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 … [Read more...]
An interesting glitch at Dan.com locks down the BIN price
October 24, 2023 by 1 Comment
Dan.com provides several options to domain investors, including selling with a BIN price, making an offer, and lease to own options. In the past few months I've completed 3 LTO deals successfully, which means that three entrepreneurs are now using these domains under full ownership. Dan has been … [Read more...]
Dan.com delivers excellent back-end support for domain transactions
October 16, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Last week I completed my first domain sale in October, for a domain I acquired for a few hundred dollars almost 15 years ago. It's not the first time this long hold of a domain leads to a substantial ROI. The art of determining which assets are worthy of holding long term is part of the learning … [Read more...]
Potential issue with Dan sales of Uni/GoDaddy domains
May 29, 2023 by 4 Comments
I've been using Dan.com with great success in the past two years and its acquisition by GoDaddy was disappointing. The Dutch start-up was about to roll out its own domain registrar, as a white label of Metaregistrar BV. A domain registrar/marketplace combo had tremendous potential; it also posed … [Read more...]
LTO domain sales: Dan.com and Escrow.com compared
December 21, 2022 by 2 Comments
Merry Christmas! Lease-to-own domain sales, often abbreviated as "LTO," are becoming popular among domain investors, that offer a flexible payment plan to their prospective buyers. The option to pay for the acquisition of domain names in installments is not new but it's the automation that … [Read more...]
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