On the Uniregistry to Afternic transition — Some updates

Ahead of you use the migration tool…

A few days back, I wrote regarding the closure of Uniregistry Market and the process for moving your domains to Afternic.

Shortly following writing the article, I decided to dig into the migration process. I clicked the link to migrate and got a 502 error. I refreshed the page, and it stated the migration was in process.

I was a bit stunned since I expected some sort of confirmation step explaining exactly what would migrate. There wasn’t, and the migration was in process.

My first concern was regarding pricing. I have some old pricing for domains in Uniregistry that were never updated. Would these override my current prices at Afternic?

Some good news here: if the domain is by now at Afternic, it won’t migrate. That stated, the migration process does attempt to transfer pricing, so if you have a domain listed at Uni but not at Afternic, that data will transfer.

The second concern was all of the old domains in Uniregistry that I no longer own. Since Uniregistry sold domains through landing pages rather than a marketplace, there was no reason to delete domains when they sold elsewhere or expired.

It makes sense that if you migrate, these domains will be added to Afternic. Since there was no confirmation step, I couldn’t stop this process — and it means I have a bunch of domains in my Afternic account now that I’ll need to clean up and delete. That’s going to create some extra work.

The bottom line is that very few people ought to need to use the migration tool. It only makes sense if you regularly added domains to Uni without adding them to Afternic.

One other update…Theo at DomainGang figured out a workaround to download all of your sales negotiation history.