The Future of Dan.com

Starting as a small company in Amsterdam in 2014, we aimed to revolutionize the aftermarket. Over the past decade, we’ve grown to serve tens of thousands with innovative products, advancing our industry. We’ve introduced Lease to Own for recurring income, Import Your Own Lead for external negotiations, and a transaction engine for sales automation.

We’re honored to support domain name investors’ success. To keep innovating, we’re preparing for an exciting change: a merger with Afternic after two years of planning.

Dan.com and Afternic

If you’ve been following our updates, you’re likely aware of our close partnership with Afternic. We’ve seamlessly integrated with Afternic’s vast distribution network, creating additional sales opportunities through their network of over 100 global resellers.

We’ve also been supporting Afternic behind the scenes, rolling out impressive new features driven by Dan.com innovations, such as Lease to Own, Custom Checkout Link, Custom Lander, and Ownership Verification. More recently, this includes invoicing and Make Offer, with much more to come.

Managing two separate marketplaces limits our innovation. Merging Dan.com with Afternic lets us create a strong unified marketplace for domain sales.

This consolidation means we can focus on one platform, speeding up the process of selling more domains for you!

What’s Next?

Merging Dan.com with Afternic is a process that we’ll be starting soon. To prepare for that, we’re closing Dan.com for any new account sign ups.

We’ll soon kick off a four-week period to let you choose your migration path. Although this will include an opt-out option, we’re confident that this integration will bring enhanced features and benefits for all users.

The Migration Center

At the start of the migration period, we’ll also launch a Migration Center for Dan.com domain sellers. This platform will let you control the migration of your Dan.com account and listings to Afternic. These will be your options:

• Self-migration: looking for more control over your migration? The self-migration path lets you handle your migration to Afternic, allowing you to begin using the best of Afternic straight away.
• Auto-migration: select this option, and we’ll automatically handle your migration after the migration period ends.
• Opt-out: we’re confident that you’ll love Afternic, but you can opt out of migrating if you wish. However, after the migration period ends, your listings will be deleted, with no more sales occurring through Dan.com.

Every step of the way, the Migration Center will keep you informed about our progress. We’ll share more details about the Migration Center very soon.

Questions

Merging two aftermarket platforms involves a lot of moving parts, and we know you’ll have questions.

We’ve created a thorough FAQ list addressing common questions about the migration process, which will be regularly updated as we progress.

Our support team is always here, too, via phone, chat, or email by visiting dan.com/contact.

We’re more excited than ever about the future of the aftermarket, and the combined forces of Dan.com and Afternic to continue bringing success to domain investors.