Premium Listings can also sell within Go Daddy Auctions — and at a lower commission.
I recently received a sale notice for one of the domains I listed at Go Daddy as a Premium Listing.
I assumed it was a standard sale through Go Daddy’s registration path. But a couple days later I got another email and realized the sale was actually on the Go Daddy Auctions site. It was still a fixed price sale based on my Premium Listing price, but occurred through the auction platform.
As a result I paid a mere 5% commission on the $400 sale rather than 30%. That’s an extra $100 in my pocket. I also got the payment faster than on a Premium Listing sale.
Sure, I had to manually transfer the domain to the buyer’s account instead of the “instant transfer” that comes along with Premium Listing sales. But since it was an internal transfer at Go Daddy it was a breeze.
So count this as another perk of Go Daddy Premium Listings — added exposure for your fixed price domains on Go Daddy Auctions.
Kevin M. says
Congrats on the sale. I do believe that more and more so, that setting and selling fixed price domains will lead to more sales in the long run.
Rob Sequin says
It is my understanding that there is no benefit to Premium Listings over Auction listings.
Before, auction listings did not show up in the registration path while Premium listing domains for sale did show up when someone tried to register a domain.
I did not know about the instant transfer but for a 25% savings, I think I can handle the transfer out myself.
Maybe you can call to clarify exactly what the benefits of Premium over Auction listings and post them here?
I think this is big news.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Rob –
Premium listings show up in reg path and auctions
Auction listings only show up in auctions
Rich says
I olso list a .co on premium GD,just to realize it was bought thru auctions and i paid 7% escrow.com’s fee included.i have saved $675.
Rob Sequin says
Right but I think that has changed.
M. Menius says
@Andrew – GoDaddy Premium is for com/net/org only? Any other extensions by chance?
Sergey says
Few days ago I regged a domain at Godaddy and saw auction listings there, too
Andrew Allemann says
Interesting guys, I hadn’t noticed that about Go Daddy auctions. Here are my thoughts:
https://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/12/go-daddy-starts-featuring-auctions-in-registration-path/