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)

 

[wot]

Sedo – now look what you have done!

Posted on March 12, 2012 by admin

Sedo- you have let the ASCII IDN lookalike get away with it now everybody wants in on it and the in is from India.

All these names owned by the same person all with bids of $1000,now,I wonder how that happened he is either incredibly lucky or—- ?


bizx.coo

guinnessworldrecords.co

888sports.co

afilias.co

animax.co

ansearch.co

bewin.co

The above is an excerpt from my blog,if you want to see just how many of these shill bids are on your auction just look to my signature!

 

[wot]

Sedo – now look what you have done!

Posted on March 12, 2012 by admin

Sedo- you have let the ASCII IDN lookalike get away with it now everybody wants in on it and the in is from India.

All these names owned by the same person all with bids of $1000,now,I wonder how that happened he is either incredibly lucky or—- ?


bizx.coo

guinnessworldrecords.co

888sports.co

afilias.co

animax.co

ansearch.co

bewin.co

The above is an excerpt from my blog,if you want to see just how many of these shill bids are on your auction just look to my signature!

Amazingly the shill bid ascii have been removed!

The ascii look alike IDN with the shill bids are still there so at least we know what is acceptable! :p

 

[DNBro]

Anyone can confirm sedo make offer page working or not, after entering amount and click make offer button then page back to same make offer page not to offer submission page or to minimum bid amount message page.

I checked same through opera, chrome, and ie

thanks

 

[wot]

Sticking out like a sore thumb?

privateshopping.eu 300,000 EUR 1 bid

http:// www. sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_detail.php?language=e&auction_id=126035&tracked=&partnerid=14460&language=e

Registered March 16, 2012

 

[Embrand]

Sticking out like a sore thumb?

privateshopping.eu 300,000 EUR 1 bid

http:// www. sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_detail.php?language=e&auction_id=126035&tracked=&partnerid=14460&language=e

Registered March 16, 2012

Has it met reserve? :lol:

 

[wot]

Has it met reserve? :lol:

Bidder 1 Mar/19/12 09:22 PM CET 300,000 EUR

Auction cancelled

Still a few of those crappy ASCII look alike IDN allowed to continue though!

 

[sbs]

Sedo Domain Transfer Contact??

Sedo Team,

I have sent a domain transfer request last week and its not entertained yet. The buyer is getting impatient and my backup. I have sent two emails to Colin Finnan and [email protected] . Is there anyone else who can help me?

Normally Colin is pretty quick in response but I am not sure if she still works or out of office. Is there anyone else who can help me?

Regards

 

[DNBro]

Sedo Team,

I have sent a domain transfer request last week and its not entertained yet. The buyer is getting impatient and my backup. I have sent two emails to Colin Finnan and [email protected] . Is there anyone else who can help me?

Normally Colin is pretty quick in response but I am not sure if she still works or out of office. Is there anyone else who can help me?

Regards

Send details to [email protected] or [email protected]

 

[Sull]

Something isn't right about this one. 1 bid for 100,000 EUR for a double hypenated name on SEDO. The .com of this name is parked.

payday-loans-uk.co.uk/



Quite the jump in price. Is it me or does it seem a bit unfathomable?

 

[GiftedDomains]

This is very shady.
Besides, lets assume for one second this guy really found someone who would pay 100K for such a name with 2 hyphens. You would assume he wouldn't start an auction, but rather sell the name instantly to the buyer, take the money and run.

 

[Sull]

This is very shady.
Besides, lets assume for one second this guy really found someone who would pay 100K for such a name with 2 hyphens. You would assume he wouldn't start an auction, but rather sell the name instantly to the buyer, take the money and run.

Exactly!

 

[JB Lions]

Needed something real quick from Live Chat but:

Monday - Wednesday: 09.00 AM - 11.00 AM CET
Thursday - Sunday: Closed

What is that? Closed 4 days and the 3 days you have it, just 2 hours per day, 6 hours a week? I'm not even up yet those hours Why even have it.

 

[opalxx]

Am i seeing things or is it just me? The number of my listed domains with uniques seem to have increased greatly. Unfortunately the earnings on these domains are mostly non-existent. Interesting that the greatest earner is an mx domain.

 

[DorianGray]

"Seller's country" : This is discrimination IMO. What does it matter if I'm from Cuba, but selling German names? Who cares? Not the buyers for sure.

"Great" domains : I don't think so. Take a look at the current list. But if you would submit your old, one-word, precious, premium .COM domain you bought at some other high competition auction for $x,xxx it will likely get refused with a mysterious Q (Quality) reason. Give it a try, and see.

