Dan Yadgar

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@spaceship @namecheapceo123
Please address the following issues in SellerHub:

1. Add support for anti-spoofing DNS records, including SPF, DMARC, and MX records. Afternic already supports these.
2. Provide a direct link to the full landing page for each domain, as every other marketplace does. This would be useful when developing a domain while still giving visitors access to the Spaceship “Domain for Sale” page.
3. Allow deleting contact requests.
4. For leases, allow setting a default payout method. It is very frustrating to have to specify the payout method 48 times for a 48-month lease.
5. Add the ability to download statistics through both the interface and the API.
6. Add more date-range options for statistics, such as 7 days, 30 days, and custom ranges.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

SAV went from an interface that worked great to an interface that looks better but is completely unusable. They seem to have been trying to fix it for months but it seems to be getting worse. At this point they should just revert to the old one before they lose all their customers.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@spaceship @NamecheapCEO Some examples:
- Afternic: https://t.co/3IEJTEiFv4<DOMAIN>
- Atom: https://t.co/PNoIo6x86j<DOMAIN>

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@spaceship @NamecheapCEO Please add the ability to access a SellerHub domain landing page from a spaceship URL. This is useful when someone wants to develop a domain but still want to offer a BIN/Lease link to interested buyers. All other marketplaces already support this.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@spaceship Please include LTO. We will have to keep using CSV upload until LTO is included in the API

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

I love Dynadot, but this is probably the worst answer possible. Deciding whether to re-auction or not based on your judgment of whether the auction reached market value is unfair.
Why not assign to each bidder a "trust" metric depending on how many other auctions the bidder has won and paid in the past, as well as other factors. Highly trusted bidders have to leave no deposit. The less trusted the bidder is, the greater the deposit percentage (maybe up to 50% for new bidders). Then, if the top bidder fails to pay, just reduce what the second bidder has to pay by the deposit taken from the first. Not a perfect system, but much better than what you have now.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@DomainKing @cultra @DotWeekly @Dynadot @dynatodd Here's a possible solution that doesn't require re-auctioning: allow bidders to place bids that are below the current auction bid. Then, if the winner fails to pay, offer it to the 2nd, and if he fails then to the 3rd, etc, until you reach a real legitimate bidder.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@DomainKing @Dynadot I hope you win this fight, as fairer rules will benefit us all.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@spaceship The CSV upload seems very limited when compared to the interface. You will only allow LTO Period and Down payment %. No ability to set a different full price for LTO, a fixed value down payment, or a final payment. Why?

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@BettyAiProject Here

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

Lately I have been hearing more and more about Agentic AI, and I believe that is where things are moving.
So, in the future, if I want to buy tickets to an event, instead of going to https://t.co/rjtaj3qNvv I will ask an AI to buy them for me.
What does it mean for domains? I believe they will still exist, as the AI still needs to interact with a service to buy the tickets, and that service still needs an
"address". However, what we consider now to be
"Premium" domains may be significantly affected. The AI agent doesn't care if the domain is 2 letters or 30 letters long, or if it passes the radio test or not, it will probably use algorithms to determine which is the better site to buy them from and proceed. If this is the future, then all our domain portfolios may be at risk.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

There is money to be made in new gTLD domains, but it is definitely a different game, where you need to account for additional factors like premium renewal fees. Not an easy path to take. I don’t know if Swetha is real or not, but I do have my reasons to believe that many, if not all of her reported sales are real.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@afternic @MexicanGreek Horrible decision. Afternic search helped sellers price their domains, as well as find good deals to buy from other sellers. Are you trying to sabotage your own platform?

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@happreneur @afternic @GoDaddy Just tried it. With Afternic search, you could type the keyword, and it would show you all extensions that keyword was for sale. GoDaddy seems to skip all Afternic inventory and only shows unregistered extensions. So, non .com domains have basically zero chance of being shown.

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[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@DomainKing @mikemanndotcom We haven't had much luck with .xyz domains in 2022, though. I think in 2021 the extension got popular with NFT projects, and when the bear NFT market started, directly affected interest in .xyz domains.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

@DomainKing @mikemanndotcom It is possible. I do find it suspicious that she won't agree to a video chat.
However, regarding end-user demand for .xyz, last year I did see sales and general interest in my own company's small portfolio of xyz doms, and that is what leads me to believe the sales are real.

[Dan Yadgar @danYadgar]

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