discuss Buyer taking time to start the domain transfer

[chenzen]

I sold a 4 letter .com domain in the recently concluded 4L domain auction at Sedo. The buyer promptly paid for the domain, but hasn't started the domain transfer yet (been a week).
Has this happened to you before? I mean the winning bidder looked pretty desperate to get the domain!
The domain is at Godaddy.

 

[ultradog]

I've had this happen at Escrow. Probably all you can do is ask Godaddy to keep sending email reminders to the buyer until he does it.

 

[chenzen]

The transfer process is being mediated by Sedo. So Godaddy doesn't know who the buyer is (yet).

 

[ultradog]

Sorry, that's who I should have said to contact.

 

[chenzen]

Let me wait for 2 weeks. I hope Sedo has a policy in place to take care of such cases though.

 

[M0rd0r]

I had exactly the same issue.

Sedo asked to me to push the domain name to [email protected] (Epik) and I received the funds.

 

[DomainRecap]

This happens to me all the time at Sedo, and with one transaction, it took almost a month.

I'm not sure why buyers do this, do they get caught up in other business, are they unsure of how to transfer, scared to make a mistake, keep delaying it because of that, have Alzheimers?

In one case (a .CA) the buyer had absolutely no clue on how to transfer a domain, and kept replying back with "the domain code is not valid", so I confirmed with the registrar it was valid, confirmed it with the registry, and even did "partial transfers" where I confirmed it was "transferrable". Sedo also confirmed the buyer was from Canada and was using a CA address/contact.

After that, Sedo apparently took the reigns and immediately did the transfer for the buyer to his GD account, but it was a long and irritating slog.

 

[DomainRecap]

Let me wait for 2 weeks. I hope Sedo has a policy in place to take care of such cases though.

If it's a .COM or other standard gTLD, it should be no problem and they can transfer and hold it at Epik. If it's a ccTLD or other esoteric new gTLD, it depends on the requirements of that extension. Sedo won't be able to transfer/hold with region-limited ccTLDs (other than maybe DE and US) or other gTLDs with alternate requirements.