 

[wot]

Something isn't right about this one. 1 bid for 100,000 EUR for a double hypenated name on SEDO. The .com of this name is parked.

payday-loans-uk.co.uk/



Quite the jump in price. Is it me or does it seem a bit unfathomable?

Stuck out like a sore thumb did it not!

No longer on auction and listed at 200 euro or best offer.

But they are still allowing the IDN ASCII look alike names, the sellers are now a bit more savvy and shill with a lower opening bid.

 

[sedo_ripped_me_off]

I bid for SMS.com, at the time all screen shots listed stated sms.com (Have a copy) now it turns out that it was an IDN name (missed the very very tinny logo as I'm new to buying websites), turns out that SMS.com, Why does SEDO hide what the URL is? surely another column on the auction overview screen? Once I saw this i only placed bids through their aution page, upon which there is not mention of the true website address only SMS.com

After winning the bid for which i paid 800 euros I commisioned a web designer to create a website for SMS text messages, this cost me £2900 plus VAT (I know its a lot but he has done a bloody good job on my previsou pages and it would be unique and copyrighted material only)... Turns out i have nowhere to put it.

I believe that Sedo may not go out of their way to hide it, but, dont help the bidder to know what they are bidding for. In all fairness who here actually bids for a domain name, its the address (URL) most people want and think they are buying.

I was meant to get help from Lozan Yohannes on +49-221-34030-181, but this morning she farmed me off stating it was now a case for her director and the legal team. I'm down nearly £3500 and all becuase they continue to hide (I'm not saying its not there just very well hidden) the URL address.

If they are the biggest they need to make the website more friendly for novice users, if i went onto eBay and bought a "Sony Playstation" only to find that it was a replica i could get the money back... Why are these scammers any different??

ETC ETC

 

[wot]

I bid for SMS.com, at the time all screen shots listed stated sms.com (Have a copy) now it turns out that it was an IDN name (missed the very very tinny logo as I'm new to buying websites), turns out that SMS.com, Why does SEDO hide what the URL is? surely another column on the auction overview screen? Once I saw this i only placed bids through their aution page, upon which there is not mention of the true website address only SMS.com

After winning the bid for which i paid 800 euros I commisioned a web designer to create a website for SMS text messages, this cost me £2900 plus VAT (I know its a lot but he has done a bloody good job on my previsou pages and it would be unique and copyrighted material only)... Turns out i have nowhere to put it.

I believe that Sedo may not go out of their way to hide it, but, dont help the bidder to know what they are bidding for. In all fairness who here actually bids for a domain name, its the address (URL) most people want and think they are buying.

I was meant to get help from Lozan Yohannes on +49-221-34030-181, but this morning she farmed me off stating it was now a case for her director and the legal team. I'm down nearly £3500 and all becuase they continue to hide (I'm not saying its not there just very well hidden) the URL address.

If they are the biggest they need to make the website more friendly for novice users, if i went onto eBay and bought a "Sony Playstation" only to find that it was a replica i could get the money back... Why are these scammers any different??

ETC ETC

I have already posted this on my blog in my signature where you will see that this has been going on at Sedo for some months with them doing nothing about it.

If it's any consolation you are not alone and will no doubt be joined by others ensnared by names that look like ASCII and are in fact IDN and usually set off and running with shill bids to draw in the unwary.

Also see here:

http://www.namepros.com/warnings-and-alerts/748032-com-i-was-a-victim.html

---------- Post added at 05:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 PM ----------

This was on my blog:

http:// monikerblog.com/?p=468

I am guessing we are not too far away from a full blown court case with Sedo having to defend their actions as I am sure that at least one of those getting caught out will take it the extra mile and with so much information around maybe a good lawyer could make it really uncomfortable for Sedo?

 

[Adrian98]

There are many mixed reviews about Sedo, some folks say that its good company and some say that its not!! In my point of view every company has both type of reviews and as far as I know the majority of the reviews for Sedo is Good!!

 

[wot]

There are many mixed reviews about Sedo, some folks say that its good company and some say that its not!! In my point of view every company has both type of reviews and as far as I know the majority of the reviews for Sedo is Good!!

Are you the new Sedo rep incognito? :p

 

[GiftedDomains]

This is not about a "Sedo review".
They should just stop this IDN Bullshit, or change their website in a way that buyer 100% notices that he is bidding on a crappy ASCII IDN Domain and everything is fine again with SEDO.