Why are Sedo park pages full of spammy malware??

[canswift]

I haven't used Sedo for ages, but finally thought I'd give them a try again. I have a few international names (.co.uk) and Sedo always had the reputation of attracting an international clientele.

I moved a couple of names in yesterday and was shocked tonight to check one of the names and see it resolved to a collection of very spammy / malware ridden pages. I didn't leave it another minute but changed the DNS right out of Sedo parking.

Has anyone else seen this cr*p with their Sedo parked names?

 

[1NiteStand]

Welcome to *0-click! Your source of get rich quick, ponzi & pyramid schemes, spam, malware, and more spam.

*Disclaimer: I am not pointing fingers at Sedo ofcourse, but rather the zero in general. Who ever is paying, is playing

 

[canswift]

I've parked these few domains at Sedo as I want to SELL them. If people are taken straight to these awful spammy pages how on earth are they going to see the For Sale notice? I've checked on Sedo this morning and Zero Click seems to be their default, and you have to request an opt-out. I can't understand why Zero Click would be enabled at all, the pages I saw were truly rank and awful.

 

[buywebsites.biz]

Welcome to *0-click! Your source of get rich quick, ponzi & pyramid schemes, spam, malware, and more spam.

*Disclaimer: I am not pointing fingers at Sedo ofcourse, but rather the zero in general. Who ever is paying, is playing

• I've used zero-click as an advertiser and never promote the kind of shlock I see on Sedo parked domains. I generally use expired domain traffic to quickly split-test a landing page or provide backfill for paid social media traffic.
• Of course it's Sedo's fault. Adwords started cleaning out spammy advertisers around 5 years ago to better the Google user experience, and they've done quite alright. But that takes vision and a roadmap beyond chasing click bids in a race to the bottom.

 

[Michael M]

You can request that Sedo remove zero click ads from your sites and it will solve this problem.

 

[NameOmnia]

I've used zero-click as an advertiser and never promote the kind of shlock I see on Sedo parked domains. I generally use expired domain traffic to quickly split-test a landing page or provide backfill for paid social media traffic.

I am interested in this..can you explain more? ( maybe via PM if you like so we don't hijack the thread )

I wonder if all the crappy and spammy links undermine the quality of domain itself, meaning if one has to manually clean them when developed.

 

[Kate]

It's time to revisit our parked domains.

 

[canswift]

You can request that Sedo remove zero click ads from your sites and it will solve this problem.

Thanks, and I had already asked Sedo to disable zero-click. The pages are now resolving in a gentler fashion, thank goodness. I couldn't hit the back button fast enough with the original Sedo pages.

 

[buywebsites.biz]

I am interested in this..can you explain more?

Parked domain traffic is a quick way to test a page design and see how users interact with it. It's just a quick and cheap way to get some human traffic to a page without giving much thought to who exactly the visitors are (as long as they're human).

I wonder if all the crappy and spammy links undermine the quality of domain itself, meaning if one has to manually clean them when developed.

A domain could get a bad Web Of Trust rating if people report the domain b/c of where it's redirecting to, which kind of sucks for the eventual enduser you sell the domain to.

 

[FPForum]

Sedo has one of the worst PPC rates in the industry, so you're not missing much anyways.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

PPC is a waste of traffic, especially on high-traffic domains.
ZeroClick is the future of parking.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just open a separate ZeroClick-accounts (don't sign Google-agreement) with ParkingCrew and Bodis... Also you may try Redirect.com