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)

 

[NameGroove]

Sedo is such a clown show.

When a buyer makes an offer, the offer is valid for 7 days. Fine.
After that the offer expires.
However, even if the offer has expired (months ago!) the seller is required to respond to the buyer before they can change the price.
Why should sellers be forced to respond to $50 lowball offers that came in months ago?
I could respond back with a $10,000,000 offer and then I'm "allowed" to cancel negotiations.
Even after speaking with Sedo CS - they said I had to respond. They prefer us to act like clowns rather than allow us to be able to change the price after an expired offer has come in.

I can't wait until they're sold and some adults enter the room

 

[Jannes]

Sedo is such a clown show.

...

I can't wait until they're sold and some adults enter the room

Yup, the upcoming "Great Domains" auction once again proves that they are a bunch of illiterate monkeys. I submitted much better .ai domains with lowish reserves than what they accepted (I regretted it immediately so I'm glad they're incompetent), but apparently 'metaglasses .ai' is crème de la crème.

 

[cooljub]

Yup, the upcoming "Great Domains" auction once again proves that they are a bunch of illiterate monkeys.

Reported as primatist.

 

[Name2go]

A good example of the modernization backlog at Sedo is the requirement to renew a sold domain if the remaining registration period is six weeks (60 days?) or less.

How often did I contact Sedo that this is nonsense because a domain can be transferred/pushed on the same day, often even if it has already expired. Usually without success.

 

[NameGroove]

Sedo just cancelled an aftermarket purchase because they couldn't get in touch with the seller to have them honor the deal. A too common occurrence on their platform which is filled with stale listings. I'm confident they didn't ban the seller either - and we all know they'll do nothing to re-verify names across their platform.

It's fun to watch a clown show. I wonder how many Sedo employees they can fit inside a volkswagen?

 

[NickB]

Sedo just cancelled an aftermarket purchase because they couldn't get in touch with the seller to have them honor the deal. A too common occurrence on their platform which is filled with stale listings. I'm confident they didn't ban the seller either - and we all know they'll do nothing to re-verify names across their platform.

It's fun to watch a clown show. I wonder how many Sedo employees they can fit inside a volkswagen?

Just the one....

 

[Name2go]

I wonder how many Sedo employees they can fit inside a volkswagen

Did you know that Volkswagen fleet includes buses and trucks?

 

[pb]

I don't think VW has buses that big, but a truck might suffice:

(source: https://sedo.com/us/about-us/)

 

[Jannes]

Who stole their faces?

 

[Domainchick.de]

Yup, the upcoming "Great Domains" auction once again proves that they are a bunch of illiterate monkeys. I submitted much better .ai domains with lowish reserves than what they accepted (I regretted it immediately so I'm glad they're incompetent), but apparently 'metaglasses .ai' is crème de la crème.

Great Auctions are completely bizarre: Domains that were accepted last time are now rejected. And domains that were rejected last time have now been accepted. It makes no sense!

 

[boker]

Sedo just cancelled an aftermarket purchase because they couldn't get in touch with the seller to have them honor the deal. A too common occurrence on their platform which is filled with stale listings. I'm confident they didn't ban the seller either - and we all know they'll do nothing to re-verify names across their platform.

It's fun to watch a clown show. I wonder how many Sedo employees they can fit inside a volkswagen?

It just happened to me with afternic, the only difference is that in my case is the buyer, who never replied after he paid. They told me they will cancel it in a couple of days. It happens to buyers and sellers as well, on both markatplaces. It happened from time to time at dan or uniregistry, so it's not anything new. All marketplaces have issues like this. Just recently, a cctld registry has cancelled a domain moved to godaddy, just because the buyer didn't updated the whois in 4 years, from the time he bought it from me and moved to godaddy and could not get in touch with him, so this happens.

 

[Timkh]

Yes, that's true. Last year, I already posted here my conversation with GoDaddy support, who assured me that Atom.com for $75k - was an active and verified listing and that I would definitely receive the domain if I paid. They even sent me an e-mail asking me to complete the purchase

 

[DrJacoby]

How come Sedo doesn't offer 2FA?

Relying solely on passwords is a major security risk. With Sedo MLS active, customers run the risk of a hacker changing the price of their LL.com (or other premium domains) to $100, and then buying it and getting it instantly transferred.

Does Sedo think it's still 1997 and not 2025?

