I want to share an update about new gTLD domain name auctions and listings on GoDaddy and Afternic. The company has made it easier for people to list their new gTLD domain names for sale on the company’s auction platform as well as Afternic’s marketplace.

Listed below are the updates that have been made to both platforms, as shared by GoDaddy’s Nick Fuller and the domain sales team. If you have any questions about selling or listing new gTLD domain names on GoDaddy or Afternic, you are welcome to post them here or direct them to Nick or Paul Nicks, GM of GoDaddy’s Aftermarket.

Updates:

Yesterday afternoon, GoDaddy hosted a Google Hangout where team members discussed the Afternic integration. Afternic team members shared some thoughts on listings, best practices, and they offered other information about how to sell domain names on Afternic.

After concluding, GoDaddy posted the 40 minute Google Hangout on YouTube, and I have embedded it below.

One thing I have found is that the team at Afternic is generally willing to offer feedback and address customer issues when they come up. If you have questions or comments for them, you are welcome to publish them here. I am sure they will see them, and I am happy to let them know about comments. If you have questions,

If you are a domain name seller, you might be interested in attending GoDaddy’s Google+ Hangout tomorrow. Representatives from GoDaddy will discuss Afternic’s integration with GoDaddy and answer some questions at the conclusion of the Hangout. The free event  is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28 at 1:00 PM EST (tomorrow).

I exchanged emails with Joe Styler, Aftermarket Product Manager at GoDaddy, and he shared some additional information about the Hangout with me. According to Joe, the company is “starting a regular monthly Aftermarket Hangout with a focus more on domain investors than the general public as the past ones have been. This is the inaugural hangout and it will be about how Afternic works and what integration with GoDaddy looks like for the domain investor.”

Alan Shiflett and Todd Cantwell

Afternic Sales Executive Rich Green posted a link to a job opening at GoDaddy that might be of interest to someone that excels in sales, especially someone who is familiar with the domain name business. The company is looking to hire at least one inbound sales executive to sell domain names.

Because this is an Afternic job opening, the position appears to be  based in the company’s Cambridge, Massachusetts office. Since domain name sales can pretty much be done anywhere, I am not sure if the company would allow someone to work in a different GoDaddy office or elsewhere.

The new hires will be expected to close

I have found that the commission structures for domain name sales at Afternic and GoDaddy are confusing. Depending on the type of sale listing and how the buyer found a domain name, the commission percentage could vary pretty widely. This is being simplified going forward.

Afternic and GoDaddy is in the process of emailing customers to announce a change to the commission structure to make it more simplified and straightforward across the two brands. Instead of having to think about the type of listing and promotion to determine the commission rate, the new commission structure is strictly based on the sale price of the domain name.

The commission structure for aftermarket domain name sales on GoDaddy and Afternic is as follows: