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@NamecheapCEO It would be awesome if NC/Spaceship could implement its own feed for sellers to list directly. Charge 10% and prioritize over Afternic/Sedo feeds. Sedo feed is 15% inaccurate resulting in missed sales. Afternic, well, ... is Afternic.

@dotcorner @afternic @abmakrani @domain_junction @nikhil_r17 Afternic sales have been horrible in the past 30 days. The worst part: they are in denial claiming that it is business as usual. It can only be explained by serious shopping cart issues.

Hi @afternic, lack of sales in last 30 days is quite baffling. Industry leaders like @abmakrani @Rightbrandcom @domain_junction and starters like myself and @nikhil_r17 are all concerned at this. Domain Investors, please share your last 30 day sales experience.

@michaelbang_com Flamingoes.com Phoxes.com Lorises.com

@NamecheapCEO @spaceship awesome. will test more. Thanks. A bit unrelated: can you have your staff test if Afternic/GD cart has issues on NC? All big investors are reporting that sales went to near zero since June 3. I am facing errors every time I pay for renewal/auctions at GD

@Rightbrandcom @spaceship Sure, you can also copy and paste/type an entire list of domains into the search and sort that way as well. See below:

We've just surpassed 1 million domains under management at @spaceship! We launched in open beta just about 14 months ago. I believe it took us about 5 years to reach this milestone at Namecheap. Big thanks from all us to all of you, our customers that have chosen us and trusted us as we continue to build what I believe is bar none the best platform to manage your domains. Most importantly, we are just getting started on this journey!

@NamecheapCEO @spaceship ah, awesome. I didn't realize it is a drop-down menu :)

@Rightbrandcom @spaceship You can see here below. Also, pagination and even more sort features are being released in the next 1-2 weeks. The team responsible has already taken this task in for work.

@NamecheapCEO @spaceship NS: currently I see only two choices "custom" "spaceship". Consider e.g. needing to find 5k names based on where they point to bulk change. Also, pagination is missing, when, e.g. you want to renew 200 names. It is either 1 by 1 or all. Not just sorting, but showing the field etc

@Rightbrandcom @spaceship Sure, no problem. By the way, all those options are currently possible(reg date, NS)

@NamecheapCEO @spaceship Awesome. Glad to hear. I moved few hundred .coms, but had to take a pause. Need more features and filters to manage tens of thousands of coms. E.g. cannot search by ns, can't sort by reg date, etc.

@Rightbrandcom @spaceship Thank you for considering us. There will be a solution.

@DomainSmoke Thank you. Pretty much an expected number for 33500 .coms held.

@Rightbrandcom 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Killing it!

How many sales do you have so far in 2024? 💰

@shl Elix.com manslaughter.com recons.com flamingoes.com myrtles.com soberly.com convening.com

Looking to buy one-word .com domains for between $10K and $100K. DMs open!

@NameBio Now, you've 70k names, 30% is 21k names giving you 84 sales/yr @ 2200$ and 1% STR. You should be dropping that category altogether, btw, as you are losing ~$50k renewing them. But if you can identify 1/3 better ones that contribute by smth, then drop the other 2/3.

@NameBio imagine that within that 30% you have 2/3 of bad ones contributing just 2% @ bargain price and near 0% at $2200 and the remaining 1/3 are good names that were giving 12% and now give 14% at $2200 because buyers agree with your price (too cheap can give a pause too). 2 of X

If you're a domain investor you're definitely leaving money on the table. A story about price sensitivity... 🧵👇 1/7

@AGreatDomain @NYGirl5757 @afternic That makes no difference. They are still reseller, if they are listed there. Whether they handle the purchase on the site or redirect, shouldn't make difference. Otherwise, they'd be called an affiliate. And it doesn't make any diff for this discussion. Price discrepancy it is.

@NYGirl5757 @afternic Correct. Dofo never directly sold domain names. Rather, they got an affiliate cut when someone clicked the link, and bought at Afternic. At least that is my understanding. Registrar resellers actually sell you the domain name, take your cash, arrange transfer.

Afternic Reseller partners spend significant money and resources to get eyes on premium domains. Pricing discrepancies create confusion and an overall negative experience for buyers. 🧵1/3

@afternic ... But Afternic is forcing us to contemplate other choices including removing all Afternic ns & moving names away from Godaddy. We are already stopping handling our installment payments via Dan, as we were ok to pay 9% vs 3% done internally, but not 25%. 2/2

@afternic Afternic is trying to find out how far it can stretch its monopoly power before it breaks. But once it does, it is too late. We have 25200+ domains with afternic and spend over $400k a year between renewals, sales comm & auction buys 1/2

@NameBio Well, my bottom priced tier outperforms higher priced ones by % of sales compared to % in portfolio. I believe they are still good quality that could have been priced $2500+ by quality, but are priced lower for the niche industry/use, e.g.

@Rightbrandcom What's strange about the bottom tier of a portfolio under-performing? You'd expect that, as long as you've correctly identified what actually belongs in the bottom tier. Just as you'd expect the top tier to outperform, and the middle tier to contribute proportionally.

@NameBio I agree that it might seem so. But think of names not just as price/valuation buckets, but quality buckets. If 30% of names were $1795 and lower and sold just 14% even at such a low price, it could mean that 2/3 of those name won't sell at any price & 1/3 would sell even at $2200

@Rightbrandcom The only thing that changed from one test to the next was raising the prices, and it didn't affect demand for that group of names, so I believe that points to a lack of price elasticity at the low end of the market. The quality of the bucket didn't change so it isn't relevant.

@NameBio Would be interesting to see you do the price elasticity on the higher valued pack. E.g. the ones you currently price at $2200-3000 range randomly adjusted by +/-20% or so. Also, Darpan says the indifference point is $2k, you claim it is $2.2k.