Tag Archives: Sedo

Thu 12th June 2008
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Dear Maxunis, Thanks for a Spam - Auction seller sends (lots of) spam to promote his domain name. Dear “Maxunis”, I received your e-mail from maxunis@gmail.com this morning about your auction of a domain name on Sedo. In fact, all four of the e-mails. In your four e-mails (from your e-mail address maxunis@gmail.com) you wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Your website features strongly in search engines when looking for “Adult Video” or “Adult Videos” and I believe this precise and short domain name ... read more ...
Tue 3rd June 2008
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Premium .Mobi Domain Names Still Out of Compliance - Hello to all Domain Name Wire readers, Appreciate the posted commentary on .mobi domain compliance and auction results status. As a key member of the .mobi ecosystem, our dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG); the dotMobi accredited, independent not-for-profit trade forum focused on .mobi domain policies, style guides and commercialisation efforts; has started a .mobi Compliance Task Force. The goal for the task force is to further evaluate and recommend compliance policies, and encourage the ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2008
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Sedo Great Domains and Moniker Silent Auctions End Today - Premium domain names will sell today in two auctions. Domainers will spend the day entering fighting each other for the top bid: both Sedo’s Great Domains auction and Moniker’s silent auction for TRAFFIC Orlando end today. The big name in Sedo’s auction is America.com, which is currently at $1,050,000 and hasn’t met its reserve. Diamantes.com is at EUR 250,000 and also hasn’t met its reserve. So far the highest value domain name to meet its reserve is ... read more ...
Wed 21st May 2008
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Sedo Introduces Authentication System - After many complaints about incomplete deals, company offers three-tier verification system. Sedo sells a lot of domains, but many of the domain sales on its site are never completed. A number of people — including readers of Domain Name Wire — have recommended that bidders be authenticated to cut down on bogus bidding. Today Sedo introduced a three tier system for verification. Here’s how it works: 1. Tier 1 lets you bid on any domain under $10,000. You ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2008
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Domain Parking’s Future: No More Long Tail - Look for Google and Yahoo to cut out low traffic domains. I’m at the Admirals Club in Dallas, en route to Orlando for TRAFFIC. On the short flight from Austin I read the latest Forbes, which includes a short article about domain names. Titled “Bo Knows Rico”, the article discusses a lawsuit against Google that has, among other plaintiffs, Bo Jackson (same case as Vulcan Golf). The plaintiffs contend that Google is aiding cybersquatters and benefiting from ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2008
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Should we Set Minimum Offer Prices on Sedo? - Should I set minimum offer prices or let people make any offer? I’m always excited when I get an email from domain aftermarket Sedo informing me that I’ve received an offer on a domain name. That excitement usually turns to disappointment when I click through to see that the offer is for a measly $60. Please, it’s not even worth my time transferring the domain. But this may be my fault. After all, you can set a “minimum offer” price on your domain listings. ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2008
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Website Magazine Ranks “Domain Registrars” - Website Magazine knows web sites. Not domains. Website Magazine is a great free resource for domainers looking to develop their domains. But don’t turn to the publication for good advice on domain names. In the May edition, the magazine profiles “Website Magazine’s Ranking of Domain Registrars” based on traffic to the registrars’ web sites. The problem is how the magazine defines “domain registrar”. For example, Sedo is ranked #3. Sedo is a great ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2008
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Sedo Announces 2008 SedoPro Partner Forum - Domain parking and sales company announces location of next SedoPro event. Sedo has announced the location of its next SedoPro Partner Forum. This year’s event will take place in Côte d’Azur in the South of France October 26-28. Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea on Cap Ferrat only a few miles away from Nice, Cannes, and Monaco, the event will be staged at the five star Hotel Royal Riviera. Sedo plans a variety of events including sailing on 44′ luxury ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2008
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Update: Selling Domain Names on eBay - Is it worth trying to sell domain names on eBay? An experiment with Headcase.com. Everyone knows that eBay’s domain name auctions are full of junk. I personally don’t spend any time looking for domains there. But recently there have been some high profile domain auctions on the site. There are also new tools to sift through the junky domains and find winners. I’ve decided to give eBay another shot, but this time as a seller. And with a good domain, not ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2008
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Sedo Sells Co.nu, MyCanvas.com - Sales data from Sedo shows handful of five figure sales. A fresh batch of sales data from Sedo shows a number of quality domain sales for the week, including a couple .nu domains. .Nu is the country code domain name for the island state of Niue. Sedo sold Co.nu for $16,111 and Info.nu for $12,500. According to DNSalePrice, the highest ever reported .nu domain name sale was Casino.nu, which sold for $69,269 earlier this year. Other notable sales at Sedo include: bucket.com ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2008
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When Will Pizza.com Dough Arrive? - Sale yet to close. Will it? [Update: Pizza.com has now sold.] People outside the domain world were surprised to see that Pizza.com sold for $2.6 million a few weeks ago. But those of us in the domain industry have been on edge ever since. We have one question: will the deal actually close? As of today there’s no news on the deal. The whois on Pizza.com has been a private registration for many years, although Chris Clark’s (the seller) name is no longer attached ... read more ...
