If you use Afternic and its landing pages for your domain names, chances are good that you have a Lead Center filled with leads that look similar to this:

If you’re lucky, you have one or two sold domain names amongst many Stalled and Confused leads. This can be frustrating, particularly since sellers don’t get much of an inside look at the progression of their leads.

Last year, I won a non-.com auction at Dynadot. The domain name may be considered a typo of another word word, but this “typo” has 100+/- TLDs registered, which is what caught my attention. In fact, at least 15 of those TLDs are developed, so there’s quite a bit of usage around this brandable term.

Shortly after buying the domain name for less than $20, I listed it for sale on Afternic. Somehow, I mistyped the domain name and listed the correctly spelled non -.com domain name. Apparently, when I later searched my Afternic account for the domain name and didn’t see it, I added it a second time – this time with the actual domain name I bought and own.

A month ago, I shared the results of my first month with Afternic “Boost” enabled on my account. Technically, the Boost features were previously enabled for everyone, so it was the first month where people could either pay a higher commission rate on Afternic sales or opt out of the Boost program.

The first month of Boost was fairly strong for my Afternic-listed portfolio. I had 4 BIN sales and 1 LTO sale. I also had a DBS sale on a domain name I had delisted due to the Boost commission increase. I don’t keep track of this, but 5 sales on the platform in a single month was probably one of the best months I’ve had in terms of domain names sold. Because I delisted most of my higher value names above $2k, the revenue total was inconsequential.