Should Afternic use txt record verification - Poll

[Ja Kai]

I think Joe Styler is providing talking points because NOT providing txt record verification, makes his and godaddy's job easier and more profitable - as it won't piss off HUGE and others. Well, lets take a poll - I believe @Joe Styler is wrong here. Basing his responses NOT on facts.

OK, should text verification be used at Afternic?

 

[Joe Styler]

@Joe Styler are you guys still planning to add txt verification soon or is it going to take 50 years? You posted about txt verification in 2020 but there is still no progress apparently.

I'm not in charge of that anymore so I can't say for sure. At the time the overwhelming response I received via email, texts, DMs etc was do not do this. The reasoning was that while some registrars make it easy to update txt records in bulk some do not and it would take manually updating all your records to get your domains listed.

We do this on auctions currently, ask for txt record updates in order to verify domain ownership. I have continued to get the same feedback on auctions over time, that people do not like this because it involves updating records manually.

in the past couple years there have been a number of changes to make ownership verification easier for people on AN. For instance there is now a sweep behind the scenes to help remove stale listings to enable new owners to list domains for sale instead of emailing AN to remove the old listings. (this is not comprehensive but it has greatly reduced the number of times this happens). There was also the release of list for sale in GD via the domain control center (DCC). If you own the domain at GD and list it there in the dcc your listing will trump another AN listing and remove it, it also auto verifies you as the owner.

We also hired someone to work on the problem of domain ownership verification and stale listings. He is working on a multi faceted way of ownership verification. I believe there are plans to institute txt record verification in addtion to other forms of verification so that if it is easy for you to use bulk txt record updates you can do so but you are not forced to do it to verify as the only way. They are looking into other ways of making this process easier and more accurate. As I said some have been released and some are coming.

 

[JudgeMind]

Txt records are a real pain when dealing with multiple domains.. I think adding an additional nameserver like Dan does for verification is far better.. the verification process should be a bulk feature @Joe Styler

 

[td11]

Txt records are a real pain when dealing with multiple domains.. I think adding an additional nameserver like Dan does for verification is far better.. the verification process should be a bulk feature @Joe Styler

I don't agree with that. For me it takes 1 minute to add txt record for all my domain names. It is better if they can add both verification methods (nameservers and txt) like Dan.com. There are currently 460 domain names of mine for sale on afternic that have been put up for sale by others. Suppose they are sold there and later it turns out that that person is not the owner. Is also not good for the reputation of afternic.

 

[poweredbyme]

I think afternic is somehow unable or reluctant to add txt verification and it will never happen at afternic.

I would suggest fast transfer as a method of verification. If the user doesn't want fast transfer, supposedly, could then disable it by removing BIN.
However, $100k upper limit at afternic fast transfer would be serious problem for premium domains.