Wed 30th April 2008
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Survey: Escrow.com Tops for Big Ticket Domain Name Transactions - Survey shows Escrow.com is leader at facilitating large domain purchases. 34% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey said they prefer to use Escrow.com to safely pay for high dollar domain names they buy. Escrow.com is popular with domain owners because it was designed as a fully automated platform for escrow and has a particular focus on domain names. Pricing is also reasonable: $0-$5,000 3.25% $5,001-$25,000 $162.50 + 0.26% of amount over ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2008
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Survey: Sedo “Most Innovative” Domain Aftermarket Company - Company selected as “Most Innovative” when it comes to selling domain names. 45% of those surveyed in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey believe Sedo is the “Most Innovative” company in the domain aftermarket. This is the first year the question was asked on the survey. Sedo sold about $75 million worth of domain names last year, mostly through its online sites. It holds monthly “Great Domains” auctions featuring high quality domains and has over ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2008
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Survey: Sedo Best Online Sales Venue - Sedo tops list of best online sales venues. For the second year in a row, Sedo has been selected as the best online sales venue for buying and selling domain names. In a survey of 841 domain name professionals, 51% selected Sedo as the top online sales venue. Last year Sedo was first but only grabbed 36% of the vote. The question on this year’s survey was slightly different from last year, as the question specified that it only pertained to online sales venues. ... read more ...
Fri 18th April 2008
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Survey: Sedo Top Domain Name Parking Service - For the second year in a row, Sedo tops the Domain Name Wire survey. Sedo is the top choice for parking domain names, according to a survey of 841 domain name industry participants. 48% of those surveyed picked Sedo as the best domain name parking program. Last year Sedo was the winner as well but only garnered 32% of the vote. In the 2006 survey Sedo only pulled in 19%. With domain parking in upheavel, Sedo has escaped relatively unscathed. Sedo provides ads ... read more ...
Tue 8th April 2008
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Sedo Upgrades Support System - Sedo launches true online support system. Sedo is a big success in the domain industry especially for a company that exploded onto the scene earlier this decade. But one complaint I hear is that its support is non-existent. Although non-existent is a bit of a stretch, I certainly share in this frustration. The key problem as I see it is that it doesn’t (didn’t) have a centralized support system (at least that customers could see). You would send a support email ... read more ...
Sun 30th March 2008
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Pizza.com Auction Eclipses $2.5 Million - Auction for pizza.com hits reserve, may be one of biggest domain name sales ever. An auction for Pizza.com is attracting attention at Sedo. The domain has 63 bids and a current price of $2,505,000 USD as of the time of writing. That’s a whole lotta pizza — about a quarter million medium pepperoni pizzas. Although bids are still subject to verification, this sale could enliven the entire domain name market. The auction ends on April 3. Other domains in the ... read more ...
Wed 19th March 2008
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Afternic to Open Auctions to Individual Domainers - Domain sales site to open up auction platform to individual domain owners. Afternic plans to open up its auction feature this year to allow individual domain owners to submit domains for auction, the company disclosed in an online web conference. Currently, Afternic’s auctions only include domains that have met their reserve. I imagine this will work somewhat like Sedo’s auctions, where you can list qualified domains with a specific closing time but retain a ... read more ...
Thu 6th March 2008
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More Domain Name Parking Changes Coming - Ad providers continue to change rules. If you thought the death of Yahoo arbitrage and the Ask.com feed was the end of the upheaval in domain parking, think again. It appears ad providers are now changing rules for landing page formats and content. Sedo has been testing adding non-paid, organic search results on parked pages as apparently mandated by Google. So far it looks like this only applies when someone clicks on a “related search” link on parked pages, ... read more ...
Thu 28th February 2008
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Big Day for Online Domain Name Auctions - Sedo and Moniker auctions end today. Sedo’s February Great Domains auction and Moniker’s TRAFFIC silent auction both end today. Will the industry be cheering at the end of the day, or will the results be a dissapointment? Pressure is on both companies to perform. Sedo’s auctions start ending at 2PM EST today. Sedo is under pressure to perform after its GeoDomains auction. The GeoDomains auction attracted noteworthy bids, but few domains hit their reserves. ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2008
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Is Sedo Worth $350M? - Annual domain study sheds light on company’s prominence in domain market. We know Sedo is a behemoth in the domain industry. But just how big is it and what is the company worth? Sedo’s latest domain market study, along with majority owner AdLINK’s financial reports, sheds some light. AdLINK currently owns 75.94% of Sedo. It purchased 52.14% of the company in 2005 for EUR 14.031M, giving the company a pre-money valuation of approximately EUR 28M at the time. ... read more ...