I’ve done quite a bit of business with Dan.com. In fact, I probably have more deal revenue on Dan.com than anywhere else other than private sales. The platform has been easy to use as a seller and as a buyer. The only real knock I’ve ever had with Dan.com is their brand wasn’t well-known, and it may not have had a trust factor when doing large deals or long-term deals. GoDaddy’s acquisition of Dan.com helped rectify that issue, and it’s been relatively smooth sailing since then.
This morning, Afternic made an announcement that has been in the works for a while. The sales platform launched a GoDaddy-branded landing page that is very similar to Dan.com landing pages, without the Dan.com branding.
Introducing Afternic’s new Custom Lander, combining a familiar design with powerful GoDaddy branding!
Featuring:
✅ Lease to Own
✅ CamelCasing
✅ Internationalizationand more, all backed by GoDaddy.
Let’s explore the Custom Lander 👇 https://t.co/mZQb3TbaZg
— Afternic (@afternic) July 17, 2024
The differences between this new Afternic landing page and Dan.com landers include pricing in local currencies, messaging in local languages, the inability to change some colors and layouts, and the seller’s icon is missing. This last one may seem minor, but I’ve probably close 10 deals from people who saw my Embrace.com icon and reached out directly to buy a domain name. The biggest difference though, is the back-end platform that drives the landing pages. That is going to turn into a time suck for me.
I am a big proponent of CamelCasing. I think GetOnYourFeet.com looks much better than getonyourfeet.com. From what I can tell, I am going to have to click through on each of my listings, edit them to camel casing, and then save the listing. Doing this via Dan.com on the main page would be far faster. I don’t really see an easy way around this manual work, so it is going to take time for me to implement across my portfolio.
With the launch of the new landing pages, it looks like I am going to be moving away from Dan.com. Aside from the exceptional customer service I have come to greatly appreciate at Dan.com, I don’t really think there’s a reason to keep my names parked on this Afternic sister platform. In fact, I would imagine there is going to be a day when GoDaddy kills-off Dan.com entirely. That day is probably coming sooner than later.
I’ve really enjoyed the Dan.com platform and the people who made it easier to buy and sell domain names via Dan.com. It appears those days are coming to an end.
Update: As Swetha pointed out in the X post below, it appears there is no “make offer” option with the new landing page right now. That’s a pretty big deal for me on my higher priced names. For the time being, I am going to make the change only on my lowest priced names and wait for the Make Offer option.
Please keep make offer as well. Hope it’s not difficult.
— Swetha.xyz (@DomainNameGear) July 17, 2024
Afternic mentioned Make Offer will come to the landing page in the future. Until then, I will only move my BIN inventory that doesn’t permit offers:
We will be adding Make Offer to the Custom Lander in the future!
— Afternic (@afternic) July 17, 2024
there might be a statement in there that the domain DAN.COM as a three letter generic surname domain may not have the same value as 10 years back ?
Thinking POOL.COM still does some kind a domain industry stuff.
What was the purpose of using DAN.COM ?
Domain Aquisition Name (or some other word starting with N)
Domain Aftermarket Network (DAN)
Nothing new…. GD literally killed good platforms.
all our feedbacks given to them are ignored. what a waste of time
The integration between godaddy dan and afternic is not working well for me. I cant seem to get an make offer option at godaddy. they are all with a buy it now price. But at dan they are not.
Correct. There is currently no “Make Offer” option with the new GoDaddy-branded landing page.
I added an update right after I saw Swetha’s post about it on X.
That I realize.. But the issue I am having is with names that are parked at Dan with an account at Godaddy. They show up at godaddy platform with a buy it now rather than make offer. I am not reffering to the afternic new landing page with a godaddy brand on it.
I decided to build my own landing pages that directly tie into Escrow dot com. I feed it from a database and populate the landing pages so each domain name can have unique info and backgrounds. See TechnologyGroup dot com or SouthernHomes dot com for a sample.
If you use your own landing pages and list on Afternic so the domain names appear in the registration path at GoDaddy, the commission rate is much higher. If you don’t list there, you’re missing out on a very large audience of domain name buyers.
True, but price the domain your site for what you really want out of the name. Then add Godaddy’s commission into your GD sales listing. Best of both worlds?
I like these landing pages. Also, forcing someone to register at Escrow .com will most likely take 99% of fake offers out of the equation. TechnologyGroup and SouthernHomes pages look excellent.
These pages look absolutely fantastic…Clean, meaningful, outspoken. Well done!
FYI, please note that once you remove your names from DAN, many of them will be re-listed by scammers ad DAN does not verify ownership. I went through this for a year and ended up re-listing at DAN with make offer equaling the BIN price at godaddy. Also on DAN there is NO option to keep domains in your account and simply have them set to “not for sale or unlisted like option available at AFTERNIC and SEDO. Total mess
How would the scam work?
The names wouldn’t point to Dan.com landing pages, and there is no Fast Transfer, so they can’t sell a name even if it’s in their account.
I get the annoyance of having someone list my name if I want to put it back on Dan.com and it fails, but I don’t see how the scam would work.
Perhaps “annoyance” is a better word, would imagine it must have some scam element to it or why would someone try listing names they don’t own.
Yeah – I agree, I just don’t understand the objective.
I think the scammers think that it works like afternic. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. If you’re dealing with a large number of names, scammers are hoping that when they list a name of yours and you get a verification to verify the name and it gets enabled for fast transfer, they’ll set their own price, make the purchase and it’ll transfer out of your own account into theirs. Anyone know about this?
There’s no fast transfer at Dan.com, so it doesn’t work like that.
What about from the afternic interface?
I don’t think that is possible, but you’d have to ask Afternic. I do not recall hearing anyone mention this happening to them.
I do think this issue existed before Dan.com was acquired by GoDaddy.
Can’t wait for Spaceship to get an auction and the sales platforms up and running.
So sad, after all these years in the domain industry, there is no reliable solid sales marketplace where all of us can trust and depend on.
Why wouldn’t Sedo doesn’t qualify into your criteria either, as a curiosity?
I dont trust anything associated with namecheap. When they ran their 99 cent dot com sales the spammers went ballistic registering. 95% of the email and SMS spam originated from domains registered the day before I received the spam.
I emailed the company using their abuse@ email address and their attorney wrote back to tell me to complain to the FTC. I was receiving upward of 20-25 spams a day with most being registered at namecheap. Around the same time their founder denying on twitter others complaining about the same problem.
So, with that BS, BullS, I moved all of my (at the time 785) domains out of namecheap and never looked back. They could have, should have, immediately investigated and shut down those emails but instead D.U.M. seemed to be more important to them and thus made them look dum(b).
So, I will not be partaking in anything that company or its sister companies, etc creates.
I listed some domain names I am not using – some of them were not bad but for months I never received any offer. I don’t think DAN is as popular as people think it is.