news GoDaddy to acquire domain sales platform dan.com!

[MadAboutDomains]

Looks like GoDaddy is acquiring Dan.com!

Via Domainnamewire... https://domainnamewire.com/2022/06/28/big-news-godaddy-is-acquiring-dan-com/

 

[DomainRecap]

Whenever a big fish like GoDaddy keeps eating all the smaller fish, the customers always lose.

Always. And they'll always tell you not to worry and that nothing will change, but everything changes, and always for the worse.

 

[johnn]

My wife said this is not a good news.
Dan will lose a lot of Customers as GD will eventually integrate with their system like Afternic. The results of this buy out:
- GD will increase the commission from 9% to whatever we don't know yet
- Dan employees will either leave or join GD and the response time for support will be terrible
- They will require all sellers in the U.S. to submit the 1099 form so they can file at the end of the year to Uncle Sam
- and more...

Big Fish always eat Small Fish to eliminate the Competition.
Nothing we can do - either stay with Dan or leave....

 

[DomainRecap]

Oh it's decided. It's 20%.

While I agree it's going up for certain, I also believe that if GD raises it to 20% then they've decided to kill the company and transfer Dan's digital assets and customers to Afternic.

Dan is a discount vendor while GoDaddy views itself as an upscale aftermarket, and in terms of takeovers, those two rarely co-exist without serious changes. The guy charging 20% doesn't want his colleague at 9% stealing sales and someone at GD will start with the old "leaving money on the table" canard and suddenly it'll be 20% across the board.

At that point, Dan will become a ghost town and GD can conveniently shut it down without hoopla. Mission accomplished.

 

[Liberty Wolf]

Someone with deep pockets should buy Alter.com to counterbalance this GD acquisition as a safe haven for people wanting to escape the grasp of GD's reach.

 

[rh2000]

While I agree it's going up for certain, I also believe that if GD raises it to 20% then they've decided to kill the company and transfer Dan's digital assets and customers to Afternic.

Dan is a discount vendor while GoDaddy views itself as an upscale aftermarket, and in terms of takeovers, those two rarely co-exist without serious changes. The guy charging 20% doesn't want his colleague at 9% stealing sales and someone at GD will start with the old "leaving money on the table" canard and suddenly it'll be 20% across the board.

At that point, Dan will become a ghost town and GD can conveniently shut it down without hoopla. Mission accomplished.

All the companies they acquired the commission was raised to 20%, so I assume the same will happen here. You bring up a good point about Godaddy purchasing the competition and eventually killing it.

 

[rh2000]

I told you so. (before it happened, as a possibility).
Because Dan was working hard to prevent sales.

Who knows maybe Dan didn't want to be evil, but their spam-blocker
was from the same network as GD, so to force Dan to sell itself,
they may have killed Dan's business first.

The same must have happened to Epik.
Because there is no other explanation.

When Epik was ok, many people "hated" Epik.
When Epik turned into ev-l , they remained silent.
Someone wrote an extremely long article against Epik,
and after this Epik changed
(because otherwise they would face bankruptcy
or leagal troubles?),
and the guy who invested all of his life
on collecting stuff against Epik,
said nothing, when I was making legitimate
complaints about Epik (to improve Epik, not as an attack).

Arbitrage monopoly.
.....
Solution: Sedo should improve itself and attract sellers,
and create some competition.

How can they do it:
they should be like old Epik:
Hide seller info.
Show buyer info, unless they are strongly against it.

Otheriwse Sedo would be sold as well.

---------
who knows maybe this would make Dan a better place
than it is now, to park domains. Maybe domains will resolve normally.

I guess domainers have to start taking this thread you started more seriously and maybe doing this.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/cost-of-creating-your-own-landing-page.1277050/

 

[Dane]

I am already investigating the viability of Etsy as well as software packages that support domain landers.

Can you keep us posted on what you find to be the best alternative?

 

[Haroon Basha]

DAN! We trusted you, but you deceived us overnight. Old DAN is gone with the wind, completely lost.

 

[Samer]

DAN sold their souls.
What if Godaddy denies service to epik?
The monopoly grows bigger.

Little hope,current Adm(hates m&a) blocks.
I know this is not likely; but here’s hoping.

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

Strange, looks like the article was deleted. Proof I'm not going completely mad...

Show attachment 218697

My prediction is that it will close Dan or Afternic because they serve the same purpose.

They want the Dan tech to place underneath the Afternic platform. Wouldn't be surprised if they sell of the Dan.com name

 

[Samer]

Godaddy has more domains than next 10 competitors. It’s unhealthy;

DAN; what happened to getting “accredited”?!! Why didnt go through becoming your own registrar! I was excited.

