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

 

[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.

 

[MapleDots]

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

I do that with all domains but that won't work for sedo and the likes.
I have MapleDots.ca as the organization on all domains. I figured I would use my domain seller address but that will probably not be enough for them.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yes, Organization is not enough for their automatic WHOIS parsing...
But it 100% should be enough for their manual approval within 48-72 hours.

 

[xynames]

Yes I was looking at that. What I am hoping is that for domains already listed...no further action required, and that this applies only to new listings.

 

[1Darko]

Yes, Organization is not enough for their automatic WHOIS parsing...
But it 100% should be enough for their manual approval within 48-72 hours.

What info do you write in - name or email?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

What info do you write in - name or email?

Name certainly.
If you are not a company.

 

[1Darko]

Name certainly.
If you are not a company.

ok - thanks!

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Another option to get your domain/s (which you have submitted to SEDO) verified / listed by them (SEDO), is to set the NS of your domain/s to the SEDO - NS
ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.sedoparking.com
and wait until your domain/s is / are listed - this normally won't take 3 days.

Then, after you domain/s is / are listed, you can change the NS back to your needed ones (if you don't use your domain/s for SEDO domainparking).