No Hugedomains listing on afternic

[davidc1]

Hello,

I heard and see that hugedomains deleted his listing on afternic.

Do tou know when it happenned ?
To my opinion they lose a lot doing that as their domains dont appears in godaddy search path.
What do you think of ?

 

[internext]

hugedomains deleted his listing on afternic

That's great! I hope it's the start of a huge domainer exodus

 

[davidc1]

That's great! I hope it's the start of a huge domainer exodus

Never split tested with and without afternic, an idea lol...

 

[Recons.Com]

Wow. Is this Godaddy's revenge that HugeDomains domains won't even show an option to hire a broker to contact? It just says it is taken.

 

[Recons.Com]

Wow. Is this Godaddy's revenge that HugeDomains domains won't even show an option to hire a broker to contact? It just says it is taken.

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[SpareDomains]

That's great! I hope it's the start of a huge domainer exodus

I'm no Huge Domains quantity but I'm out too. Been doing my own thing mainly for 25ish years anyway but if the buyer doesn't come direct to my own page they can choose DynaDot, Atom, Sedo, Efty, etc... as anything GoDaddy owned is over for me. I use to love GoDaddy back in the old days but slowly it's gotten to the point where I moved all my domains to DynaDot and I'm done fueling their profits so they can buy more competitors and close them down.

 

[davidc1]

I'm no Huge Domains quantity but I'm out too. Been doing my own thing mainly for 25ish years anyway but if the buyer doesn't come direct to my own page they can choose DynaDot, Atom, Sedo, Efty, etc... as anything GoDaddy owned is over for me. I use to love GoDaddy back in the old days but slowly it's gotten to the point where I moved all my domains to DynaDot and I'm done fueling their profits so they can buy more competitors and close them down.

Have you AB tested with and without afternic ?
I mostly sell to end users and afternic is maybe 50-60% of my sales whereas landers 40-50% so not using afternic is probably a big loss but never tested as it's big money to test...

 

[phaethon]

That's actually good news, they own some really good domains, that give us some space to sell more I think.
Maybe they are confident that their brand is so strong they don't need GD? I think they are just testing and will be back soon.

 

[rh2000]

Hello,

I heard and see that hugedomains deleted his listing on afternic.

Do tou know when it happenned ?
To my opinion they lose a lot doing that as their domains dont appears in godaddy search path.
What do you think of ?

I think they did that when Godaddy stopped the Afternic search capability.

 

[Shimmy]

Wow. Is this Godaddy's revenge that HugeDomains domains won't even show an option to hire a broker to contact? It just says it is taken.

Actually makes sense since HugeDomains never takes more than $200 off. No point in offering their broker service for that.

 

[E. Silvera]

Wow. Is this Godaddy's revenge that HugeDomains domains won't even show an option to hire a broker to contact? It just says it is taken.

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Hi,

In fact this is happening to many of my Afternic listed domains, and I still haven't found out why (I am not huge, neither have I left Afternic).

 

[Page Howe]

I don't think huge domains were aver on afternic..

 

[Future Sensors]

I don't think huge domains were aver on afternic..

It's mentioned here, as well:

https://domainnamewire.com/2024/08/07/afternic-adds-more-promotion-for-a-fee/

Huge Domains pulled its inventory from the platform earlier this year. The company likely had 4-5 million domains listed on Afternic, and Afternic claims to have 23 million+ domains listed. That’s a big chunk of inventory.

 

[Jannes]

Hi,

In fact this is happening to many of my Afternic listed domains, and I still haven't found out why (I am not huge, neither have I left Afternic).

Because at Afternic you're subjected to constant experiments. And bugs, of course.

 

[CarlosN]

Have you AB tested with and without afternic ?
I mostly sell to end users and afternic is maybe 50-60% of my sales whereas landers 40-50% so not using afternic is probably a big loss but never tested as it's big money to test...

Maybe you can make a test in a subset of your portfolio? Although it could lead to less accurate results, you can offset some risk.

 

[davidc1]

Maybe you can make a test in a subset of your portfolio? Although it could lead to less accurate results, you can offset some risk.

Yes will do

 

[phaethon]

If HD had 5 million names on GD, they might have been able to negotiate a lower commission I think..

 

[scithe]

If they left because of the boost, then just their departure is a boost in visibility if there's 20% less domain names on the marketplace.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Ya not likely. 20% more of the new G’s
What do you see when you put
“ namepros” in search at yourdaddy?

Any proof of number of domains hugedomains has?
I only see 572,000 using their dns

 

[davidc1]

For the moment HD is not back on afternic, big loss IMO.
Any thought ?