Are GoDaddy landers worth it? (7.Viewing)

So i noticed that since GD acquired DAN, my inquiries have gone WAY down!

I recall before GD bought DAN, Dan had a very simple “make offer” page. (No DNA sample required). I did a “test” today on one of my premiums and Lo and behold, I felt like I was going through a Matrix. Go Daddy has make things very hard for anyone (maybe a new business owner) to acquire a name.

I did have to enter my first name, last name, email, Phone, etc but then I had to enter a captcha where I had to enter all of the bicycles. I “somehow” messed up on 2 bicycles so even though it was a “test, I got frustrated.

Is there reason for concern for such a smile inquire on a .ca domain name?

Yeah i had sales go way down and switched to ATOM.com. I have not had enough time with them to tell you if its any better, but i know just from looking at the landers it's a better process/system. I also found in the leads from Afternic it seems like a lot of the brokers don't try as much and that whole lead system to notify the domain owner is garbage. I'd go back to Dan in a heartbeat but I moved everything off Afternic. I also think its just in general the Economy as well and now to pile onto that Alberta's talks of leaving Canada. I don't think it will happen, but it does not help if someone's thinking about that before dropping 10k on a name.

I will say that when you have a generic contact form, you get a lot of inquiries, but the vast majority of them are just stupid people. Seriously, there must be a lot of non-english readers, alzheimers patients, and toddlers on the internet who randomly fill in forms but have no idea what the form is for. I suppose people filling out forms on their smartphones with text too small to easily read is another factor, maybe?

So not that I want to defend Afternic/Godaddy in any way, but I recently had to log into an Afternic account to respond to an offer and there were tons of inquiries that I never got notified about. But after closer inspection, they're all those useless form submissions, and GoDaddy brokers are filtering them out - they try to make contact first and confirm a real person who really wants to buy a domain is on the other end. Once they've confirmed that much, then they involve the seller. So that may be a factor in why it seems very quiet at afternic. I suppose there is some value in freeing up your time, and it might help @DomainRecap 's sanity significantly too.

I'm just getting familiar with afternic's system because I'm helping someone who has domains listed there. I noticed something that kinda irks me. Afternic really twists your arm to give a buy-now price once you get an inquiry (if you didn't already have one already set). And even if you have a buy-now price, the landing page doesn't show it. They force the buyer to jump through the broker hoops rather than just being allowed to buy-now. And now with a broker involved, that fact alone insinuates its now a negotiation. So much for the buy-now price actually being a buy-now price.

Sounds to me like you need to treat Godaddy's buy-now price more like an asking-price. So take your real buy-now price and double it and give that to godaddy. That'll leave room so that the broker and buyer can pat themselves on the backs about getting a discount.

Their system completely defeats the purpose of setting a buy-now price in the first place - which to me means setting a fair price up front and then eliminating negotiations (and the need for a broker!)... It's a take it or leave it approach meant for low to mid priced domains.