news Thank You and Good Bye Afternic.com

[AbdulBasit.com]

Hello everyone,

I think this is the longest gap I’ve taken in between two posts but I’m sure this will come as a surprise to many of my fellow domain investors that I’m leaving Afternic.com

As many of my readers know that since January 2020, I’ve been using Afternic.com price request lander. It’s been almost 6 years using them and I had an overall great experience. With all the challenges and ups and downs including economic crisis and uncertainty in global market due to wars, I still had many extra ordinary months with the help of Afternic team. It was really nice working with so many Afternic brokers and especially my rep Adam Ramsdell who did all his best he could to get the maximum sales out of my portfolio. I sincerely appreciate Adam and the entire team whoever was involved in getting the sales happen smoothly.

There are two main reasons for leaving Afternic:

1. I’m no longer interested in paying any commission.
2. Like the way I opted Afternic from Uniregistry, now I would like to prefer handling and managing the portfolio and leads myself.

Overall, it’s been a rollercoaster ride with a lot of inconsistencies which I believe is part of the business especially domain investing. It took a lot of time to think and decide about this decision but I believe now is the right time to go and move onto the next level of my domaining journey.

Currently I’m in the process of trying something new and I’ll share more details in my next post, so stay tuned.

Thank you!

 

[accuname]

I removed all my domains from afternic after GD refused to pay me the 1500 they owe me for a domain because I wouldn't agree to a third party payment processor tos. They had no problem accepting the domain from me first for resale without my tos agreement. A multibillion dollar company can't be bothered to cut a check. Hope their stock price keeps going down and I will forever talk sh*t about them.

 

[alcy]

Around 4 years updating and never made more than 10% extra with both of them (godaddy+afternic), so that shoyld say it all. The big thing is that I was not using their landers, so without landers, they could make 10-20% extra but will payout times, bugs, shit customer service it could not worth it even at 30% extra. Even with sedo, if you use their mls is around the same, 10% without landers.

true . but... this is precisely why and how more exposure works.. that if we have listing there we open possibility to sell... not a guaranter

but if we have no listing then it becomes a guarantee of no sale there

abit like lotto win .. tho of course domainer odds with enuf experience are much higher than lotto hehehr

well whatever u decide. ticket or not.. gl

 

[alcy]

I removed all my domains from afternic after GD refused to pay me the 1500 they owe me for a domain because I wouldn't agree to a third party payment processor tos. They had no problem accepting the domain from me first for resale without my tos agreement. A multibillion dollar company can't be bothered to cut a check. Hope their stock price keeps going down and I will forever talk sh*t about them.

this can be understood
but to make dent in em 1000 would need to do like u

otherwise sadly the true loser of such action become not em but u

its how world of rich works.

scraps for us
or nothing for us

and yes we can talk noble to change it ... but talk wont be enuf

 

[kool1]

This Is why I'm leaving, at least the final straw. Have a domain clearly tagged BIN, but do have the minimum offer field filled @ $500. When you go the the domain, clearly shows a BIN price with no make offer option. If you go to GD and search for the domain, shows an appraised value 1/3 of the BIN, and min offer of $500. Received an offer for $500(of course) and buyer who I suspected owned the .net and .org (who I reached out to), is irritated that I would ask 3x the GD appraisal price.

 

[love4ever]

Congrats !

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982813199415095557

https://www.abdulbasit.com/domaining/my-first-sale-using-efty-lander

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

So in the last 10 days there were plenty of new inquiries and many lowball offers and not actually looking to buy the domain even though the lander clearly has a message. I wonder what people are thinking when submitting the form or contacting via email/WhatsApp for the stuff not related to buying the domain.

This is a common problem that will waste a lot of your time.

We've created the industry's best solutions for it:

Something to keep in mind when you're ready to spend more time selling domains and less time dealing with tire kickers and confused visitors.

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[Gabriel360]

Congrats !

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982813199415095557

https://www.abdulbasit.com/domaining/my-first-sale-using-efty-lander

This is now my second favourite story on dealing with nasty domain buyers.

First is Brad and how he handled the Edible Arrangements guys.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

This is a common problem that will waste a lot of your time.

We've created the industry's best solutions for it:

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Something to keep in mind when you're ready to spend more time selling domains and less time dealing with tire kickers and confused visitors.

Here's our live demo of these features:

• QualRequired.com

Try it out.

Thanks for sharing.

