Afternic rolls out series of NFT images with important domain data
New press release from Afternic this fine Monday morning: Afternic, the popular domain name marketplace, has just shared an eye-catching chart that highlights the usage of top-level domains. And the results are in: .com is king, taking up an unsurprising 90% of the data! We knew it was popular, but we didn’t realize it was […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dan + Afternic: Out of sync
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy Lead Center: New updates this weekend
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, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Latest Dan product update automatically “opts in” domains to Afternic
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dan & Afternic integration: ON/OFF switch a one way street
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Just sold: Domain seller gave buyer a whopping $70,000 dollar discount!
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Asking questions after the new Afternic/Dan/Uniregistry fee changes
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Seven years later: You can buy the #domain Negari.com on GoDaddy
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.PivotalVentures.com sale to Pivotal Ventures confirmed
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Afternic’s social media is back from the dead!
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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