To feature on Sedo, or not?

[MissyBC]

In which cases should you feature? Any body have experience? If I don't feature will my domains ever be seen?

 

[cmason]

In which cases should you feature? Any body have experience? If I don't feature will my domains ever be seen?

I made the mistake of featuring 1 domain on the main page that probably was not worth it. Over about 20 days over 1200 people have seen it, but no offers.

On the other hand...I have another 39 domains listed with Sedo...10 have less than 5 views in the last month or so, but most of the others have 200+ and often have about 18-35 a day. The quality of the domain and the CORRECT category are HUGE when it comes to offer views with Sedo.

From my experience, albeit limited, only go featured if the domain is GREAT, but also one of hundreds...that way it will be set apart from the rest. If it has a great fit into a category, I would recommend using only the category feature.

Yes, this is advice from a newb, but I thought that paying $50 for a listing would be an automatic sale...boy was I wrong and I have learned plenty since!

Hope this helps and hopefully others chirp in here.

 

[03kentb70]

I've only been domaining a month with most of that time just spent reading and learning but I did feature one domain on the sedo home page that I hand-regged and it sold for $1,051. So having had a 100% success rate I think it's certainly worth doing . I did notice that I got more views and offers when I put a price on the domain instead of just listing it as make offer. Hope this helps .

 

[cmason]

I've only been domaining a month with most of that time just spent reading and learning but I did feature one domain on the sedo home page that I hand-regged and it sold for $1,051. So having had a 100% success rate I think it's certainly worth doing . I did notice that I got more views and offers when I put a price on the domain instead of just listing it as make offer. Hope this helps .

NICE WORK!! That's a pretty sweet sale so early in domaining. I initially had prices on all of my domains (as advised), but then removed them as I was scared that a $995 price may scare away some bidders - perhaps that logic is incorrect. I think I will put prices back on all of my domains and if they really want the domain they will at least make an offer.

 

[garptrader]

Don't waste your money

The feature listing will attract some additional eyeballs but mostly from domainers not end users. Yes a few folks might get lucky with a listing but the money spent is not typically going to produce the result you desire.

One thing I have tried in the Spanish market was setting up a site for my domains and using Google Adwords to promote the site. At least that way each visitor which costs you pennies potentially can see any of your domains for sale (versus $50 to promote one domain which likely won't sell). The downside even with this approach is that the folks typing "domains" or phrases with the word "domain" are often domainers as well.

 

[moby]

Hi

I have been considering - Featuring with sedo for along time also, but when you consider the cost and also the sales commision Fee etc.

Choosing the right category as cmason and sedo suggest for listing/sales is important.

I havn't had any sales with sedo, just direct - enquires/contact from buyers.

How many millions of domains do they say is on their system 10,11 ??

 

[cmason]

Hi

I have been considering - Featuring with sedo for along time also, but when you consider the cost and also the sales commision Fee etc.

Choosing the right category as cmason and sedo suggest for listing/sales is important.

I havn't had any sales with sedo, just direct - enquires/contact from buyers.

How many millions of domains do they say is on their system 10,11 ??

At the beginning of my Sedo career I left 4 names uncategorized, which had about a total of 4 views over a week. I then categorized them appropriately and was getting 25+ a day for each. Now, I'm going to put prices up on all of my domains and see if that increases the viewership. I'm a little psycho about stats so I download my Sedo data every night to analyze what happens day-by-day.

 

[03kentb70]

NICE WORK!! That's a pretty sweet sale so early in domaining. I initially had prices on all of my domains (as advised), but then removed them as I was scared that a $995 price may scare away some bidders - perhaps that logic is incorrect. I think I will put prices back on all of my domains and if they really want the domain they will at least make an offer.

Ty and gl with the new pricing .

 

[000]

I'm thinking about trying it with a pretty decent .com of mine.... but haven't decided yet. I would say though that setting a (fair!) price for the domain is a good idea. So many domainers are so hard to work with (asking $10,000 for any domain, etc) that many times I think buyers don't even bother making offers.

