This is why I hate Sedo...

[Cush]

I have been a member of Sedo for well over a decade, but my record with actually completing a purchase on their site is 0 for 12. Unless you are buying one of the promoted high dollar figure domains, the rest of the site is useless because the sellers of the domains no longer own them or check their Sedo account. There have been 12 different occasions where I purchased/paid for a domain, only to get a refund because the person let the name expire 5+ years ago and no longer owns it, or their account is inactive.

I hate Sedo for this reason. It is a lot like Flippa, where people listed domains many years ago, yet they still appear on the site, even though they are not for sale.

Does anyone else have a similar experience?

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

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I get regular emails if I have domains there that expire. Had a few instances where domain was listed. Txt or screenshot will fix.
I'll take sedo over godaddy anyday. Only when they let me add my google analytics so I can see true stats, which are very important. Sorry you experienced this

 

[Shimmy]

Sedo's GDPR excuse is laughable. I never had a sedo account and when I saw my domains listed on sedo and contacted them they flat out refused to delete them. Even when GoDaddy shown the whois info, they still refused to check whois. Lazy employees always wanted a screenshot of my GoDaddy account which they will never get. Seemed like they did everything they could to keep old fake listings up.

 

[biggie]

You make a good point but in this case the volume has nothing to do with it in my opinion

Hi

"volume" also includes the quantity of domains added to their platform as well.
for many domainers, listing on sedo is one of 1st. actions taken, after acquisition.

My assumption is that they're not removing them for a marketing/business reason. For instance, keeping an outdated listing alive can still bring in new leads that may eventually buy another domain on that platform.

Hi

unless outdated names still have nameservers pointed to sedo, then any visitors would likely come from those already on sedo, who used the search function.

and....
i doubt any company would intentionally or purposely maintain outdated listings for marketing purposes, because that would reduce the credibility of them,
thus resulting in lower sales.... which would affect the business and industry credibility.

i think they are smarter than that.

imo....

 

[Deven Patel]

unless outdated names still have nameservers pointed to sedo, then any visitors would likely come from those already on sedo, who used the search function.

Correct, there wouldn't be any direct traffic coming into the marketplace in that case. But there are other ways to utilize outdated listings for lead gen. E.g.:

1. Marketplace Search: When potential buyers are searching names and an outdated listing pops up that they like, they will contact the marketplace to purchase it. That presents an opportunity for the marketplace to either (a) sell them another name or (b) contact the current owner of the outdated listing to see if they want to sell.

2. Search Engines: The outdated listings will still appear in search engines like Google where potential buyers could still come from.

3. Inventory: Marketplaces can brag about the number of listings across all their marketing collateral. As you yourself pointed out to me earlier, a lot of people correlate big numbers with success.

i doubt any company would intentionally or purposely maintain outdated listings for marketing purposes, because that would reduce the credibility of them,
thus resulting in lower sales.... which would affect the business and industry credibility.

i think they are smarter than that.

With all due respect, that's your opinion. If that's the case then why not remove the outdated listings right away? They can be removed instantly from a technical standpoint. Or even if they have to do it manually, why not do it ASAP if it will hurt their reputation?

IMO, it's all about pros and cons. If the pros outweigh the cons, it's worth keeping them. Every marketplace is run by different people so it's up to them to decide what's more important to them and act accordingly.

Another thing to consider is that every marketplace has its own set of priorities. It could easily be that they want to remove outdated listings but they just don't have enough resources to allocate to it because of other priorities higher up their list.

All that said, obviously these are all speculations and we may never truly know the reason behind it so let's give the marketplaces the benefit of the doubt.

Nevertheless, this is a great thought-provoking conversation!

 

[Altoz]

I gave up on TXT & CNAME ages ago with Sedo...

Point your nameservers to Sedo first then list the domain and it gets accepted almost instantly......then you can change your nameservers to wherever you like afterwards.....

Regarding the point by the OP - it happened to me several weeks ago - hit BIN on a Geo and it turned out they no longer owned the domain, first time it had happened to me.......

I wonder if this trick can be used on all the platforms that require that you point the NS.
To point NS is what discourage me to use them. How do I know what marketing they are using? Are they really proactive, reaching the potential clients via dbase or newsletter or are they so popular that the buyers flock to them everyday or?
The same decision people have to do with real estate. Do you give any particular agency exclusive listing or going shotgun (with all) and who sells get's the commission.

Would love to hear some constructive opinion. TIA

 

[NickB]

I wonder if this trick can be used on all the platforms that require that you point the NS.
To point NS is what discourage me to use them. How do I know what marketing they are using? Are they really proactive, reaching the potential clients via dbase or newsletter or are they so popular that the buyers flock to them everyday or?
The same decision people have to do with real estate. Do you give any particular agency exclusive listing or going shotgun (with all) and who sells get's the commission.

Would love to hear some constructive opinion. TIA

If you want to use a company's landing page (Sedo, Dan etc etc) you have to permanently point the NS to them

For verification purposes I don't see why it won't work for all platforms that allow it.... that is my understanding unless someone can explain differently......

 

[Altoz]

If you want to use a company's landing page (Sedo, Dan etc etc) you have to permanently point the NS to them

For verification purposes I don't see why it won't work for all platforms that allow it.... that is my understanding unless someone can explain differently......

Exactly that. I have my domain portfolio setup with prices, logos etc. and using url forward to point to my domains, but I feel I am not getting any exposure as I am not crazy about the SEO and Google changing algorithm as they wish. You give me the idea, point ns to multiple platforms, one by one, wait to be verified on each first and then still use url forward to my own portfolio. I don't mind at all paying commission if any of the platform that will sell my domain, but I do mind to get stuck on one particular platforms that will not produce. Would that work?