Dan Yadgar

@spaceship @namecheapceo123 Please address the following issues in SellerHub: 1. Add support for anti-spoofing DNS records, including SPF, DMARC, and MX records. Afternic already supports these. 2. Provide a direct link to the full landing page for each domain, as every other marketplace does. This would be useful when developing a domain while still giving visitors access to the Spaceship “Domain for Sale” page. 3. Allow deleting contact requests. 4. For leases, allow setting a default payout method. It is very frustrating to have to specify the payout method 48 times for a 48-month lease. 5. Add the ability to download statistics through both the interface and the API. 6. Add more date-range options for statistics, such as 7 days, 30 days, and custom ranges.

SAV went from an interface that worked great to an interface that looks better but is completely unusable. They seem to have been trying to fix it for months but it seems to be getting worse. At this point they should just revert to the old one before they lose all their customers.

Our friends over at @spaceship have been waiting on a transfer from me for 2 days. Unfortunately @usesav told me this morning that they have resolved the v2 site issues when in fact they have not. Nothing has been resolved. My ticket has been re-opened and we're back to square one. Do I tell Spaceship to cancel the sale? I don't want to keep buyer and SS waiting when the most likely scenario is that SAV will continue to be broken.

@spaceship @NamecheapCEO Some examples: - Afternic: godaddy.com/forsale/<DOMAIN> - Atom: atom.com/name/<DOMAIN>

@spaceship @NamecheapCEO Please add the ability to access a SellerHub domain landing page from a spaceship URL. This is useful when someone wants to develop a domain but still want to offer a BIN/Lease link to interested buyers. All other marketplaces already support this.

@spaceship Please include LTO. We will have to keep using CSV upload until LTO is included in the API

Updates to SellerHub: External API support🚀 We’ve heard from you that an API for SellerHub listings would make things easier, so we built it. Available now: • Get your domains list • List new domains • Check details of listed domains • Update or delete listings • Get verification records API documentation: #tag/SellerHub" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.spaceship.dev/#tag/SellerHub Always great to shape SellerHub together💙

I love Dynadot, but this is probably the worst answer possible. Deciding whether to re-auction or not based on your judgment of whether the auction reached market value is unfair. Why not assign to each bidder a "trust" metric depending on how many other auctions the bidder has won and paid in the past, as well as other factors. Highly trusted bidders have to leave no deposit. The less trusted the bidder is, the greater the deposit percentage (maybe up to 50% for new bidders). Then, if the top bidder fails to pay, just reduce what the second bidder has to pay by the deposit taken from the first. Not a perfect system, but much better than what you have now.

Hi Rick, I did meet with the aftermarket team to discuss this situation. There were a total of 22 bidders on this auction. The winning bidder has won and paid for many auctions before. So it is unusual they did not pay. They did end up forfeiting their 5% bid deposit. We are considering increasing the bid deposit percentage, though we also want to avoid unnecessarily tying up capital for customers who participate in multiple auctions at once. In this case if we had removed all the bids of the high bidder, the auction would have closed at 12k instead of 30k. That didn't seem reflective of the market value, or seem fair to the 22 other bidders. So we decided to allow the domain to re-auction, as per our usual policy. Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention. I share your dedication to fairness.

