information Sedo Unveils a Radical New Design

Sedo said:

Hi everyone, we just released a new version of our offer page. We took your feedback into consideration and changed the "Domain Facts" section.

• There won't be any N/A fields anymore
• There can be up to 6 Domain Facts displayed, instead of 3 from before
  • offer views
  • number of watchers
  • traffic (if parked)
  • number of bids
  • first registration date (not "listed since" anymore)
    
  • Search engine search requests for the SLD
• The Facts will now be displayed on mobile devices as well

I've added a screenshot, so you can see what I'm referring to. We'll keep optimizing our pages to make them work best for you. Let me know if you have any questions.

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My congrats to these upgrades, your offerpage looks great.

But if you ask me, there are still some changes necesarry.

• It would make sense to give us domain owners an additional opportunity for the option to choose a fixed offer page picture (instead of random rotating offer page pictures) - becasue in some (or most) cases, a fixed picture makes the domain / the domain offer page 'stronger'.

• Implement a (slightly) parallax style into the domain offer page(s) (moving picture when scrolling). Like on Twitter, example: https://twitter.com/tmedoat

• Remove your fixed minimum price / bid (I think it's currently 90.00 USD / EUR / ...). In other words, if you would give us domain owners the opportunity to set a pinimum price in a (minimum) hight in which ever we want, we also could set a minimum bid of 1.00 (one) USD / EUR / ... - no other price would be 'a more inviting' price to make bid/s / start negotiations. As you know for sure, once the negotiations have started, a sale is nearer than before. Of course this would result in the consequence, that you first have to remove your minimum commission fee - but in the light of the presumption that 'your' sales = the ammount of your commisions will rise if you would just set a fixed % - based commison fee without any minimum commision fee, it has logic.

I would appreciate it, if those points will be considered in your next SEDO update plannings.

KINGOF.TOP said:

My congrats to these upgrades, your offerpage looks great.

But if you ask me, there are still some changes necesarry.

• It would make sense to give us domain owners an additional opportunity for the option to choose a fixed offer page picture (instead of random rotating offer page pictures) - becasue in some (or most) cases, a fixed picture makes the domain / the domain offer page 'stronger'.

• Implement a (slightly) parallax style into the domain offer page(s) (moving picture when scrolling). Like on Twitter, example: https://twitter.com/tmedoat

• Remove your fixed minimum price / bid (I think it's currently 90.00 USD / EUR / ...). In other words, if you would give us domain owners the opportunity to set a pinimum price in a (minimum) hight in which ever we want, we also could set a minimum bid of 1.00 (one) USD / EUR / ... - no other price would be 'a more inviting' price to make bid/s / start negotiations. As you know for sure, once the negotiations have started, a sale is nearer than before. Of course this would result in the consequence, that you first have to remove your minimum commission fee - but in the light of the presumption that 'your' sales = the ammount of your commisions will rise if you would just set a fixed % - based commison fee without any minimum commision fee, it has logic.

I would appreciate it, if those points will be considered in your next SEDO update plannings.

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yeah.. thats what I said.. but it doesn't look anyone at sedo is interested in having a competitive minimum sale fee. they prefer to be 3-4 times higher than everyone else.

well.. maybe when administrartion changes in future? who knows. let's keep hope alive.
cheers

Is it me?

or did I just miss the option to choose domain extension when searching?


When searching for a name on sedo there are all kinds options and filters .. but no extension(s) to select?!

TDM said:

Is it me?

or did I just miss the option to choose domain extension when searching?


When searching for a name on sedo there are all kinds options and filters .. but no extension(s) to select?!

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You can select TLDs in the upper menu, right next to the search bar. See image below.

Sedo said:

Not right now, no. I did pass on the info I got from here and we're discussing the issue,. We're working on some product-related and interface-related items right now and will finish these first. I'll let you know if here's any development.

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You really need 2FA. To me security is more important than cosmetics - I am thinking I need to turn off all MLS premium listings until you have 2FA.

@Sedo is there anyway to land domains to sales lander? (instead of showing ads)

Sedo said:

You can select TLDs in the upper menu, right next to the search bar. See image below.

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Thank you!

(wonderes me how I could be that blind)

Sedo said:

You can select TLDs in the upper menu, right next to the search bar. See image below.

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Do i miss anything on mobile device?

(selecting TLD's only possible in landscape mode, not in portrait mode. 7" tablet)

Sedo said:

That's about right, yes.

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I want to be able to hide



Please make it so we can do this.

I don't think advertising a Registration Date of 2016 is a plus point. In fact I think it's a negative and I for one would like it hidden.

@Sedo sorry if I missed something here but how do I hide all info from the offer page? year, etc...
I understand it canont be done seperately.. so how to hide all?

i also noticed you are beta testing ability to submit offer for items with buynow price.
seems to work fine and I commend you on this addition

alcy said:

@Sedo sorry if I missed something here but how do I hide all info from the offer page? year, etc...
I understand it canont be done seperately.. so how to hide all?

i also noticed you are beta testing ability to submit offer for items with buynow price.
seems to work fine and I commend you on this addition

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Glad you like the "BuyNow or best offer" option. Thanks!

You cannot hide all details. You can deactivate showing traffic. If there's no data available, we'll just show a message "no data is currently available". The facts shown always depend on what data your domain has and if it's relevant.

Sedo said:

Glad you like the "BuyNow or best offer" option. Thanks!

You cannot hide all details. You can deactivate showing traffic. If there's no data available, we'll just show a message "no data is currently available". The facts shown always depend on what data your domain has and if it's relevant.

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I see. the most curcial part of my quetion was... how do I disable all then?
sorry if already posted. I could not quite locate

tnx

@Sedo , Same question from Alcy, how do we disable all or partial information ie: date of registration / location ? Tx

@Sedo It seems many have the same question.

