An aftermarket alert fires when a name on your watch list is listed for auction or closeout on the domain resale market, instead of dropping. It is the one lane that tells you a name you are already tracking has taken the auction fork, at the moment it happens and with the detail you need to act.
This page covers exactly what raises an alert, what the alert contains, where it can be delivered, and how it differs from the other alerts in the product.
What triggers an aftermarket alert
Three things have to be true for the alert to fire:
- The name is on your watch list. Aftermarket monitoring is not a feed of every listing on the market. It matches the market against the list you already keep, so a name has to be watched before it can alert.
- The name's aftermarket alert is left on. Each watched name has an aftermarket alert switch, on by default. Turn it off for a name and it will still show the Auction stage, but it will not email you.
- The listing is an auction or a closeout. Only these two sale types are treated as an event. A buy-now listing shows when you search the aftermarket but never raises an alert or moves a name to the Auction stage, because a fixed asking price is not a deadline.
When all three hold, the name's lifecycle stage moves to Auction and the alert is raised.
What is in the alert
The alert is built at the moment it is sent, from the live listing, so the figures are current rather than a stale snapshot. It carries:
- The marketplace the name was listed on, GoDaddy or Dynadot.
- The sale type, auction or closeout.
- The current price with its currency, the live bid on an auction or the asking price on a closeout.
- The deadline, an auction end time or a closeout drop time, so you know how long you have.
- A link straight to the listing, so you can open it and bid or buy.
The price and the deadline are the marketplace's own. Domainyze reports what was published; it does not appraise the name for you or predict a final sale price.
Seen free, delivered on paid
There is a deliberate split here, and it is the same split that runs through the rest of the product:
- Every account sees the Auction stage the moment a watched name is listed. An observation about a name is free, so the stage change is visible on any plan.
- The alert that carries the price and the deadline is a paid lane. Delivery of the aftermarket alert is available on Pro and Business.
So a free account is never blind to the fact that a watched name went to auction. What a paid plan adds is being told, with the detail, without having to check.
Where the alert can be delivered
An aftermarket alert is delivered like any other domain alert: to every channel you have set up, each with its own alert-type filter. Email is available on every plan; Slack, Discord, and signed webhooks are paid delivery channels. See types of alerts we send for the full channel table and alert delivery channels for setup.
This is a real difference from a wantlist digest, which is email-only. An aftermarket alert is about a name you own the watch on, so it flows through your full alert routing; a wantlist digest is a saved-search summary and always arrives by email.
How it differs from an availability alert
These two cover the two different 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. See how to watch domains you want to buy.
- An aftermarket alert fires earlier and on the other path, when the name is listed for sale in the grace window instead of dropping.
Many good names take the aftermarket path and never reach the public drop, which is why watching for only one of the two leaves a blind spot. You do not choose between them. One watch arms both, and if a name is listed and then does not sell, the availability alert takes over the same watch automatically.
If the auction does not sell
An unsold name falls through to the ordinary public drop. Your drop forecast and drop-imminent alerts pick up the same watch, project the release window, and tighten the checks into it, so a name that failed to sell at auction is caught on its drop without any action from you.