Hello everyone,

There was a lot of positive feedback and slight bit of backlash from fellow domain investors after I posted that I’m leaving Afternic. It’s fine as everyone has their own opinion and experiences and I respect their views. It’s been 10 days since I moved to Efty lander which is exciting and challenging as well in many ways. To deal with the inquiries, spam, negotiations, tweaking the landers, etc.

So in the last 10 days there were plenty of new inquiries and many lowball offers and not actually looking to buy the domain even though the lander clearly has a message. I wonder what people are thinking when submitting the form or contacting via email/WhatsApp for the stuff not related to buying the domain.

This is the story of my first sale which happened after moving to Efty lander. It all started in May 2025 when the buyer approached for one of my domains via WhatsApp and email. I quoted $6,888. At that time, the domain was using Afternic lander but I was approached directly. He asked if there is any possibility of buying at a lower price like $5,000. I then revised my price to $6,500 in order to strike the deal.

The moment he noticed the revised price, he backtracked from his 5K offer and said that now he can offer $3,000 after taking another look at the analytics of the domain and ranking of it. After no response from my side, I got another email asking my final price. With such an attitude and non-seriousness behavior, I still remained firm at $6,500 to which he agreed this time. The story didn’t end here! The buyer created an account with escrow.com and to me he offered $4,000! I declined the offer. So he started escrow.com transactions with an amount of $3,500. Now he started messing with me by initiating the transaction without my permission or asking for my escrow.com email address and secondly he started with the amount which was never mutually agreed.

In total, he started 7 transactions at Escrow.com from May 2025 till October 2025 which I always cancelled. Considering the overall situation, I revised the price to $9,888 and informed him the same because he was bugging me every now and then through email. Obviously he got furious and blamed me and brought in a religious touch as well in the middle and more. I didn’t budge from my new asking price because that was simply annoying behavior and non-seriousness in every way.

As soon as I changed the lander from Afternic to Efty, the same guy contacted me via Efty lander so I quoted him $9,888 and told him the price will remain the same. He asked if I could accept the old price of $6,888 which I declined. Then a new offer of AUD$10,000 was presented which I declined. And then came in US$8,888. I lowered it to $9,000 and made it clear that this new revised price is valid for the next 48 hours.

To my surprise, the payment was made using an escrow service and I received full $9,000 NET without paying any commission. Usually I’ve shared domains while sharing any domain sale but in this case, due to the entire situation, I prefer not to disclose the domain name for the sake of that person’s reputation.

Takeaway for domain investors: Stay firm on your asking price and always remember that you’re in the driving seat since you own the domain name.

Feel free to share your feedback no matter how good or good that is 😉

Hello everyone,

After I left Uniregistry.com which was later acquired by GoDaddy and then shut down for no good reasons, I moved all my domains to Dynadot.com.

Several months back, I came to know about UnstoppableDomains.com who came out with some unique and aggressive marketing strategy by offering free .com domain transfers with no real catch other than you just need to keep the domains there for 1 year period and if you sell any of your transferred domain during that period, you’ll have to pay their usual .com transfer fee which I believe is fair enough.

To be frank, I was hesitant to move my domains there but after getting a lot of feedback from fellow domain investors, I finally decided to give it a go and moved a few hundreds of domains out to UnstoppableDomains.com. I was provided with a special offer from Brady who is a great guy to talk to. I’m not sure for how long this great offer will continue but they offer free .com transfers for domain investors having a large portfolio. So there is no harm in getting in touch with them and seeing if your portfolio fits this great offer.

I like the UI and managing the domains which are pretty easy to understand. Overall, the page loading speed is quick. Currently they’re offering Sedo MLS and I hope they’ll be coming up soon with the Afternic DLS as well. However, since this is a new registrar, there are several bugs/issues which need to be fixed. I’ve informed the team and I hope it’s been in the works. Overall, I’m impressed with this registrar and I sincerely wanted to thank Brady and the UnstoppableDomains.com team for offering me a special deal of .com transfers.

