Hello everyone,

Since I left Afternic and their lander and then moved to Efty. Finally settled for NamePros lander, I started dabbling several external escrow services more extensively because that’s going to be used more frequently than ever before.

I’ve mostly used GoDaddy custom checkout link, Sedo, DaaZ.com and Dynadot.com for selling my domains but recently I came across this issue a couple of times where I sent two different buyers GoDaddy checkout link and both said the amount they see was more than what we agreed upon. It was really not good because the amount I was seeing at my end was the same. I even discussed this with my Afternic rep and he told me that it’s most probably the VAT which is getting added.

Now this was troubling because first of all, GoDaddy should not be adding the VAT. Secondly, even if the VAT is added, there is no breakdown given on the checkout page. This may create doubts in the mind of a buyer that the seller might be sending the domain purchase link by increasing the price and that doesn’t give a good impression. After explaining this to my buyers, we then used another escrow service which went smoothly and no hidden addition of VAT charges. After doing some research I came to know that this VAT is added especially for EU buyers. Anyone from GoDaddy can clarify in this regard if anything I’ve shared is not correct information.

Going forward, I’m planning to use the GoDaddy custom checkout link only if they stop adding VAT or only if the buyer insists on using them by knowing that the VAT will be added to the agreed amount of the domain sale.

Excluding those couple of situations, I had a good experience using the GoDaddy checkout link but this issue must be resolved by them as soon as possible.

I would like to know if any one of you have faced this embarrassing situation with the buyer before?

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

After moving all my domains to Efty.com, except the 3L .com for which I’m using DaaZ.com lander, I’ve moved all of them to NamePros lander. One of the domains you may check is Beechtree.com

I tried Efty lander for a little over a month and it was a good experience. But because I wanted to try and see which one works well, I’m now trying NamePros lander. Efty provided great support especially Doron who did his best to guide and explain anything I needed, they’ve got plenty of nice features and lander options to choose from. They even have Smart Landers to create your own. I even used EftyPay but unfortunately I cannot disclose any details about the domain name but it was a surprising sale. Doron helped in settling this transaction very smoothly and professionally for which I’m very much thankful for him and his services.

Coming back to NamePros lander, it’s been around 10 days since I’m using it. No doubt the support is great and NP are always happy to listen and implement any necessary feature in order to make the experience better for both domain owners and visitors coming on the lander. I plan to continue using NamePros lander for the time being and will give one suggestion to the NamePros team and that’s to build lander stuff completely unlinked from the NamePros forum. Although NamePros support said that they’re separate services, so if my forums’ account were to be closed, my parking/lander account would still operate normally. They’re managed separately so the closure of one does not affect the other. This was good to hear but I would still prefer my parking/lander and NamePros forum account to be separated.

They’ve a better email verification system as no IP addresses are blocked unlike at Efty due to which some genuine emails also don’t come in order to verify. That’s why I kept email verification disabled at Efty but enabled at NamePros. Also, another nice feature which NamePros have is BANT qualification. Visitors must answer questions about their BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timeline) to help you prioritize opportunities and assess domain value, based on this sales framework. By default, you’ll only be notified after these questions are answered, but you can choose to be notified beforehand. I haven’t enabled this feature because I don’t feel the need for it.

Overall, I’m inclined towards NamePros lander more and plan to continue using it.

Feel free to give your feedback regarding Efty and/or NamePros landers.

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

There was a lot of positive feedback and slight bit of backlash from fellow domain investors after I posted that I’m leaving Afternic. It’s fine as everyone has their own opinion and experiences and I respect their views. It’s been 10 days since I moved to Efty lander which is exciting and challenging as well in many ways. To deal with the inquiries, spam, negotiations, tweaking the landers, etc.

So in the last 10 days there were plenty of new inquiries and many lowball offers and not actually looking to buy the domain even though the lander clearly has a message. I wonder what people are thinking when submitting the form or contacting via email/WhatsApp for the stuff not related to buying the domain.

This is the story of my first sale which happened after moving to Efty lander. It all started in May 2025 when the buyer approached for one of my domains via WhatsApp and email. I quoted $6,888. At that time, the domain was using Afternic lander but I was approached directly. He asked if there is any possibility of buying at a lower price like $5,000. I then revised my price to $6,500 in order to strike the deal.

