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)

 

[chassmp3]

Hey Sleepys,
Would you say or do you know if using wordtracker or trellian, which are paid services, give a clear advantage over Google Adwords Keyword tool, which is free?

Thanks.
Chas.

 

[Sleepys]

Hey Sleepys,
Would you say or do you know if using wordtracker or trellian, which are paid services, give a clear advantage over Google Adwords Keyword tool, which is free?

Thanks.
Chas.

Wordtracker has a free tool found here:
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/keyword-suggestion-tool.html.
You can find a free tool using Trellian here:
http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html

They show mostly the same stuff, sometimes different. I wouldn't be able to say if one is better to use than the other. I think that Google is the only one that helps you figure out approximate bids on keywords.

Thanks for the replies Keith

 

[Damion]

Keith,

I wanted to submit a few of my domains for consideration for a Top Domain listing and something occurs that is confusing for the user.
It seems i have submitted some of these domains at a earlier stage and the system won't go any further because of this.

Top Domain Application

An error occurred
Please note: Your application has not yet been sent. Scroll down for further details!

Scrolling down gives this indication:

Please note: A Top Domain application was already rejected in the past.

Oh, and something else to clear things up for others that had this question, there is as it seems actually a cap on the amount of domains you can submit for a Top Domain Application.

Please note: No more than 10 applications can be submitted per day!

However, as far as I'm aware there is no cap on the number of Top Domains applications you can submit.

To come back on the actual issue i have with what i am experiencing and what i feel could be improved is to have the system tell me which domains where rejected before?

Please note: A Top Domain application was already rejected in the past.

As of now you see only what is being reported in green and doesn't give any help to clear away the previous applications and to be able to proceed to continue submitting domains that are not yet reviewed.
As you can imagine the user would now have to go back and forth to discover which domains are previously rejected and it's kind of a hassle and usability issue.

Thanks!

 

[Pound]

I would like to know how exactly these premium domains are assesed. I have some pretty average names that are classed as "Premium", yet a super-premium one word .net is not!

 

[Easydoms]

Some very interesting comments here,

Firstly I welcome Sedo to the site and hope that they take on board the comments all the members here post. There is a general feeling that Sedo has a lot to do to bring it in line with other parking companies. Whilst they need us domainers to keep their business going, we also need the platform to sell.

I guess time will tell, lets really see how things go.

From my own personal opinion, The parking is pants with Sedo, Having moved names around different parking company's it is clear Sedo is way behind others.

The issue's with the .MOBI auctions is something that Sedo need to address and sort out ASAP, members who genuinely won auctions then only to find out because offers came in after auction they lost it!!!

So lets see if Sedo can have a good 2008!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sleepys]

Do we need to get someone's full name for a Sedopro code? I sometimes submit people's information for a code with just their email address and first name. That is fine right?

Thanks

 

[wot]

"Sedo improves traffic reporting to ensure better RPM
Sedo has improved its traffic reporting today, by adjusting the way it counts spam views caused by various user agents (eg. Bots). Previously, the views in clients' statistics included all these agent visits. However, as such traffic does not click, the CTR and RPM of clients' accounts was affected.

By improving the reporting of bot and other user agent traffic, Sedo clients will benefit from improved CTR and RPM values as "spam" traffic is filtered out. Please note that this may result in fewer views for some of your domains but the statistics will likely show improved conversion and RPM values."

Yep, everything down including income - by 50% :td:

 

[Sleepys]

It seems my partner stats are no longer viewable and when I click to see them, I get taken to the affiliate signup page. Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

[wot]

It seems my partner stats are no longer viewable and when I click to see them, I get taken to the affiliate signup page. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Same here- happened a couple of weeks ago as well.

 

[Sleepys]

It seems my partner stats are no longer viewable and when I click to see them, I get taken to the affiliate signup page. Is anyone else experiencing this?

They seem to be working now. I was getting some other errors at the time on the Sedo site, it was probably just them readjusting things.

 

[Sleepys]

I just got as call from my Sedopro account rep. He wanted to check in and make sure that everything was going all right and that I didn't have any pressing concerns that needed to be addressed. It was very nice hearing from him, especially since it was not about anything bad

I am not sure if any of you guys get calls ever from your reps, but I have spoken to mine before over the phone and have told him before that he can call me anytime. In case any of you were wondering, the call had nothing to do with me lending a helping hand on this thread. He actually was unaware that the Sedo thread had been started, so I sent him a link.

Anyway, thanks Matt.

