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!
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Nice update Abdul,
Wish more success on your new journey. Is it possible that you back to afternic , lets say oneday or not ?
Thank you
Thank you!
As of now, no plans of going back to Afternic.
If the sales are low, it could go back
I’ve left Afternic after taking a long time thinking the sales could go either way.
Best Wishes Brother
Thank you Asad brother.
Thanks a lot Basit for sharing your experience with Efty and now NamePros landers, it’s always interesting to see real-world tests like this. At the end of the day though, for a domainer the only metric that really matters is the net profit across all sales (total net after fees), not just how good the support or features feel. After this small experiment, have you compared your net results between: Afternic/GoDaddy landers Efty landers NamePros landers over similar time periods? In other words: total number of sales average sale price total commissions/fees and final net you keep in your pocket… Read more »
Thank you so much for taking time to comment and asking some interesting questions.
I’m in the process of gathering data and share with details early next year which will show what has worked the well for me.
We don’t have landers right now but you may find this useful. We have just launched a new site where you can also list, no exclusive and no commission, free to list domains with GoValue $5K and up, and small cost if under — as our focus is on high quality inventory. .Com only The site is focused on the startup ecosystem and founder-centric, there’s currently one Domain Request that is extremely strong from a repeat founder who built a $2B company and now is looking to start a new venture. We expect many more of those in the coming… Read more »
Thank you for sharing and your offer.
Currently I’m not interested in listing at any platform and just want to use the NP lander and see how things work.
If there are any other fellow investors would like to try your site, that would be nice.
It’d be great to know at some point how the total delisting from Afternic affected sales — both the number and the dollar volume. I imagine there are two scenarios on the table, and they heavily depend on the type of domains in one’s portfolio: domain is “unavailable” in the GoDaddy regpath → a serious buyer checks what’s there, sees it’s for sale, and reaches out directly, or domain is “unavailable” in the GoDaddy regpath → the buyer walks away… I’m truly curious which outcome is statistically more common. Certainly, the most serious and motivated buyers will reach out and… Read more »
That’s the inquiry stage only. Closing of agreed sales can be a different thing — as much as domainers don’t like GoDaddy and their high commission, and maybe there are remarks to GoDaddy brokers, the fact is that buyers worldwide trust GoDaddy. Escrow.com isn’t as well known compared to GoDaddy, even in the US. Plus, GoDaddy checkout is so straightforward for everyone — and I’m not talking about domainers, but end-user buyers who generally have no idea about the industry, escrow, transfers, etc.
And I’ve heard that GoDaddy checkout is sometimes not working for buyers and the link shows some kind of an error! This is not good as someone on X shared this and a few more fellow investors said the same is happening at their end as well!
I wonder when GoDaddy will fix these small things which matters a lot to us.
Thanks Adam for taking time and sharing those points.
I totally agree with you that most serious buyers will reach out in one way or the other.
I’ll definitely share the results in the coming months.
I like how NamePros separates the part where the user enters their information. On my landers (look at red.ca) I also separated my landing page and inquiry page. This way I can see in my Umami Webstats how many people have landed on the lander, which is an OK metric, but I can also see who clicked through to the inquiry page which shows a higher interest. I can then see which city, what operating system, what device size, how long the visit etc. So as good as landers are the more information gets into ones hands the better it… Read more »
Thank you for the kind words! Excellent tip re: Umami. (Did you see the .com sold for $100k today? I hope it goes to them!) We’re going to add them as an option for our landers, thanks to you. 🙂
Currently, we have support for Google Analytics and Fathom Analytics. Umami and Statcounter will be added soon.
Yep, when a seller chooses to enable BANT qualification, we do exactly what you suggested: start with a simple form and then require the advanced form after that.
Check it out and let us know what you think: QualRequired.com
Update: We’ve added support for Umami Webstats, along with Statcounter, Fathom, and Google Analytics. Thank you for mentioning it!
Thanks for the valuable update. That’s nice to know 🙂
Nice that you the real DOMAIN MAN (you have many domains )that try other platforms and you have the data to prove which one is beneficial.
You are the only one I know that is honest to tell us which one is good!!
Thanks
Thanks for your kind words which is much appreciated!
