Afternic Review

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http://www.afternic.com/

Afternic is an auction house, listing service, and parking service all wrapped up into one. AfternicDLS Expanded Promotion (their extended selling service that includes a sales representative and additional listing with Afternic partners) currently costs $20 for an annual membership, plus 20% of each sale.

The company claims on their homepage to list over 3 million ‘premium’ domain names and to have sold 3 times as many domain names as their nearest competitor – we have not verified this.

Afternic focuses on end user sales as opposed to the domainer-to-domainer sales that are most frequent on other auction and listing sites. According to Afternic, their highest recorded sale so far is greenhouse.com, which sold for $500,000 in July 2007.

Afternic is a massive player in the domain industry with lots of sales to show for it.

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4 Responses to Afternic

digibroker
08/08/2010 at 23:07

The process is to cumbersome and the emails always asking someone to lower prices has not been a great experience for me. I prefer to use a simple process and price the name at a fair price.

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alvin
10/15/2010 at 15:25

Never ever use their services. I paid them 59 USD for brokerage services, and the broker agent Erica never updated me of anything, and one fine day, I find that my binding is closed by them, even after I raised my Price to secure the domain name I wanted. Enclosed is the conversation with them.

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hey what’s this ?

I paid 59 USD just for the appraisal, when I get the same done for less than 9 USD at Godaddy. Sedo doesn’t even charges before the negotiation starts, and you have charged 59 USD, and not even refunding it, and you are closing the offer ?

Are you even a professional company, or just money monkers.

I demand immediate refund of money. What’s this a joke or something.

When I asked sedo to do the brokerage for khojindia.com, this is what they have written:

Dear Anand,

Thank you for your application for brokerage service of the domain KhOjIndia.com. Unfortunately, the owner has protected his name through a whois identity shield. In this instance, the only one way that exists to attempt to get in contact with him is through the privacyprotect.org website, where you may fill out a form that will be sent to the owner.

We would be happy to proceed with your order and attempt to negotiate a fair price, however please note that this shield often results in no response, and so if you would like us to decline the order and the $69 charge, please let us know.

Kind Regards,

Negar Hajikhani

Sales Coordinator – North America

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Sedo.com :: 161 First Street :: Cambridge, MA 02142

tel 617-499-7245 :: fax 617-499-7203

http://www.sedo.com :: negar.hajikhani@sedo.com

I demand an immediate refund of my money paid to you guys, or I will initiate legal action, and update my technical fraternity as well about the way you people work and make money out of people.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Afternic wrote:
MESSAGE FROM AFTERNIC

Your expired offer for Khojindia.com
Hi Anand,

Your offer of $1,500.00 USD for khojindia.com has expired and is no longer binding.

If you are still interested in purchasing khojindia.com, you can place a new offer here:

http://www.afternic.com/name.php?id=29239086

If you are unsure of the value of khojindia.com, you can purchase a domain appraisal. A seller may be persuaded to reduce the price if it can be shown that it is above market value. You can order a domain appraisal here:

http://www.afternic.com/appraise.php

Thank you for using Afternic,
The Afternic Team

Please note, our numbers have changed:
P: 866.351.9586 or 781.839.7990

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Erica Campbell wrote:
I will let you know when I hear back from the owner. Please feel free to check in with me at anytime at 781-839-7933. Thank you for using Afternic.

Best,
Erica

—–Original Message—–
From: Anand Mishra
To: Erica Campbell
Sent: Fri Oct 08 07:06:20 2010
Subject: Re: Appraisal for khojindia.com domain

I have increased the offer. What next ? Updates…

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:31 PM, website@afternic.com wrote:

Here is your appraisal request
We have just finished your custom Appraisal and DNI Score Ranking for khojindia.com. See attached. Smart move!

If you’re curious, here’s how we came up with that number:
Our expert appraisal service is backed by one of the largest archives of available and sold domain name data in the industry. Each domain submitted is individually reviewed, benchmarked, and priced using our proprietary database of comparable sales, compiled over 9 years of domain name valuations.

I think that I have spend some money on getting you negotiating the deal for me. I have increased the offer to the maximum level as you had suggested, but still there’s no response from your side.

I think that I am entitled for that or my 59$ for just an appraisal report, which godaddy gives for just 9 USD ?
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Anand Mishra wrote:

updates ?

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Erica Campbell wrote:

I will let you know when I hear back from the owner. Please feel free to check in with me at anytime at 781-839-7933. Thank you for using Afternic.

Best,
Erica

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Scott D
09/02/2011 at 02:23

I totally agree!! DO NOT USE them!! They’ll pretty much just take your money, tell you the offer has expired, and then when you complain, they’ll tell you the owner just rejected your offer. Wow, I need to get in this business. What a SCAM!

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Ike
03/15/2012 at 21:48

I am using afternic for 3 of my many domains sellco.ws, buyco.ws, and wegotco.ws. I find that the parking page is very nice, but I have not used them for long. When I have had an issue like a 403 server error, I was able to resolve it by leaving a phone message and getting a callback. The phone support seems not to be a large operation, but the personnel are very helpful.

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