 

[rexvnus]

"Sedo improves traffic reporting to ensure better RPM
Sedo has improved its traffic reporting today, by adjusting the way it counts spam views caused by various user agents (eg. Bots). Previously, the views in clients' statistics included all these agent visits. However, as such traffic does not click, the CTR and RPM of clients' accounts was affected.

By improving the reporting of bot and other user agent traffic, Sedo clients will benefit from improved CTR and RPM values as "spam" traffic is filtered out. Please note that this may result in fewer views for some of your domains but the statistics will likely show improved conversion and RPM values."

Yep, everything down including income - by 50% :td:

My revenue is stable.

After spending time to optimize, it is going up. And still there is a huge portfolios need to be optimized

 

[ngenme]

Recently I logged in into my sedo account

ALL of my domains except 1 is gone. I still got credit for traffics when those domains are around.

SEDO has the worst revenue tracking. We can only see income for yesterday or month. SEDO default at looking at income for the last 32 days. On those lists all of my domains are around.

This is the second time it happens. The first time it happens, I ask SEDO what happened.

I got no reply. So I thought it's just a glitch. I tried to contact sedo several time but I often got no reply. I have no idea how to contact SEDO.

So I jsut readd the domains.

Then I got an email from SEDO asking me to verify that I own the domains. I already replied. I don't hear back from them again.

SPam filter?

Anyway I already redirected all UK traffic to SEDO. There shouldn't be a problem. Till today my site is still in We are currently verifying the following domains

Also, http://domainname.com/sedo will go to sedo parking. The rest will go to parked.com or parkingpanel.com which pays more.

Also do you pay well for casino and pharmacy traffic?

 

[xrvel]

I added a domain, and few minutes later, i deleted it about 2 times in my "Domain Management" page.

Now, that domain is appeared in my "Domain Management".
But the problem is i have 3 duplicate domains in my "Domain Parking" page (the domain which was added and deleted few times).

Anyone knows how to remove these duplicates in my "Domain Parking" page?

Thanks.

Kurniawan.

 

[seeker]

I believe when a domain is deleted from your sedo account, it doesnt show it as gone until the beginning of the next month.
At least it used to be that way.

 

[xrvel]

I believe when a domain is deleted from your sedo account, it doesnt show it as gone until the beginning of the next month.
At least it used to be that way.

I deleted it less than 1 week ago. Ok, i will wait until next month.

Thank you for the information.

 

[Sleepys]

SEDO has the worst revenue tracking. We can only see income for yesterday or month. SEDO default at looking at income for the last 32 days. On those lists all of my domains are around.

I can't offer any answers for most of your post. Hopefully Keith can help you. I wouldn't expect a response from him until Monday though.

Personally I think that Sedo has very good revenue tracking. I don't remember regular Sedo very much, but Sedopro has the option to look at : Today, Yesterday, Past 7 Days, Month to Date, Last Month, Year to Date, or you even have the ability to select any combination of consective daysover the past 30 days or any combination of consective months.

Anyway I already redirected all UK traffic to SEDO. There shouldn't be a problem. Till today my site is still in We are currently verifying the following domains

Also, http://domainname.com/sedo will go to sedo parking. The rest will go to parked.com or parkingpanel.com which pays more.

I don't understand what you are saying you are doing here. Are you trying to send some of the traffic to Sedo and some of the traffic to Parked or Parkingpanel for the same name?

I am guessing Keith might need some more clarification as well.

Also do you pay well for casino and pharmacy traffic?

I can say that I do like the look of Sedo's Gambling Template. I have had sort of hit or miss results with gambling related names over there though. Some do very well, some do not. A lot of people on here like Fabulous for casino names.

 

[DnFloorCEO]

Several days ago I made an account on sedo. It said a e-mail would be on it's way to confirm my account. I still haven't received any e-mail. Also, I don't recall my username and password, so I went to "lost password" and typed in my e-mail address. It said an e-mail with my password was being sent to my e-mail. But that was 40 minutes ago (now it's been like 12 hours later) and I still haven't gotten it. I would've though it'd be instant.

And if it makes any different my e-mail end in "@verizon.net"

I guess what I'm asking is how long does it normally take for sedo to approve?

 

[Sleepys]

Several days ago I made an account on sedo. It said a e-mail would be on it's way to confirm my account. I still haven't received any e-mail. Also, I don't recall my username and password, so I went to "lost password" and typed in my e-mail address. It said an e-mail with my password was being sent to my e-mail. But that was 40 minutes ago (now it's been like 12 hours later) and I still haven't gotten it. I would've though it'd be instant.

And if it makes any different my e-mail end in "@verizon.net"

I guess what I'm asking is how long does it normally take for sedo to approve?

