No more GoDaddy/Afternic sales notes during Quiet Period

Quiet period eliminates weekly data on aftermarket sales.

GoDaddy’s planned initial public offering means no more weekly domain name sales notes for a while.

Afternic has long sent out weekly aftermarket sales notes counting total sales numbers and specific domains with sale prices. GoDaddy took over that responsibility when it purchased Afternic. These notes are the basis for Reglike’s end user sales notes.

With GoDaddy’s IPO filing, the firm is officially in the “quiet period”. It’s technically in place until SEC staff declared the registration statement effective. Then there’s a 40 day quiet period following the IPO.

I imagine that GoDaddy could continue to disclose some of its weekly sales without violating these rules, but firms tend to play it safe in this situation.

That means we’ll have just one weekly end user sales note going forward based on Sedo’s sales.