GoDaddy recently announced that on March they would be migrating Uni to Afternic. Although not entirely pleased with the decision, I contacted Afternic for help setting up the 25+ domain names that I had parked at Uni and were earning PPC revenues.
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Some of these domain names were not intended for sale due to the commission structure, but I wanted to experiment with GoDaddy's parking options before finding alternative solutions.
After following instructions to set the nameservers to ns1.afternic.com and ns2.afternic.com on April 18th, domain names with traffic started appearing on the Parking tab of my Afternic account. A few days later, I noticed that one specific name was not showing additional traffic or revenue. After emailing GoDaddy about the issue, I realized what was causing it. The PPC parking page had disappeared and had been replaced by a landing page suggesting that the domain name may be for sale.
Upon following up, a representative from Afternic informed me that if customers want to park their domain names without selling them through Afternic, they need to use ns1/2.smartname.com instead of Afternic Nameservers, which are only for listed domain names. After changing the nameservers, the domain names began showing a PPC page again.
Although disappointed with the sunset of the Uni platform, I was not surprised by the change. However, the fact that Afternic was not fully prepared for the migration was frustrating. The arbitrary migration date and lack of testing left many customers experiencing issues. If you have any specific questions regarding your domain names or account, be sure to contact your GoDaddy or Afternic representative.