Sedo - !Rotating! Feature Listing

[Sedo]

Hi All,

Over the last few months we've really been inundated with orders for our showcase. The spike in demand made us rethink how it operates and I'm happy to report a major upgrade to the showcase that adds value and convenience.

The new showcase will rotate throughout the day. This means:

Domains can be added much sooner. You should normally only have to wait one business day after your order is processed for your showcased name to debut.

It's a random rotation so your domain will appear on the homepage throughout the 30 days it's featured there.

The new showcase system is scheduled to go online by the end of the week!

Best,
Mara
[email protected]

 

[Premium]

Awesome News!!! :tu: Great addon

 

[gazzip]

Hi Mara, Cool news - I see you got champ on board

No thoughts on showing more previous sales yet ?? Hint hint

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[equity78]

Sedo should be focused on Transparency IMO, like user ids so someone knows who is bidding on their auction like they do at Afternic. Highest anount bid should also be transparent. example if I get an offer for a name at $60 counter getanother at $75 counter get another at $100 and end the negotiation, that name will show as having 3 bids which is really disingenuous. At Afternic if someone bids $300 for a name the next potential bidder sees that and knows they must bid min $310 that is a good thing as not to waste time and let others know what has been turned down on that name. IMO and the opinion of any normal business minded person that believes there should be transparency and not back room secrecy. Sorry but coming from the investment world where you must disclose everything I believe if this industry is ever going to be considered totally credible by those outside of the domainer community, TRANSPARENCY is a big factor.

 

[Epic]

Nice feature! It seemed kinda useless to pay $40 and then have your name on the homepage for only 2 days

 

[SKG]

Thanks Mara, this is definitely a plus. So it will be similiar to showcase listing at Afternic that rotates.

 

[fonzie_007]

Good news, however, I was not very happy with having to wait nearly 3 weeks to get a refund after my domain was never listed in the featured section. I finally had to put in a paypal dispute and was refunded. Sedo shouldn't sell spaces unless there is room. Hopefully this new system solves that problem.

 

[Sedo]

Hi there,

nice to see everyone as excited as we are about the improved showcase.

The other two suggestions - displaying additional sales data and modifying the bidding system are currently improvements being discussed here

Best,
Mara
[email protected]

 

[gazzip]

Cool - It would help everyone I feel if it happens

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[SKG]

Hi there,

nice to see everyone as excited as we are about the improved showcase.

The other two suggestions - displaying additional sales data and modifying the bidding system are currently improvements being discussed here

Best,
Mara
[email protected]

Mara, I agree with Fonzie above that the problem he faced should not happen. $40 is a lot from a domainers perspective if you do not receive the promised benefit. I think the revolving method will be promising. I do have a suggestion though. When selecting a featured listing that will rotate on the frontpage of Sedo, we should be able to select which of the 4 Sedo sites to rotate them on, with the differences in prices or breaks. The reason I say this is that in the past I have listed a .de which ended up on the US page when I wanted it on the German page, etc. Also, you may want to do what Afternic does in terms of appraisals where you can tag a Sedo appraisal to a Sedo listing if one is bought.

 

[deleted984054565403]

Hello Mara,

That is good news to hear, I've been interested in listing a domain on your featured listing for some time now and it's nice to see this helpful modification is in development.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Sedo]

Mara, I agree with Fonzie above that the problem he faced should not happen. $40 is a lot from a domainers perspective if you do not receive the promised benefit. I think the revolving method will be promising. I do have a suggestion though. When selecting a featured listing that will rotate on the frontpage of Sedo, we should be able to select which of the 4 Sedo sites to rotate them on, with the differences in prices or breaks. The reason I say this is that in the past I have listed a .de which ended up on the US page when I wanted it on the German page, etc. Also, you may want to do what Afternic does in terms of appraisals where you can tag a Sedo appraisal to a Sedo listing if one is bought.

Hi SKG,

Thanks for bringing up this important point. I had forgotten to mention it in the first post. Another great improvement is the ability to select which showcase (us, co.uk, .de etc...) the domain is included in.

The new product can be checked out here:

http://www.sedo.com/showcase/?tracked=&partnerid=&language=us&productid=1110

Best,
Mara
[email protected]