BrandBucket pulls out of Afternic

In an email to customers, BrandBucket announced that it’s “taking a break” from cross-listing domains on Afternic. As shared by domain investor Bogdan Vovchuk on X: BrandBucket continues to have distribution relationships that will allow its inventory to reach the majority of registrars. We have also invested heavily the past two years to build a […]

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Afternic.WTF

GoDaddy’s Afternic platform introduced a self-brokerage option yesterday, seeking to engage domain investors that would like to handle inbound inquiries themselves. The system requires that sellers are members of the Discount Domain Club (DDC)—a paid membership that typically costs $240 dollars per year. It does provide added benefits but for the sole purpose of self-brokering […]

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MyJersey.com appears to be yet another Telepathy sale

The domain name MyJersey.com appears to have been sold via Afternic. Registered in 2000, MyJersey.com has been in the possession of top notch portfolio holders, Telepathy.com. At some point, it had a price tag of $4,814 dollars and as WHOIS info shows, ownership was transferred to “Afternic, LLC – On Behalf of Domain Owner” indicating […]

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Faithful domainers still use Dan DNS

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 […]

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14 GoDaddy domain brokers you’ve not met before

Last year we shared the profile of GoDaddy superbroker, Yasuhiro Yakamoto. As one of the most successful domain brokers at GoDaddy and Afternic, Yasuhiro works with a team of capable domain brokers that have been trained extensively, developing the “masterclass” videos shared currently. It is with joy that we present, alongside Yasuhiro, the full team […]

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GoDaddy to allow domain data migration back to Dan.com

If you’re not happy with your domain migration from Dan.com to GoDaddy’s Afternic, no problem. The biggest domain registrar in the world is now offering an one time migration back to Dan.com and its marketplace, a company that still operates independently under the GoDaddy umbrella. “We believe that every GoDaddy customer deserves to be happy, […]

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Afternic keywords for December: Have you boosted yet?

Afternic‘s top keywords for December 2024 are finally here, as the company prepares for an early holiday season shutdown.  Tracked through GoDaddy‘s proprietary Cairo AI™, this amazing series tracks the most popular keywords in domain sales achieved through Afternic. “Our system analyzes millions of search terms on the so-called ‘registrar path’ that GoDaddy has several […]

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Anybody.com: Million dollar+ domain allegedly acquired

Anybody could have done it: For the price of $1.249 Million dollars, the domain Anybody.com was listed for sale on Afternic. Then somebody—allegedly—did it, although the exact sales price was not disclosed. Said that person: “I was going to buy a patek phillipe or an Aston DB11 AMR I BOUGHT THIS INSTEAD: ANYBODY. C O […]

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GoDaddy adds insult to injury with email add-on upsell during domain checkout

As if checking out via a slow cart weren’t enough for GoDaddy domain buyers of its Afternic inventory, you can now add upselling to the process. In recent months, users have reported that it can take up to 30 seconds from the moment a BIN-priced domain is added to the cart until the next step, […]

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Hello Satan! Dan review as random as it gets

Dan.com is on its way down, thanks to GoDaddy’s plan to switch or “migrate” its user base to Afternic. The days of reviewing this great domain selling platform will soon be over, but not without a fun message from Satan himself. A fresh review of Dan.com on Trustpilot was left by “Satan Constantine” whose wording […]

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Slow AF: Buying a domain on Afternic appears to take forever

Buying a domain name from a marketplace should be an easy, fast process. The fewer the steps, the better! It seems that this isn’t the case for domains listed on Afternic; at least, those with a Dan-style lander. A domain investor has shared video captures of his attempt to buy his own domain, Reef.co, on […]

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