Good news for a #domain investor who got slapped with 25% fees on an #Afternic sale that took place while the DNS was set to n21/ns2.CashParking. That's #GoDaddy's own nameservers!
Afternic will refund the extra 10% it kept due to its Transaction Assurance being untrained.
Afternic will refund the extra 10% it kept due to its Transaction Assurance being untrained.
But still, this 25% "head tax" remains for thousands of #domains that "dare" to use an alternate DNS, either with their owner's landers, or competing services, such as #Sedo, #Efty, and others.
If a sale occurs on a domain listed on GoDaddy's marketplaces but not on an approved DNS, 25% of the earnings is kept as a fee. This is a ridiculous and anti-competitive move by GoDaddy.
In a nutshell: If you decide to list your domains at Sedo you *must* remove them from Afternic, Uni Market, and Dan, or you might incur the 25% "head tax" if a sale takes place there.
The case with the Uni Market is worse: You can't block domains from being auto-listed on Afternic; you have to mark them as "not for sale." With Dan, you have the option to list on Afternic, or not. Will this be optional forever? No idea.
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