Parked.com or Sedo...

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I am speaking personally what I have seen in my own account.
Past few months, I have been selling some domains via GD Prem. Listings, funny thing these domains are parked at Sedo, as this is my secondary career, as primary career pays majority of the bills, safety net etc... I am not able to develop all my domains at once. Simply one by one basis, usually about 1 per week, so I just park them at sedo, if an offer comes, great otherwise earn some revenue, even better.

I do get offers, The offers seem to come from mainly domainers, how do I know this, well the accounts are very old, I mean by the registration date. As technically when an industry specific end user buys the registration date is usually same month and year in most cases.

Well I started becoming alarmed when I saw buyers were bypassing sedo, and using GD prem listings for the domains I had listed there, so I really liked Parked.com's pages, so I applied and got approved, still testing it out with a half dozen domains, but PPC revenue seems to have increased by about 4x as much as sedo, but it is still early to say... I really like the way they have the for sale link for direct contact.

I think when the middle man is gone, having that direct communication and knowing who you are dealing with really helps to close deals.

I have been a great fan of sedo, but I just don't think they have done enough to be known in the North American market as they have in Europe.

 

[Tension]

Sedo is a horrible scam. They try to scam and cheat you for money in every little situation. According to their pricing, you are only supposed to have to give 10% off the sale but god forbid someone buys your domain before you have had time to set the name servers to Sedo parking, they will take 50$ off your sale. If that was a 100$ domain, that would be 50%!

Sedo.com = Scam, scam, scam. A new extension should be made in their honor. Sedo.scam, Sedo.cheat, Sedo.thieves and Sedo.con ar all good alternatives.

Never call their support phone by the way. It takes forever to get a response and you have to suffer through that annoying voice "thank you for holding, blablabla..." repeating it self a thousand times before you get a response. Sedo scam.
Once I get through I get a really unhelpful support guy that is not interested in giving any support.

 

[RazorNF]

Sedo is a horrible scam. They try to scam and cheat you for money in every little situation. According to their pricing, you are only supposed to have to give 10% off the sale but god forbid someone buys your domain before you have had time to set the name servers to Sedo parking, they will take 50$ off your sale. If that was a 100$ domain, that would be 50%!

How is that a scam? Their fee schedule is no secret.

 

[Name Trader]

Parked is way better than Sedo. It's not surprising you are getting 4 times the revenue since Sedo only pays for the first click, but Parked pays for every click. I think Parked are way more clued up with parking domains than Sedo. Their support is brilliant also. I sell most of my domains from somebody clicking on the Parked link.