ARE SEDO SALES DECLINING COMPARED TO OTHERS?

[Haroon Basha]

Usually I used to have constant sales from Sedo, but for the last six months, I have not received even a single enquiry or sale. In fact I have added more domain names than before. I would like to know if others are also facing the same decline in their sales or it is just me. Are domain names Sales at Sedo declining compared to other marketplaces, like Afternic? Please share your thoughts.
Thank you.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Which is making Namebio less relevant every day. It was good for a while to research sales trends, but I think every serious domainer here can find many of their sales do not show up on that site. God knows how many sales are made that we do not see, but it is probably the majority of them.

I respectfully disagree (at least about the less relevant)! While it would be wonderful to have a resource that includes all sales, and one must always keep in mind which venues do and do not report and the biases that introduces, NameBio with 1.6 million sales covering $1.8 billion dollars in a free and easily and powerfully searched database is a resource that is as relevant as always. It is a sample of the entire universe of sales, just as a public opinion poll is a sample of everyone in a population. Not a totally randomized sample, but for many purposes sufficiently representative. It is a much bigger sample than any of us personally have, obviously.
Bob

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The domains sell where they are parked.
Regardless of where they are listed, except AfternicDLS (if you want GoDaddy buyers).

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And overall, summer is always weak season, especially July.

 

[emile123]

I switched most of my domains away from the Sedo and Afternic to Dan.com
Dan.com is more focussed on actually selling your domain, while sedo.com just shows an old-style looking parking page when you change your nameservers to theirs. The parking page at sedo is worthless to my opinion; it simply doesnt pay out well, and it looks very oldfashioned.
So instead of sedo i rather have a better looking sales landing page like at dan.com. Besides that, you pay less commission at dan.com when you sell a domain.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

According to dnjournal most or almost all big sales are still at sedo

Yes, no doubt tons of big sales still happening at Sedo. However it is important to realize that Afternic, DAN/Undeveloped, Efty sites, and most private sales are not reported to NameBio, so it is tough to make a real comparison. The brandable places don't report individual sales, but considering the general sales reports from BrandBucket seem to be suggesting a good sell through and average price for brandable names.
Bob

ps Does anyone know (maybe @Macit will answer) if a domain name is for sale at multiple places (let's say a BIN at DAN and offer at Afternic and Sedo) how does Dofo decide which one is listed on the purchase link at Dofo? I think as more and more end users use Dofo this may well have a significant impact on sales at different venues.

 

[Josytal]

Usually I used to have constant sales from Sedo, but for the last six months, I have not received even a single enquiry or sale. In fact I have added more domain names than before. I would like to know if others are also facing the same decline in their sales or it is just me. Are domain names Sales at Sedo declining compared to other marketplaces, like Afternic? Please share your thoughts.
Thank you.

Maybe it's your sales declining and not Sedo's?
Over-reliance on marketplaces you can't influence may not always be in your best interest.
The most productive scenario is to setup your own marketplace/portfolio with lander and direct potential buyers to other 22 marketplaces from one single POS (point of sale). See my signature.

 

[mani0307]

godaddy very active but on godaddy mostly low ball offers.

 

[fatter]

I market my domains via Twitter and I'm not too keen on Sedo's spammy lander pages. Is there no way to turn related links completely off?

They put a little url to the offer page, but my analytics shows that's most likely where I'm getting drop off's.

I prefer Dan.com's landers but Sedo, imo, has a larger network.

AT sedo
I picked "Sales Crush" under the page layout link and like it much better than standard layout for sales link I will PM you a name to look at and see if you like the layout
Joe T

 

[Silentptnr]

Seems GD is very active every day. I also see namejet in decline.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

According to dnjournal most or almost all big sales are still at sedo

Because GD/Afternic doesn't report anything, their feed is not distributed.

 

[NYJimbo]

The domains sell where they are parked.
Regardless of where they are listed, except AfternicDLS (if you want GoDaddy buyers).

This is very true. Which also means if they are parked in a bad place, you get few or no sales, no matter where else you are listing them.

 

[NYJimbo]

However it is important to realize that Afternic, DAN/Undeveloped, Efty sites, and most private sales are not reported to NameBio, so it is tough to make a real comparison. .

