If you changed your lander to a contact form with no captcha, you will get about a million "leads" a month, with captcha about 50 leads a month, and you will figure out the afternic lead mystery.
Almost all afternic leads fall into one of the following categories :
1. Contact form spam bots: These bots will try submitting every form they come across even without a message box and for afternic, this is a lead.
2. People that do not read, they see a form and they submit it. Maybe your domain was once an active site, maybe it is a typein name. As an example, your domain was once owned by someone offering plumbing help. Someone is standing next a toilet that is flooding their home, they are not reading, they end up at your domain, see a form and think submitting it will get them a plumber. They are "confused" when the broker reaches out to them. The broker wants to talk to them about domains, but they are busy trying to get their toilet fixed. Please don't ask me why people don't read. There are people still sending money to scammers that emails them.
With Dan, spam form submitters don't work because of what it takes to submit an offer.
GoDaddy can put a stop to all these form spammers that cause all of us to see these worthless leads. However, if your business is based on getting people to renew names, you want them to see as many offers possible so you keep renewing those names. I am not accusing them of doing this on purpose, however, it makes no sense why they would not stop the spammers, it must be hurting their brokers time too and also must be frustrating.
If out of 100 leads, 10 are real (buyer indicates price too high, back and forth communication between broker and buyer etc.) you are doing really good.