My guess would be that maybe your spam filters are set too high. I have heard that some people do not get emails from Sedo because of this. Check if the email went to your spam/junk mail folder. If not, see if you can turn down your spam filter somehow.

I am pretty sure that when applying to regular Sedo, that approval is instantaneous and that there are requirements other than that you have not bee kicked off of their system before. So, you should have already received confirmation.

 

[ngenme]

Hello? Will SEDO reply this thread? All I see is Sleepy defending Sedo's honor. Thanks Sleepy lol.

Anyway, is there anyone still alive at SEDO office? I have pmed Keith and that doesn't work. I have emailed sedo several times with no reply. Often I replied several times about how to verify ownership of my sites. No ****ing reply whatsoever and after a few weeks I got my domains all deleted because they "failed" to verify domain ownership.

To avoid need of sedo contact, I redirect all UK traffic to sedo parking. Yet, it seems to take a VERY long time to get the sites verified. Without optimization SEDO sucks. However, I am not going to optimize my site if some idiot is going to delete all verified domain again.

Looks doesn't want to be rude. But this frustates me a lot dude.

 

[DnFloorCEO]

My guess would be that maybe your spam filters are set too high. I have heard that some people do not get emails from Sedo because of this. Check if the email went to your spam/junk mail folder. If not, see if you can turn down your spam filter somehow.

I am pretty sure that when applying to regular Sedo, that approval is instantaneous and that there are requirements other than that you have not bee kicked off of their system before. So, you should have already received confirmation.

Yep, it was my e-mail blocking it. Thanks for helping out!

 

[Andro]

The minimum commission has been flat 10% for domains parked on Sedo since December 2007.
http://sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=1608&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us
And the price list is here
http://sedo.co.uk/services/prices.php3?language=e

But the minimum sales price is $60 for a domain.
" The minimum sales price remains 60USD – for any figure below this amount, the provision of an Escrow service simply would not be profitable."

Refering to this information how much do it cost to sell a domain on sedo ?

How much will I pay when I sell a domain for $100 ? Would it be a $10 ? How much do an Escrow service cost then ? What would be a total expense and would it pay a seller ?

 

[Sleepys]

Hello? Will SEDO reply this thread? All I see is Sleepy defending Sedo's honor. Thanks Sleepy lol.

Anyway, is there anyone still alive at SEDO office? I have pmed Keith and that doesn't work. I have emailed sedo several times with no reply. Often I replied several times about how to verify ownership of my sites. No ****ing reply whatsoever and after a few weeks I got my domains all deleted because they "failed" to verify domain ownership.

As I said before, Sedo is not in offic over the weekends, so the best times to ask them questions is Monday-Thursday, so they have time to asnwer before the weekend. I assume Keith will answer you on Monday.

To avoid need of sedo contact, I redirect all UK traffic to sedo parking. Yet, it seems to take a VERY long time to get the sites verified. Without optimization SEDO sucks. However, I am not going to optimize my site if some idiot is going to delete all verified domain again.

I am still presonally a little confused on this point. Are you saying that you only point names with primarily UK traffic to Sedo? Or are you saying that you take each name you have and try to send some of the traffic one place and some to another place for the same name? For example, if you owned Sedo.com, you are trying to park the UK visitors at Sedo and the US visitors at Parked? Maybe this is your problem, if that is what you are attempting. Perhaps I am just misreading.

The minimum commission has been flat 10% for domains parked on Sedo since December 2007.
http://sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=1608&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us
And the price list is here
http://sedo.co.uk/services/prices.php3?language=e

But the minimum sales price is $60 for a domain.
" The minimum sales price remains 60USD – for any figure below this amount, the provision of an Escrow service simply would not be profitable."

Refering to this information how much do it cost to sell a domain on sedo ?

How much will I pay when I sell a domain for $100 ? Would it be a $10 ? How much do an Escrow service cost then ? What would be a total expense and would it pay a seller ?

The fee for selling on Sedo is a flat rate 10%, which includes the escrow service. You will not be charged anything extra, unless you purchase additional things from Sedo, such as their domain brokering service or an appraisal before selling it.

The minimum selling price on Sedo is $60 USD. This is basically them saying that they don't want to handly any transactions on their system for less than 10% of $60 or $6. To answer your question, you would be charged $10 total on your $100 transaction.

 

[blaknite]

I may be misunderstanding your post, but If you are only forewarding some of the traffic then sedo's automatic system to verify your domains won't work. They check to see that you have changed your namservers to sedo or that your domain resolves to its sedo page before they add it to your account. If it doesn't pass that test because you are only directing part of your traffic to them they have to do the verification manually. You'll probably have to email them and then wait a week or so for them to get to it.

