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I have noticed today that Sedo has changed search domain results, No exact domain search anymore, for example if you search for the domain booking, you will not find the exact keyword booking, but another keywords including booking.
Essentially, it looks like they removed the "Already registered" and "Available to be registered" results (which were helpful to me as a domainer, but probably didn't help sales).
...get used to it. Sedo does what it wants and never considered the users concerns to begin with...
It's actually a neat little feature. You're all thinking from a domainer's perspective. Any buyer who doesn't have an EXACT domain in mind will appreciate the change. They'll be presented with more options to choose from, and purchase a domain they wouldn't have thought of otherwise. Sedo is not a domainer's tool, it's where buyers purchase domains, and that's what we as sellers ultimately want (more sales).
Now they just need to add a "related to" radio button before the "contains", "starts with" and "ends with" radio buttons. So the default search will be for all terms related to the keyword entered. But some buyers DO come looking for exact match domains, so if they want to, they will simply select one of the other radio buttons to search the old way. Right now those buttons are not functioning and they should be, I think the new system is still being implemented, it's vital that those buttons be fixed.