Problem with GoDaddy Forwarding - Need Help/Advice

[steely]

Hi fellow domainers. There is something strange that I just noticed about a bunch of domains that I have with GoDaddy and was wondering if anyone else has this problem. Some of my domains are parked with Voodoo and ParkingCrew and others are forwarded (no masking) to sales landing pages for Godaddy premium, Afternic, SEDO, and Brandroot. Recently though, it seems that the forwarding operation adds an alphabetic string to the end of the forwarding address which causes the page not to resolve for Afternic. For SEDO, the page still resolves fine. For Brandroot, a Brandroot "error" page appears. And for GD premium, this extra string also messes up the correct forwarding address.

Has anyone seen this type of problem before? Any solutions? I haven't contacted GD yet, but plan to do so. A few other things. I see this with both Chrome and IE browsers. And, it's also intermittent. Sometimes the forwarding works correctly and there is no extra string. Sometimes the string is there. To give you an example, this might be the correct forwarding address (which is specified):

https://www.afternic.com/domain/DOMAINNAME.com

So when the user types in DOMAINNAME.com, it should forward to what's listed above.

But sometimes what shows up in the browser is:

https://www.afternic.com/domain/DOMAINNAME.com/zkklgfh

And this causes the page not to resolve.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[sarah.kate]

I'm having this exact same problem. I can't figure it out and it's driving me crazy! All those potential customers going to a "not found" page!!

 

[steely]

Hey, I never got to the root cause or contacted GD, but I did find a workaround. For pages that are forwarding to GD premium, add the "&" character at the end of the forwarding address. For pages forwarding to Afternic, add a "#" character. And for pages forwarding to Brandroot (if you have any), append the "#" character as well. Adding these seemed to fix this issue meaning that even when the random alphabetical string gets appended, the page still resolves correctly. Hope this helps.

 

[sarah.kate]

Oh my gosh, thank you so much! I will try it and see.

 

[NameGroove]

Hey, I never got to the root cause or contacted GD, but I did find a workaround. For pages that are forwarding to GD premium, add the "&" character at the end of the forwarding address. For pages forwarding to Afternic, add a "#" character. And for pages forwarding to Brandroot (if you have any), append the "#" character as well. Adding these seemed to fix this issue meaning that even when the random alphabetical string gets appended, the page still resolves correctly. Hope this helps.

I'd like to forward some of my names directly to their respective GoDaddy premium page as well. I notice you have a shortcut URL for Afternic. Is there one for GD as well?