A good 60 days into using the Afternic marketplace as a "forced" transition from the now defunct Dan.com, I'm about to present my personal experience and the results aren't great. The first 30 days looked promising, to be honest. After clocking two months I have one positive thing to say: The sheer amount of inquiries, as compared to Dan.com, is mind-boggling. You can thank the infamous "registrar path" for that. While I had almost 50 inquiries that were dealt by GoDaddy brokers, I scored only one sale during the second month - and that domain was using Dan.com nameservers still. It's a good indication that while such sales are "legitimate" and will only cost you 15% in fees, it's advisable to ensure all your domains listed on Afternic use its ns1/ns2 pair of nameservers. From … [Continue reading]
A praise for Afternic
As a domain investor, I've never used Afternic intentionally before to sell domains. It was always due to GoDaddy acquiring Uniregistry and Dan that I got to experience a range of annoying woes of being on the Afternic platform as a domain seller. As a domain buyer, I was far less concerned about the lack of bells and whistles and I did use Afternic for that purpose without any issues. After deciding to give Afternic a test run for 30 days, I have to say I'm far from being disappointed. The transition of my domain portfolio from Dan to Afternic took place without any major issues, although I had to hand-verify a dozen domains by using my allocated DNS - a trick that Dan used to perfection. In the two weeks or so since, I've had approximately 10 leads and one domain sale. The latter … [Continue reading]
eNom: End of an era & the fastest domain transfer ever
Twenty-two years ago I opened an eNom account as a subseller, allowing me to register domains at a lower price. It also gave me other benefits, such as registering and managing domains for clients. eNom was fresh and a smart choice, away from the mediocrity of GoDaddy and Network Solutions at the time. Even Stargate, a cheap alternative, was riddled with issues and eNom felt in general more secure. The interface provided access to all the features without visual clutter or complexity. There was no 2FA of course, none of this appeared until the redesign of eNom.com in the mid 2000's. Even when Tucows acquired eNom in 2017, only the front-end changed while the control panel remained the same. It was time to move on. My only remaining domain with eNom, a .co.uk no less, was … [Continue reading]
Dan.com: The final exodus
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 … [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 … [Continue reading]
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