The moment he noticed the revised price, he backtracked from his 5K offer and said that now he can offer $3,000 after taking another look at the analytics of the domain and ranking of it. After no response from my side, I got another email asking my final price. With such an attitude and non-seriousness behavior, I still remained firm at $6,500 to which he agreed this time. The story didn’t end here! The buyer created an account with escrow.com and to me he offered $4,000! I declined the offer. So he started escrow.com transactions with an amount of $3,500. Now he started messing with me by initiating the transaction without my permission or asking for my escrow.com email address and secondly he started with the amount which was never mutually agreed.

In total, he started 7 transactions at Escrow.com from May 2025 till October 2025 which I always cancelled. Considering the overall situation, I revised the price to $9,888 and informed him the same because he was bugging me every now and then through email. Obviously he got furious and blamed me and brought in a religious touch as well in the middle and more. I didn’t budge from my new asking price because that was simply annoying behavior and non-seriousness in every way.

As soon as I changed the lander from Afternic to Efty, the same guy contacted me via Efty lander so I quoted him $9,888 and told him the price will remain the same. He asked if I could accept the old price of $6,888 which I declined. Then a new offer of AUD$10,000 was presented which I declined. And then came in US$8,888. I lowered it to $9,000 and made it clear that this new revised price is valid for the next 48 hours.

To my surprise, the payment was made using an escrow service and I received full $9,000 NET without paying any commission. Usually I’ve shared domains while sharing any domain sale but in this case, due to the entire situation, I prefer not to disclose the domain name for the sake of that person’s reputation.

Takeaway for domain investors: Stay firm on your asking price and always remember that you’re in the driving seat since you own the domain name.

Feel free to share your feedback no matter how good or good that is 😉

Hello everyone,

After I left Uniregistry.com which was later acquired by GoDaddy and then shut down for no good reasons, I moved all my domains to Dynadot.com.

Several months back, I came to know about UnstoppableDomains.com who came out with some unique and aggressive marketing strategy by offering free .com domain transfers with no real catch other than you just need to keep the domains there for 1 year period and if you sell any of your transferred domain during that period, you’ll have to pay their usual .com transfer fee which I believe is fair enough.

To be frank, I was hesitant to move my domains there but after getting a lot of feedback from fellow domain investors, I finally decided to give it a go and moved a few hundreds of domains out to UnstoppableDomains.com. I was provided with a special offer from Brady who is a great guy to talk to. I’m not sure for how long this great offer will continue but they offer free .com transfers for domain investors having a large portfolio. So there is no harm in getting in touch with them and seeing if your portfolio fits this great offer.

I like the UI and managing the domains which are pretty easy to understand. Overall, the page loading speed is quick. Currently they’re offering Sedo MLS and I hope they’ll be coming up soon with the Afternic DLS as well. However, since this is a new registrar, there are several bugs/issues which need to be fixed. I’ve informed the team and I hope it’s been in the works. Overall, I’m impressed with this registrar and I sincerely wanted to thank Brady and the UnstoppableDomains.com team for offering me a special deal of .com transfers.

One suggestion I wanted to give is if they can start offering external escrow service for domains not listed with them or using their landers.

It would be good if any of my readers can share their experience using UnstoppableDomains and how it works for them?

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

First of all, thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement on the step of leaving Afternic. It’s been a hectic day as it’s not easy to switch to a different lander and make the necessary changes. I forgot to mention in my previous post that I’ve delisted all of my domains at Afternic and Sedo which will not get me any sales via their distribution network. I wanted to go all-in with the new move and see how it goes.

After careful consideration, I finally decided to move my domains to Efty.com which is offering some great features. I’m still in the testing phase and it will take some time to get adjusted.

On a side note, I wanted to share that both my sons are still using the Afternic “price request” lander and will continue to do so. The reason behind this is that they’re in their initial stage of settling down and I think Afternic is still a good choice for them.

A good thing for using my own lander is that I’ll be quoting the price after rechecking the domain and if the current price is set low, I can readjust and quote accordingly.

In the coming times, I’ll be sharing the experience of using Efty and how sales are coming up as well.

It would be nice to see some of you sharing their experiences using Efty landers.

Thank you!