Discuss the NEW Afternic after the Migration (1.Viewing)

I tried Afternic on some test domains and it was so much work to verify the Lander I selected was actually working.

It was frustrating in having to wait and seeing totally different results from what was selected in the control panel.

Yes GoDaddy charges tax, I don't think DAN did because of where they were located.

IF you are in the US or Canada.... the tax man cometh.

I have to find out if SAW also charges tax but I don't think they are registered in Canada so there would be no HST collected by them.

9% + no tax = one hellova bonus!!

Yeah I paid taxes on auction / transfers / renewals at GoDaddy.

Swetha points out how they're taking it out of the LTO payment instead of asking buyer to pay. This is something new that I didn't know about.

Ya'll are nuts for using any sales platform. Be in control of your own destiny, taxes, payments, etc...

rlm said:

Ya'll are nuts for using any sales platform. Be in control of your own destiny, taxes, payments, etc...

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I agree totally, but I'm so busy with work and family (not to mention my domain sideline) that whenever I try to allocate time to even investigate various alternatives, something always comes up.

I was very pleased with Dan and that created a false sense of security, but Afternic is a big sloth-like joke (it now takes 10+ days for a broker to tell you that a potential buyer is a low-balling deadbeat) and I definitely need to break away from this constantly-deteriorating "GoDaddy Family of Products".

If Afternic is now the jewel in the GD crown, it's time to get rid of the royalty.

Fall/Winter is usually a lot easier for me time-wise, and as they say: "Necessity is the mother of invention". And the prospect of Afternic being my default marketplace is a creating boatload of necessity.