Hello everyone,

So after leaving Afternic in the mid October 2025, I tried both Efty.com and NamePros.com lander. Efty for one month and the remaining time I’ve been using NamePros lander.

During the last 10 months, I learned a few surprising things which I am going to share. I noticed that the number of sales dropped significantly but the amount of sales remained steady. Another surprising factor is that more 5 figure of sales have happened compared to the same duration at Afternic. It’s like the buyers are more comfortable purchasing the domain directly which is priced in 5 figures mainly because they understand the value of the domain, domain business and how it works rather than someone looking to buy a domain priced in 4 figures and have not much idea about the domains value and/or how the entire domain industry works.

I compared the data of January 2025 to August 2025 when I was using Afternic landers with the data of January 2026 to August 2026. There was a drop of 63% in the number of sales during the first 8 months of 2026 compared to the first 8 months of 2025. By the way, currently I’ve 12,500+ domains in my portfolio. If I exclude 15% commission from the first 8 months of 2025 sales and compare it with the first 8 months of 2026, then there was only 17% less amount of sales in 2026.

I’ve shared 8 months data above excluding the initial 2 months period because during that time I had moved to Efty and then to NamePros and made several changes which took some time to settle down.

With all the data and the result of those 10 months, I have decided to move back my partnership domains, around 5000 back to Afternic starting next month which are priced in the range of $1988 to $19888.

During the last two months, I was busy repricing all domains and will be moving back to Afternic only those which are priced in the range of $1988 to $19888. The domains priced higher than that will still be using NamePros lander along with all my own domains because the results are impressive and good. One thing which was made very clear with this experiment is that GoDaddy can bring in more number of sales especially for the domains which are priced in the 4 figures range.

There was one significant role of underpriced domains which majorly impacted the boost of 63% additional sales with Afternic. But there is no doubt that GoDaddy has a great reputation among domain buyers which definitely helps in getting more number of sales.

So the conclusion is that even with a drop of 63% of the number of sales and 17% less in amount of sales, I consider this experiment a success because I saved a lot of domains and didn’t sell it for cheap. Because there were many sales where it was priced too low and when the lead came in, the domain was repriced according to the domain value and current market value and sold successfully.

Thanks to NamePros.com for providing exceptional support, landers, implementing new stuff and all of this at no cost!

I’ll end this post with the last sale of this month which was CarTube.com for $19888 NET using NamePros lander. Buyer came in with a $1000 offer and I quoted $19888 NET. After going back and forth into negotiations, the buyer eventually agreed at the BIN and we used the Afternic checkout link where the buyer paid a 5% escrow fee on top of the $19888. Acquisition cost was under $1000 and held time 6+ years.

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