 

[rh2000]

I am already investigating the viability of Etsy as well as software packages that support domain landers.

I think you mean Efty. The only thing is they charge a monthly fee.

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

I hope GD doesn't take over Namepros.

Looks like my prediction is coming true:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/godaddy-buys-dnacademy.1269573/#post-8553189


GoDaddy gobbles all...

Mwahaha

 

[Haroon Basha]

Godaddy was furious about 9% commission and immense popularity of DAN, so they offered a hefty sum, a pompous deal that DAN owners cannot refuse to accept. Virtually DAN is killed by Godaddy. A masterstroke by Godaddy to kill the competitor.

 

[411domains]

We all knew this was coming. I knew the moment I saw Afternic's updated beta this was a certainty.
Say goodbye to low commissions, platform efficiency, excellent customer service and most importantly, lightning fast payouts.
DAN was 1000 better than Afternic will ever be. RIP DAN
It was good while it lasted.

 

[Future Sensors]

In terms of technology, I think Afternic was right to realize that they couldn't get their own vintage platform up to par. Afternic would do well to let DAN's technology lead the way in the future.

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

I think Epik will be next acquisition of GoDaddy.

Followed by Gd buying Namecheap, Dynadot, then SH and BB and so on..

 

[aliweb]

Competition must be there, otherwise it will be pure oligopoly, where only a few will control the market. Moreover, GoDaddy is very famous for sticking to decades old system, no new innovation, no dynamism, no new products. With big name like GoDaddy, we expected a better price, better and Faster services.

Yup. Just look at Afternic. Looks like site from the 90s.

 

[markfromslo]

My selling system has been to list names at both Afternic and Dan. I list the prices at Afternic about 10% higher than I do at Dan. It's been a great system. Interestingly, even though my landers are all Dan, most of the sales, I'd estimate about 75% are from Afternic. I find that really interesting since I would assume that most buyers would key the URL into the browser and see the lower price on Dan. But maybe I'm just selling to stupid users who go to Godaddy and try to register a name, and then see the Premium price on there and buy. I don't know what other conclusion to draw from this behavior. Why purposefully pay more?

Looks like my system is about to end, as Godaddy is likely to prefer to kill Dan than absorb it, IMO. If they really appreciated all the vast benefits of DAN's interface speed of customer service, rapid payouts, MUCH better landing pages, and more, their announcement would say that they will keep the staff (at least the technical staff, for sure), rather than simply offer jobs to Dan employees (sounds like a throw-away goodwill line).

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

My selling system has been to list names at both Afternic and Dan. I list the prices at Afternic about 10% higher than I do at Dan. It's been a great system. Interestingly, even though my landers are all Dan, most of the sales, I'd estimate about 75% are from Afternic. I find that really interesting since I would assume that most buyers would key the URL into the browser and see the lower price on Dan. But maybe I'm just selling to stupid users who go to Godaddy and try to register a name, and then see the Premium price on there and buy. I don't know what other conclusion to draw from this behavior. Why purposefully pay more?

Looks like my system is about to end, as Godaddy is likely to prefer to kill Dan than absorb it, IMO. If they really appreciated all the vast benefits of DAN's interface speed of customer service, rapid payouts, MUCH better landing pages, and more, their announcement would say that they will keep the staff (at least the technical staff, for sure), rather than simply offer jobs to Dan employees (sounds like a throw-away goodwill line).

GD launched their long awaited BIN Landers a little over a year ago and when they found it wasn't as popular as Dan's Landers, went for the jugular with the acquisition.

 

[Samer]

Keep DAN separate from Godaddy IMO! Please.
I like how DAN things; they keep it simple.
Transfers dont take ages; unlike some people (GD) and appreciate DAN humans; Laszlo, Simon —Kind people who know what they are doing; assigned to each deal. Last but not least: @DAN.COM Reza!

You transformed made the industry better. Appreciate your entrance into the game; and Undeveloped-to-DAN should be a case-study about the best re-branding!

 

[karmaco]

Its not domaining anymore. Lets call it what it is -GoDaddying.

 

[Mohd Wal]

bad news especially for newbies. What a pandemic!

 

[D Haynes]

I don't see how this could possibly have a positive outcome for the average domainer. It's a shame. Going to start using my own landers again I think.

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

I don't see how this could possibly have a positive outcome for the average domainer. It's a shame. Going to start using my own landers again I think.

Generally those will tens of thousands of names / who get affiliate commission off selling Gd names seem to be pleased with this announcement.