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Afternic Gains Endurance

Michael Garrity — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:46:00 GMT

Premium domain marketplace Afternic has teamed up with the Endurance International Group in a partnership that will bring Afternic a noteworthy collection of fast transfer-enabled domains.

Endurance is one of the top ICANN-accredited registrars and providers of domains, as well as Web hosting and other online services for small- and medium-sized businesses. It also happens to offer the fastest transfer domains worldwide for sale through its various brands, which include Domain.com and Dotster.

Now, the customers of Endurance’s businesses can see the AfternicDLS inventory of domains whenever they do a domain search. Plus, they will now have the opportunity to list their domains in Afternic’s system, which puts them in a huge marketplace and makes them available to many more potential customers.

After combining the number of domain registrations made by its hosting companies and registrars, Endurance International Group is actually the third largest domain registrar on the Web, largely because it works with a number of very large hosting companies, like HostGator, BlueHost and Fatcow.

For now, Afternic domain listings are live on Domain.com, and they’re expected to appear on other Endurance brands over the next few weeks.

A Better Brand Awaits at NameFind

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:15:00 GMT

Creating a company name and "brand" is of supreme importance to the success of any enterprise - not just digital ones. If you're in the process of researching and collaborating, check out the new NameFind service from Afternic and BuyDomains parent company NameMedia. NameFind offers up quite a few clever features that in many ways highlights the future of similar services.

In addition to being able to search for and register domain names (premium domains too thanks to its relationship with Afternic), NameFind also makes it possible to see if matching social media handles from popular networks are available (through a partnership with Knowem), and the ability to narrow down the list of ideas and invite friends and colleauges to vote on them.

Domain name services are struggling to differentiate their offerings in a ever-changing search landscape and as new domain extensions poise to flood the market. By shifting course just slightly, NameMedia may have found its golden goose with NameFind.

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GoDaddy Adds "Request Price" Domain Inventory from Afternic

Pete Prestipino — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:38:00 GMT

Domain name marketplace Afternic announced an enhanced partnership with Godaddy that will make available Afternic's "Request Price" domain names to Godaddy customers - presumably within the registrar's auction environment.

Godaddy, which is currently one of more than 90 other Afternic resellers, already displays Afternic's domains with set "Buy Now" prices. The new arrangement will add additional inventory and likely benefit both buyers and sellers. Afternic's DLS (Domain Listing Service) is considered by many to be one of the premier domain name aftermarkets.

“Go Daddy is always looking for more ways to provide the best possible experience for our customers and the addition of Afternic’s ‘Request Price’ domains will do just that,” said Paul Nicks, Director of Product Development for the Domain Aftermarket at Go Daddy. “By putting more quality domain names in customer search results, it gives them the option to pay a little more for the domain name they want and gives a domain name seller a quick and fair transaction … it’s a win-win for everyone.”

Afternic Premium Domains Now Listed on Namecheap

Michael Garrity — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Need a new domain name? Well, maybe now would be a good time to check out Namecheap because Afternic, an aftermarket for premium domain names, has just added Namecheap to its Premium Reseller Network.

Namecheap, a leader among domain name registrars, Web hosts and SSL certificate providers, will now include Afternic’s premium domain listings in its system, which means that its customers have access to millions of very valuable domains in addition to its current offerings.

Afternic domain results are already displaying with the rest of the domains listed in Namecheap search results with special tags that help users identify them.

The Afternic Premium Reseller Network leverages Instant Transfer technology to give buyers instant access to the domains they purchase, a feature that does away with the lengthy escrow processes of legacy domain marketplaces. This means that Namecheap customers can now purchase a premium domain name with all the ease of buying a domain with primary registration.

gFlip Enters the Domain Game

Michael Garrity — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Owning a domain name and listing a website online can get pretty expensive, especially when you factor in both listing and success fees, but today sees the rise of a new website marketplace, gFlip, that promises to list your site for free.

gFlip will "allow their users to list and sell there [sic] websites completely free of charge," according to a press release from the company. "Where as [sic] other website marketplaces charge their users fees for using there [sic] services."

This means that you can now list your website on gFlip totally free, and they don't charge success fees, which are the fees charged when a property sells successfully on a website marketplace. gFlip is now the world's first completely free website marketplace.

On average, domain name listings will typically run from about $10-$25 a year to list, although some expert searching can find prices both lower and higher.

If you're willing to shell out a little cash for a more proven website marketplace, however, there are other options out there. These sites all work the same as gFlip, where sellers register (and, in these cases, pay for) a listing and then set a minimum fee. Buyers then come in and bid on the domain, auction-style. There are other buying and selling options available that are specific to each site, but this is the standard method.

Here are three of the most popular website marketplaces:

Sedo
Sedo is one of the most highly-recommended domain name hosting sites on the Web. It is also one of the only companies out there that offers multi-lingual domain specialists who are fluent in over 20 different language. They charge a $69 retainer fee for hiring a Sedo Domain Broker to buy a domain, and take a 15% commission fee of the gross purchase price of a successful sale.

Afternic
This is another proven domain listing site who promise 5% cash back on your domains and offer what they claim are the lowest sales commissions in the industry. They also partner with over twenty other sites around the world, which means you have a much larger buying audience.

Flippa
Flippa is probably the most recognizable name on this list. While Flippa does charge success fees, they also have the option of allowing sellers to play a flat fee when first listing a property, but this is only worth it if you can be confident that your domain will sell at a high value. Like the others, Flippa is auction-based, although it, too, has the option of making private transactions.

Cash Back Program from Afternic (Domains)

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:00:00 GMT

Domain name marketplace Afternic (a NameMedia company) announced a "Cash Back" program for domain name owners who park and sell through their Domain Listing Services (DLS).

Domain names parked for a minimum of 14 days become eligible for a payment of 5% cash back on the final purchase price. For those selling high value domain names the program may just offer an added incentive to use Afternic services.

“We are pleased to offer this unprecedented cash back program to our members. Afternic DLS has long been the domain owners’ most profitable sales option,” said Jason Miner, senior vice president of Afternic. “By integrating parking and offering the industry’s lowest commissions we are providing even greater value and simplicity.”

The Evolution of Domain Parking

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:39:00 GMT

NameMedia launched a content site development option for domain name developers (domainers) through its online publishing platform at SmartName.com.

Publishers now have access to a more than 20,000 sources of content (e.g. articles), more than 150,000 keyword-related topics, more than 100 content-rich themes, over 2 million produts and reviews pre-built into each site’s “Store” tab and streamlined integration with NameMedia’s BuyDomains.com and Afternic.com sites for marketing domain names. There are no setup fees – regardless of the number of domains.

“Today’s launch means SmartName customers have a proven, compelling method of fully developing their domain names into content-rich sites that provide a compelling experience for consumers—and can do so easily for one domain or hundreds of thousands of domains,” said Kelly Conlin, NameMedia Chairman and CEO.

Domain name owners can also add their own content from any existing publishing platform, simply by adding an RSS link to their sites.

“Domain name owners now have a single platform to turn their sites into user-friendly eCommerce stores, content-rich sites, or keep them as parked pages,” said Kirsten Frederick, product manager for the SmartName platform. “And for the first time, domain publishers have all the reporting and statistics they demand in one dashboard, regardless of what type of site they’ve published. That makes it easy to optimize a portfolio of names across the full variety of publishing options.”