Reza Sardeha talks about the Dan future and fee changes
Dan founder, Reza Sardeha, emerged via Twitter and delivered his personal opinion about the recent drastic fee changes at GoDaddy. The back story: Just months after acquiring Dan.com in June 2022 for a reported $71 million dollars in cash, GoDaddy increased the fees domain investors pay to use the Dan platform. Starting on February 1st, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bye Dan: Sedo will keep its BIN landers at 10% commission
Domain investors are facing an unprecedented act by GoDaddy, that will be imposing a 25% commission on domains that are added on Afternic, Dan, or the Uni Market whilst not using their nameservers. In effect from February 1st, the 25% commission is a massive “head tax” that attempts to terrorize domain investors that use their […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Media Temple: Another GoDaddy “funeral” of a great brand
GoDaddy collects brands – the ones that stand in its way to control the ebb and flow of its domain name and hosting business. It’s not a secret that a big chunk of revenue for GoDaddy comes from its core web hosting services. Once you register domains at GoDaddy you will be upsold with hosting, […]
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.Dan.com raises base commission rate to 15%
Popular domain platform, Dan.com, is increasing its base commission to 15%. Beginning on February 1, 2023, the increase will take effect, for all domains that use Dan, Afternic, or Uniregistry DNS. Alternate DNS usage will result in an even higher commission, set at 25%. GoDaddy calls this a “price alignment” and is sending similar emails […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy turns on the .TV
GoDaddy has rolled out a new marketing campaign to “Turn on .TV” as a destination of choice. The GoDaddy Registry has taken over the digital airwaves for .TV domains, a popular ccTLD that despite representing Tuvalu it’s a global acronym treated by Google as a generic ccTLD. GoDaddy is now asking everyone to TurnOn.TV per […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dan rolls out updates proving it was a worthy acquisition
Dan.com rolled out a new product update, codenamed #7, with plenty of additions and improvements. The latest batch of updates arrives two months after update #6, proving that Dan’s acquisition by GoDaddy was quite worthy; meanwhile, Afternic 2.0 is still in the works. So what’s new at Dan.com? Here are some highlights: Afternic Reseller Network […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy: We are retiring the Pro Rewards program
GoDaddy has announced the upcoming termination of its GoDaddy Pro Rewards program. The stifling of the GoDaddy Pro Rewards program began in 2020, with the waiving of cashback rewards. The end of the GoDaddy Pro Rewards program will occur on November 20, 2022. All rewards points that have been earned will be redeemable for in-store […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy Q3/2022: Another billion dollar quarter
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today reported financial results for the third quarter (Q3/2022) that ended September 30, 2022. It was another billion dollar quarter for GoDaddy, the world’s biggest domain registrar. Revenue increased 7% year over year with Normalized EBITDA standing at 15% year over year. Internationally, Godaddy scored $333 million USD in revenue, a […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoldKeyAuto.com domain sale triggers hilarious press release
Gold Key Auto is a car dealership in Waycross, Georgia. For years, they operated from the domain name GoldKeyAuto.net but they have some big news to share: they acquired the matching .com, finally! In a fun press release, the company shares the “outrageous” news of paying $2,500 dollars to get the domain GoldKeyAuto.com via GoDaddy, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dan.com to utilize more than 100 GoDaddy brokers
Dan.com has announced the immediate availability of GoDaddy brokers to its domain selling platform. For domain sales of at least $1,000 dollars, the GoDaddy brokerage team of more than 100 brokers will be available to transact on the seller’s behalf; Dan.com is ending its relationship with Media Options. According to the announcement, there will be […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy small business: Recession is coming, talk to the mayors
GoDaddy CEO, Aman Bhutani, has a few words of advice for the small business owners as the economy seems to be heading into a recession, via Forbes: “Reach out to mayors to seek support at the micro-level.” According to Aman Bhutani, mayors have data for small businesses but access to data is missing the micro-business […]
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