Comparison, as of October 2026

domains.dns.legal or Afternic / GoDaddy?

The biggest provider in the world, marketplace and registrar under one roof. The commission depends on where your nameservers point.

Here both sides stand next to each other, with the figures from their own price list. Including what Afternic / GoDaddy does better.

What is left

Work it out

Enter a sale price. On the left what is left of your sale at Afternic / GoDaddy, on the right what is left here.

Sale price

Afternic / GoDaddy

25 %

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Range according to the price list: 15 % to 30 %

domains.dns.legal

0 %

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When you handle it yourself. Through our escrow 12 %: –

Point by point

Feature	domains.dns.legal	Afternic / GoDaddy
Seller commission	0 % if you handle it yourself. 12 % only when the sale runs through our escrow (from €10,000).	25 % as a rule. 15 % when the domain points to GoDaddy's nameservers. With an active Boost programme another 5 percentage points are added, so 20 % or 30 %. At least 15 US dollars per sale.
Buyer fee	None. The price on the page is the price.	no public information; individual registrars add their own mark-up on resale
Change nameservers?	No. An A record and a TXT proof are enough, the nameservers stay where they are.	Yes, if you want the lower rate: the domain has to point to their nameservers.
Advertising on the parking page	Your own advertising with your own IDs: AdSense, Amazon, affiliate programmes. We take none of it.	Parking pages with third-party advertising; your own ad accounts are not provided for.
Invoice and VAT	Invoice, credit note and reverse charge run automatically.	no public information
The sale page	264 designs, your own text per domain, indexable instead of blocked.	The biggest provider in the world, marketplace and registrar under one roof. The commission depends on where your nameservers point.

Figures for Afternic / GoDaddy as of 21. October 2026, from their public page (www.godaddy.com); no guarantee. Brand names belong to their respective owners.

Staying honest

What Afternic / GoDaddy does better

Reach like nobody else: the listings appear in the search box of the world's largest registrars.
Instant purchase at the buyer's registrar, with no waiting for an auth code.
Their own sales team, which helps negotiate expensive names.

And when we are

When Afternic / GoDaddy is the better choice

You sell mainly to American end customers and want to appear in their search box.
Speed matters more to you than the size of the commission.

For everything else, meaning a whole portfolio that is sitting there doing nothing, we are the better choice. And you do not have to decide: leave your domains where they are and list them here as well.

Not an either-or

You do not have to cancel anything at Afternic / GoDaddy.

Technically a domain can point to only one parking provider, but a listing may appear anywhere. Prove ownership here with a TXT record and your domain is in our marketplace while it stays parked where it is today. If you like what happens here, move the A record later.

01
Upload a listThe export file from Afternic / GoDaddy or a table of your own. Prices, minimum bids and floor prices are recognised.
02
Prove ownershipOne TXT record per domain. The nameservers stay where they are.
03
Move later, if you want toOnly once the A record points to us does your own advertising run and the page become indexable.

Open an account See the admin access first

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