There is an option at Efty for buyers to verify their emails before the actual inquiry email lands into my inbox. But I had to remove that feature as some of the verification emails were not received to people who were filling to form. I feel it's better to keep it open to deal with everyone as 99%+ of the real spam goes into Efty Spam folder which I don't bother checking because there are thousands of messages every day and to dig in the less than 1% of the genuine lead isn't worth it for me.

 

[NicTraders]

First is Brad and how he handled the Edible Arrangements guys.

I had forgotten about that one. Had to remind myself... https://www.namepros.com/threads/im...-datacube-com-ama.1285197/page-4#post-8722974

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

There is an option at Efty for buyers to verify their emails before the actual inquiry email lands into my inbox.

We have similar options, but we combine the best of both worlds:

These settings allow you to be notified about all inquiries, but your buyers are still put through the same process to verify their email, answer qualification questions, etc.

This way, if your buyers do those steps, you get additional details about them.

For example, if they confirm their email address and explicitly confirm their interest in your domain, you might want to follow up with them a couple more times than if it's an inquiry without a confirmed email address. The latter is probably a confused person, but the former is likely just a busy businessperson.

Another strategy to think about and consider in the future.

 

[URL Stream]

@Bravo Mod Team
Do you think it’s worth checking the NP catch-all section every so often, just in case the filters are a bit too tight and something slips through?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Do you think it’s worth checking the NP catch-all section every so often, just in case the filters are a bit too tight and something slips through?

Currently, we only have two filters on the UI:

Here's a link to view all inquiries (no filters):

• https://www.namepros.com/parking/inquiries?status=all

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The "Catchall" page is worth checking for various reasons, such as new potential leads and much more.

That's where emails show if anyone sends an email directly to your domains, e.g., [email protected].

It's quite rare for an inquiry to be sent to a for-sale domain like that, but there are famous exceptions where domain brokers might email something like [email protected] to try to buy your domain from you.

However, most brokers would visit the domain first and submit the form before trying that, which would go to your "Inquiries" page.

Excellent question, though!

 

[URL Stream]

but there are famous exceptions where domain brokers might email something like [email protected] to try to buy your domain from you.

Such as?

If this post is considered off topic, please report it to a mod.

 

[teadom]

Thanks for sharing.

There is an option at Efty for buyers to verify their emails before the actual inquiry email lands into my inbox. But I had to remove that feature as some of the verification emails were not received to people who were filling to form. I feel it's better to keep it open to deal with everyone as 99%+ of the real spam goes into Efty Spam folder which I don't bother checking because there are thousands of messages every day and to dig in the less than 1% of the genuine lead isn't worth it for me.

It makes total sense, but it's a bit disturbing, because you might still lose some offers. Do you check the inbox ones manually or do you have a process to do so?

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

It makes total sense, but it's a bit disturbing, because you might still lose some offers. Do you check the inbox ones manually or do you have a process to do so?

Manually. Hectic because plenty of inquiries which are not looking to buy the domain... but it's fine.

 

[teadom]

Manually. Hectic because plenty of inquiries which are not looking to buy the domain... but it's fine.

What do the look for if not to buy? I sure there are people like this, but why would you mail to someone who wants to sell a domain?

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

What do the look for if not to buy? I sure there are people like this, but why would you mail to someone who wants to sell a domain?

They better to know the answer than us
But so many people simply ask for anything like laptop purchase, repairing stuff, medical, refunds, etc.

 

[AEProgram]

They better to know the answer than us
But so many people simply ask for anything like laptop purchase, repairing stuff, medical, refunds, etc.

but at least now you know the content of every lead.

 

[Altetra]

I have read that Abdul did not add some kind of verify to send inquire by end user, you did great, cause I had some XMLRPC limit on my own web and inquires stopped coming, it was affecting my contact form, wanted to say about this fact, the more security we add the more harder we may prevent a human to interact with our lander, that is why I better remove even captcha and see what comes, I will decide myself which lead is real or not.

Maybe the security is not longer security as we though before, now AI bots can bypass it easy, the guard now is before a human rather an AI bot.
imo

 

[AEProgram]

I have read that Abdul did not add some kind of verify to send inquire by end user, you did great, cause I had some XMLRPC limit on my own web and inquires stopped coming, it was affecting my contact form, wanted to say about this fact, the more security we add the more harder we may prevent a human to interact with our lander, that is why I better remove even captcha and see what comes, I will decide myself which lead is real or not.

Maybe the security is not longer security as we though before, now AI bots can bypass it easy, the guard now is before a human rather an AI bot.
imo

if you get many submissions you can remove the captcha and ask ai to decide if its spam or not, very inexpensive and can save time if you have a lot of submissions.