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I bought a name from Afternic after monitoring traffic for a week or so.
The traffic seemed to be steady - about 300 UV/day. The day after I completed
escrow and transferred the name into my account the traffic dropped to 2 UV/Day.
When I questioned why traffic dropped to zero I got these responses:
Seller: Hi, that is because i have deleted that domain's link from my other websites.
Afternic staff: "There is a chance that the traffic went down because the
seller may have been purchasing traffic"
So here we have a seller that has admitted to manipulating traffic
and a rep at Afternic that seems to condone it.
Here is Afternic's traffic policy: http://www.afternic.com/trafDisc.php
Important Notice Concerning Traffic
Sellers are not allowed to purchase traffic to parked domains, redirect
other domains to their parked domains, nor take any other action to temporarily
inflate their traffic statistics. However, Afternic cannot always detect such
activity and cannot guarantee or warranty in any way the accuracy of the reported traffic.
If you are aware of an Afternic listing with manipulated traffic stats, please let us know.
1. Does afternic not care that buyers, who rely on stats, are being cheated?
2. Why do they ask us to notify them of manipulated traffic if they aren't going to do anything about it?
3. How can they expect anyone to trust stats on parked names if they allow this activity to re-occur?
The traffic seemed to be steady - about 300 UV/day. The day after I completed
escrow and transferred the name into my account the traffic dropped to 2 UV/Day.
When I questioned why traffic dropped to zero I got these responses:
Seller: Hi, that is because i have deleted that domain's link from my other websites.
Afternic staff: "There is a chance that the traffic went down because the
seller may have been purchasing traffic"
So here we have a seller that has admitted to manipulating traffic
and a rep at Afternic that seems to condone it.
Here is Afternic's traffic policy: http://www.afternic.com/trafDisc.php
Important Notice Concerning Traffic
Sellers are not allowed to purchase traffic to parked domains, redirect
other domains to their parked domains, nor take any other action to temporarily
inflate their traffic statistics. However, Afternic cannot always detect such
activity and cannot guarantee or warranty in any way the accuracy of the reported traffic.
If you are aware of an Afternic listing with manipulated traffic stats, please let us know.
1. Does afternic not care that buyers, who rely on stats, are being cheated?
2. Why do they ask us to notify them of manipulated traffic if they aren't going to do anything about it?
3. How can they expect anyone to trust stats on parked names if they allow this activity to re-occur?