Congratulations to the newest destination, NamePros.com lander. It is really a bold, risky attempt as NP lander is not that popular yet, but if the names are really attractive, valuable, then getting buyers are not an issue. We will be curiously waiting your updates on your sales experience through NP Landers.
A bit under the radar, but NamePros Landers were launched in 2023 and have been in development for about 3 years, with lots of big sales and use by domain brokers on Escrow.com’s Masters of Domains.
We have a lot of exciting things still to come. Looking forward to sharing them with everyone soon.
Plus, it’ll always be free. 🙂
That’s great to know and I’m sure this will help in bringing in more people to give it a try for NamePros landers.
Thank you Haroon brother. I agree with you that it’s not that popular and some might have trust issues. Just day before yesterday I was on a call with a potential buyer and he was asking about NamePros company so yes they’re not popular like GoDaddy but if we explain the buyer, then it works.
For sure, I’ll share the results in coming months.
Hi Abdul – what was your reason for leaving Afternic in the first place? You always reported many sales monthly using their platform? Why the change?
Hi James!
Thanks for asking this. I’ve already mentioned the main two reasons of leaving Afternic in the recent past:
Excellent! Will wait for your next post ,Abdul vai !
Thanks Avijit brother.
Landers alone will not move the needle. The people who consistently win combine landers with a clear brand presence. Rick Schwartz does this through DomainKing, which functions as his lander. Digimedia does the same through Digimedia.com, Nat Choen does that through Telepathy.com, and so forth. Our parent company, MarkUpgrade, takes it further and spends most of its time building a brand that reinforces every domain interaction, mostly through our sister site, SmartBranding.com and now DomainsForEquity.com There is also an element that rarely gets attention. Negotiation. Not haggling, which most default to, but actual negotiations where people talk to one another,… Read more »
Thank you Emily for taking your valuable time and sharing your experience 🙂 Brand recognition definitely helps but it’s not everything IMO. The main thing is the domain name and that should be of interest for the endusers. I get buyers who’re hesitant for not knowing how the entire process of domain transaction will happen. I forwarded them to AbdulBasit.com and so far only one buyer in the last 15+ years remained hesitant but was eventually convinced and bought the domain more than a year later. Like you said, negotiations play an important role in striking sales. Also, direct communication… Read more »
I wasn’t referring to brand recognition. I was speaking about branding, meaning what a buyer understands before they make an inquiry. On NamePros landers and most generic landers, they come in cold. There is no narrative or context, often not even a price range. Compare that to LEGA.com or DGTL.com. The flow, the framing, the process, and the way the discussion is set up before the inquiry all shape the expectations and outcomes. You’ve operated in marketplaces for a long time and only recently started using your own landers, so you haven’t yet explored what domains can actually do when… Read more »
It’s disappointing to see Afternic facing yet another round of outages. A 504 Gateway Time-out across all listed domains is more than a temporary inconvenience—it directly impacts visibility, sales opportunities, and confidence in the platform. For a marketplace of this size, consistent stability should be a fundamental priority. These recurring issues make it increasingly difficult to rely on the service, and it’s crucial that Afternic addresses the root causes to restore trust for sellers who depend on dependable performance.
Totally agree with you.
I’ve even noticed several fellow domain investors mentioning about the broken GoDaddy checkout links which are not working at times. This is not good.
We currently have over 10,000 domains listed on Afternic, and for the last 20 days we haven’t seen a single sale. This looked unusual enough that I started researching what might be happening, and I found several similar reports on NamePros. One domainer mentioned having zero Afternic sales for 30 days despite having 7,000+ names listed (including thousands of .coms) while still receiving regular offers and sales on Dan. Another user with 15,000 names reported no Afternic sales in 60 days, calling the situation a complete mystery. Comments like “Pray. It always works.” show the level of frustration many are… Read more »
Hi Liam,
Thanks for your sharing your and your fellow investors experiences which is very important to know. At the same time, it’s frustrating and sad to see Afternic having some issues which they don’t share or admit. This is definitely unusual and cannot happen with many of these large domain portfolio holders.
I’ve tried Efty and NamePros and overall I’m happy with NamePros. You might want to try and see how it goes with you.
Feel free to share your experience if you move from Afternic to any other marketplace and how it works for you.
best wishes bro