The Afternic Diaries: Mundane tasks of a domain name broker

Posted by DomainGang on April 20, 2023, at 11:10 am

My name is – wait, better leave that out, on second thought. I’m a junior domain broker at Afternic, the biggest domain brokerage platform owned by GoDaddy. We are giants. At least, that’s what the middle management tells us on casual Fridays. We have pineapple pizza and soda and we talk about kicking the competition’s […]

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Dan + Afternic: Out of sync

Posted by DomainGang on March 21, 2023, at 9:12 am

Recent updates at Dan.com triggered a range of frustrating sentiments to domain investors, who had to rush in and tweak account settings once again. What took place: Portfolio holders at GoDaddy-owned Dan received a system update and while things looked normal, a little “devil” flipped the Afternic Integration switch from OFF to ON, at least […]

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GoDaddy Lead Center: New updates this weekend

Posted by DomainGang on March 18, 2023, at 5:28 pm

GoDaddy has announced that its team of domain brokers will now be required to report every detail of their daily activities, including bathroom breaks, lunches, and other mundane activities, on the company’s new “Lead Center” feature. The new tool is part of Afternic, a domain marketplace in perpetual “beta.” According to the GoDaddy press release, […]

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GoDaddy-owned Dan.com ignored user settings, funneling domains to Afternic

Posted by DomainGang on March 17, 2023, at 5:39 pm

The latest product release at Dan.com arrived yesterday with an email notifying users that domains with a BIN price will be added to Afternic. Those who had opted out of this integration presumed that no such decision will be made without their authorization. The GoDaddy-owned company went ahead regardless of user choice, toggling the integration […]

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Latest Dan product update automatically “opts in” domains to Afternic

Posted by DomainGang on March 16, 2023, at 10:30 am

The latest product update at Dan.com (product update 8) carries several improvements that emphasize the great expandability of the platform designed by Dan.com, already a superb platform prior to GoDaddy acquiring it last summer. Global domain description edits, for example, minimize the task load of domain portfolio holders. Lease to own (LTO) transactions are now […]

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Dan & Afternic integration: ON/OFF switch a one way street

Posted by DomainGang on February 27, 2023, at 11:27 am

GoDaddy acquired Dan.com for $71.4 million dollars with one goal in mind: to pipe out its 2 million listed domains to Afternic. The aged platform has many automated domain-selling features in place but new tech at Dan, previously known as Undeveloped.com, was eating Afternic’s lunch, as far as sales volume is concerned, prior to the […]

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Just sold: Domain seller gave buyer a whopping $70,000 dollar discount!

Posted by DomainGang on February 23, 2023, at 5:24 pm

The Dutch seller of Studion.com gave the buyer a massive discount on Afternic, taking off $70,000 dollars from the original asking price and selling it for “just” $10,000 dollars. Upgrading from the matching .co to the prestigious, aged .com domain, the buyer wasn’t yet sure if he made the right choice (our honest opinion: hell […]

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Asking questions after the new Afternic/Dan/Uniregistry fee changes

Posted by DomainGang on January 4, 2023, at 11:56 am

The “price alignment” that GoDaddy is rolling out across its marketplaces has created a shock and awe effect among domain investors. Increasing Dan.com commissions to 15% is just the tip of the iceberg, as the Afternic.com supposed drop from 20% to 15% isn’t a reduction of fees; Afternic drops its tiered pricing altogether: In the […]

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Seven years later: You can buy the #domain Negari.com on GoDaddy

Posted by DomainGang on August 10, 2022, at 2:33 pm

Domain entrepreneur, Daniel Negari, made waves seven years ago when he listed his namesake .com domain, Negari.com, for sale on NameJet. The XYZ founder and CEO most likely bet on his name’s unique qualities: anyone bidding would have to be a …relative. 😀 The auction’s results were questioned but at the time, NameJet’s GM, Jonathan […]

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PivotalVentures.com sale to Pivotal Ventures confirmed

Posted by DomainGang on July 28, 2022, at 4:22 pm

A week ago, we shared the news of the domain PivotalVentures.com being acquired by the Melinda Gates Foundation. The sale took place on Afternic and the seller’s asking price of $99,995 dollars was met. Pivotal, operating from the domain name PivotalVentures.org, is an organization that was founded by Melinda French Gates in 2015, to accelerate […]

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Afternic’s social media is back from the dead!

Posted by DomainGang on May 26, 2022, at 2:35 pm

Afternic has been working on its next incarnation for over a year now. The GoDaddy-owned marketplace for second hand domains is busy as ever, but its social media accounts, including Twitter, have been quite dead. For example, on Twitter, @Afternic made 8 posts total in the five years spanning 2014-2019 and then disappeared. No-one was […]

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Did Rugpull.com sell for $50,000 dollars?

Posted by DomainGang on May 11, 2022, at 9:46 am

A rug pull is a malicious maneuver in the cryptocurrency industry where crypto developers abandon a project and run away with investors’ funds. The same definition applies to NFT project operators that abandon the project soon after its launch; the floor price or minimum selling price of the NFT then plummets. The matching domain name Rugpull.com […]

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