Sedo.com - Official Thread

[Sedo]

Hi All! :hi:

By request, we've decided to start a thread dedicated to Sedo. We're looking for invaluable insight into what domainers want and need out of our parking program (and marketplace, of course).

Questions, comments, suggestions, tips are welcome! We're hoping this will be a great discussion about what works at Sedo and what might not (please be constructive and respectful to others in your feedback) so that everyone involved can benefit and learn from it.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas! Happy Holidays!

Always,
Keith
(on behalf of Sedo)

 

[Neophyte]

Is there a better looking sales lander page for domains parked at Sedo. I have the standard sales lander and I think it looks terrible. I have seen some pages parked at Sedo with black background/green text with the for sale notice at the top of the page. Does anyone here know how to get this sales lander pager, or what I can do to improve what I have?

 

[John Rambo]

Is there still satisfaction with Sedo in regards to selling through them?

What turns me off is

-Their percentages are crazy
-All the stipulations, it should be more cut and dry to sell something.
-The way they are tied to Godaddy.
-And whatever else I am forgetting.

I was going to sell my domain through sedo but after reading this thread combined with my own thoughts about them. I think I'll stay with godaddy auction solely or try some other avenue. I have a good domain to sell but damn.... sedo sounds like a headache at this point. Am I wrong in this thinking?

Oh and the MLS thing is confusing. If I activate it , how does that effect my godaddy listing?

 

[Ms Domainer]

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After receiving the dreaded lowball offer on a premium domain that arrived via Sedo's partnership with GoDaddy, I asked Sedo to remove my domains from that program.

This was their answer:

I'm afraid you can't opt out of SedoMLS, however if you set your domains to Fixed Price, you'd save yourself all the lowball offers.

If you have any further questions or comments, please log into your Sedo account then visit our Customer Support Center at http://support.sedo.com.

Best regards,

Your Sedo Customer Care Team

My answer:

Then I'm afraid I must refuse any offer that comes with a 20% commission attached to it.

Then I removed all my BIN prices because I don't want a BIN coming via Go Daddy that will cost me 20% commission.

If I receive too many lowball offers, I'll just remove my domains from Sedo.

Most of my offers come via my own platform anyway.

Just passing this along as an FYI.

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For some reason, some of my minimums were not set, so I set them with the hope that ridiculous lowball offers don't even get through to me.

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[lennco]

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I don't want a BIN coming via Go Daddy that will cost me 20% commission.
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What I do to avoid 20% fees on BIN domains is I set the same BIN price on both Sedo and Godaddy, that way regardless if it sells on Sedo or Godaddy its just 10%

 

[Optimal Names]

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After receiving the dreaded lowball offer on a premium domain that arrived via Sedo's partnership with GoDaddy, I asked Sedo to remove my domains from that program.

This was their answer:



My answer:



Then I removed all my BIN prices because I don't want a BIN coming via Go Daddy that will cost me 20% commission.

If I receive too many lowball offers, I'll just remove my domains from Sedo.

Most of my offers come via my own platform anyway.

Just passing this along as an FYI.

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For some reason, some of my minimums were not set, so I set them with the hope that ridiculous lowball offers don't even get through to me.

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Its not just lowball offers........ the system is sometimes working, sometimes not. Its riddled with bugs as of late.

I check my domains daily over there because somehow, for some unknown unanswerable reason, some of my domains will have the ads turned OFF. Just like that. After I set these hundreds of domains up, they'll just turn off. Ooops.

A name I checked today showed this message on its keywords page "This related link may violate our policies." The keyword that triggered this? WEATHER. Yep. Suddenly "weather" is against their policies. I've had it happen with "hard drives", "monitors", "touch screen".......

And you never know when NS1.SEDOPARKING.COM will suddenly resolve to the personal website "gabby-douglas.com", which happens to be for sale at Sedo for $5K..... dont ask me why. For over 6 months no one over there can answer as to why this is happening. I had one person try to convince me it was "zero click". Zero click goes to personal domains/sites that are for sale at Sedo? I thought it drove traffic to commercial branded product sites like Starbucks or Burger King, etc.... ?

I have many hundreds of names. I get a lot of traffic per day on many of those domains there. Then suddenly, every so often, zero visits, zero clicks, zero everything and the response to that is "there is nothing wrong with your account". OK.

I didnt mean to hijack your post but to get back to a reply, now I have to worry about lowball offers from Go Daddy (which I stopped listing there because of incessant dead-beat buyers?) UGH.

