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Hello All!
New to the forum, so apologies if I placed this in the wrong area. Well, new to serious domaining as well, so apologies in advance if these are dumb questions.
Have assembled a decent-sized collection of domains, many just sitting around doing nothing, so I figured, may as well start learning and get into pro domaining.
Right now, I put some of them up for Fixed Price sale on Sedo (honest.net, wordcash.com, etc.). For the most part going with the prices the Sedo system recommended. Pretty straightforward and easy enough.
But I have a few questions I couldn't find answers to (or missed) on their site, and was hoping and would truly appreciate if someone here could give me a bit of insight. The questions, I guess, are really Sedo-related.
1. Sedo doesn't have an exclusive on the listing, right? Couldn't find it on any of the descriptions and agreements, but just wanted to make sure. I do want to try selling the domains on my own if I can (contacting potential buyers directly, forums, etc.) for whatever price regardless of what's on Sedo, but just wanted to make sure I could do that while having them listed on Sedo. It doesn't make sense, after all, to have the domains just sitting around on Sedo waiting for some buyer to stumble over them.
2. Speaking of Sedo stumbling, I know about the need to categorize the domains as best I can. Since I'm a relatively new Sedo user, I decided to explore the site from point of entry to see what a potential buyer may experience. Well, it seems to these Sedo-inexperienced eyes that they really don't seem to be pushing the categories much, if anything, from the home page; immediately a visitor sees a keyword/domain name search form field. Which, imo, is of little to no help in finding my domain names for sale at all.
I figure, if that's the way it is, then what's the point of me having it on Sedo? May as well just handle it all myself and save the 15% commission.
Well, the question is, in your experience, have you found your "discoverability" (that's a term from my industry, book publishing) pretty good with Sedo, or would we all just be better off tackling things ourselves?
3. Third, and hopefully last, so I'll get out of your hair. Sedo keeps insisting that I should upgrade to their free SedoMLS Premium service (and I know it kicks up their commission to 20%). But in one part, they say my registrar, GoDaddy, supports it, and in another, that GD only gives limited support for SedoMLS Premium. Anyway, tried activating it, but whole bunches of confusing and conflicting messages and notices flying about. Bottom line is that it doesn't look like SedoMLS Premium is activated at all with my GoDaddy-registered domains.
So, the question is, do I really need SedoMLS Premium, or can I pretty much ignore it not being activated and whistle along as I work?
Thanks for your help and wisdom, my friends. Hope I can return the favor sometime soon...
ees (Eldon)
New to the forum, so apologies if I placed this in the wrong area. Well, new to serious domaining as well, so apologies in advance if these are dumb questions.
Have assembled a decent-sized collection of domains, many just sitting around doing nothing, so I figured, may as well start learning and get into pro domaining.
Right now, I put some of them up for Fixed Price sale on Sedo (honest.net, wordcash.com, etc.). For the most part going with the prices the Sedo system recommended. Pretty straightforward and easy enough.
But I have a few questions I couldn't find answers to (or missed) on their site, and was hoping and would truly appreciate if someone here could give me a bit of insight. The questions, I guess, are really Sedo-related.
1. Sedo doesn't have an exclusive on the listing, right? Couldn't find it on any of the descriptions and agreements, but just wanted to make sure. I do want to try selling the domains on my own if I can (contacting potential buyers directly, forums, etc.) for whatever price regardless of what's on Sedo, but just wanted to make sure I could do that while having them listed on Sedo. It doesn't make sense, after all, to have the domains just sitting around on Sedo waiting for some buyer to stumble over them.
2. Speaking of Sedo stumbling, I know about the need to categorize the domains as best I can. Since I'm a relatively new Sedo user, I decided to explore the site from point of entry to see what a potential buyer may experience. Well, it seems to these Sedo-inexperienced eyes that they really don't seem to be pushing the categories much, if anything, from the home page; immediately a visitor sees a keyword/domain name search form field. Which, imo, is of little to no help in finding my domain names for sale at all.
I figure, if that's the way it is, then what's the point of me having it on Sedo? May as well just handle it all myself and save the 15% commission.
Well, the question is, in your experience, have you found your "discoverability" (that's a term from my industry, book publishing) pretty good with Sedo, or would we all just be better off tackling things ourselves?
3. Third, and hopefully last, so I'll get out of your hair.
Sedo keeps insisting that I should upgrade to their free SedoMLS Premium service (and I know it kicks up their commission to 20%). But in one part, they say my registrar, GoDaddy, supports it, and in another, that GD only gives limited support for SedoMLS Premium. Anyway, tried activating it, but whole bunches of confusing and conflicting messages and notices flying about. Bottom line is that it doesn't look like SedoMLS Premium is activated at all with my GoDaddy-registered domains.So, the question is, do I really need SedoMLS Premium, or can I pretty much ignore it not being activated and whistle along as I work?
Thanks for your help and wisdom, my friends. Hope I can return the favor sometime soon...
ees (Eldon)