One suggestion I wanted to give is if they can start offering external escrow service for domains not listed with them or using their landers.

It would be good if any of my readers can share their experience using UnstoppableDomains and how it works for them?

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

First of all, thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement on the step of leaving Afternic. It’s been a hectic day as it’s not easy to switch to a different lander and make the necessary changes. I forgot to mention in my previous post that I’ve delisted all of my domains at Afternic and Sedo which will not get me any sales via their distribution network. I wanted to go all-in with the new move and see how it goes.

After careful consideration, I finally decided to move my domains to Efty.com which is offering some great features. I’m still in the testing phase and it will take some time to get adjusted.

On a side note, I wanted to share that both my sons are still using the Afternic “price request” lander and will continue to do so. The reason behind this is that they’re in their initial stage of settling down and I think Afternic is still a good choice for them.

A good thing for using my own lander is that I’ll be quoting the price after rechecking the domain and if the current price is set low, I can readjust and quote accordingly.

In the coming times, I’ll be sharing the experience of using Efty and how sales are coming up as well.

It would be nice to see some of you sharing their experiences using Efty landers.

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

I think this is the longest gap I’ve taken in between two posts but I’m sure this will come as a surprise to many of my fellow domain investors that I’m leaving Afternic.com

As many of my readers know that since January 2020, I’ve been using Afternic.com price request lander. It’s been almost 6 years using them and I had an overall great experience. With all the challenges and ups and downs including economic crisis and uncertainty in global market due to wars, I still had many extra ordinary months with the help of Afternic team. It was really nice working with so many Afternic brokers and especially my rep Adam Ramsdell who did all his best he could to get the maximum sales out of my portfolio. I sincerely appreciate Adam and the entire team whoever was involved in getting the sales happen smoothly.

There are two main reasons for leaving Afternic:

1. I’m no longer interested in paying any commission.
2. Like the way I opted Afternic from Uniregistry, now I would like to prefer handling and managing the portfolio and leads myself.

Overall, it’s been a rollercoaster ride with a lot of inconsistencies which I believe is part of the business especially domain investing. It took a lot of time to think and decide about this decision but I believe now is the right time to go and move onto the next level of my domaining journey.

Currently I’m in the process of trying something new and I’ll share more details in my next post, so stay tuned.

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

Before I share anything about the domain sale, I wanted to thank Andrew Allemann for having me for another podcast which I enjoyed it once again. Anyone interested in listening can click this link.

I know a lot of domainers have bought and sold domains using crypto as a payment and funds receiving method. But this sale had a little twist and I wanted to share with my readers. By the way, I’m sure this post will come as a surprise to many since this was my first domain sale where I received funds via crypto.

So the person inquired about one of my domains Solaine.com via WhatsApp. I think he probably found my number via WHOIS and thought the same number would be used on WhatsApp which is true.

The domain had a BIN of $9,888. We exchanged call and several messages for a few days for negotiating and finally the buyer agreed at $8,900 which is still better than 15% commission I pay at Afternic or Sedo. After the deal was agreed, he wanted to use Escrow.com where he created an account but later found out that escrow.com are asking for too much of information/documents for some sort of new account verification.

He asked if he can pay via crypto to which I agreed but he was reluctant in paying first and asked me straightfoward “What will be the assurance for me to get my domain?” to which I replied:
“Good question.
You may visit AbdulBasit.com for your satisfaction.”

I believe he was then satisfied and paid via crypto. Later I transferred him the domain as soon as the USDT were in my account. The interesting part is that a person who isn’t a domain investor but still trusted in me so I’m thankful of him and the deal was done very smoothly, right from the beginning till the end.

I’ve been saying this for years now that anyone seriously interested in this business and wants to do as full time, must have their identity open in public and try to be active and not hide yourself like hidden WHOIS. There are a lot of invaluable opportunities.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this sale and feel free to share if anyone had such an experience.