I really think Google is forcing these places to make parking die by way of making us sick of it. I really do think Google is behind all of this. They seem to hate domain parking and are probably putting pressure on the parking companies... :imho:

 

[jacal1]

great_domains, I would suggest that you only do this for the most premium of domains. It really has to be a name that if you posted it here you'd get a whole lot of offers, and if you go to the sales thread you'll see that that only happens with really premium names. Compare to the ones that have actually generated some competitive bidding and make sure they live up to that.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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AGAME,

You're not hijacking anything.

This is the official Sedo thread, so you're right on topic.



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[BasedBeyond]

Hello, well I've been having trouble making my domains SedoMLS Premium that I registered on GoDaddy. It only says that I can sell them as SedoMLS Basic. Hopefully in the nearby future, you guys will get their full support so I can sell them in Premium.

 

[JudgeMind]

Their commission is out of this world. especially for smaller sales ie<$200

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Zero Click

To completely disable Zero Click per account - contact your manager or Sedo support team.

 

[JB Lions]

Is this new, when applying to Great Domains Auctions:

"If your suggested reserve price is not met during this managed auction event, Sedo retains the right to exclusively manage, market, and promote your domain sale for up to 60 days following the close of the auction."

 

[Optimal Names]

Is this new, when applying to Great Domains Auctions:

"If your suggested reserve price is not met during this managed auction event, Sedo retains the right to exclusively manage, market, and promote your domain sale for up to 60 days following the close of the auction."

Its been there since last Oct 2012 when I started trying to get names accepted into the monthly auctions..

 

[Optimal Names]

Tier 2?

Anyone know who Sedo's "Tier 2" provider is? I have a domain that for whatever reason shows:

"This domain is monetized by our Tier 2 ad provider."

It is non-adult, non-gambling...... Generic 4 letter dot-com. They wont tell me why or who is serving the domain.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Tier 1 = Google
Tier 2 = Banned by Google

 

[Optimal Names]

Tier 1 = Google
Tier 2 = Banned by Google

Wow, banned? I wonder why? I've done nothing with the domain since purchasing it many (9) years ago. Its say parked. I am not one to be too fond of Google. Too much power in the hands of one company is never good. I'd love to know why its banned but I am pretty sure I'll never find out. Probably wont be able to sell the damn name now either!

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Wow, banned? I wonder why? I've done nothing with the domain since purchasing it many (9) years ago. Its say parked. I am not one to be too fond of Google. Too much power in the hands of one company is never good. I'd love to know why its banned but I am pretty sure I'll never find out. Probably wont be able to sell the damn name now either!

Blocked to display Google ads.
Possible reasons: click fraud, spam-backlinks etc.

 

[Ms Domainer]

Wow, banned? I wonder why? I've done nothing with the domain since purchasing it many (9) years ago. Its say parked. I am not one to be too fond of Google. Too much power in the hands of one company is never good. I'd love to know why its banned but I am pretty sure I'll never find out. Probably wont be able to sell the damn name now either!

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You can always keep the Sedo listing for your domain but remove it from parking and redirect it to something less controversial.

Sometimes Google will remove a ban, but you have to ask and work toward "rehabbing" the name.

I'm not blaming you for anything--perhaps the former owner spammed or scammed with the domain and how would you know, other than the wayback machine, which is often scrubbed.


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[Optimal Names]

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You can always keep the Sedo listing for your domain but remove it from parking and redirect it to something less controversial.

Sometimes Google will remove a ban, but you have to ask and work toward "rehabbing" the name.

I'm not blaming you for anything--perhaps the former owner spammed or scammed with the domain and how would you know, other than the wayback machine, which is often scrubbed.


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Hmm.. The way back machine shows that, as far back as 2001, nothing but for-sale listings at Afternic or "just registered" at Register.com but who knows what the owner before me did with it. Man that sucks. Who at Google would someone ask to rehab a name? I cant even get answers from them about Gmail problems. :lol:

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Try Googling "Google Black List"; also, there are Google forums with knowledgeable members willing to help out.

They helped out with my adsense account in that they suggested ways to approach writing my appeal (It worked).

Just keep in mind that behind every corporation, there are humans willing to help.

Good luck.



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[carob]

Who at Google would someone ask to rehab a name? I cant even get answers from them about Gmail problems. :lol:

In Google webmaster tools you can ask them to reconsider a site and one of the reasons you can give is change of owner. Not sure that helps with a parked domain, but if you put up an unmonetised minisite with it that might help revive it.