"How do we disable the useless, misleading domain facts info?"

This is unnecessary information that clutters the offer page and leads to buyer confusion. That's right, I said buyer confusion. It's true.

We realize that it's not an option at this time from within our account, but it most certainly should be. Every other venue on the planet understands the value of "less is more" and "keeping it simple," when it comes to offer pages. I don't know why this concept is so difficult for Sedo's team to understand these days. It's not rocket science.

Firstly, the registration dates are inaccurate. Therefore they CANNOT and SHOULD NOT be referred to as facts.
Registrations dates MUST MATCH the current whois database record. Otherwise, this may be considered misleading and deceptive to buyers.

Although due diligence is the responsibility of all buyers, providing false information such as this opens up the possibility of a lawsuit. Since this is beyond the sellers' control, it leaves only party responsible.
It's unlikely, but a possibility nonetheless.

Secondly, once a domain drops it loses it's age. That's a fact. Therefore, it's once upon a time registration date means absolutely nothing. If you don't understand this simple fact, you're failing your company and your clients.

Thirdly, I won't disclose the domain publicly, but I have one in particular that was registered in 2014, has registration history dating back to 2002, yet the creation date shown on the offer page is 2006. (I have many, many more with similar inaccuracies.)

In addition, I have thousands of domains that were caught on the drop that have history, but show only the most recent registration dates as they should if the idea is to advertise registration dates.

Like many of Sedo's tools, this one is clearly broken, inconsistent and more often than not, provides inaccurate and misleading information. Therefore, it should be removed immediately OR we should at least be able to disable it from within our accounts. (It shouldn't be there to begin with.)

I agree 100% with all who have mentioned that advertising newly registered dates on the offer page isn't the best idea from a sales standpoint. In fact, it's probably the worst.

Whether domains are caught on the drop or hand regged, publicly advertising a 2015/16/17 registration date makes it a much harder sell and will ultimately affect sellers bottom lines. (All the more reason to eliminate it.)

I've said it time and again, offer pages are for leads and/or closing. Less is more.

Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

Hi there,

we'll be removing the registration date info from the domain offer pages. It seems that the provider we've been using does indeed send wrong information through its feed. By this time next week that info should not be displayed anymore.

Thanks for bringing this up, and have a great weekend!

Really pleased to hear you're removing the Registration date

Sedo said:

Hi there,

we'll be removing the registration date info from the domain offer pages. It seems that the provider we've been using does indeed send wrong information through its feed. By this time next week that info should not be displayed anymore.

Thanks for bringing this up, and have a great weekend!

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Good to hear.

It should never have been there to begin with.

The next step is to eliminate the "Domain Facts" section altogether or have the devs incorporate a hide function from within our accounts. If we can hide traffic stats, we should be able to hide the rest. (For those of us who prefer a streamlined offer page that results in more leads and/or sales.)

I'm sorry to say, but it was a monumental waste of company resources.

All of this extra information is NOT necessary for an offer page and only leads to a confused or hesitant buyer.

For those who are concerned about the minimum commission & offer amounts...Seriously?

You think pennies, you get pennies. You think dollars you get dollars.

wow congrats Sedo. that is a nice redesign of offer pgae with the extra details under a clickable stat icon.. first dn registration date and other extension info provided!

very nice.

now all we need is for you to get where other sites are with your min $60 sale price. you should not want to be 3-4 times more expensive than your competitors. its just bad for business.

of course you can keep charging $60 or even more to those few exceptional cases who do not mind or care for any of this. rest assured, they do not speak for the majority of your clients.

cheers.

Sedo said:

Hi there,

we'll be removing the registration date info from the domain offer pages. It seems that the provider we've been using does indeed send wrong information through its feed. By this time next week that info should not be displayed anymore.

Thanks for bringing this up, and have a great weekend!

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Here's a cost effective idea that will increase sales:

Revert back to the previous offer page. It was much more effective. (Most likely, because it was cleaner and had a more professional appearance.)

If that's not a possibility, here's an alternative idea:

Include the old sales lander back into our template options without the "domain facts" garbage and we'll prove that it alone is much more effective in closing sales than this new offer page.

The template and code already exist, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

DomainChap said:

these guys have no clue about what they are doing,
it's like Sedo is managed by guys who are 70years old, and not familiar with new technologies

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I don't believe it has anything at all to do with not being familiar with new technologies, but rather everything to do with an overall lack of industry knowledge as well as an overall lack of basic design knowledge. (This is clear on the new offer page.)
If I had to guess, I'd say it was thrown together by noobs. Given the amount of clutter and clashing imagry, those are the only words that come to mind.
A professional would never use fonts on busy backgrounds. It clashes and makes the font difficult to read. The same goes for clashing colors. (Design 101.)
In this case the font I'm referring to is the domain name.
Not having the most important part of the sales page 100% clear at all times, is a monumental FAIL.

Looks like a wordpress template to me

@Sedo
What happened with removing the reg dates?

411domains said:

@Sedo
What happened with removing the reg dates?

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Should be removed now! There's always time in between announcing and deploying features. We just let you know early!

I tried to list domains on Sedo but canspace.ca is not listed as a registrar. I have them your sample email and they said it could take weeks to become a sedo partner. They said they would check into it.

Any way to speed that up?

Does anyone at Sedo do split tests to find the highest converting landing page? Previous one was horrible, newer one a little better, but there's still lots of room for improvement.

Keep it simple.

There should only be domain with price/offer submit button - get rid of the rest of the stuff as clutter and too much info is distracting...

undeveloped.com has the nicest landing pages that from my experience would have the highest conversions. Tried out uniregistry and they're not very good.