Today is the last day domains listed on DomainNameSales.com will show up for searches on GoDaddy.
Today is the last day that Sedo listings will be syndicated to GoDaddy.
It turns out it’s also the last day for DomainNameSales.com listings on the site. [Update: while March 31 was supposed to be the last day for DNS syndication on GoDaddy, GoDaddy has kept the listings up while it finishes a transition for Afternic listings in the registration path.]
That means that after today, the only way for the typical domain owner to get domain names in the registration path at GoDaddy is to list them on Afternic or directly through GoDaddy.
Until now customers searching on GoDaddy.com could fill out a lead form if they were interested in a domain that was on DomainNameSales.com. DNS charged a 20% commission to clients if it resulted in a sale. The average sales price for a DNS domain sold through GoDaddy was over $15,000.
Any good monopolist knows to make sure to suck all of the oxygen out of the room. As such, look for Godaddy to take prices higher while also methodically attacking the cash flows of potential challengers to GoDaddy’s global hegemony over the domain industry.
That is sad news, had several GD leads a month with DNS.
Curious: did any of them close?
Yeah, I was able to successfully make 2 sales through GD leads with DNS until now.
I had one sale in the beginning of February though a Go Daddy lead / DNS. Still haven’t gotten paid out, even though I was told it would happen at the end of March at the latest.
There is no denying the elephant in the room. During the past few weeks, DNS brokers have been working the hell out of the stale leads generated by GoDaddy on some of my domains. I guess they knew the end was nigh. I even got a broker inquiry on a domain with a buy it now price, asking if I was interested in selling the domain. Actually, inquiries in general are down for me, and so is parking revenue. I wonder if this is a trend or my bad luck?
The timing of both Sedo and DNS ending their agreement with GoDaddy clearly shows that GoDaddy initiated this termination. As far as I can say, good riddance to all the lowball inquiries and frivolous tantrums from uneducated GoDaddiers!
That was sudden!
Interesting to note the average price seemingly so high.
I think it reflects well on the quality of DNS domain listings.
April fools?
There is no announcement from DNS regarding this so must be April fool?
@AbdulBasit and @James,
This is not an April fool’s report. In order to get visibility from GoDaddy end users you’ll need your domains listed via Afternic or GoDaddy Auctions. My current recommendation is to go with Afternic since you’ll gain the benefit of distribution across 8 of the top 10 registrars representing the majority of domain inquiries in the world.
-Paul
Paul
Thanks for the confirmation and suggestion. Will look into that.
Why no announcement from DNS – I would have expected a notification update..
I just checked one of mine on GoDaddy and the syndication is still showing up.
just today i recieved couple of offers from Godaddy on DNS.
Maybe those weren’t real offers, and THAT was an April Fools?
Paul – A few questions for you: Currently all of my “priced” Afternic DLS listings seem to get overrode in the Godaddy channel by the “DNS” inquiry form. When the DNS syndication stops will domains show in the Godaddy channel with my BIN price OR a make offer page similar to how it was handled by DNS?
James,
Your Afternic DLS listings will show up on Godaddy shortly as we phase out the DNS listings. They will show with a BIN if you have them priced that way at Afternic.
If you have other questions feel free to contact my team auctions (at) godaddy dot com
Joe Styler
You guys must have seen this coming with the Sedo teination, it actually brings commission down 5 percent, but takes the broker personalization put of the deal. With the introduction of uniregistry this deal couldn’t continue on, you should have all understood this. Although the lead percentage was high, the amount of qualified bidders, against curious quote seekers was vastly separate.
DNS will do well either which was just based on the pure pride of it’s strong quality inventory of names. I am sure uniregistry integration will be soon coming, don’t be do 1D guys.
This is a very poor way to treat Frank who spent a lot of time and money building his staff of brokers to handle this business. When Godaddy announced they were cutting Sedo they specifically stated they were keeping DNS.
Perhaps Frank can find a new source of leads and make GD pay for their dishonesty.
For the record, when GoDaddy announced the end of the Sedo partnership they said they weren’t doing anything with the DNS relationship at that point in time. They left the window open to change the relationship later.
https://domainnamewire.com/2013/11/15/godaddy-to-end-its-sedo-domain-sales-partnership/
@FrankM, are you saying you have a completed deal, name transferred out of your control and into the new owners but you haven’t been paid yet or into brokerage control and the deal is not done yet (broker not paid) ?
@TheLegendaryJP: I guess that’s what I did, didn’t know though that that point that DNS takes this long to pay, they only told me about that afterwards.
@Paul Nicks
Haven’t used Afternic in years. What’s the current parking option for afternic listings? In house with afternic feed or can SmartName integrate?
@Frank, so they (GD) are simply holding your funds, have you tried ringing someone and complaining? If the buyer paid, had received ownership and I haven’t received funds from the broker in 2 months..yikes. I would have a word or two for them.
All the best, long time no talk, hope family is well 🙂
Have heard from DNS now – it looks like they sent the payment and we need to track down what happened with it at my Forex company. I never saw the payment confirmation, so I was still waiting for it to arrive.
But payments from this relationship can take longer due to potential fraud checks etc.
@Frank, good to hear you are getting somewhere. I never considered the chque holding situation. I never take cheque because my bank puts a 3-4 weeks hold on it. I am shocked GD or DNS would accept one (even cert, means nothing). Now if DNS got one from GD that is another story, would someone fake a GD cheque to DNS??? Unlikely but I suppose possible.
It has now been 11 days since this posting and the godaddy is still displaying DNS domains in their feed. Is this going to end or not? I hope not, but the reporting is not accurate and the end date.
GoDaddy has confirmed to me that this is just temporarily held over while they finish the tech for Afternic listings.
Looks like it is official as of today, all DNS listings are no longer showing in the Godaddy channel. If your domains are listed on Afternic using premium DLS they will show in the Godaddy.com channel now in place of DNS. Should see more BIN sales and no more low offers…
I just tested an Afternic Premium level domain and it’s still sending to GoDaddy Auctions to complete the purchase.
Yes, that is correct – that is exactly how it was prior to the DNS integration. Isn’t that how it should be?
Eventually (hopefully soon) GoDaddy customers will be able to add the domain to their cart and check out in the regular registration path. That’s going to be a huge boost.
That will be a nice addition – the less steps possible to confuse the buyer the better. Having a direct checkout will be a welcome addition and I agree will convert much higher then sending them to the auction page where they can get lost or change their mind.