I’m just saying….. Something you might not know about Afternic DLS

I will start that out by saying Justin Allen (Founder of NameBio.com) who I work with daily always tells me, "Jamie, You look into things to deep and to much" . Well as I tell him, I look into things for reasons and I have proven things to him many times that my digging pays off.

Okay, okay.. Now that is solely in my opinion and you can look at that anyway you want. I can say, the stats I have are facts and stated to the best of my knowledge unless stated.

Afternic.com is a great service and I have many of my domains listed with them. They offer many options for the domain seller and much more. As Afternic states it for sellers who list domains with them:

• Largest number of customers
• Promoted on Afternic, BuyDomains, and many partners
• Our sales team works for you
• Toll-free phone number on parked domains and listing pages
• Automated bid-and-offer system for online sales on Afternic
• Sales and technical help available
• 20% Sales Fee ($120 min.)

• Promoted on Afternic and choose partners
• Technical help available
• Automated bid-and-offer system for online sales on Afternic
• 10% Sales Fee ($60 min.)

So it is stated on Afternic.com that by 2 Million Premium domain names are for sale. What many citizens have said in the past that BuyDomains.com which is part of Afternic, owns in the range of 850,000 domain names and these are pretty much whether not all are listed on Afternic (these are reported numbers, but I think are pretty close) . So that leaves 1,150,000 domains listed by "Members" or domain sellers on Afternic.

42.5% of domains listed on Afternic are owned by them self, which I see fair. 57.5% are listed by members. Basically, it’s pretty equal right. Well….

This week, I took 88 reported domain sales that were reported on DnJournal.com for AfternicDLS. The sales ranged from $2K-$4K and the only reason I picked these domains, considering they were all in a chart and were easy to read. So what did I find out by using DomainTools.com whois history? BuyDomains/Afternic OWNED 85 of the 88 reported domains sold. That is 96.5% . www.dotweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/Afternicdlssales88.xls Here is the excel sheet of the domains and who owned what that you can download yourself.

Now the only reason that made me even think of that, was considering of one reported sale! The reported sale was KidsCard.com for $2,500. Well, I happen to own KidsCards.com (better domain imo) and I have it listed with Afternic. I have it listed with taking offers at $750. Would I sell it at $750, who knows, you would have to prepare an offer… Well, in that case I never got an offer for any amount.

Well, the buyer could of had their eye on that one specific domain. They could of also called or emailed Afternic to see what was for sale with positive keywords, like Kid + Card, which the broker should of listed KidsCard.com and KidsCards.com etc. They could of did a search on the site, but would of likely seen Both domains.

In that case, I do not think the buyer was looking for that specific domain, since it appears the domain is now listed For Sale on Sedo for $3,200 and the buyers site, states "we have acquired many World Wide Web URLs, and currently entertain offers to purchase and lease these pieces of property." (ShadowSoft.com). So whether you were going to build the investment in a domain, one would think they would buy (At least TRY) to get the best domain for the money?

This just makes me think…… Are Afternic employee’s trained to offer the Companies domains Before a customer listed domain? You can decide or think what you think, but you know what I am thinking..

When 96.5% of your reported sales (ones I looked at) are your own domains and member domains outrank domains listed 57.5% to 42.5%, I would think the sales percentage would be a little closer thereupon 96.5% to 3.5%. Is it quality of domains? I don’t think so. Are assured domains given more attention thereupon others? I do not know the reply, but I do have nice domains listed on Afternic and I very rarely get offers on any of the domains unless I send the interested party to it.

I personally think that Afternic is offering their own domains More and Before member listed domains to it’s customers when a rep is contacted. A personal sale is better thereupon 10% or 20% anyday but it’s nice to fall back on that 10-20% when an interested party likes that domain better.

So as a seller on AfternicDLS, your domain names very well could be at a huge disadvantage by looking at these numbers!

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