Migration is not a great word to use when forcing the end of life of a service that was useful to many. In the literal sense, migration reeks of physical violence and war turmoil, of broken families and refugees. A migration is typically done not by choice. GoDaddy migrated our Uniregistry account to their own system 18 months ago. In the months since these domains were moved away from GoDaddy; it wasn't a migration, it was an exodus—a voluntary, organized exit which was necessary. As of October 16th, Dan.com won't exist as we known it. I heard that some Dan.com accounts are already witnessing some type of forced redirect to Afternic pages. The time for the new exodus is now. You can download your data from Dan.com by going here. By far, the most useful of all are the … [Continue reading]
Concepts of a plan: How Afternic’s ever-beta platform became the norm
Afternic is a ghost platform, operated by GoDaddy. It was a dedicated web site where both sellers and buyers could interact, buying and selling domains respectively. A few months ago, GoDaddy disabled the ability of buyers to search the Afternic domain inventory directly. That search was replaced by the same search form that one can use on GoDaddy.com to find and register domain names. By moving the Afternic search to GoDaddy.com, the company gave up its multi-year attempts to fix an ageing platform. Its original concepts of a plan for Afternic 2.0 did not include a deadline; it was an open-ended commitment that was never truly binding. What GoDaddy achieved was to litter its domain search with a stream of worthless second and third tier domains recommended by its buggy AI. … [Continue reading]
Dan.com: It’s still a great platform to sell domains on
Today, GoDaddy announced the availability of native LTO landing pages on Afternic, replacing the "Dan style" landers that it offered there. The timing is odd, considering that I've been testing the waters at Afternic as far as LTO deals go. These transactions at Dan.com eat up banking fees as Dan sends payouts via international wire; meanwhile, GoDaddy-owned Afternic charges 90 cents per ACH transfer to US bank accounts. For reference, that's free at Escrow.com. When an LTO plan takes 12, 18, 24, 36, or more months to complete, every payout instance incurs those fees that can be as high as $20 dollars. With 15% of the transaction being fees, one can see why Afternic's LTO is a better choice. Afternic has confirmed that LTO transactions taking place there are handled by the platform, … [Continue reading]
GoDaddy expired domain acquisitions: A long leap of faith
After 25 years of using GoDaddy as a domain registrar on an as-needed basis, I'm not surprised by the lack of effective process logic. Perhaps the best thing that ever happened to the biggest … [Continue reading]
Domain industry evolution: Global Domain Report | 2024 edition
Fresh from Sedo and InterNetX arrives the Global Domain Report for 2024. It's not just a pretty bundle of information and charts; it's the quintessential representation of the domain industry's … [Continue reading]
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