It’s a great feeling to sell a newly registered domain name. It validates that the time and money I spent on researching something was worthwhile, particularly when the domain name was sold without any outbound effort.

In mid-March, I read an article about something that got me thinking about domain names. I immediately registered 17 domain names at GoDaddy and listed them for sale on Afternic. Out of the blue, two of those domain names sold yesterday (singular and plural two word .com domain names). This was great, but it also led to a bit of confusion for me.

Since these domain names were less than 60 days old, they were ineligible for the Afternic fast transfer service. Instead, Afternic prompted me to provide the authorization codes for these domain names. Within the domain name settings page for each domain name, the typical link to get the authorization code was not there because they were within the ICANN mandated 60 day transfer lock period.