Afternic “turns on” its two new partners, giving domain name owners access to a powerful sales network.
Yesterday I wrote about my success with Go Daddy Premium Listings. The only downside to the service is that your domain names have to be at Go Daddy. But there’s good news for domainers who want to get similar reach for domains that are currently at Moniker and eNom — those two registrars are now active with Afternic’s Premium listing service.
What This Means
If you have your domain names at eNom/eNomCentral/BulkRegister or Moniker, you can now get them listed for sale within the registration path at four of the top 10 domain registrars. In addition to these two new registrars your domains will be listed for sale at Network Solutions, Register.com, and Name.com directly within the registration process. Customers can immediately purchase your domain name through the shopping cart and your domain will be transferred to them without any direct involvement with you.
The domains will also be listed on other registrar and partner sites but without the registration path/instant fulfillment capabilities.
How it Works
All of your interaction for listing the domain names occurs in your Afternic account. After logging in you simply add your domain names and select the “Premium” promotion level. You will also need to add a “Buy It Now” price for the domain names.
Afternic then runs some checks including ownership and content (Afternic doesn’t sell adult, gambling, and trademark domain names), after which you “opt in” the domains.
Once opted in, you won’t be able to make changes to your whois information or push the domain name to another account without first opting the domain name out. You can still list your domains for sale on other web sites, but if you sell it elsewhere you should remove the listing from Afternic.
What to Expect
A select group of large domainers have been able to use the Premium Listing level at Afternic for the past year. They’ve told me the results were remarkable. Your success will depend on a couple factors:
-How good your domain names are. They don’t need to be “premium”; they just need to be domain names that someone might want to register for their own business.
-How you price your domains. This sales channel works great with small and medium size businesses. Keep in mind the typical Afternic sale is around $1,200. I suggest pricing your domains in the $600-$2,500 range for best results. The commission is 20% (net 15% if you park the domains with Afternic) with a $120 minimum.
Brian Null says
this is fantastic news… eager to see the results as we roll into 2011
M. Menius says
Just to be clear, GoDaddy are not in this registration path, correct?
Andrew Allemann says
@ M. Menius – Afternic listings don’t go into Go Daddy’s registration path, although they do show up in Go Daddy auctions. To get in the Go Daddy registration path you must use Go Daddy’s premium listings service.
M. Menius says
Ooops. Sorry. I see …
“Network Solutions, Register.com, Name.com, eNom, eNomCentral, Moniker, or BulkRegister”
Now the question. Which one is really the best? As in REALLY, not just because they say they are.
Talha says
I am having problems with this service.
I choose some of my domains on Moniker for the Afternic Premium promotion.
While accepting the terms at Moniker I am getting a “Failed: Domain has been registered less then 60 days” error.
Although the domains are with me since more than a Year :|.
I sent a support ticket to Oversee.net
Anyone having same problems ?
David Hauser says
Talha,
If you have any issues with adding names – please feel free to send an email to our Customer Service Manager, Christina Forker. Christina’s email address is cforker (at) afternic.com. Christina, or a member of her team, will be able to help you.
Thanks!
David
SL says
@Talha: Same error message here, tried last night and again a few minutes ago. Sounds like there may be some bugs on Moniker’s side. Maybe someone at Afternic can get in touch with Oversee to investigate this.
Andrew Allemann says
Moniker definitely has an integration bug, as all domains show denied b/c of less than 60 days.
Talha says
Hi Guys.
I have received an email from Oversee support and it’s a bit frustrating.
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Hi Talha,
Thank you for contacting us.
We are aware of problems with the promotion page and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.
I will let you know when we have confirmed a fix for the problem.
Thank you,
Korie Bartnik
Client Services Representative
Oversee Domain Services
Supporting Moniker, SnapNames & DomainSponsor
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I don’t know how long will it take now will have to wait for it. 🙁
Andrew Allemann says
I talked to Afternic yesterday. Moniker is working on this issue.
You might also experience something a bit confusing with eNom. Because eNom is set up on a reseller system you might have to transfer your domains to eNom’s main registrar accreditation. You’ll get a notice in your Afternic messages and click through a few links to make the “transfer”.
I don’t see anything different in my whois for the domains I did this on yesterday, so I’m not really sure what happens in the back end when you do this.
I'm ShuwiX says
Maybe in knowhow exchange, Afternic will recieve Snapnames internal shill bidding manual.