Mostly of domains listed at Sedo are not from the customer who primarily put them there and even more ones are available to register!
This matter is a SCAM with all the letters, but nobody - especially Sedo, who is pretty informed about - does anything to solve it.
My advice - except when you find a very good BIN price there - is you always contact directly to the owner of the domain by looking at registrar whois record. :gl:
Another thing to be aware of:
If the registrant does not renew a domain name, the
registrar may temporarily renew it while it determines whether the registrant will renew the domain during a limited grace period and/or while it attempts to market the name to other parties. When this happens, the WhoIs data may continue to reflect the registrant as the current owner of record even though the the registrant may have only a limited ability to recover the domain name and/or must pay a premium to restore a domain that had lapsed into the redemption period.
So even if the WhoIs data shows the
registrant as the owner of record with an expiration date months into the future, still check your registrant account to confirm that the domain was, in fact, renewed by you, the
registrant, and not by the
registrar.
I'm sure others in this forum may have a better understanding of how this process works and can do a more accurate job of explaining it than I have.
One last comment:
Having said all that, even if the domain name shows up in your individual registrant account,
always be sure to check the public WhoIs data base anyway.
I'm going through a situation right now with Moniker where I paid for (
and Moniker processed) the 2012 renewal payment for a single word dictionary domain. My Moniker account showed that Earstrings, LLC was the registrant of record, but when I attempted to renew the domain for 2013, Moniker returned an error that said,
"Object Not Found."
While my Moniker account indicated an expiration date of Sept. 2012, the domain had actually been deleted from my Moniker account last November (2011), and a check of the public WhoIs records showed the domain was now owned by another company. How this could have happened boggles my mind!
I'm still in the process of trying to resolve this matter with Moniker, and will give a complete report later as to how it all turns out.
You can never be too careful when it comes to protecting your domain names.
