Sedo 'loses' a million domains

[Pred]

I take it the headline hooked you? :razz:

Enjoy

Great news all round I think you'll agree

I wonder if there's a few 'sauerkraut's' floating around?

 

[newguy]

If they are low value domains, I don't blame them. Sedo make it difficult to justify selling £xx and low £xxx domains with them.

 

[Pred]

none of their domains would be in that range
this is afternic and buydomains
prob high xxx cheapest

sedo trying to put a spin on things, but name media walked
clearly they had some sort of special arrangement anyway
fair enough if you're listing that quantity of domains, but my guess is sedo tried to add the extra 5% onto them too when agreement came to an end and name media gave them the bird

less competition for domainers on ssedo, plus sedo lose about a fifth of their stock
think i'm right with those figures, please correct if they didnt have 5 million domains listed

sedo will continue to lose domains as more and more targetted auction sites start up
and domainers own private sites listing domains
endusers find me from sites, corporate sales sites and parked pages, with a link back to my main sales site
plus i contact endusers and get sales
add to that people find me through whois
one of the biggest disadvantages for pure uk domainers is being found this way. or not found

add to that sedos system hides auctions and the search feature sucks
if you're a nondomainer it's not the easiest site to find domains
plus gives preference to .com when searching

i expect this trend to continue for sedo. downwards

plus when their parking system and payments etc is investigated one day
i expect nelson brady will be made to look like mother theresa

 

[websaway]

Yes, if their model was a start up it would'nt get off the ground. They owe everything to the millions of domains pointed at their site and then they try and hump you with a 5% hike and no greater service. Shame on them.

 

[Edwin]

less competition for domainers on ssedo, plus sedo lose about a fifth of their stock
think i'm right with those figures, please correct if they didnt have 5 million domains listed

Name Media has about 1,000,000 domains. Sedo has over 15,000,000 domains listed according to their own publicity. So it's certainly a chunk taken out of their inventory, but it only adds up to about 7% of their total listings. (What that equates to in % of their total SALES on the other hand, only Name Media and Sedo would know)

The one thing that this move tells us is that it's likely Name Media didn't see enough "incremental sales" from the Sedo listings to justify maintaining their portfolio on the platform under the new commission terms. Given that they have Afternic "in house", that their BuyDomains landers have sales info on them, and that (via Afternic) they have also signed distribution agreements with many large registrars, it's likely that Sedo represented an ever-diminishing slice of their overall sales pie. And given the hassle of keeping a million listings current on a 3rd party platform, the balance obviously tipped to the point that the time/effort investment was no longer justified by the Sedo listing "reward".

 

[foz]

Yes, if their model was a start up it would'nt get off the ground. They owe everything to the millions of domains pointed at their site and then they try and hump you with a 5% hike and no greater service. Shame on them.

Afternic charge similar to Sedo on the commission front (15% for non parked), so I can't see this move solely based on Sedos new commission structure.

Afternic may have done this to reduce Sedos market place scope.

I for one don't understand competitors listing with each other.

 

[Edwin]

I for one don't understand competitors listing with each other.

Different distribution deals with different registrar partners (i.e. Sedo has some partners that Afternic doesn't have, and vice-versa) = more exposure. Sometimes 80% of something is better than 100% of nothing.

 

[websaway]

Afternic charge similar to Sedo on the commission front (15% for non parked), so I can't see this move solely based on Sedos new commission structure.

Afternic may have done this to reduce Sedos market place scope.

I for one don't understand competitors listing with each other.

sedo charges 15% on parked domains ( without buy it now prices )

 

[Edwin]

Ah, but Name Media and Afternic are in the same corporate group, so the 15% presumably doesn't apply to "internal" sales. Thus any comparison to Sedo's commission rates is apples-to-oranges.

 

[foz]

Looking at each respected partners list, I think Afternic has got the better reach.

http://www.afternic.com/promotion-upgrade.php

http://www.sedo.com/us/sell-domains/sedomls/

Sedo has the advantage of being part of their own Registrar network. e.g. 1&1.

I left Afternic as the usability of the site for sellers and buyers was an abomination.