 

[cmason]

I'm thinking about trying it with a pretty decent .com of mine.... but haven't decided yet. I would say though that setting a (fair!) price for the domain is a good idea. So many domainers are so hard to work with (asking $10,000 for any domain, etc) that many times I think buyers don't even bother making offers.

Heh! Sounds like what most GoDaddy users do with their "premium" listings - although the 30%+ commission probably helps fuel this a little. Of course, there are a lot of premium domains that are priced pretty well on GoDaddy as well.

 

[Len]

I have a success rate of about 75% in the featured domains section. I pay the $69 to have the domain featured across the sedo system. I know this is almost twice the price than the regular $39 listing, but it is worth the cost to have the domain listed on the four other Sedo markets - UK, Germany, France and Spain.
My last 3 buyers for my featured domains have been from France!

What you should do when putting a domain into the featured section is:

1. Pick a domain that is likely to get a lot of interest - There's no point in putting something like bigredapplesinabasket.com in there - use your common sense.

2. List all your domains that are for sale in the description. This ensures that your domains will get seen by anyone looking at your domain and will increase your chances of offers on those too.

3. Put a price on the domain that is reasonable and attractive to prospective buyers. Buyers are attracted to listed prices rather than "Make offer" and I find it best to have something like $995 rather than $1000.

Good luck

 

[cmason]

I have a success rate of about 75% in the featured domains section. I pay the $69 to have the domain featured across the sedo system. I know this is almost twice the price than the regular $39 listing, but it is worth the cost to have the domain listed on the four other Sedo markets - UK, Germany, France and Spain.
My last 3 buyers for my featured domains have been from France!

What you should do when putting a domain into the featured section is:

1. Pick a domain that is likely to get a lot of interest - There's no point in putting something like bigredapplesinabasket.com in there - use your common sense.

2. List all your domains that are for sale in the description. This ensures that your domains will get seen by anyone looking at your domain and will increase your chances of offers on those too.

3. Put a price on the domain that is reasonable and attractive to prospective buyers. Buyers are attracted to listed prices rather than "Make offer" and I find it best to have something like $995 rather than $1000.

Good luck

Len, you just gave me some great insight into my Sedo view stats. As per my previous post here, I have a good number of non-featured domains that get 20+ views a day...I just realized that ONLY those are listed in my single "featured" domain description!! *THAT* must be why they are getting views...just added more to the the description list to see if it brings those up as well!!

If this is true, it is DEFINITELY worthwhile to have at least one featured domain with the rest of your domains listed in the description.

Many thanks!!

 

[cmason]

Len, you just gave me some great insight into my Sedo view stats. As per my previous post here, I have a good number of non-featured domains that get 20+ views a day...I just realized that ONLY those are listed in my single "featured" domain description!! *THAT* must be why they are getting views...just added more to the the description list to see if it brings those up as well!!

If this is true, it is DEFINITELY worthwhile to have at least one featured domain with the rest of your domains listed in the description.

Many thanks!!

UPDATE: Put all of my domains in the description for my featured listing and now even the domains that were getting 0 views a day before are now getting 20+!!! My featured domain is only getting about 60 views a day so this is a HUGE benefit. From now on I am going to make sure that I always have at least 1 featured domain.

Hope this helps others.

 

[03kentb70]

UPDATE: Put all of my domains in the description for my featured listing and now even the domains that were getting 0 views a day before are not getting 20+!!! My featured domain is only getting about 60 views a day so this is a HUGE benefit. From now on I am going to make sure that I always have at least 1 featured domain.

Hope this helps others.

Nice, gj . I'm just deciding what do do with my odmains now (which ones to develop, auction, pitch to end users etc.). I know at least 1 or 2 will be being featured at sedo :P.
P.S. You put not instead of now.