poll SEDO, AFTERNIC, GD, EPIK, DAN, OTHER??

[artstar]

WHATS YOUR CHOICE?

SEDO

GD

AFTERNIC

EPIK

DAN

OTHER?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

That link goes to DNHat's product page on NP with description about what and how .
Ironically, at the early stage, you were one of the few here on NP I asked to test and review DNHat. I even offered you a free lifetime copy. Unfortunately you didn't honor my request. So, you're right (though not rightly) to say you've not used DNHat before.

Nevertheless, thanks for your reference to DNHat.
Appreciated.

I had not recalled it when I posted, but once you mentioned it I totally remember the invitation and declining. I just did not feel in position to do a test of your system justice. Best wishes for success in development of the project. Feel free to add additional commentary as it relates to the OP question.

Also if others have products that partly or completely cover the idea of an automated way to keep your listings at various marketplaces synchronized I am sure that will be of interest to more than just the OP.

Bob

 

[BrandChimp]

After many hours spent comparing efty,dan,uniregistry,afternic,sedo,brandbucket,brandpa,squadhelp,epik,flippa...

I picked Dan.
Beautiful and more personal landing pages with your name and picture.
only 9% commission
New lease to buy feature is great
free to list your domains
Crypto payments
Escrow process looks quick and easy
Ultra premium domain name Dan.com

 

[Rob Monster]

While I don´t hesitate to mention flaws and bugs I am shy to criticize staff in general. I am no employees supervisor and would dislike to hurt someone´s professional existence.

Though I sometimes could explode when the following issue happens.

Sadly, every E-Mail is shown as *Spam*, yes.

Uniregistry always used to have an excellent documentation. You could look into the inquirer´s details and the whole negotiation chat. It seems that they reduced the data they share with the domain owner a few months ago.

I started to use Epik brokers recently. They share their E-Mails between broker and buyer with you in Bcc which is good. I would prefer to be able to look-up their progress in my Epik account instead of looking into old E-mails later. Do you plan to add a documentation folder or tab for negotiation progress @Rob Monster or is there already something like that?

So the Epik CRM 1.0 module is done and going to production on Monday. The engineers decided not to deploy it on Friday, but it is ready and I think folks will appreciate the foundation that was laid there and how it integrates with Marketplace and Escrow workflows. The next step is (1) "AI modules for help with responding and screening inquiries and chasing leads, and (2) migration tools from legacy CRM datasets, e.g. at Uni DNS. I personally prefer to use personal email in part because people look me up and conclude that I probably am serious when I decline their 5 figure offer for a name where I have reason to believe that the domain is worth more to the buyer.

 

[Afzal N]

DAN
Afternic

 

[ArielT]

Currently my choice number 1 is Afternic for its network

Also I like to use their for sale page ns3.afternic.com and ns4.afternic.com but I don't understand why It doesn't have a buy now button if a buying now price have been set

Could you comment on this @Joe Styler ?

Thanks

 

[Joe Styler]

We may add one in the future based on customer feedback but the reason we have been so resistant is we have found that not having a BIN option increases sales dramatically on landing pages, not on the sales purchase path in the registrar. We have done split tests and used our own inventory as an example. Having a phone number and email and egaging with the buyer via a broker who explains the value in the domain closes more sales in our system than a BIN page.
That being said we are looking at adding BIN pages in the future because customers continue to ask.

 

[DN Universal]

We may add one in the future based on customer feedback but the reason we have been so resistant is we have found that not having a BIN option increases sales dramatically on landing pages, not on the sales purchase path in the registrar. We have done split tests and used our own inventory as an example. Having a phone number and email and egaging with the buyer via a broker who explains the value in the domain closes more sales in our system than a BIN page.
That being said we are looking at adding BIN pages in the future because customers continue to ask.

Very interesting test... especially looking at the capacity of domain names held by GoDaddy shows that the results do have some validity even if others show differently...

 

[7363824]

We may add one in the future based on customer feedback but the reason we have been so resistant is we have found that not having a BIN option increases sales dramatically on landing pages, not on the sales purchase path in the registrar. We have done split tests and used our own inventory as an example. Having a phone number and email and egaging with the buyer via a broker who explains the value in the domain closes more sales in our system than a BIN page.
That being said we are looking at adding BIN pages in the future because customers continue to ask.

That is interesting. And not what I would have expected, I would have guessed a BIN button would work best to make it easier. I am curious if that is across the board or only for names priced above a certain amount?

 

[tonyk2000]

It may work for North America - based buyers. However, if a potential buyer is not in U.S./Canada - then calling a foreign country, speaking potentially not native language, being subject to sales tricks (this is what he may think, as U.S. is well known for advanced remote sales techniques) - would be the last thing a potential buyer may elect to do...

