Applies to Godaddy, Uniregistry, Afternic, Dan, GoDaddy Auctions etc.
Can you imagine paying 25% on a 100k sale and then taxes on top of that?
What is left for the domain owner?
Yikes
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ROBBERY
Applies to Godaddy, Uniregistry, Afternic, Dan, GoDaddy Auctions etc.
Can you imagine paying 25% on a 100k sale and then taxes on top of that?
What is left for the domain owner?
Yikes
I know what you mean but it’s still rather clear (from my experience) that people are more inclined to buy directly via GD Auctions than even the other sites that explicitly say they’re a GD brand. The GD brand helps close sales that might not happen otherwise.ROBBERY
The GD brand helps close sales that might not happen otherwise.
Hi Brad. Nice to see you. Agree hard to get excited about paying commission on your own leads! LOLI use Afternic and Dan. Though, I only moved to Dan.com not that long ago after many years with Voodoo.
I like Dan's system much better than Afternic.
I am not sure what I am going to do just yet.
I have a lot of average domains priced and listed at Afternic, but about the same amount unpriced.
These are normally better domains, or ones I was just too lazy to price.
The priced ones at Afternic will stay.
As far as Dan goes, I am not real exited about my domain capturing the lead, negotiating, and also paying a 15% fee.
The removal of the price tier on Afternic is really going to hurt on high dollar sales, though that probably effects limited people.
While I am not a big fan of the Dan.com fees going up, the 25% fee is especially galling to me.
It is just a direct shot at any fair competition which basically tries to limit customer options.
Brad
exactly. and knowing godaddy, they'll take your lead and say, "btw, we have these similar domains for sale too", so they may actually take AWAY your sale.Hi Brad. Nice to see you. Agree hard to get excited about paying commission on your own leads! LOL
All it is making me want to do is keep my low - mid tier priced stuff on Afternic, then move anything good to different landers and not list them on Afternic at all.I knew all that was coming when the nameservers thing happened. All that remains is for them to set take it or leave it prices.
I think GoDaddy will have to eventually give the hold out domainers a platform. If they don't they lose the business pure and simple.
Ps. I recently opened a new efty account with all domains priced under 1k. They are the domains I am dropping if they don't sell. When I get back my son will get paid to move in about 1200 domains. Most are . Com so I might strike a few sales before expiry.
All it is making me want to do is keep my low - mid tier priced stuff on Afternic, then move anything good to different landers and not list them on Afternic at all.
My entire portfolio is at GoDaddy. I have been a supporter since the beginning.
At this point though it feels like they are treating domain investors like idiots.
They want to charge a 25% penalty for not using their nameservers, now they also want to control the pricing on my landers...
Meanwhile, their partners can jack up the prices on our domains. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Brad
Yes, as well as a search box. I have had a problem with that for years.Not to mention they offer competing domains when a buyer actually lands in your listing.
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