Afternic reviews

Afternic review

Afternic.com is a great player in the domain selling industry. It has a lot of sales to back up on its being one of the best online domain sales. It enlists domain names that perhaps extend 3 millions. Afternic is a parking service, listing service and an auction house, all in one. They also have an extended promotion service that includes a listing additionally with the Afternic partners. This costs $20 for a membership annually.

Afternic Domain-Aftermarket Services

The domain inventory of this company consists mainly of auctions by members. They are not domain registrars and they also do not sell domains that are expired. However, they are owned by NameMedia and they collate of domain names of BuyDomain.com along with the other resellers. The users list of domain names come with options on Afternic. They can be chosen between Expanded and Basic domains. The expanded promotions list can be found on the partner sites. They usually promote the site to a broader audience.

Auctions

Afternic.com has a special service which is the specialized auction service known as Afternic Auctions. The visitors can pre order names that have come up for expiry. It also has other backorder services like pre-ordering a domain that is about to expire. Afternic.com sends up a domain name for live auction as soon as it is about to expire. It also facilitates communication between the sellers and the customers on the website. This is done through a thorough messaging system as well as mediation of the selling through a third party vendor service.

It lets the users ask the category, description and price and it also has an appraisal service that the others can view for the domain being auctioned.  Afternic claims that the service is very much reliable.

Membership types

Afternic.com offers three types of membership, standard, buyer and DLS. The standard one is a free membership which allows the users to order appraisals and also use their services and receive alerts on the various domain names that would be monitored. The buyer membership allows the users to make offers by paying $1. The DLS membership offers the selling of domain names and also allowances to participate in discussion of name forums. This includes a payment of $19.95 a year.

Other services

Afternic also offers the listing services. The listings for domain names are featured on the home page. The cost for 30 days listing is $50. During listing a domain name the user can go for any of the Promotions plans.

Buying/Selling on Afternic : review

Afternic allows the buyers to use their services and pay through the basic money transfer methods like PayPal. Wire transfer, money order and checks. Credit cards are however not accepted.  After agreeing on a sale or on an auction if it has been won, the transaction will be closed by sending the payment through the escrow services. Afternic will also instruct the seller for the transfer of domain name.  After the clearing of funds, the domain names are transferred by the seller, as instructed to them by Afternic. The buyers’ funds would be held back till the domain transfer is completed.

Usability

The many reviews of Afternic along with this one claim that the website of Afternic is easily naviagable. There are no unrelated options for baffling users. Every option available on the website is listed thoroughly through the drop downs.