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So why do
this now? In the company's latest newsletter,
OpusDNS credited fast growth for making it
possible, noting, "Since launch, over 350
customers have been managing more than 250,000
domains through our platform. We would like to
sincerely thank you for the trust placed in us. As a
token of our appreciation, we have made an important
decision to eliminate the monthly platform fee.
While the market is currently shaped by new platform
fees, minimum revenue requirements, and hidden
costs, we are deliberately taking the opposite
approach. We believe a modern registrar platform
should be sustained by satisfied partners,
not by artificial barriers."
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Meanwhile, on the
domain aftermarket front, Atom.com
announced a new initiative that, if it catches
on, will be a very welcome development for
domain owners. As most sellers know, it can be
a real pain to have to go through a domain ownership
verification process for every single
domain you want to list on most of the major
sales platforms. That usually means adding
or changing a nameserver or adding
a TXT record to each domain. I
use the nameserver process and also remove the
verification nameserver once the name is
listed, so - though there is an obvious
need for ownership to be verified - it's a
time consuming, two-step process that gets
tiring when dealing with a lot of
domains).
That's why Atom
just released a new solution, DomainAttest,
an open protocol for instant domain
ownership verification. This would allow
the aftermarket to get an immediate
verification directly from the registrar
where the domain is held, if that
registrar implements DomainAttest. That of
course is a big if but in announcing
the new protocol, Atom explains
what's in it for registrars, marketplaces and
sellers and they make a compelling case for
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For
sellers Atom said "it requires just one
click inside the account you already control. No
TXT records, no propagation wait, and because
verification never touches DNS, it works no
matter where your name servers point. Listing on
an additional marketplace no longer means
re-delegating, waiting, and going dark. Also,
acquired domains list immediately. A current
attestation supersedes any previous owner’s
stale verification, so buying a domain that was
listed elsewhere no longer means support tickets to
displace someone else’s claim. Buyers get the
mirror image: every listing backed by
registrar-level proof of who controls the domain
now, not who controlled it when the listing was
created." That sound like a slice of
heaven to me.
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