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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Visiting GoDaddy’s AfternicBoost.com turns Boost ON or OFF
If you want to try Afternic Boost, the increased domain visibility feature provided as a paid upgrade, there’s an easy, quick solution. It’s no longer necessary to wade through your Afternic settings, tweaking switches and whatnot; the new method is indeed ingenious and fast. “We had a great idea here at GoDaddy, as great as […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy is selling Frank’s DomainNameSales.com domain name; How much?
Frank Schilling‘s hush project, Domain Name Sales, went public in 2012 leading to the eventual launch of Uniregistry. The acquisition of Uniregistry by GoDaddy in early 2020 led to its dissolution as a registrar and the loss of a great domain selling platform for its numerous users. Accounts with domains were eventually migrated to GoDaddy. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer careers: Kathy Nielsen no longer with GoDaddy
Kathy Nielsen is no longer with GoDaddy after four years with the GoDaddy Registry as Director of Premium Domains. Ms. Nielsen joined GoDaddy upon its acquisition of Neustar in 2020 where she worked at the time. Previously, Kathy Nielsen worked for Sedo from 2008 to 2014 at various executive and managerial role positions. Upon closing […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Richard Lau is now a founding investor at DomainEasy; James Morfopoulos joins the company
Domain entrepreneur and investor, Richard Lau, has announced his immediate involvement with the DomainEasy project. The NamesCon founder stated that he’s a Founding Investor along with DomainEasy.com founder, Sam Dennis. The company has been in the works for a year, creating a platform for domain investors to transact domain sales on. In associated news, James […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.No future for Dan.com
Dan.com is no longer going to be an independent, functioning entity, favored by numerous domain name investors. Owners GoDaddy dictate that within the next 30 days the platform will be shutting down. There is no future for Dan beyond that point. It’s a sad closure towards the untimely demise of a brand that quickly filled […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Opt in vs. opt out: GoDaddy vs. Google
GoDaddy opted in all Afternic accounts to its newly promoted “Afternic Boost” service. While free through August initially, it’s now September and the service will cost on average 5% more to utilize. In other words, if you haven’t opted out intentionally, you are still opted-in. GoDaddy decided that signing you up to a service that […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy shuts down Dan’s integration with Efty
GoDaddy is shutting down the integration of the Dan.com platform with Efty. Effective today, Efty.com will no longer work with Dan.com as the integration is disabled due to a unilateral decision made by GoDaddy.com. Efty sent out a notice: “GoDaddy will discontinue the Dan.com Integrator service as of September 5, 2024. Efty was its first […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain memes: Get that CEO boost!
GoDaddy has a lot at stake with the latest 5% increase in Afternic fees; the so-called “Afternic Boost” program promises a lot of features and increased exposure resulting in bigger sales. Of course, it all arrives with a mandatory performance disclaimer and a bunch of other small print that you can read here. In the […]
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