Here is the actual email that I sent to @dynatodd the CEO of @dynadot this morning at 7:46am PLEASE RETWEET! I tried to handle this quietly and professionally. But what’s happening at @Dynadot affects everyone in the domain industry. Their current auction policy rewards fake bidders and punishes real ones. I’m making my letter public so no one else gets burned. Hi Todd, I’m writing to you personally because I don’t want this to turn into a public spectacle. I’ve always tried to do business in good faith, and I’ve supported Dynadot for years. But the policy I’ve encountered here can destroy the very trust that keeps your company alive. In the auction for Coinbook.com, a bidder failed to pay. That means every bid that person made was invalid from the moment they clicked the button. Yet under Dynadot’s current policy, I’m being asked to pay the inflated price created by those fake bids. To put this in perspective, imagine a real estate auction where a home is bid up to $3.5 million and later it’s discovered that every bid above $1.5 million was phony. No auctioneer on earth would expect the legitimate bidder to pay $3.5 million. They’d be out of business before the crowd left the room. This is no different. You’re asking real bidders to pay against ghosts, while the platform still profits from the forfeited deposit of the bidder who never paid. It’s a double win for Dynadot and a breach of trust for everyone else. Even the appearance of that conflict of interest is poison to an auction business. If I said I was angry, it would be an understatement. Livid would be closer to the truth.  I was actually on a yacht that I chartered to be with some of the most influential domain investors in the industry when I heard the news and they heard and saw my reaction firsthand. Ask them. I hit the ceiling!! Worse: this policy protects no one but the fakers, the fake bids and all the abuse that goes with them. That will be devastating. Our industry isn’t huge, Todd. It’s small, tight, and built on reputation. The moment people realize this policy exists, they’ll lose confidence not just in this one auction, but in your entire system just like I did when I first learned of it. It’s a dealbreaker. It’s a trust breaker. It’s an ethics breaker. And it’s the kind of thing that can break a company. I’ve written a detailed public post explaining the situation not to attack you or Dynadot, but to explain how devastating this policy could be for Dynadot and for everyone who depends on you. I’d prefer not to share it. But if this can’t be resolved, I’ll have no choice but to make the issue public so that others can protect themselves. I’d rather see Dynadot do the right thing: revert this sale to the last legitimate bid, acknowledge the problem, and fix the policy going forward. You’ll earn more trust in one day than any marketing campaign could buy. Without those steps, tell me how is it possible to ever trust your platform again? How could I ever use Dynadot again? How could I ever recommend Dynafot again without explaining the unsavory policy that comes with it? Doing the right thing helps everyone. Your customers, your brand, and your future. Doing the wrong thing helps no one, not even in the short term, and the consequences are unknown. Thank you for your time, Todd. I truly hope you understand how serious and important this is. Best, Rick Schwartz #Domains #DomainNames #Auctions #DomainKing

@DomainKing @cultra @DotWeekly @Dynadot @dynatodd Here's a possible solution that doesn't require re-auctioning: allow bidders to place bids that are below the current auction bid. Then, if the winner fails to pay, offer it to the 2nd, and if he fails then to the 3rd, etc, until you reach a real legitimate bidder.

Yes, you did,,but guess who didn’t try? @dynadot and @dynatodd they didn’t try at all. Not at all! And the whole industry saw that they didn't do Jack shit! Some people thinks Todd is a nice guy. But a nice guy doesn’t ignore fraud or pressure honest bidders to pay for fake ones. Nice guys fix problems they don’t hide from them. Todd couldn’t take 5 minutes to try to straighten this out? That means he orchestrated it. imo That’s not what a nice guy does. Well, now, maybe we’ll all be tied up in court for a few months or years. And I’m learning that this might even affect other platforms. The fraud in this industry has run rampant for decades and an investigation is warranted. Who would disagree with that? Since no one else would do it, I will. I gave Dynadot every chance to fix this quietly. They chose silence, spin, and mockery. Now the industry sees the truth. If a company protects a fraudster and punishes a loyal customer who has invested hundreds of thousands on their platform, the consequences aren’t my invention, they’re the natural result of broken leadership and corrupt policy. Mark my words: if Dynadot refuses transparent reform and restitution, they’ll answer to regulators, auditors, depositions, and the market. That outcome is not a threat, it’s the natural course of justice when institutions put profit over fairness. This is about restoring trust to our marketplace. If you have evidence to submit, contact me. We’ll make sure the record is complete. 👑

There’s been a lot of conversation in the domain community surrounding @DomainKing's posts, and we want to take a moment to address it directly and provide some clarity. Our team values transparency and fair auctions. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below.

@DomainKing @Dynadot I hope you win this fight, as fairer rules will benefit us all.

@danYadgar @Dynadot I already answered that and it’s a horrible idea. I already put in the time and effort. And that’s even worse because now it will bid up even more! So that’s their standard garbage play and it’s unacceptable!!

