Quick answers to the questions that come up most often about the aftermarket features: auction alerts on your own names, wantlists, and the free search. If you are new to these, start with what is aftermarket monitoring? and what is a wantlist?.
Why did I not get an alert when a name I watch went to auction?
Work through these, in order:
- Are you on a paid plan? Every account sees the Auction stage on a watched name, because an observation is free. The alert that carries the price and deadline is delivered on Pro and Business. On a free plan, the stage will show but no alert is sent.
- Is the name actually on your watch list? Aftermarket monitoring only alerts on names you are already tracking. It is not a feed of every listing.
- Is the name's aftermarket alert switched on? Each watched name has an aftermarket alert toggle, on by default. If it was turned off, the stage still shows but the email does not go out.
- Was it an auction or a closeout? Only those two sale types raise an alert. A buy-now listing shows when you search the market but is never treated as an event.
- Check your delivery channels. If email is fine but Slack or a webhook stayed quiet, the destination may have its own alert-type filter. See troubleshooting: not receiving alerts.
The name shows the "Auction" stage but I have no email. Is that a bug?
No, that is the free tier working as intended. The Auction stage is an observation, and observations are free on every plan. The email alert is the paid lane. If you want the alert, it is available on Pro and Business; see how aftermarket alerts work.
How is an auction alert different from an availability alert?
They cover the two ways a name can leave an owner, and both run off the same watch list:
- An availability alert fires when a name drops and becomes registerable at the standard price.
- An aftermarket alert fires earlier and on the other path, when the name is listed for sale in the grace window instead of dropping.
You do not choose between them. One watch arms both. If a name is listed for auction and then does not sell, your drop-imminent alerts take over the same watch automatically.
Do buy-now listings ever alert?
No. Buy-now listings appear when you search the aftermarket, but only auctions and closeouts raise an alert or move a name to the Auction stage. A fixed asking price with no deadline is information, not an event.
What happens if the name does not sell at auction?
It falls through to the ordinary public drop, on the usual schedule. The same watch carries over: your drop forecast and drop-imminent alerts predict the release window and tighten the checks into it, so you catch the drop without re-adding the name.
Which marketplaces and extensions are covered?
GoDaddy and Dynadot, across their auction, closeout, and buy-now listings, refreshed twice a day. There is no fixed list of allowed extensions, so coverage is whatever those two marketplaces list, led by the common extensions like .com, .co, .io, .net, .org, .app, .ai, and .dev.
Is searching the aftermarket free?
Yes. Browsing the aftermarket from your dashboard is included on every plan, free ones too: filter by TLD, price, valuation, traffic, brandability, and length, and page through the full set of matches. What a paid plan adds is delivery, saving the search as a wantlist, and the alert on your own watched names.
Can I try aftermarket search without an account?
Yes. There is a public version at the free aftermarket tool, which reads the same live market. It shows a single page of matches rather than the full, paged browse inside the dashboard, so it is a quick way to look before you sign in.
How is a wantlist different from a watch list?
A watch list holds specific names you already know and are tracking. A wantlist holds only criteria and surfaces listings you have never seen, the moment they match. A watch list alerts you about the names on it; a wantlist emails you a digest of new names that fit your saved filters.
Why did my wantlist not email me anything?
A wantlist only mails when new listings match. A refresh that re-sees a listing you were already told about does not re-notify, so a quiet inbox usually means nothing new matched your criteria this cycle, not that the wantlist is broken. You can always open the wantlist's Live now view to re-run the filter on demand, or widen the criteria if they are very tight.
Can I get a wantlist digest in Slack or via webhook?
No. A wantlist digest is delivered by email only. It is a summary of a saved search, so it always arrives as an email thread labelled with the search. The one that flows to Slack, Discord, and webhooks is the aftermarket alert on a name you watch, which is delivered like any other domain alert.
Can I filter a wantlist by domain age or backlinks?
Not as a filter. Name age and archive-history depth are computed on request for a single name you are looking at, not carried on every listing, so they enrich a result rather than narrow the feed. Filter on price, valuation, traffic, and brandability, then dig into the names that survive.
How many wantlists can I have?
Browsing the aftermarket with the same filters is free on every plan. Saving a wantlist is a paid feature, and paid plans include several. The exact number per plan is on the pricing page; see understanding plans and limits for the wider plan boundary.
How long is wantlist match history kept?
90 days. Each entry is a self-contained snapshot of the listing as it was when it matched, so the history still reads correctly even after the listing re-prices or comes off the market.
Where do the valuation and traffic numbers come from?
From the marketplace feed. The valuation is an EstiBot appraisal and the traffic is an estimate of monthly visits, both shown where the feed carries them. They are useful as filters, but they are estimates, not guarantees, so open the listing to confirm the live figures before you bid.