Sedo slowly dying!

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Sedo domain name sales have been on a steady decline for 3-4 years now but as this is going there will be no Sedo left within a year or two. At least not like it used to be.

The Sedo website and system hasn’t been updated for years, commissions have been raised (probably to keep the profit up while overall sales plummet), and frankly I wonder what domainers are still selling domain names at Sedo. Probably only some old clients that haven’t heard of new services or don’t bother changing platforms and maybe some domainers that want to have their domains listed at every platform available.

So is Sedo slowly dying? Some will say it is already dead. It is still riding on its past good reputation. But that reputation has been tarnished...

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[Jurgen Wolf]

External Domain Transfer Service: https://sedo.com/us/services/domain-transfer/

Also you may use: http://www.epik.com/services/escrow/
FREE for their domains and 1.5% for others.

 

[ENN]

Thanks @Jurgen Wolf

 

[SeriousName.com]

I for one will be happy to see sedo leave the domain industry. From my experience a very unprofessional staff and dated platform.

 

[Joseph Green]

# of Sold Domains at Sedo on Steady Decline Since 2010 (Down 38.7%)

I searched and found the number of sold domains for the first half of each year from 2010 up to 2016. (2015 and 2016 were done manually and have 26 weeks each but have 1-2 weeks added from a previous year to make it exactly at 26 weeks.)

Year	# of Sold Domains
2010	23088
2011	21208
2012	19182
2013	19788
2014	16216
2015	14751
2016	14149

So the number of sold domains at Sedo is on a steady decline since 2010.

You'd think this trend would motivate Sedo to innovate.

 

[bluebox]

Every time I wonder why Sedo is so crappy I remember they are owned by the same company that runs 1and1

'Nuff said.

 

[golan]

they are owned by the same company that runs 1and1

Really??

 

[bluebox]

Really??

https://www.united-internet.de/en/brands/

 

[ulasbbtr]

# of Sold Domains at Sedo on Steady Decline Since 2010 (Down 38.7%)

Year	# of Sold Domains
2010	23088
2011	21208
2012	19182
2013	19788
2014	16216
2015	14751
2016	14149

You'd think this trend would motivate Sedo to innovate.

The down trend is because of the minimum $50 fee. Before that commission was %10 and users can sell and flip at small amounts. They made that decision maybe because of additional workload of that small transactions. I think they are happy with that decline in the beginning.

 

[Embrand]

What I really miss at Sedo is a dedicated for sale landing page without any ads at all. My parking revenue is a joke anyway, but not sure if Sedo wants to give away their (probably very large) share by creating a page without ads.

 

[bluebox]

What I really miss at Sedo is a dedicated for sale landing page without any ads at all. My parking revenue is a joke anyway, but not sure if Sedo wants to give away their (probably very large) share by creating a page without ads.

Redirect your names to:
https://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=ABCDE.COM&origin=parking

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

What I really miss at Sedo is a dedicated for sale landing page without any ads at all. My parking revenue is a joke anyway, but not sure if Sedo wants to give away their (probably very large) share by creating a page without ads.

Such page is offered by Bodis and Above.
+ you may try UniregistryMarket-landers.

 

[Embrand]

Redirect your names to:
https://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=ABCDE.COM&origin=parking

Yes, I have done that with a few names. But it is troublesome with many names.

 

[Embrand]

Such page is offered by Bodis and Above.

+ you may try UniregistryMarket-landers.

Thanks, but I would like to see Sedo offer such a page as well.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And to pay 15% for that???

 

[pokainc]

-Their landing pages are outdated and haven't really changed much in so many years.

-Their customer service is "meh" at best

-They have the option which says buy now / make offer, you click on "buy now", hence offering what the seller is asking and you think you got a deal! Not so fast, the seller can still decide to not accept the sale as it's a make offer /buy now, not just buy now. Yes, it makes no sense, but that's what happened and sedo support's answer was exactly that.

-They have the option to put a "buy now" strictly or "buy now / make offer". Guess what when you put "buy now / make offer" even though you have indicated a "buy now" price, when someone searches domains with a "buy now" parameter, your listing doesn't show!!

I contacted their support to ask why my listing doesn't appear in search results when someone searches "buy now" listings if my listing has a "Buy now / Make offer" option. The answer: it's not the same thing and we've found that "buy now" pricing helps the domain sell quicker... if anything I DO HAVE A BUY NOW PRICE, it's just I've put the option to potentially accept a lower offer also, but no matter what, the client that is searching for names that they can buy outright at a set price still gets what they want.
Godaddy's TDNAM thankfully shows all "buy now" listings regardless if just buy now or buy now/make offer which is only logical

I just put my names on there for the odd chance it sells, which hasn't happened with them for a very long time.. most of my sales are from personal landing pages or outbound

 

[wormfood]

I contacted their support to ask why my listing doesn't appear in search results when someone searches "buy now" listings if my listing has a "Buy now / Make offer" option. The answer: it's not the same thing and we've found that "buy now" pricing helps the domain sell quicker... if anything I DO HAVE A BUY NOW PRICE, it's just I've put the option to potentially accept a lower offer also, but no matter what, the client that is searching for names that they can buy outright at a set price still gets what they want.
Godaddy's TDNAM thankfully shows all "buy now" listings regardless if just buy now or buy now/make offer which is only logical

I think this is a problem with expireddomains.net too...for GD listings.. I could be wrong. But I found a bunch of BIN / Make offer domains that only show up in the Make offer section, but not BIN. I can't remember the expireddomains guy's username here though :p
and when you look at make offer domains, you can only see the min offer, no BIN

 

[Embrand]

And to pay 15% for that???

The Sedo process still works pretty well for me. I think they do a lot to emphasize buyer protection, which has a reassuring effect on potential buyers. But I certainly wouldn't use them as the only channel.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The same buyer protection they have just as Escrow (3% or min. $60).
So you lose the additional 12% for nothing...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Also you may link your domains to Sedo with ParkingCrew.
It is fully supported there.

 

[Embrand]

Also you may link your domains to Sedo with ParkingCrew.
It is fully supported there.

Yes, that is an option. But I just think it is nice for a buyer to see that he is only dealing with one entity - such as Sedo. I feel a bit uncomfortable when I reach a landing page by one parking company and then a link to a second company or an Escrow.com button without any clear indication of who exactly I am dealing with.