Which is making Namebio less relevant every day. It was good for a while to research sales trends, but I think every serious domainer here can find many of their sales do not show up on that site. God knows how many sales are made that we do not see, but it is probably the majority of them.

 

[DomainGuy86]

I market my domains via Twitter and I'm not too keen on Sedo's spammy lander pages. Is there no way to turn related links completely off?

They put a little url to the offer page, but my analytics shows that's most likely where I'm getting drop off's.

I prefer Dan.com's landers but Sedo, imo, has a larger network.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

If you see some mentions of Afternic at DNJ - it means that those sales were reported by domainers individually.

 

[equity78]

I respectfully disagree (at least about the less relevant)! While it would be wonderful to have a resource that includes all sales, and one must always keep in mind which venues do and do not report and the biases that introduces, NameBio with 1.6 million sales covering $1.8 billion dollars in a free and easily and powerfully searched database is a resource that is as relevant as always. It is a sample of the entire universe of sales, just as a public opinion poll is a sample of everyone in a population. Not a totally randomized sample, but for many purposes sufficiently representative. It is a much bigger sample than any of us personally have, obviously.
Bob

Exactly what @Michael has done with Namebio is at another level. Domaining is a very funny business, "Hey bro what did example1 sell for and example2 sell for and example3? After getting the answer, they might be asked about a big sale,"Oh sorry, I don't report my sales."

 

[namemarket]

...No one can complain about a website like the one @Michael provides if they are not willing to help.....

Agree, it is not Namebio fault if sales are not reported as it should not be expected of a buyer or seller to report a sale. I also don't think I complained about them in fact I said they have significant value however I can ask the sales venue why it was not reported.

 

[Ostrados]

I noticed that in last two months I have no offer views on my domains at Sedo (under Sales Settings view), which is strange because I used to have plenty of views in the past, also my sales stopped when the views stopped. I am not sure what caused this change from Sedo's side.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I decided to have a look at the Sedo venue data on NameBio. In the last month there have been 302 sales, which would be an annual rate of 3624 per year. If we compare that to the last year (4409 sales) and the per year average of the past 5 years (6320). So yes, a bit down but it seems not dramatically or suddenly. Of course only a minority of Sedo sales are reported to NameBio (only the high value ones that neither the buyer nor seller paid for privacy).

Regarding views, I don't have an explanation unless there have been changes in their lander structure that might account for it, or possibly other venues are taking more of the pie.

Bob

 

[gotasale]

According to dnjournal most or almost all big sales are still at sedo

 

[Haroon Basha]

I switched most of my domains away from the Sedo and Afternic to Dan.com
Dan.com is more focussed on actually selling your domain, while sedo.com just shows an old-style looking parking page when you change your nameservers to theirs. The parking page at sedo is worthless to my opinion; it simply doesn't pay out well, and it looks very old fashioned.
So instead of sedo i rather have a better looking sales landing page like at dan.com. Besides that, you pay less commission at dan.com when you sell a domain.

I totally agree with you. DAN.com (Previously Undeveloped.com) is doing great and in fact increasing the sales. I am able to sell more domain names here than Sedo.com.

 

[mani0307]

Last month i received $300 offer on my Feeel // dot // org on godaddy but i rejected and countered but potential buyer still silent

 

[namemarket]

.....I think every serious domainer here can find many of their sales do not show up on that site....

I am sure Namebio has significant value however I personally know of an almost $1,500 dot-best domain public sale 3-months ago via a well known venue which has never showed up anywhere as far as I know.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Regarding Sedo VS Undeveloped parking...
The only one difference from my own experience - significantly more fake bidders (non-payers) at Undeveloped.

 

[equity78]

Since I was involved in that transaction I prefer to not publish any information myself. We should be able to rely on places like dnjournal, namebio and others to do the reporting.

P.S. It was not godaddy, sedo or afternic.

If it was public as you said, why would you not point out the venue? Your words, "$1,500 dot-best domain public sale"

No one can complain about a website like the one @Michael provides if they are not willing to help. I have sent Michael hundreds of names over the years that I found and also update him when I see a sale listed that didn't happen like, DunderMifflin.com, CrowdedHouse.com, ShopeeMall.com and about a hundred more.

But if someone says I am not willing to help why should anyone else?