Dan is going, now what? (1.Viewing)

I’ve always found Afternic to be a pain to use. Sedo isn’t great either..
had everything listed at Uniregistry. that closed and moved to Dan. Dan was great now they are going and moving names to Afternic.

Do I try to work with Afternic, or move somewhere else only to see Godaddy buy them too? it’s a lot of time to go through and change nameservers and make such every domain is counted for.

other option is to point everything to my own generic landing page, and handle payments myself or through Escrow or Sedo import lead.

A service like Dan was really good and worth it to me for ease of nice landing pages, portfolio management, bin offer and payment plan options, etc.

but I’m leaning to going the solo way and handling it all myself I think. Unless there is some great option out there that is unlikely to get bought by GD.

By getting rid of Dan, GoDaddy has essentially forced me to rely in myself and create something that I control and no one can just shut down on a whim.

Afternic is an impossible system to work with and it will cost domain investors a lot of money. A potential buyer can make an offer, which can take a day or two to be added to the system, and then you reply with your price, which can take another day or two for the broker to relay to the customer. The customers replies to the broker, which can take an additional day or two to be communicated to the seller...

Hopefully my point is clear and it can take a week to even figure out if you have a real buyer on Afternic, compared to a few minutes on Dan. Actually closing sales can take forever due to the constant back-and-forth with the Afternic broker, and by progressing at a snail's pace you risk losing sales. "Strike while the iron's hot" is a saying for a reason and many buyers will get tired of this incessant waiting and waiting, and either lose interest or move on to another option.

Afternic is an idiotic system for an instant-gratification society in 2024. It does everything the wrong way and wastes valuable time because there are only a limited number of brokers for hundreds or thousands of market domains. Unless you hire several thousand brokers, this "cut the seller out of the equation" design just doesn't work and never will.

Atom standard listing - 7.5% commission - better now with option to add ai created logos.

If you want to handle everything yourself, these are good options

Sudos.com
Efty.com