MAJOR Change in Sedo's Privacy Policy

Ms Domainer · Jun 24, 2013

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UPDATE: THIS IS NOT A SPOOF EMAIL!

Take note, fellow Namepro'ers.

I received the following email from Sedo:

We've recently made some changes to our Privacy Policy and wanted to take this chance to alert you to the updates that will take effect July 24th 2013.

Under the section titled Our Disclosure of Your Information, in the paragraph labeled Affiliates for Our Operations, a new line has been added to the end of that paragraph that reads as follows:

It may be necessary to disclose your stored information, such as first and last name, company name, address, email and/or phone number, to relevant domain monetization advertising partners for the purpose of providing you such services.

If you have any questions about these changes or wish to cease your use of Sedo's domain parking services affected by these changes, please email us at [email protected].

Best regards,
Your Sedo Team

Yikes!

Why do advertisers need such personal info for our parking pages?

I like the domain sales I have made on Sedo, but I think I'm going to remove my parking pages.

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REMOVED INFO

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Ms Domainer · Jun 24, 2013

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Dang! it's true.

Now I must visit some blogs and correct myself.

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Acroplex · Jun 24, 2013

Jennifer - No worries. Spoofs work like that, by the way: by delivering a 'shocking' piece of news, people lower their defenses and click on links. I will have to go back and see if Sedo sent out emails in a similar fashion before.

VisionEdger · Jun 24, 2013

big deal

PRIVACY?

come on people r u surprised at this especially now?

NOTHING is private, its only a sense of privacy on this planet

plus it will get alot worse so get used to it!

:music:

mis_chiff · Jun 24, 2013

Doesn't matter what you do at this point with your SEDO account,
the information is no doubt already in the hands of their "partners" aka. spamfest 2013

you will soon be inundated with a pile of "well now you have to opt out here" crap!

Ms Domainer · Jun 24, 2013

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I never paid any attention before because I rarely visited the domain sales/news pages.

And for offers, I always went directly to the Sedo page and signed in directly.

So now we all know that Sedo uses an outside agency to send its mass mailings.

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carob · Jun 24, 2013

But you can list domains at Sedo without parking them there.

So if a domain is listed for sale at Sedo but not parked there do they still give your info to advertisers (even though you are not making use of the advertiser's services)?

If you keep your account at Sedo open but remove all domains will they still pass on details?

---------- Post added at 08:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:01 PM ----------

I actually have not received this email yet.

Do they say when this will come into effect?

Do they allow time to update details BEFORE they are passed on?

For example, some might want to supply a business email or address if it is to be passed on.

Looks to me like this will mean even less people parking and selling at Sedo.

Also is there then a risk you can get banned from Adsense because of what happens with parked domains? Just not worth it.

lennco · Jun 24, 2013

carob said:
But you can list domains at Sedo without parking them there.

So if a domain is listed for sale at Sedo but not parked there do they still give your info to advertisers (even though you are not making use of the advertiser's services)?

If you keep your account at Sedo open but remove all domains will they still pass on details?

---------- Post added at 08:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:01 PM ----------

I actually have not received this email yet.

Do they say when this will come into effect?

Do they allow time to update details BEFORE they are passed on?

For example, some might want to supply a business email or address if it is to be passed on.

Looks to me like this will mean even less people parking and selling at Sedo.

Also is there then a risk you can get banned from Adsense because of what happens with parked domains? Just not worth it.

Updates that will take effect July 24th 2013.

You will have to close your account to stop the it, but it looks like all parking companies are going to do the same thing.

The only way out is to create your own park pages and sell the your domains yourself.

carob · Jun 24, 2013

lennco said:
Updates that will take effect July 24th 2013.

You will have to close your account to stop the it, but it looks like all parking companies are going to do the same thing.

The only way out is to create your own park pages and sell the your domains yourself.

OK thanks. When I get the email I will ask them if they really want me to close my account even though none of the domains in it is parked at Sedo. Frankly it makes no sense to supply someone's details to outside companies like Google if you are not using their services, but Sedo are pretty stupid in my experience. Effectively that would mean you could not have a Sedo account without giving them blanket permission to pass on your details and a list of your domains to whoever they please. (Doesn't look like they even plan to tell you, but a Data Protection Act request would find out).

Maybe in future they will have to reveal what % of each click they take?

equity78 · Jun 24, 2013

Lennco some parking companies already have, and I had one the other day send me an email that info needed to be provided.

Jennifer this has come from Google. They have said if you are going to park domains then we are going to know who you are. There is not going to be any company that uses Google that will have the choice not to comply.

biggie · Jun 24, 2013

:talk:

don't know what ya'll crying about

yo info is already in whois, unless you got privy on it

and if you use gmail or adsense, then G already knows who you is

if you got FB and be tweeting or instagram'n, then G knows who you is

if you live in a house, if Zillow has it, then Google has it

if you got X box, Wii or any other video game in your house

if you got a smart phone

if there are security camera's on your block or on any road you drive down

you can't hide no more, cuz you've been indexed

equity78 · Jun 24, 2013

First off let me make clear that I am not for Google having all our info. In this case this is about parking, I think Google is saying, " You are in a business relationship with us, we have the right to know who we are doing business with" They have all this info if you have an adsense account.

lennco · Jun 24, 2013

equity78 said:
First off let me make clear that I am not for Google having all our info. In this case this is about parking, I think Google is saying, " You are in a business relationship with us, we have the right to know who we are doing business with" They have all this info if you have an adsense account.

