No More Parking At Sedo -- Switched One Of My Domains to ADULT XXX Links!

[Ms Domainer]

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As many of you know, I do not like adult/porn sites.

I respect anyone's right to run these kinds of sites, but I must take umbrage at Sedo deciding (despite my keywords and original page set up) to change my parked page to display porn links on a domain that is NOT porn-oriented.

I am removing all my sedo parking nameservers for my domains.

I worked very hard at writing appropriate descriptions for my domains and carefully selecting keywords that reflected what kind of pages I wanted, so who gave Sedo permission to change my template and my keywords without consulting with me?

It's time to bail from this creepy company.

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[Name Trader]

PM me the domain and I'll check if it was Sedo or more likely Google which changed the pages.

 

[Ms Domainer]

PM me the domain and I'll check if it was Sedo or more likely Google which changed the pages.

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I already changed the nameservers back to Go Daddy, and I haven't redirected it yet.

But I did save a PDF file of the page.

Question: How would Google have access to Sedo parking pages and nameservers?

Maybe you know something I don't, so I'll PM you the domain name.

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[Name Trader]

It is Google which decides which keywords are used for it's searches for every domain at every parking company which uses it's parking services. You can ask the parking provider (Sedo) to appeal this categorization with Google.

 

[carob]

It is Google which decides which keywords are used for it's searches for every domain at every parking company which uses it's parking services. You can ask the parking provider (Sedo) to appeal this categorization with Google.

So shouldn't Sedo remove the whole interface where you set parking keywords / categories for each domain?

Adult keywords on a domain could hurt a sale if the buyer believes that the domain has got tainted.

 

[Ralph2472]

Has everyone forgotten that 1 & 1 acquired 41.04% of Sedo years ago? (I don't know if that is still their holding, it may be more now)
I think their bad influence has been rubbing off ever since.

Regards

Ralph.

 

[DN_Hunter]

As Stub said, there's a high chance the provider re-categorized the name as "Adult"

This same thing happened to me on a bunch of names I have at Voodoo. Even though I set the keywords, Google still classified them as being "Adult." On the bright side I was able to ask Voodoo Support to re-submit them and they were successful in have Google re-categorize the names (most of them anyway).

Perhaps you can ask Sedo to have them re-categorized (I don't know if they will try but it might not hurt to ask -- I no longer park my names at Sedo because of some other frustrations I had with them -- but that's a different story...).

Regards,
DN

 

[alien51]

I posted this in the past. I own several female domain names similar to like say Samantha, Jennifer, Michelle, Stephanie..... all of them, if i park them at Sedo, they put adult links to them, and classify them as adult domains.

Unbelievable. Names of females are always considered porn.

 

[Ms Domainer]

FatG.com

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It was just easier to move the domain to my Brandite site, where I can control the content.

FatG.com​

I just don't see p0rn with this name. I see Jazz, Rap (maybe), or a band name.

I think that if Sedo would have notified me about this change, I would be a bit more forgiving. I still would have moved the domain off their site, but I like having choices, especially when my reputation is on the line.

Hard core p0rn is just not something I want attached with my name.

Over the next few days, I'll be checking all my Sedo links.

Thanks, Stu, for your pm help.

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[NameOmnia]

FatG p0rn??? wth????...I don't get it.
More than once I changed my keywords and templates on Sedo just to discover shortly that they changed it to whatever they thought was more " appropriate "
For a while I thought my internet skills were letting me down but then I realized it wasn't me but them!! They shouldn't be allowed to do anything on a domain unless specifically approved by the owners.

I think Sedo is losing points, quality and appeal.

 

[SearchEngineZ]

Sedo seem to think that all domainers care about (with parking) is raw $$$.

If I was trying to sell Bridget.com and the potential buyer (whose name is Bridget) saw p0rn ads there, I think they would lower their offer or just not make an offer.

 

[Ms Domainer]

I Was Asked to Take a Sedo Survey

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Tee, hee.

Sedo asked me take a survey, so I thought I'd share my narrative here:

One of my domains FatG.com was switched to a XXX template with nasty ads associated with what one might expect from the porn industry. I did not appreciate this at all and has colored my opinion of Sedo and not in a positive way. The best way to kill any possibility of selling this name to a reputable business is to associate it with porn, which, by the way, I deplore. I would have appreciated a notice of this change of template so that I could have taken immediate action. Meanwhile, I have yanked the Sedo nameservers for FatG.com and am taking a close look at my remaining parked pages.

Such hypocrites; they jump down your throat if you dare to park political domains, but they accept any kind of nasty domains and impose XXX keywords for domains that have very little to do with the porn industry.

:p:bah:

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[Name Trader]

Talk about politically incorrect. Almost anything close to a women's name is automatically porn. Now it seems like health names are subject to this same standard.

I had a name BreastUSA.com which when I purchased I was thinking about breast augmentation surgery. It doesn't have any history of being used for porn in archive.org. But Google in their wisdom decided it was a porn name. Now whilst I might concede that there is a possibility to use this name for porn. There is no history of it actually being used for porn. To my thinking Google is wrong in it's thinking that this is a porn name.

I would repeat. This has nothing to do with Sedo's policies. This is entirely a Google decision to label a domain as porn or not. They seem to still be living in the dark ages. IMHO.

 

[forge]

I had a name BreastUSA.com which when I purchased I was thinking about breast augmentation surgery. It doesn't have any history of being used for porn in archive.org. But Google in their wisdom decided it was a porn name. Now whilst I might concede that there is a possibility to use this name for porn. There is no history of it actually being used for porn. To my thinking Google is wrong in it's thinking that this is a porn name.

Totally agree.

It got me thinking though, a domain like TeatsAmerica.com would be a great "sister" domain to that one IMO.

 

[BrandChimp]

"Fatg" FatGirls

 

[Outlast]

Good call. Not impressed with Sedo's parking system.

 

[carob]

Another point about Sedo's parking system is they said they would give Google - presumably Adsense - the contact details of every domain parked at Sedo. So then Google associates you with adult keywords?

They said you could opt out of having Google supply the ads on Sedo parking pages. But if you do it looks like the parking page loads Adsense scripts. Can you believe what Sedo say?

 

[webHorse]

I am involved in a court action (cyberstalking) as a result of 1&1 / Sedo policies and actions regarding XXX content on parked domains. My lawyer says it might help if we can show the jury examples of non-porn domains showing XXX links. Can anyone on this thread share examples, links, screenshots, whatever, especially from Spring 2014, that would demonstrate to the average person how this happened.

 

[johname]

The progression looks FatG>FatGirls>Porn

They want the half a penny click real bad lol

But still that would upset me too

 

[main]

fatg.com is classified as an Adult name status by Google.