SEDO - Analyze this!

[-db-]

This morning I receive an email from a potential buyer interested in one of my domains. Before contacting me via the whois report, he first typed the url and found it parked at SEDO. He went on to say that his offer was "generous for a domain that sedo gave such mediocre ratings". That confused me of course, because the only thing the listing page shows is the number of visitors to the domain, and to the listing page itself.

Well, not anymore.

A new feature has appeared on the domain's listing page.

Analyze the domain: *****.us

When clicking it, the visitor is given the following information.

Domain Popularity: http://www.*****.us
PageRank: 2/10
Alexa Rank: 1,567,108

Link Popularity:
Incoming Google Links: 9
Incoming Yahoo Links: 5
Incoming MSN Links: 7
Incoming Alexa Links: 57
DMOZ Listed: No
Archive.org Listed: Yes

To see all of the search engine statistics, click here.

Powered by: URLTrends

I have mixed feelings about this. Like most of you, some of my domains have traffic and links, and some don't. The above example is not bad, but not really that good either. A domain with less (or none) traffic would show a bunch of 0's which might appear to some buyers as a negative thing. When selling something, I believe in complete honesty, however I don't necessary want to promote or focus on the weak points. You know what I'm saying?

Thoughts and opinions?

 

[spikedo]

Hey -db-,

I tried the new feature for one of my domains at Sedo but got an error. Will try later.

 

[danielr]

I noticed the same thing on my parked pages.

I think its great to have it their; however I think it should be our option to remove it on lower traffic domains.

It would be great if everywhere you went, everyone was honest... but its not a perfect world. I would love to go to a used car dealer and listen to the dealer tell me the truth about what is wrong with the potential car I am ready to buy.

 

[wasistdas]

That is a good feature, imo. But it is useful only for old domains. So this option is ok only for sales domain broker to domain broker.

 

[sjp]

More information = better than, in my opinion. Of course potential buyers might interpret statistics differently than you will and as you mentioned some might think a domain is worth way less than what you think it's worth. But that can happen anyway, as the information SEDO lists is readily available elsewhere too.

 

[equity78]

DB URL TRENDS which has been talked about here before partnered with SEDO, and I agree the anonymous bidder who may have thought a name was worth $$$$ based on traffic he thought it might get will now look at that and offer $60. You should be allowed to shut that off if you like, big difference if the seller was promoting the name as a traffic name then that fair for potential buyers to see the URL Trend report.

So this option is ok only for sales domain broker to domain broker.

Very few of those transactions on SEDO usually only one broker involved if any not B2B.

 

[-db-]

You should be allowed to shut that off if you like, big difference if the seller was promoting the name as a traffic name then that fair for potential buyers to see the URL Trend report.

Exactly, that's my initial feelings about this too. (subject to change of course )

If we are not selling a domain as a traffic/link name, and making no claims regarding traffic or ratings, I feel we should at least have the option to disable it. After all, it's not been there for years before, why suddenly force us to display it now?

I support transparency and total honesty in advertising domains for sale, but I just don't find this necessary in all cases.

Anyway, it's made for a good discussion today.

 

[tipsfromthetop]

Its ok if the site is an acitve site.. then stats are useful. Most domains parked on sedo are that parked.... so majority will have no PR and hardly any backlinks.. If they do they get penalised after awhile due to being parked. So they loose things like PR and placement on the engines.

Personally i use urltrends to monitor my developing domains but having it monitor and for a valuation on parked domains?? cant see the point, in most cases its the name that sells itself.

 

[equity78]

Great points Tips

 

[Shorty]

I think if this guy is actually basing his price on such a thing, he's either clueless or trying to trick you into selling for less. Basically, he's a newbie trying to act like an oldie. Call him on it.

I would respond to him in the same way as you have posted here. Explain you made no statement it had high traffic and you value you it based on it's potential, not what it already has.

I agree that's it's unfair that Sedo are forcing this onto parked pages, i'm glad I don't use them. It would be a nice feature for people marketing domains based on their incoming traffic though.

 

[gazzip]

I quite like it although as stated people will assume the name is not worth much if it has no traffic.

It would be nice if it was made as an option though.

When I first saw this on sedo it was nice to know that a name I just got at snapnames has Currently got - Overall Incoming Links: 2,729 :hehe:

I still would of bought it if it had none as most other possible variations are gone.