Update: I just received this automated cancellation notice from @Dynadot regarding the Coinbook.com auction. For context: The original high bidder defaulted,they didn’t pay. That means every bid they forced above theirs was fraudulent from the moment they stopped honoring it. Under @Dynadot’s current policy, the next legitimate bidder (me) is still expected to pay the inflated price created by those fake bids while Dynadot keeps both the defaulter’s deposit and the higher price set by a bidder who never paid. Imagine a real-estate auction where a house is bid up to $3.5 million, and later it’s discovered that every bid above $1.5 million was fake. No auctioneer on earth would still demand $3.5 million from the next legitimate bidder, the real buyer. Those bids would be automatically voided. As crazy as it sounds, that’s exactly what the @Dynadot policy does. I’m hoping this cancellation notice is just a system trigger while they review the case and not their final decision. If they do the right thing, they’ll restore trust. If they don’t, the industry will decide what happens next. 👑

@spaceship The CSV upload seems very limited when compared to the interface. You will only allow LTO Period and Down payment %. No ability to set a different full price for LTO, a fixed value down payment, or a final payment. Why?

SellerHub updates🚀 You can now: • Set your LTO prices in a CSV file and upload it to update them in bulk • See your LTO prices included when exporting listings Next up: more bulk tools and external API support for SellerHub. Best of luck with your sales🍀

@BettyAiProject Here

ROLL CALL. Today I’m scrubbing the deadweight from the Betty AI project. As I’ve said, a smaller, committed group is 100x more powerful than a big one full of lurkers. This is a think tank, not a spectator sport. If you want to move forward and participate, drop your name below. If you’re just here to watch? That’s fine, but not here. Lurkers don’t eat for free. Roll call closes in 72 hours. After that, this becomes a builder’s room. No spectators!

Lately I have been hearing more and more about Agentic AI, and I believe that is where things are moving. So, in the future, if I want to buy tickets to an event, instead of going to ticketmaster.com I will ask an AI to buy them for me. What does it mean for domains? I believe they will still exist, as the AI still needs to interact with a service to buy the tickets, and that service still needs an "address". However, what we consider now to be "Premium" domains may be significantly affected. The AI agent doesn't care if the domain is 2 letters or 30 letters long, or if it passes the radio test or not, it will probably use algorithms to determine which is the better site to buy them from and proceed. If this is the future, then all our domain portfolios may be at risk.

Morning folks!! Why are we here? We’re standing on the edge of something bigger than any of us have ever known. You feel it. I feel it. That quiet buzz that tells you the world just changed but nobody knows quite what to do with it yet. That’s not a limitation of the technology. That’s our limitation. We’re not used to thinking this big, this wide, this fast. We’re not wired, yet, to understand that something which used to take weeks, teams, meetings, and budgets can now be done in seconds, more accurately, and without permission. We’re so close to this revolution, we can’t even see it yet. That’s why we need to sleep on it. Marinate in it. Let the idea of it stretch us like never before. We know this thing is a generator. We just are not sure what to generate. That’s what AI is. But we haven’t yet figured out how to turn that generator into power. Into money. Into impact. And that’s what this place is about. This isn’t about using AI to do what we already do a little faster. That’s the small game. This is about unlocking ideas that were impossible before, then quietly making them real, scalable, profitable. If I were 19 years old today, unemployed, with nothing but a phone, I’d still be dangerous. Because this is the first time in history where the smallest, fastest, cheapest experiment can outmatch the biggest company if you know what to build. And that’s what we’re here for. To figure that out. We’re not here to consume this thing. We’re here to weaponize it. To spot the hidden problem. The missing step. The outdated process. The inefficiency. And hit it like a sniper. That’s where the real opportunity lives. I couldn’t build a deck three weeks ago. I didn’t even know what a deck was. Now? I can put together a professional proposal in an hour that makes people sit up, take notice, and take me seriously. That’s not evolution. That’s a new species. And where does it all lead? Every road still leads to the same place it always has: domain names. Because when things scale, when new ideas are born, when products and brands and movements emerge, they still need a name. And not just any name but the right name. We are at the intersection of maximum opportunity and minimum awareness. Most people still don’t see what’s happening, even the successful ones. But you’re here. You’re early. That means something. This is the mission: •Sleep on it. •Think differently. •Think bigger. •Think wider. •Push the limits of what was impossible yesterday. •Look for what hasn’t been solved and why. One lightbulb is all it takes. And once it goes off, you don’t go back. So let’s turn this generator on and figure out how to light up the world. If not us, it will be somebody else! We are HERE to SHARE!! Let me repeat that. We are HERE to SHARE!! So if you're here just to hold your cards close to your vest and not share, believe me the 120 will go down to 12. No deadweight here. No lurkers here. If you don't contribute in a week, there's no reason for you to be here. Not because I'm a prick because I'm a serious motherfucker and I want to discover something serious. No time for games. I've only felt like this one other time and that was in December 1995 and even then it took six months for it to marinate and for me to figure it out. Back then, nobody would take me seriously and why should they? I hadn't proved myself. But I have now and I know I have one more big trick up my sleeve in this life. Let do it and discover it!!

