Are GoDaddy landers worth it? (8.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.

I use the BIN with LTO option on most .com
BIN on .ca as they don't seem to offer the LTO anymore. Option is there to choose it, but will still only show BIN price.
Right @jamesiles ?

rlm said:

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.

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I used to own shawarma.ca, before i dropped it i had someone submit i think it was on sedo at the time a order asking for 4 large or if we had a family deal price. Was one of them times you are not pissed about a stupid inquiry because at least you got a good laugh LOL