Is Afternic Useless for Selling .CAs? (4.Viewing)

As many of you know, searching for a word, LLL, multi-word, phrase, etc. on Afternic (using All as a TLD) will never bring up any .CA options and you need to specifically choose ".CA" that's way, way, way, way, way down near the bottom of a very long TLD drop-down list.

And I'm logged in with a Canadian address, so residency shouldn't be an issue...

I contacted Afternic Support about this early on, thinking it was a mistake, but years later it still works the same way and I'm sure it's by design to promote .COM and not create mistaken purchases on ccTLDs with residency requirements.

I've had inquiries come through on .ca's from Afternic.

I have .ca's listed on Afternic and Uniregistry. Now that Godaddy owns all of this, they all seem to work together. I've had inquiries come through Uni that say they're from a Godaddy broker.

Now I'm trying out Dan.com, I like the ease of use of the site and the sales pages.

Dan's minimum price to list a name is $20,000 for me, but I've seen others list as low as $5000. Not sure why it's different for different accounts, anyone know why?

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I've had inquiries come through on .ca's from Afternic.

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Yeah, I've sold a few on Afternic, but I assume it's from parties who know exactly what they want and are just "picking the venue", as the Afternic search engine assures that no one is ever going to randomly find a .CA unless they specifically search for it.

Other sales venues (like GD, Sedo, Dan, Uni, etc.) display the relevant .CA listings from a general search, albeit a bit further down the list on some (like Sedo), but they're still present.

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Dan's minimum price to list a name is $20,000 for me, but I've seen others list as low as $5000. Not sure why it's different for different accounts, anyone know why?

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I never had this issue.

This is how my domain BIN setting page looks like:


Do you get an error when you enter lower amount?

You should check your settings in Dan, as there is a minimum price setting that may have been screwed up.

It's under Account Settings - Default Starting Offer.

If there is a BIG NUMBER there, you can't list for any lower than that unless you change it.

domains said:

Dan's minimum price to list a name is $20,000 for me, but I've seen others list as low as $5000. Not sure why it's different for different accounts, anyone know why?

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May be you listed a domain for sale at $20K and also selected that amount as the lowest to offer for a domain name. When that is the case, it will not allow you to set a lower number for a domain name.

There is no minimums with Dan. One could sell even for $100.