I think the main problems is: Third party cookies blocked by most browsers and add blockers. Godaddy just won’t pay if they 3rd party cookie isn’t there — even though they know they got the order.

My 2 cents.

I have some experience because I used to run various affiliate links on Estibot 1.0 for a couple of years, the site got about 800,000 hits monthly.

I largely agree with your analysis. Not only is SEDO the worst converting affiliate program, but I find it very hard to believe it is actually even tracking conversions properly. I was actually planning to write a blog post about it soon. I’m not saying, I’m just saying. I would stay away from that affiliate program for various reasons. Waste of pixels to display their ads.

I actually did OK with the GoDaddy CJ link when I redirected whois queries through that link. GoDaddy seems to have a decent cookie.

Moniker seemed to perform OK as well. Afternic is kinda like SEDO – poor conversion percentage, but at least their terms are clear.

Snapnames was pretty good, and after essociate it was still converting OK but obviously less money.

I’m going to write more about this soon.

BTW Worth noting is that Estibot will pay you RECURRING commission for each member you refer. And it doesn’t matter if they’re already Estibot members – make them convert to a paying account or upgrade to a higher level plan, and the commission is yours.

Not many pay RECURRING commissions. We do. There are still domainers out there who don’t have a paid Estibot subscription. Can you imagine

Cheers!
Esa

http://www.domainmassdevelopment.com/affiliates/