Sedo Domain Verification - This is gonna suck!

[MapleDots]

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On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation will take effect. This means the WHOIS will “disappear”. In the new public record system, personal data will no longer be visible either to individuals or Sedo. So far we were able to verify from the WHOIS records that you are the legitimate owner of the domains you listed for sale. This means it will be much harder for us to match your account data with the WHOIS information in order to clear your domains for sale on our site.

The Solution: Our Owner Self-Verification. With the Owner Self-Verification, you can quickly prove your ownership of any domain you list for sale. Even on weekends and holidays!


3 steps to Owner Self-Verification

1. Sedo provides you with a personal ID in your account under "Domain Management" under the tab "Owner Self-Verification".
2. Copy it and enter it at your registrar. To do this, visit your registrar and make this update within the DNS settings.
3. Enter your verification ID into the TXT record field of your domains. If your registrar needs you to submit a Hostname, simply enter “@”. Also, if you need to enter a TTL value, please enter “3600”.

Your ownership will be verified once the DNS information is updated. With your support, we can ensure that only domains that have owner-verified credentials are still listed on the marketplace.






No Owner Self-Verification = longer wait times

If you do not perform the Owner Self-Verification, it will take at least 3 business days for your domains to be listed for sale. During the review period, we will randomly check individual domains and may contact you to request proof of ownership (e.g., in the form of an up-to-date screenshot of the domain entry).


Self-Verification is not available for domain parking

If you already use Sedo's domain parking and forward your domains through our domain name servers (DNS), owner self-verification is currently unavailable. DNS forwarding enables your domains to be automatically listed for sale without waiting time. As of now, nothing changes for you.


We want to provide buyers and sellers with a safe and user-friendly platform at all times and look forward to your support. Do you have questions about owner verification? Our Customer Support Team is happy to answer them.

Best regards,
Your Sedo Team

 

[MapleDots]

I hate the idea of DNS modifications especially when it would have to be done to hundreds of domains and after that to change it back. Then again to do it for flippa or whoever else will need it.

Does anyone have bulk tools to do this easily?

Crap what a bloody mess!!!

 

[creataweb]

I assume this is only for newly listed domains?

 

[Shackleton]

That sounds too complicated for simple me.

 

[BRANDERX]

That sounds too complicated for simple me.

Don't worry, its copy & paste.

Do it just before you change your DNS

Thats all.

 

[Shackleton]

Are you the famous Ms. Domains from the IDN world? I've ran across a lot of domains registered by you in the whois.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Almost all endusers are visiting the necessary domain directly...
So Bodis and ParkingCrew are enough... OR your own contact form...

All these marketplaces are created just to grab your money.

And even SedoMLS is absolutely useless... because GoDaddy is NOT covered by their distribution.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I assume this is only for newly listed domains?

Yes.

 

[BRANDERX]

Are you the famous Ms. Domains from the IDN world? I've ran across a lot of domains registered by you in the whois.

nope I am not...

 

[domains21]

Am I right in thinking that dynadot doesn't have the functionality to do this?

Also, I wonder if it would be possible for the registrars to implement an advanced where you can enter in your verification id and have them do the leg work for you.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Does anyone have bulk tools to do this easily?

Not free, but for reasonable monthly price you can run your own NS: https://www.cloudns.net/private-dns-servers/
And easily manage DNS per whole your portfolio (regardless of registrars)...

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

No "owner self - verification".
=
No problem.
If I can "wait" for a sale, I also can "wait" +3 days...

In the meanwhile I can count the top's of my domain.

< click

 

[golan]

I hate the idea of DNS modifications especially when it would have to be done to hundreds of domains and after that to change it back. Then again to do it for flippa or whoever else will need it.

I hope this will be finally a death to damn registrars which make bulk operations difficult or impossible, like Namecheap and so on.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Am I right in thinking that dynadot doesn't have the functionality to do this?

TXT/CNAME records are supported using Dynadot nameservers...
And almost all registars provide their DNS service.

But when portfolio is LARGE and across many registrars - the best way is to centralize DNS, as mentioned by me above.

 

[alcy]

no one will bother with this. this is dinosaur stuff to change records. especially if u gotta do it for flippa and others too.

everyone will just wait out the 3biz days and let them handle it...

 

[domains21]

TXT/CNAME records are supported using Dynadot nameservers...

Yes but, they only have fields for the Record Type and IP/Host, not Response. Unless I am missing something blindingly obvious? (this is quite possible)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yes but, they only have fields for the Record Type and IP/Host, not Response. Unless I am missing something blindingly obvious? (this is quite possible)

https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/create-TXT-record

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

One more option...
If you want to display your Name in WHOIS...
Put it into Organization field... and it will be shown 100%.

 

[Shackleton]

One more option...
If you want to display your Name in WHOIS...
Put it into Organization field... and it will be shown 100%.

If I do that, will it count as a whois change and mean my domains can't be sold for 60 days?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

If I do that, will it count as a whois change and mean my domains can't be sold for 60 days?

Many registrars provide "opt-out" feature to disable "60 days" completely.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And even if "60 days" lock is active - it blocks only the transfer to another registrar.
But within current registrar you may push it at any time.

 

[Shackleton]

Thanks Jurgen Wolf

 

[DubDubDubDot]

I don't foresee many domainers bothering with this.

 

[MapleDots]

I hope this will be finally a death to damn registrars which make bulk operations difficult or impossible, like Namecheap and so on.

The problem is that with almost all registrars you cannot do this in bulk unless you do what @Jurgen Wolf mentioned.

I sure as hell am not going to fiddle with 1000 dns settings and I sure as heck would not want those setting there permanently so I would have to go in and change it a second time.

I just listed 800+ domains at a marketplace and if they asked me to do any of that I would have told them to take a hike.

We are going to have to figure out a better way to do domain verification.
Why not just drop a text file into the main folder via ftp? That works well for google and all of my domains are parked in the same folder anyways so this would be the absolutely easiest way to do it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just use Organization field...
It will be visible in WHOIS even after May'25.
And that's all.