Sedo's Travel and Tourism auction

[orcus]

Anyone have an idea what their selection criteria is for premium auctions? I submitted many relevant names and the only reply I get is "quality requirements not met".
And I see many very similar (and many worse) names listed there.

Did anyone here get their names into the auction?

Do they consider and reject a great name if it was recently picked up at a drop (from the expiring auction)? Or do they consider domain names from people with good sales history?

 

[wot]

I already posted about this here and on my new Sedo Blog .com. One guy has over a dozen names-all .biz,some great keywords-but! And he is not alone having multiple acceptances.

And yes many of the names are not very good.

 

[dotker]

I already posted about this here and on my new Sedo Blog .com. One guy has over a dozen names-all .biz,some great keywords-but! And he is not alone having multiple acceptances.

And yes many of the names are not very good.

nice blog n nice point wot.
the domain industry should be more transparent with regards this type of transactions.

 

[silentg]

Always a good idea to contact a rep or agent privately than submitting through Sedo.com. You have better chance of getting your domains approved. PM me if you want the e-mail.

 

[Ralph2472]

sedo

I know exactly what you mean orcus.

Sedo sent me an email a few weeks ago asking for submissions to this auction. I sent some short, travel related .coms and 1 .net
They were all rejected.
Have you noticed how few .coms are in the auction?
There are certainly some names which have nothing to do with travel and tourism.

The mind boggles.

Regards

Ralph.

 

[renek]

Should try contacting them directly, wonder if that helps.

 

[alien51]

If this is your first time to apply for Sedo's Themed Auction, i'm happy to tell you that your rejections are very normal. It happens almost always. Mind-boggling? Don't bother to figure it out. The ultimate answer I got from the various feedbacks is: It's SEDO's auction, it's SEDO's rules. You just move on with your life.

Your domain has a "dropped" DNA on it? Forget your chances. You are automatically rejected. It's like they are brokering for an ex-convict to marry Paris Hilton. It's embarrassing to them. Unless you handregged something like twitter, and turned it into a multimillion venture.

 

[URLmad.com]

Never submitted to it, though got an offer on Coa.st so it will be running alongside the travel and tourism auction, though it ends a little earlier - Mar/29/11 01:03 AM CET. - http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=coa.st

 

[PMC11]

To learn more about the valuation of a domain I asked the support team about the benefits of a ccTLD domain listed on Travel auction that isn't brandable, zero search on any languages in Google, and they answered the following:

"Search results are not one of the criteria taken into account. The term "*******" is very popular in ******* and this is why this domain was accepted. No more information can be provided."

 

[dninspire]

It is absolutely true that there is no realm or reason to SEDO acceptances or not. At various times I have submitted names that made absolute sense not just in US but general terms. The ones that made a perfect match were rejected and yet there have been other times where it made no sense at all (I was just submitting for the hell of it) and they accepted it.

I have also posted before about domains that I previously submitted that were rejected (I later allowed them to drop) suddenly found themselves a home on auction, yet another WTF moment!

I think it depends on the person reviewing it I guess who really knows.

 

[south]

Ditto here. Submitted some names with 20k+ exact matches.. Nada. Sedo for ya. Also agreed, many of the names listed are crap.

 

[bulkdomainz]

Don't bother to figure it out. The ultimate answer I got from the various feedbacks is: It's SEDO's auction, it's SEDO's rules. You just move on with your life.

Right on point!

 

[steveteva]

I found some nice names and bid on too.

 

[stingrae]

Sedo's auctions are a rigged game. You have to know somebody. I have several names that sold for XXXX that they wouldn't accept based on "quality criteria". Makes no sense.

 

[verbster]

yeah, Though I had a few winners for them, but they seem to like destination geo-domains a lot more than travel names. Live and learn.

 

[misterman88]

To learn more about the valuation of a domain I asked the support team about the benefits of a ccTLD domain listed on Travel auction that isn't brandable, zero search on any languages in Google, and they answered the following:

"Search results are not one of the criteria taken into account. The term "*******" is very popular in ******* and this is why this domain was accepted. No more information can be provided."

it all makes perfect since now!

 

[domainbartender]

None of my domains were accepted either, and I thought they deserved to be there

 

[carob]

Anyone have an idea what their selection criteria is for premium auctions? I submitted many relevant names and the only reply I get is "quality requirements not met".

I've never got anything accepted by Sedo. Well I wouldn't submit names if I thought they were not quality.

I really wonder how many staff work at Sedo. They are shut at weekends and they are very bad about responding to messages. Maybe there are just three staff total, and just one of them picks auction names in a big hurry, or sells the auction listing spots to the highest bidder.

 

[DNProperty.com]

Themed auctions could actually do well, but we need more competition. I don't believe Afternic does it, they should.

I had one name sell in a Themed Auction couple of years ago and the buyer bought 2 other names from me directly (names that were rejected by Sedo, but the buyer valued it and paid more).

Domain value are in the eye of the beholder anyway..

 

[infosec3]

I really wonder how many staff work at Sedo. They are shut at weekends and they are very bad about responding to messages. Maybe there are just three staff total, and just one of them picks auction names in a big hurry, or sells the auction listing spots to the highest bidder.

I had the same thought... Maybe their insistence that "after a detailed assessment, the following domains have not qualified..." hides the reality you are presenting as a possibility.

But I usually look at it this way: They are a successful company. They sell a huge number of domains. They appear to know what they are doing.

It would be a great, however, if they could stop the copy and paste to respond to domains submissions and provide specific reasons why a domain is not accepted, because as some of you point out, their domains selection seems irrational at times.