Sedo is selling my domain?!

[nodom]

Hi everybody!
I just realised looking up the whois from one of my domains that it says it's on sale. I checked Sedo and realised it's listed for 1500$. I just bought it as closeout in GD for 5$ last week, and obviously the old owner tried to sell it on sedo.
So my questions are: Why the he-- would someone try to sell it for 1500 and then just let it expire, he could have come up with a somewhat more sensible price right?
But mainly I would like to know if there really is a buyer showing up who are they contacting, the old owner, that made the listing, or me as the actual owner now? If someone makes an offer do I even know?
Is sedo just slow and will drop it anyway ones their whois is showing up that the guy selling it is not the owner anymore?
Depending on this I'll know if I tell sedo to take out the listing (don't really mind it sitting there as long as people contact me)
I guess this must be such a common thing that, most people wouldn't even bother to give me an answer, however beeing new to the whole domainworld i would appreciate it if someone would enlighten me a bit.
Thanks :tu:

 

[ARonald]

The domain may well have been left in his sedo account and he let the domain expire. The problem is if you wish to add the domain on sedo it will take some time for sedo to verify the current owner of the domain.

 

[cache]

you may simply notify the old owner, asking him to take the domain off from his account

 

[nodom]

Thanks for the reply! How to find out his details? Any free tool to check the domainhistory?
Thanks

 

[tech4]

One of my domain is for sale by someone else at SEdo. I told sedo to do something. I gave them 72 hours window they did not do anything.

I made an offer to the "ower" for xxx,xxx. No reply.

That's sedo.

 

[GreenGambler]

Contact Sedo and let them know that the old owner has not removed it from his account yet. Also you might try contacting that owner and asking him to remove the name.

 

[snicksnack]

try to add the domain to your sedo account. Then Sedo will do ownership review. Sometimes if you use whois protection service, you need to send them a screenshot from the registrar account panel showing the domain.

 

[jagdotme]

Thanks for the reply! How to find out his details? Any free tool to check the domainhistory?
Thanks

Type your domain name and see if the other dudes details come up.

Archive - Who.is

 

[nodom]

Thanks to ya all!
Strangely there is no info showing up on the old owner, however i wrote Sedo to withdraw the domain, let's see what they do...
@tech4 LOL with 6digits one should think to get some reaction after all

 

[Jaco]

Why the he-- would someone try to sell it for 1500 and then just let it expire, he could have come up with a somewhat more sensible price right?

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in domain buying is to believe resellers of low caliber names posses some sort of underlying wisdom or logic in anything they do. The don't. They're like monkeys, randomly throwing darts.

Old for-sale listings on expired names is actually a fairly standard occurrence of people who suck at this.

The process: go register some worthless, piece of crap name that no one wants (but has "keywords" in it), put it up for sale for some exorbitant price at SEDO (that no one will ever, ever pay), renew it for a couple years (or, until you eventually 'get it' and stop acquiring names like that) then drop it once the hope dies down and reality sets in...

Godaddy makes a HUGE amount of profits off 'domain churn' - reselling old names like this to the next sucker entering the game who sees it in the expiration bin for $9 and believes his wisdom and insight must be keener than the last guys, so he buys it and repeats the lesson the first guy already learned.

 

[nodom]

thanks for the replies...