GoDaddy

I list nearly all of my inventory quality domain names with BIN prices on Dan.com and/or Afternic. The majority of these domain names utilize the Dan.com BIN landing page. I want to share my thought process behind why I choose the Dan.com landing page and why I prefer to list names separately on both platforms.

When I list a domain name for sale on Dan.com with a BIN price, it syndicates to GoDaddy and its sales network. A prospective buyer searching for a domain name on GoDaddy’s website – or a partner like Namecheap – will see my domain name sale listing whether it is listed on Dan.com or Afternic.

If the domain name is not listed directly on Afternic with the LTO option enabled, the prospective buyer won’t have the option to buy it with a payment plan even if that option is available via the Dan.com landing page.

Here’s how the registration path looks without LTO enabled at Afternic:

I won a domain name at GoDaddy Auctions on April 18, and it was delivered to my GoDaddy account this morning at around 4am. A few hours later, I went into my GoDaddy account, changed the nameservers to point to Afternic, and attempted to add it to my Afternic account so I could list it for sale.

For some reason, the domain name couldn’t be added to my account without verification via the addition of a third nameserver. The error message can be seen here for those who aren’t aware of what it looks like:

Now that April Fool’s Day has passed, I will skip to the end – this was an April Fool’s Day joke.

Following its payout policy change involving LTO deals at Dan.com and Afternic, GoDaddy is making another change to LTO payments.

First, some background. From inception at Dan.com, if a lease to own deal was started on the 2nd of the month, subsequent payouts would be made to sellers on the 2nd or 3rd of each month during the lease term. Once the money from the buyer was received, it was sent to the seller like clockwork. Following the payout change, payment plan distributions were moved to the 7th, 14th, 21st, or 28th of each month. If a payment plan was started on the 2nd of the month, subsequent payments would be sent days later on the 7th. If made on the 7th, payment would be sent on the 14th.