 

[frank-germany]

If I might say, we are fortunate that we have so many good choices.

just because we have choices
that doesn't make them great

 

[equity78]

We may add one in the future based on customer feedback but the reason we have been so resistant is we have found that not having a BIN option increases sales dramatically on landing pages, not on the sales purchase path in the registrar. We have done split tests and used our own inventory as an example. Having a phone number and email and egaging with the buyer via a broker who explains the value in the domain closes more sales in our system than a BIN page.
That being said we are looking at adding BIN pages in the future because customers continue to ask.

It's interesting Sedo sees the opposite results,


Buy Now

Find a buyer for your domain directly on our marketplace: Buy Now domains offered at a fixed price are sold up to three times faster in comparison to other sales options.


Either way customers should be allowed to pick what they want not what you want.

 

[frank-germany]

It's interesting Sedo sees the opposite results,


Buy Now

Find a buyer for your domain directly on our marketplace: Buy Now domains offered at a fixed price are sold up to three times faster in comparison to other sales options.


Either way customers should be allowed to pick what they want not what you want.

I don't trust this info

it's faster as there is no delay due to negotiation

sedo prefers BIN it as it gives them automated income
they don't care much for the best profit of the domainer when it come to average sales prices

for negotiation aka broker sales, they focus more on high ticket sales

 

[equity78]

@Sedo maybe you can chime in if your data is legit on buy it now.

 

[7363824]

It's interesting Sedo sees the opposite results,


Buy Now

Find a buyer for your domain directly on our marketplace: Buy Now domains offered at a fixed price are sold up to three times faster in comparison to other sales options.


Either way customers should be allowed to pick what they want not what you want.

Note Sedo says BIN names are sold 3 times faster. Afternic's claim is not having a BIN listed on the lander increases sales. Not the same thing. Thus it would seem one could summarize as follows:

Having a BIN sells 3 times faster than make offer, and not showing the BIN but having a buyer contact a broker to get quoted the BIN closes more sales as the broker can try to justify the BIN price to a buyer.

 

[equity78]

Note Sedo says BIN names are sold 3 times faster. Afternic's claim is not having a BIN listed on the lander increases sales. Not the same thing. Thus it would seem one could summarize as follows:

Having a BIN sells 3 times faster than make offer, and not showing the BIN but having a buyer contact a broker to get quoted the BIN closes more sales as the broker can try to justify the BIN price to a buyer.

Valid point, my only experiences with Afternic brokers have been negative and want nothing to do with them. So I just use Afternic for names to show on GoDaddy.

 

[frank-germany]

Valid point, my only experiences with Afternic brokers have been negative and want nothing to do with them. So I just use Afternic for names to show on GoDaddy.

Afternic is the only sales platform that has ever gotten me a better price than I was asking for

my impression is they are the only brokers
who care
and are capable
of negotiation


uniregistry by far the worst
really useless

sedo
extremely lazy

 

[equity78]

Afternic is the only sales platform that has ever gotten me a better price than I was asking for

my impression is they are the only brokers
who care
and are capable
of negotiation

Congrats, I cannot say the same. Worst I ever dealt with. But thankfully there are a lot of options.

 

[7363824]

Valid point, my only experiences with Afternic brokers have been negative and want nothing to do with them. So I just use Afternic for names to show on GoDaddy.

Ya I never dealt with their brokers. I really only use AN for syndication into GD and other registrars but use Epik for my landers so doesn't really matter to me.

 

[Joe Styler]

It may work for North America - based buyers. However, if a potential buyer is not in U.S./Canada - then calling a foreign country, speaking potentially not native language, being subject to sales tricks (this is what he may think, as U.S. is well known for advanced remote sales techniques) - would be the last thing a potential buyer may elect to do...

Its a good thing then we have salespeople In Europe and Asia speaking lots of languages and answering people in their own language on their own time zone with local knowledge about the market and such
Besides our own sales teams doing this we can and do leverage when needed the close to 9k GoDaddy employees worldwide to close deals in the local language. We have so many international locations I honestly cannot keep up but there has never been a time I can recall in the last couple years where we couldn't get a someone to help no matter what the language was and usually from someone located in that country. I don't think that many other companies have that breadth of service and maybe a BIN may work better if you cannot provide what we have - quick callback or contact, based on inquiries IP, many times in local language landing pages and speaking with someone who can speak their language.

 

[tonyk2000]

Its a good thing then we have salespeople In Europe and Asia speaking lots of languages and answering people in their own language on their own time zone with local knowledge about the market and such

This is great, but, last time I visited afternic parking pages (and I am not in U.S.) there were just two numbers - U.S. normal number and U.S. toll-free number. A potential buyer will see the same, so there is no evidence showing him that somebody @ Afternic may speak any other language... And, in any case, if there is a BIN - then not showing it is irrational. Many purchases are impulse buying.