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Has anyone used undeveloped.com to sell domains? They claim to be able to increase a domainers sales by 54%.
Buyers who buy domains on DAN, usually they develop it afterwards for their own purpose or register the term under their own trademark under their own field. They don't care about existing TM and change of ownership.What matters is the date of ownership, not the registration date. If you acquire a domain that contains an existing trademark, your ownership starts after the trademark and greatly increases your risk of losing the domain. The previous owner may have registered the domain before there was any trademark and so had a reasonably secure hold on the domain, but they can't pass that on to a new owner. Plenty of discussion of that here on NP.
Also companies stealthily acquiring domains or sets of domains for future use usually do not want names published.
Hi Carob,
I personally want to share all sales but the last time we did it at DNJournal we got so many negative responses from sellers that we stopped doing it. In the future, we'll make it an opt-in to share your sales so we could start publishing sales from sellers that give us their approval to share their sales.
However, the problem here is that it might look as if we don't sell many names simply because not all sellers, in that case, will publish their sales. So that could turn into negative advertising for the company.
In terms of sales volume we're now selling significantly more than Namejet and are getting close to sell as much as Uniregistry does.
Kind regards,
Reza
@undeveloped @Reza
Issues:
3) What if you need to keep a particluar sale private (NDA, etc.), how do you opt-out of using the new blockchain feature and/or the "recently sold" feed ? There should be a checkbox or something for each name to opt-out.
Hi Springs,
About item 3: we're not sure if we'll keep that element on the homepage but if we do, we'll offer a simple button the negotiation view so you can "privatize" a sale.
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They don't care about existing TM and change of ownership.
If you do, I guess with your due diligence you'll decide the buy the domain on another platform. .
I wish i have such a problem as you..privacy, conspirasy.. trademark issues etc. I thing better not even to sell domains as potential buyer can disclose your talks to 3rd party and everything will be ruined.I wouldn't buy a domain at Undeveloped knowing the sale will be published, and not just for TM reasons. When I buy a domain or sell a domain at Sedo it is private, always.
Are you sure about that? Aren't Sedo sales always reported?When I buy a domain or sell a domain at Sedo it is private, always.
Are you sure about that? Aren't Sedo sales always reported?
I wouldn't buy a domain at Undeveloped knowing the sale will be published, and not just for TM reasons. When I buy a domain or sell a domain at Sedo it is private, always.
Could you point me where to find that? I think they were charging extra few percent for that, or at least it was this way years ago.Sedo themselves have said 80% of sales there are private, and there is a global setting to keep yours private - I set mine to private years ago.
Could you point me where to find that? I think they were charging extra few percents for that, or at least it was this way years ago.
In the end if privacy (or the lack of it) bothers you so much perhaps is better not to list your names with DAN, problem solved!
Yup, also Boise, San Leandro, Boardman. Lots of garbage traffic. See it also from outside the US. Kyoto, Chuo, Chyoda, Kyiv, etc.Can anyone confirm they were facing these bots all the time? They have been hitting my domains since yesterday nonstop.
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Looks that the mentioned MX bug/issue appeared recently... when they updated their DNS Zone template for parked domains.
I think the same thing.
Hope they read the thread and check the issue
We never ignore comments. As mentioned, I wasn't aware of us publishing any MX records. The issue you raised was true after I checked with our guys and one of our developers had introduced those records accidentally and they are removed this week.
Sedo themselves have said 80% of sales there are private, and there is a global setting to keep yours private - I set mine to private years ago.
Could you point me where to find that? I think they were charging extra few percent for that, or at least it was this way years ago.
BuyDomains.com has reporting its domain name sales for quite a while and Ron Jackson has included these sales on DNJournal.com
Also in a change of policy I’m told that brokered domain sales will be kept private upon request of either the Seller OR Buyer.
Unlike Sedo.com which charges 3% extra not to disclose the sale, there will be no fee or charge for keeping the sale private.
- One-time fee of 69 EUR for domain buyers using our Brokerage Service.
- We only charge a commission if we successfully negotiate a purchase - a fee of 15% of the gross selling price (note the minimum fee)
- Optional confidentiality: If the buyer does not wish to publish the sale of the domain name and its price, then Sedo will charge an additional fee of 2.5% of the gross selling price (minimum fee applies)
If you ask Sedo to set all your domain sales to private, they do that, it works. But obviously that does not apply to auctions.
If you read DNJournal you regularly find reports of unreported domain sales that have been uncovered by investigation.
On their website Sedo are currently saying that keeping a brokered transaction private costs 2.5% extra:
https://sedo.com/uk/what-we-offer/price-list-for-services/
There is no privacy fee on Escrow only transactions at Sedo as far as I can see:
https://sedo.com/uk/services/domain-transfer/external-transfer/
I don't see any problem with DAN publishing our sold domains without mentioning prices, as many platforms done that before like Uniregistry and Afternic, Just move on and use another platform if you don't like that.