Afternic - quite interesting.

Where is it registered? They might be contacting GD through whois.
But most likely they just see the listing and then contact GD about the price.

Porkbun, so not a whois enquiry I don't think.

Seeing the atom listing and contacting godaddy about the price? Or do you mean seeing the BIN price at a registrar (probably godaddy) and then calling godaddy?

 

[pb]

Seeing the atom listing and contacting godaddy about the price? Or do you mean seeing the BIN price at a registrar (probably godaddy) and then calling godaddy?

The latter.

 

[AyoubAttari]

Hi all,

Noob question

I have an atom premium domain pointed at their nameservers, so going to the URL directly goes to my atom listing. It is also listed on Afternic at >10% higher BIN.

Despite this I am still getting leads appearing in Afternic every so often, showing active communication with godaddy brokers.

So I can understand the buying process, where are these people likely/potentially coming from? If I type the domain into godaddy or another registrar, it just shows up as a premium domain with a BIN - no "use a broker" option.

The only thing I can think is people are using the godaddy domain brokerage service but this doesn't make much sense to me given there is an active landing page with a price.

Thanks

The leads you're seeing on Afternic are most likely coming from GoDaddy’s reseller network. Even though your domain has a BIN and an active Atom landing page, some buyers discover the domain through registrars like GoDaddy where it appears as a premium listing. In some cases, especially for business users or those using the GoDaddy B2B platform, the system may route them to a broker by default — either due to UX, lack of trust in direct buy, or because they initiate contact without realizing a price is already set.