It’s not been a year yet since GoDaddy pulled the rug from under Dan.com. The popular domain marketplace’s sunset was expected, after it was acquired by the biggest registrar in the world for $70+ million dollars in cold cash.
Afternic, via its “direct search path” access on GoDaddy.com, was always the top priority. Dan’s forced data migration to Afternic completed last September and yet thousands of domains use its DNS still.
According to DomainTools that maintains valid cumulative WHOIS records, more than 706,000 domains currently use the Dan DNS pair (ns1.dan.com & ns2.dan.com.)
GoDaddy still considers these nameservers as valid and resolves domains that use them to Afternic landers. When a domain sale occurs using the old Dan DNS, such sales don’t get penalized with the hefty 30% fee that custom, non-GoDaddy approved DNS gets whipped with.
It’s sad seeing Dan DNS in domains’ live WHOIS records as it belongs to an era that—boost or no boost—is long gone.
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