Hello? Will SEDO reply this thread? All I see is Sleepy defending Sedo's honor. Thanks Sleepy lol.

Anyway, is there anyone still alive at SEDO office? I have pmed Keith and that doesn't work. I have emailed sedo several times with no reply. Often I replied several times about how to verify ownership of my sites. No ****ing reply whatsoever and after a few weeks I got my domains all deleted because they "failed" to verify domain ownership.

To avoid need of sedo contact, I redirect all UK traffic to sedo parking. Yet, it seems to take a VERY long time to get the sites verified. Without optimization SEDO sucks. However, I am not going to optimize my site if some idiot is going to delete all verified domain again.

Looks doesn't want to be rude. But this frustates me a lot dude.

 

[Sedo]

Hi,

You should see that your account status has been updated. In the future, you may want to make sure that the Whois information for your domains matches the information in your Sedo account (especially the confirmed email address). Doing so will help speed up the verification process substantially.

Take care!

Always,
Keith

Hello? Will SEDO reply this thread? All I see is Sleepy defending Sedo's honor. Thanks Sleepy lol.

Anyway, is there anyone still alive at SEDO office? I have pmed Keith and that doesn't work. I have emailed sedo several times with no reply. Often I replied several times about how to verify ownership of my sites. No ****ing reply whatsoever and after a few weeks I got my domains all deleted because they "failed" to verify domain ownership.

To avoid need of sedo contact, I redirect all UK traffic to sedo parking. Yet, it seems to take a VERY long time to get the sites verified. Without optimization SEDO sucks. However, I am not going to optimize my site if some idiot is going to delete all verified domain again.

Looks doesn't want to be rude. But this frustates me a lot dude.

Hi Andro,

Yes, the minimum commission can be avoided by parking a domain. However, it's important to remember that this fee structure only applies to certain extensions:

.com/.net/.org/.co.uk/.org.uk/.me.uk****/
.info/.biz/.us/.tv/.li/.be/.st/.dk/.de/.at/.ch
.name/.ws/.mx/.in/.cc/.to/.eu/.mobi/.nl/.es

If the domain has another extension, then it will be subject to a minimum, as determined by the extension (and as stated on the price list: http://www.sedo.com/services/prices.php3?tracked=&partnerid=&language=us).

For a sale of $100, the commission depends on the situation:

If the domain is not parked, and is one of the TLDs listed above, the fee will be $50, leaving you with a profit of $50.

If the domain is not parked and is not one of the TLDs listed above, the fee will be either $100 or $150. In these cases, you would not be able to sell a domain for $100.

If the domain is parked, and is one of the TLDs above, you would be charged a flat 10%, which is in this case $10; this leaves you with a profit of $90.

If the domain is parked, but not one of the TLDs above, you will have to pay the stated minimum commission. Your profit would then be relative to your agreed selling price.

The escrow service includes both the transfer of funds and the domain. The buyer would make a payment into Sedo's escrow account, where the money would be held until the domain was either in Sedo's or the buyer's possession. Then, the funds would be released to the seller.

I hope that clarifies some.

Take care!

Always,
Keith

The minimum commission has been flat 10% for domains parked on Sedo since December 2007.
http://sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=1608&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us
And the price list is here
http://sedo.co.uk/services/prices.php3?language=e

But the minimum sales price is $60 for a domain.
" The minimum sales price remains 60USD – for any figure below this amount, the provision of an Escrow service simply would not be profitable."

Refering to this information how much do it cost to sell a domain on sedo ?

How much will I pay when I sell a domain for $100 ? Would it be a $10 ? How much do an Escrow service cost then ? What would be a total expense and would it pay a seller ?

Hi FGclips,

We've noticed an issue with many users who have used their Verizon email addresses to register accounts or update their contact information. We believe that the ISP (Verizon itself) may be blocking some emails as spam. You may wish to speak to them directly to see if this is the case. Otherwise, there may be a local setting that could be interfering with the delivery of these emails.

Take care!

Always,
Keith

Several days ago I made an account on sedo. It said a e-mail would be on it's way to confirm my account. I still haven't received any e-mail. Also, I don't recall my username and password, so I went to "lost password" and typed in my e-mail address. It said an e-mail with my password was being sent to my e-mail. But that was 40 minutes ago (now it's been like 12 hours later) and I still haven't gotten it. I would've though it'd be instant.

And if it makes any different my e-mail end in "@verizon.net"

I guess what I'm asking is how long does it normally take for sedo to approve?