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 … [Read more...]
A praise for Afternic
November 2, 2024 by 3 Comments
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 … [Read more...]
eNom: End of an era & the fastest domain transfer ever
October 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Dan.com: The final exodus
September 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Concepts of a plan: How Afternic’s ever-beta platform became the norm
September 12, 2024 by 1 Comment
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 … [Read more...]
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