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I am not making the argument that afternic is the entire domain market. I do believe it was/is the missing piece for GoDaddy owning both the consumer and second
by ohashi 13y ago
I am not making the argument that afternic is the entire domain market. I do believe it was/is the missing piece for GoDaddy owning both the consumer and secondary marketplaces and it will allow them to be the only company to put them together. Afternic's DLS system and the agreements with pretty much all the relevant registrars just made them a one stop shop for everyone on both sides of the domain market. With other parts of the business contracting and becoming irrelevant. They just pretty much sealed all the gaps I can imagine for the next few years. It also places them quite well for new gTLD introduction which should see a flurry of speculation and buying.
- rhizome 13y agoI am not making the argument that afternic is the entire domain market. Your title is.
- ohashi 13y agoWe'll have to agree to disagree on how it was meant then. They bought the DLS system which turned them into the dominant player on both sides of the market today by a large margin. They own the market now.
- rhizome 13y agoI'm not talking about how it was meant, I'm talking about the actual words. As a reader, "the Domain Name Market" is a singular term that refers to the entire sector of business and economy concerned with domain names. Amazon is the "dominant player" in online retail, but they do not own it, and someone who somehow acquired Amazon could never be said to have bought the online retail market unless you were writing clickbait.