Sedo Closed My Account - Spam Traffic Question

[pchip]

A few weeks ago I wasn't able to login to my sedo account. I received the following e-mail from them:

Our advertising provider has notified us that a significant portion of the traffic associated with
your domains has been deemed “spam” traffic and is therefore ineligible for Sedo’s parking program.

As part of Sedo’s responsibility to our advertising partners ensure that traffic participating in our
parking program meets quality standards, Sedo compiles data on traffic from a variety of sources,
including our advertising partner. During this data review, we have no choice but to block the domains
that are presented to us by our partners.

In many cases, our members have purchased domains from sellers who may have promoted those
domains in the past, and the new owners are unaware of any prior promotion that may have taken place.
This decision does not imply that any action was taken on your part to violate the Terms of Sedo’s
parking service. However, in order to protect advertisers and consumers, we must maintain high quality standards.

To maintain the integrity of click prices and the quality of Sedo’s parking program, your account was suspended, your domains have been removed from the program, and the accumulated click balance generated
by these domains has been forfeited in accordance with our Terms of Use.

I have less than 100 names with them and most of them have hardly any traffic (75% are .mobi). I started picking up a few names here and there from a predrop auction and there are two that I received probably less than 12 bucks total from that must be the ones with spam traffic.

After contacting them and explainging my situation they were kind enough to reopen my account, but I lost all of my previous months revenue (which wasn't much) and I can no longer use their parking for any of my names. All of the names show 'Services for this domain have been discontinued' now. They couldn't tell me what the name was and didn't know why the traffic was labeled as 'spam' traffic.

The entire point of this thread is to help anyone out that may not realize this can happen and for me to find out how I can tell which names may have spam traffic so I don't park them at a new place and have my account closed again. Is there a way to determine which names may have traffic that is 'spam'?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[GoQuickly]

Only thing I could think of is developing them and tracking it with some sort of analytics (Server hits).

You could maybe do a links:search in Google.

 

[seven]

The integrity of their click prices. :lol:

Can't answer your question but I'd like to toss in no big loss. If someone wants a domain, they'll get your whois and email you. More often than not, Sedo just amounts to a 10% middle man.

 

[matt_bodis]

Drops. There are a lot of scammers in this industry. The scammers bundle traffic into viruses, spy ware, and so on where the traffic is on going even after the domains drop.

You will find spam domains in the drops all the time. For the most part you won't know until you are deducted from the upstream provider. Most parking providers will ban you if you have a deduction, but if you have a close relationship and the parking provider knows your traffic source then you will not be banned. I am talking for myself on the last one. Feel free to join Bodis.com. Not only will you most likely make more than Sedo I'll make sure I won't close your account or will notify you of your issue if there is any beforehand.

PM me if you are interested.

 

[kotan]

Same goes here...

Just after my 1st sale on SEDO, my account got suspended for alleged spam traffic :/ Now i got no more free parking service from them though they managed to unsuspend it for simply buying & selling purposes.

The only reason why I like SEDO is because of their put-to-auction option heightens up the probability that the price can still increase to double its original offer considering the amount of exposure the auctions get.

Time to explore other services and how they perform with regard to domain sales and transfers I guess

 

[barcode]

Happened to me this weekend. Got a similar email. Sedo banned me too.

There was a domain that made like 30 bucks in a month (the only revenue domain in my account I think). I realised I can make 3x of that considering sedo would be leeching and sharing poorly with me... So I developed the domain (like a proper site) - anyways, it wasn't a success and traffic dropped (!!)

I moved back to Sedo and for some odd reason traffic climbed up slightly, sedo banned the domain after it made like 40 bucks in 2 weeks! And I had some great domains parked (no revenue, but good traffic)

Sedo should be banned instead. I wrote to them, but no response.

Even I wonder what to do!

 

[exito]

no way to help you in this case. Sedo will never reopen a closed account they marked "spam" traffic

 

[Michael Purse]

I wouldn't say "no chance". In fact, my account was reopened without much issue. I had my account locked/banned after I bought a large amount of drop names in a month, and parked them at Sedo (this was some time again now). Basically, a few of the domains still had spam traffic pointed at them and it actually generated clicks. Initially, they banned my account but after I emailed they investigated and instead only banned those domains, and re-enabled my account. Problem solved.