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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GoDaddy shares group of 35 business-related AI prompts

Posted by DomainGang on April 10, 2023, at 11:48 am

GoDaddy created a group of business-related AI prompts, totaling 35 at this time, that can be used with tools such as ChatGPT and Bard. The collection of prompts are touted as a “Small Business Generative AI Prompt Library” and can be found via the domain name SmallBusinessPrompts.com. It’s great they didn’t go for the domain […]

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Ready to move out of Uniregistry?

Posted by DomainGang on March 21, 2023, at 10:19 am

Uniregistry has had a great run spanning almost a decade. The company was acquired by GoDaddy three years ago, as a bridge to founder Frank Schilling’s portfolio of domain names. While GoDaddy kept Uniregistry and the Uni Market alive, the latter will shut down on April 18th, marking the end of an era for the […]

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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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Latest GoDaddy hacking incident part of “multi-year campaign”

Posted by DomainGang on February 18, 2023, at 1:00 pm

GoDaddy announced that a recent hacking incident that targeted its cPanel hosting servers is part of a “multi-year campaign” against the company. The announcement provided details about the latest incident that took place in December 2022, targeting the services available to hosting users. During the incident, an “unauthorized third party” installed malware and proceeded to […]

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GoDaddy Q4/2022 & annual report

Posted by DomainGang on February 14, 2023, at 4:12 pm

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter (Q4/2022) along with fiscal 2022 earnings. According to the press release, 2022 Revenue up 7%; Cash Provided by Operating Activities up 18%; Free Cash Flow up 13%. Q4/2022 wasn’t as stellar: Reported earnings of $0.60 /share missed estimate of $0.62 /share by 3.23%. […]

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FTX scandal: GoDaddy on the list of creditors

Posted by DomainGang on February 1, 2023, at 9:25 am

The FTX scandal is unraveling daily, with the troubled crypto company once valued in the billions of dollars going through bankruptcy. The list of creditors of FTX was released last week and among them are some big names: Apple, Microsoft, Alibaba, Coinbase, and others, are claiming a minimum of $3.1 billion dollars. With more than […]

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GoDaddy shuffles board of directors three weeks before earnings

Posted by DomainGang on January 25, 2023, at 4:55 pm

GoDaddy announced changes to its board of directors (BOD) just three weeks before scheduled Q4/2022 & fiscal 2022 earnings. Srini Tallapragada and Sigal Zarmi are in, moving from Salesforce and Morgan Stanley respectively. The impressive qualifications of these two new board members were lauded by GoDaddy CEO, Aman Bhutani, who noted: “GoDaddy’s diverse board is […]

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GoDaddy to announce Q4/2022 and fiscal year earnings on Valentine’s Day

Posted by DomainGang on January 13, 2023, at 2:35 pm

On Valentine’s Day, GoDaddy will be sharing its performance results for Q4/2022, alongside the fiscal year 2022 earnings. The report will be released on February 14th, after the US stock market closes. Following the release, a webinar will be hosted by the GoDaddy management at 5:00pm Eastern time. You can register for the webinar here. […]

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