As part of his coverage of GoDaddy’s pending acquisition of Dan.com, Andrew Allemann published an interview with Paul Nicks, President of Domains, at GoDaddy. The question and answer that caught my attention the most was regarding commission:
Domain Name Wire: Many people use GoDaddy’s Afternic DLS to get in the registrar registration path, but choose Dan.com landers because they’re cheaper (9% vs. up to 20%). Will this still be an option or should we expect to pay higher prices for landing page sales in the future?
Nicks: We are still in the early stages and do not have a plan around commission alignment. Once we have updates to share, we’ll share proactively.
The thing that jumped out at me was Paul’s comment about “commission alignment.”