 

[nlitenme]

Does Sedo think it's still 1997 and not 2025?

Yes.

 

[Future Sensors]

Hello,

Thank you for your comment.

As a general information we are happy to provide the following: The Hold & Release function is used to place a domain on hold and prevent purchase from any other SedoMLS partner, or to release the domain from hold again. Domain names can be placed on hold for a maximum of 4 days (96 hours), after which they are automatically released for anyone to purchase.

If a domain is listed for sale on Sedo and is promoted via our MLS network, we cannot block one particular MLS partner – Afternic in your case – from doing a fast transfer.

Kindly send us your domain in question to [email protected] so we can have a closer look and provide a more specific answer to your case.

Best regards,
Your Sedo Team

Hello @Sedo

Your most recent post is more than 3.5 months ago.

Any chance you'll return to NamePros in 2026 to address the concerns and issues raised in this Sedo thread?

https://www.namepros.com/blog/thanking-the-contributors-who-make-namepros-work.1370902/

A special thanks goes to the representatives from registrars and marketplaces who show up, listen, and respond. When product teams and support staff engage constructively, they turn criticism into improvement and suggestions into features. The representatives who genuinely listen and adapt quickly earn the community's trust and appreciation, and their presence accelerates innovation across the industry.

It is also worth noting the contrast. Representatives who withdraw when faced with constructive criticism miss an opportunity to learn and to build goodwill. The forum rewards openness and responsiveness, it does not reward silence. For companies that want to grow with domain investors, participation and humility are the shortest path to respect.

 

[carob]

How come Sedo doesn't offer 2FA?

Relying solely on passwords is a major security risk. With Sedo MLS active, customers run the risk of a hacker changing the price of their LL.com (or other premium domains) to $100, and then buying it and getting it instantly transferred.

Does Sedo think it's still 1997 and not 2025?

This has been brought up over and over here for years.

Sedo's site runs on a CMS called Typo3 for which 2FA plugins are available, for example: https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/mfa_frontend - Sedo could turn this on in a few clicks, if they wanted to, those plugin links have been posted here before.

Conclusion 1: Sedo don't care.

Conclusion 2: Enabling Sedo MLS is inherently unsafe, as it is in effect a fast transfer permission, so anyone who gets into your account can set a super low price on your domain, and when they or an accomplice then buy it, it is gone from your registrar account before you know it. Good luck arguing with unresponsive Sedo.

 

[DrJacoby]

This has been brought up over and over here for years.

Sedo's site runs on a CMS called Typo3 for which 2FA plugins are available, for example: https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/mfa_frontend - Sedo could turn this on in a few clicks, if they wanted to, those plugin links have been posted here before.

Conclusion 1: Sedo don't care.

Conclusion 2: Enabling Sedo MLS is inherently unsafe, as it is in effect a fast transfer permission, so anyone who gets into your account can set a super low price on your domain, and when they or an accomplice then buy it, it is gone from your registrar account before you know it. Good luck arguing with unresponsive Sedo.

Thank you, they don't care or they are morons. There are no other possible alternatives.

The problem is I can't find a way to disable Sedo MLS. Do you know how to do it? It should be at registrar level, right?

 

[Embrand]

Thank you, they don't care or they are morons. There are no other possible alternatives.

The problem is I can't find a way to disable Sedo MLS. Do you know how to do it? It should be at registrar level, right?

At Dynadot, you can auto-reject both Sedo and Afternic fast transfers. It is in the Marketplace Settings. A really good feature.

 

[carob]

Hi @Sedo

Will you please remove all the names that @Atom.com syndicated to your listings before the relationship between Sedo and Atom ended? These listings are invisible but the effect of them is to wrongly tell people that a given domain is not for sale, and also those hidden listings prevent domain owners from listing those domains on Sedo. If you try to list one, you get told it is already in someone else's account.

Atom.com have said here that the relationship is over and only Sedo can remove those hidden non-functional listings - will you please fix a simple problem that is preventing many users' listings and costing money? You can do this in a few clicks.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/at...merly-squadhelp.1120686/page-444#post-9522991 is what Atom said here last week:

Following Sedo’s decision to end the partnership, the syndicated listings were deactivated and Atom no longer has any role or influence in how historical listings are handled on their platform. As a result, any questions related to removing or managing listings on Sedo need to be handled directly by Sedo support.

 

[Future Sensors]

(Not my sale, just reporting)
$723,000
Oct 2025