Sedo publishes fact sheet about its promotion and pricing levels.
I have to admit I’ve been a bit confused by the various listing levels now offered at Sedo, especially when it comes to the SedoMLS system.
Sedo has published a new fact sheet that compares the levels, and it makes more sense to me now.
Here’s the basic gist.
There are three levels: Sedo, SedoMLS Basic, and SedoMLS Premium.
If you list your domains on Sedo, regardless of the options you choose the domains will show up on Sedo.com (and its international sites) as well as select SedoMLS Basic partners. That said, most SedoMLS Basic partners will only display your name if it has a “buy now” price.
If your domain sells on Sedo’s web sites you pay a 15% commission unless the domain is parked with Sedo and has a fixed price, in which case you pay 10%. If the domain sells on a partner site, you pay a 20% commission with no discount for parked domains. There are also minimums.
For maximum exposure you need to list your domains with SedoMLS Premium. This is akin to Afternic DLS Premium. At the premium level you must list a fixed price for your domains. Customers of partner sites can instantly purchase your domain on those sites, so your domain must be registered at a partner registrar. The commission is 20%.
There are a couple notable differences between pricing at Sedo and Afternic.
Afternic offers “DLS Network”, which is fairly similar in concept to SedoMLS Basic. DLS Network charges only a 15% commission compared to Sedo’s 20%, and if you park your domain with Afternic the commission drops to 10%. With Sedo you get similar pricing only if your domain sells on Sedo’s web sites.
Second, at both company’s premium levels the commission rate is 20%. However, with Afternic it’s only 15% if you park your domains with them. Sedo does not offer a parking discount if your domain sells anywhere except its own web sites.
SL says
Is it just me or did advanced search for domains disappear at Afternic? Seems like there’s no way to filter by criteria any more (e.g. begins with, by TLD, etc.)
Andrew Allemann says
@ SL – you can do that at BuyDomains.com, which has all of Afternic’s inventory
http://www.buydomains.com/find-premium-domains/index.jsp?searchType=advanced
Acro says
“If your domain sells on Sedo’s web sites you pay a 15% commission unless the domain is parked with Sedo, in which case you pay 10%. ”
Only if you list it with a fixed price. If it’s a make offer listing, the fee is 15%.
I don’t agree with the automatic inclusion to the SedoMLS “Basic”, there should be an option to remove oneself from it.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Acro – I had missed that on Sedo’s pricing, thanks. I updated it.
So you don’t like automatically being in MLS Basic because of the higher fee?