After I sell a domain name, I don’t pay much attention to it. Occasionally, I will look to see how it is being used, but I don’t really follow my sold domain names after they’re sold.
Last month, Namecheap Founder and CEO Richard Kirkendall sounded the alarm that his company would “most likely” leave the Afternic sales network.
With Afternic listings still showing up in the Namecheap registration path, I was curious to see which registrars have been responsible for my most recent 10 Afternic sales. To do so, I did Whois searches on my most recent 10 Afternic sales, not including LTO deals or the a sale I closed using the Afternic checkout link.
Here’s where the domain names moved or stayed:
- 7 at GoDaddy
- 2 at Namecheap
- 1 at Network Solutions
10 sales isn’t a large enough number to make any major judgements, but it is clear that Namecheap helps Afternic customers sell their domain names.
If Namecheap opts out of the Afternic network, I think this could be a pretty big blow to domain name sellers who utilize Afternic for sales. Namecheap’s departure would leave domain investors with a difficult choice since GoDaddy would still have the largest network, but it would be missing a large audience.
Hopefully, these two companies can work out an agreement to continue to partner on Afternic sales.
Namecheap should change the name to SpaceShit..oops. Spaceship
I always check to see what happened to my sold domains!
Most of my domains are sold at GoDaddy, some at Namecheap.
Godaddy and Namecheap need to work out their differences over Afternic! Tired of their back and forth BS over Afternic! It never ends! Drama Fest!!!!
Correct….I am seeing the self destruction of the domain industry
Every domain investor going to get hurt.
This is such a small industry that you cannot have any bad dreams
Instead of bad stabbing each other,work together dudes
If Namecheap/Spaceship leaves Afternic network they need their own custom sales lander.
I have never understood why they don’t offer sales lander.
Dan.com set the standard and they didn’t have a registrar.
Godaddy is big and wants to control every other platform and set the terms .
All namecheap and other registrar has to do is ,have meetings with other foreign registrars,connect them to the network and when someone search fot the names,they can be easily found through the distribution, just like afternic and sedo have been doing.
This is all that afternic have been doing and led to their success before being acquired by Godaddy. Remember domainname sales
then uniregistry .There were more sales through uniregistry lander then and they linked to afternic and after more success ,they got bought out .
Godaddy say they care about the sellers but they don’t care,except you have a wool over your eyes to see that they charge 25% commission if you don’t use their nameserver ,tell me how that is a rule that benefits the industry or their selfishness.They bought Dan and immediately created their 25% rule ti hurt your profit .
Spaceship should link up with other foreign registrars and lower the feess to bring in more sellers just like what helped Dan to rise before they got blindsided by selling to Godaddy after they lied that they wouldn’t but couldn’t resist godaddys offer .
There is dynandot with their lander and people should stop thinking without GD they wouldn’t sell their names. Your name needs a lander and not just afternic.Not everyone uses afternic and they ger result .
Waiting to see what spaceship brings and if their commission is low ,otherwise this is just another addition and I am fine just using namepros/bodis lander .
I’ve been curious how you guys are impacted from all of these new changes with Godaddy. From a buyer perspective I use to love Afternic. Now that I have to search for a premium domain name at a participating registrar, I simply go to Sedo & Dan instead. Im not interested in buying a domain name from specific registrars. So for me the changes have been negative.