There is money to be made in new gTLD domains, but it is definitely a different game, where you need to account for additional factors like premium renewal fees. Not an easy path to take. I don’t know if Swetha is real or not, but I do have my reasons to believe that many, if not all of her reported sales are real.

Read it and weep!!! Chat, exposes the TRUTH: FACTS versus thousands of yahoo's running around blowing smoke up everyone's ass! If you need to keep swallowing bullshit, then don't read this! How Many .XYZ or gTLD Millionaires Are There? Real answer: Almost none. While there are hundreds of .COM millionaires, the number of people who made $1 million+ profit purely from .XYZ or other gTLDs is likely in the low single digits—or zero when filtered for independent, verifiable, and repeated sales. .XYZ / New gTLD “Millionaires” •Swetha .xyz is the only widely known figure tied to high-volume .xyz sales •Claims to have sold over 1,000 domains totaling $3–5M •But many believe that her sales are inflated, registry-backed, or even fabricated •No public proof of net profit, cost basis, or actual cash receipts •Daniel Negari (.XYZ registry founder) made money—but as a registry, not an investor GTLD Flippers (non-.com) •Many had a few small wins, but no verified million-dollar players from .club, .ninja, .guru, etc. •Most gTLDs cratered in value post-2015, with a massive drop-off in investor trust and end-user adoption ⸻ Why .COM Created Millionaires—but .XYZ and others didn’t •.COM is global default behavior •Brands don’t need to educate their audience •Every other TLD has to explain, justify, and defend itself •.COM is the end goal—others are stepping stones, if that ⸻ Conclusion: There are hundreds of self-made .COM millionaires. There are maybe 1–2 possible .XYZ millionaires—and even those are unverified, registry-entangled, or speculative. .COM is the gold standard. Everything else is fool’s gold.

@afternic @MexicanGreek Horrible decision. Afternic search helped sellers price their domains, as well as find good deals to buy from other sellers. Are you trying to sabotage your own platform?

This decision to transition searches to GoDaddy was based on data showing less than 1% of sales came from Afternic Search, primarily by expert buyers who often start with a GoDaddy Search before going to Afternic. We’re committed to optimizing our platform and appreciate your feedback. We continue to focus on providing the best tools and features for sellers through Afternic.com, while giving buyers a frictionless way to buy domains through our network and sale landers. Doing so helps us stay focused on delivering the highest sell-through rate for sellers.

If you visited Afternic․com in the last week, you might have seen our brand new website as we started gradually rolling it out. Today, we're fully switching to the new design! You can read more about this on our blog: blog.afternic.com/fresh-new-look/

@happreneur @afternic @GoDaddy Just tried it. With Afternic search, you could type the keyword, and it would show you all extensions that keyword was for sale. GoDaddy seems to skip all Afternic inventory and only shows unregistered extensions. So, non .com domains have basically zero chance of being shown.

Saw the new @afternic and just don't understand why they don't have the search box right there. A marketplace without a search box? weird! Instead the buy domains button goes down to another button and then into @godaddy. Big fail to me. Didn't dig deeper after this turnoff 👎🦋

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@DomainKing @mikemanndotcom We haven't had much luck with .xyz domains in 2022, though. I think in 2021 the extension got popular with NFT projects, and when the bear NFT market started, directly affected interest in .xyz domains.

@DomainKing @mikemanndotcom It is possible. I do find it suspicious that she won't agree to a video chat. However, regarding end-user demand for .xyz, last year I did see sales and general interest in my own company's small portfolio of xyz doms, and that is what leads me to believe the sales are real.

Since @mikemanndotcom & many others believe 100% that Swetha is really Daniel & after weeks of this discussion, what do you believe given all the fakery we have seen lately? Are these Registry sales, real & fake sales or real sales by Swetha? Has your mind changed either way?

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