I actually don't have a problem with that, if it were to stop there.
But we all know it wont.

Ms Domainer · Jun 24, 2013

equity78 said:
First off let me make clear that I am not for Google having all our info. In this case this is about parking, I think Google is saying, " You are in a business relationship with us, we have the right to know who we are doing business with" They have all this info if you have an adsense account.

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Well, this is one way to look at it.

And it's true, Google DOES have this info with our adsense accounts. And, so far, Google seems to have been respectful.

But will this give Sedo the option of selling our info to other third parties?

On Sedo, I was able to change my private info to my whois, so I'm a lot less worried.

I do realize that if someone wants my info, it wouldn't be all that difficult to find, but why make it easy for them?

I guess this means no more proxy domains for parking?

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dbdomains · Jun 24, 2013

The concern I have is that what if one has a bad domain, e.g. one that is hit with negative SEO, or someone tries to hack it ( an old wordpress site), or it is inundated with referrer spam, etc?

Will it poison all of the domains in one's account? Will it poison all of one's domains in general, simply by association?

Most of one's domains will correlate with each other via some meta data in the contact info.

Furthermore, if Sedo shares one's contact info regardless of whether one is parking the domain or not, how will they deal with domains that are for sale? Will they rank them lower? Even if there is a functioning, useful website?

equity78 · Jun 24, 2013

Oh Jennifer I agree Sedo should not be selling anyone's info and should only be fulfilling the request from Google so they can be their partner of the parking side.

Ms Domainer · Jun 24, 2013

biggie said:
:talk:

don't know what ya'll crying about

yo info is already in whois, unless you got privy on it

and if you use gmail or adsense, then G already knows who you is

if you got FB and be tweeting or instagram'n, then G knows who you is

if you live in a house, if Zillow has it, then Google has it

if you got X box, Wii or any other video game in your house

if you got a smart phone

if there are security camera's on your block or on any road you drive down

you can't hide no more, cuz you've been indexed

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Very poetic, Biggie.

"I Got Those Old Googley Blues," by Biggie.

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SearchEngineZ · Jun 24, 2013

Here's my guess at what is happening and why:

From the wording, it only applies to customers using the domain parking service - I'd ignore what their rep said.

Google is massively motivated by killing spam and bad search experiences, even at the expense of business. That's why they killed all those Adwords affiliate accounts a few years ago - even though those clients had done nothing wrong.

Google doesn't need your info for contact purposes - they don't want to chat about the percent Sedo gets - so it is for identifying you only.

MOST LIKELY Google has found that people who had used fake visitors/clicks to steal money from them via AdSense, and were caught and lost their AdSense account, have now moved on to using parking services to achieve the same thing.

So therefore they are looking to match AdSense cheaters to domains parked with Sedo - for the purpose of stopping them before they cheat at Sedo as well.

SpareDomains · Jun 25, 2013

not isolated to sedo, internet traffic asked for info months ago as google will require it across the board

http://domainnamewire.com/2013/03/2...domain-parking-client-identification-program/

http://domainnamewire.com/2013/06/24/sedo-updates-privacy-policy-due-to-google-changes/

domainhacks-931385 · Jun 25, 2013

SearchEngineZ said:
Here's my guess at what is happening and why:

From the wording, it only applies to customers using the domain parking service - I'd ignore what their rep said.

Google is massively motivated by killing spam and bad search experiences, even at the expense of business. That's why they killed all those Adwords affiliate accounts a few years ago - even though those clients had done nothing wrong.

Google doesn't need your info for contact purposes - they don't want to chat about the percent Sedo gets - so it is for identifying you only.

MOST LIKELY Google has found that people who had used fake visitors/clicks to steal money from them via AdSense, and were caught and lost their AdSense account, have now moved on to using parking services to achieve the same thing.

So therefore they are looking to match AdSense cheaters to domains parked with Sedo - for the purpose of stopping them before they cheat at Sedo as well.

But this wording doesn't sound like its about google

"to relevant domain monetization advertising partners for the purpose of providing you such services."

It seems like they are trying to make more money by selling contact information to 3rd parties and probably get commission for every sale the 3rd party does with you.

Optimal Names · Jun 25, 2013

Ms Domainer said:
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UPDATE: THIS IS NOT A SPOOF EMAIL!

Take note, fellow Namepro'ers.

I received the following email from Sedo:

Yikes!

Why do advertisers need such personal info for our parking pages?

I like the domain sales I have made on Sedo, but I think I'm going to remove my parking pages.

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REMOVED INFO

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I just changed my personal information. Good luck, google, trying to find me now. :]

Probably going to no longer park names with Sedo. They cant even deliver relevant ads on my pages anyway.

Anyone know of a parking program that DOES NOT SERVE ADS FROM GOOGLE? That is the one I will be moving to.

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