Sedo and SedoPro
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Sedo is one of the largest domain parking providers and also offers a popular domain sales aftermarket. SedoPro is an advanced version of the service for people who have enough traffic to earn $300/month from domains or have 1,000 or more domains. Anyone can sign up for Sedo. If you want to try SedoPro, request an invitation by sending an email to invite [at] parkingjudge.com.
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Reviews (8)
David
January 8th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Payouts seem a lot lower than they used to be. Dashboard is cluncky but offers very good reports. Good for international traffic.
Successclick
January 14th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Sedo is probably the best international domain selling site in the world. Their system and escrow for domain sales is topnotch. Customer service, excellent.
Their site is a little clogged though, and hard to navigate through. Sometimes you can get lost in trying to find what you’re looking for. This can be blamed on the German propensity for “details”. To many details too soon can confuse. However, it’s not hurting them, but how much of an increase in profits will they see if they simplify their website?
Okay, on to parking. I parked my domains there and saw a huge drop compared to TZ, Parked and Domainsponsor. DBS had better payouts. I’m not a big Sedo parking fan, but I am definitely a big Sedo domain selling fan.
Tim Schumacher, Matt Bentley, and Jay Finnan have done an excellent job of keeping domains in the mainstream media, and building this company into a topnotch domain seller.
Rob
January 14th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I had the best earnings out of all programs I tested with my over 10,000 domains.
User interface could need some better usability though, but everything else (especially earnings, reports, and personal account management) are top notch!
Matthew Bailey
January 14th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Easy to read reports with a decent interface along with easy customization options.
Adil
January 19th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
While SedoPro’s payout is decent, their customer service is by far the worst in the domain industry.
TJ
February 1st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Was always happy with their customer service so far. Good and timelily payouts.
DNhop
March 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
The only way to properly assess these sites are to trial the same names for the same period of time at each.
I did exactly that in the spring of 2008.
Ten names were parked at each of five parking sites for a period of one month. The same 10 names were parked at each of the listed locations for a period of 10 days.
Those parking sites were:
Parked
Sedo
Fabulous
Bodis
NameDrive
I do not want to dive into detail of each.
These are my overall results and impressions of parking the same ten names at each of 5 parking companies for 30 days each:
Overall:
Sedo wins in overall PPC on a daily and monthly basis
NameDrive came in last in PPC
Sedo, Parked, NameDrive, and Fabulous all do well with report/analytics.
Bodis is last in report/analytics.
Parked wins in best of customization.
Sedo is last in customization.
Sedo, Parked, NameDrive, and Bodis tie for user interface.
Fabulous is the last in user interface.
Parked and Fabulous tie in support
Sedo is last in support.
Summary;
User Interface winner is a tie between Sedo, Parked, NameDrive, and Bodis with Fabulous being last. Each site does require a learning period but Fabulous was not very friendly. All parking sites has some issues with user interface which may be related to learning each. Fabulous was the most confusing.
Analytics was pretty much equal across the board with the exception of Bodis offering the least amount of analytics. Also, Bodis user interface is improving but is very difficult to optimize/customize a domain with out have to list the entire roster of domains.
On a PPC basis, Parked was perhaps 60% LESS of than Sedo, Fabulous, and Bodis with NameDrive being the least PPC. One particular name at Parked had $15.97 PPC one day and the next clicks are $0.01-$0.03 for the 30 days. While Parked reportedly pays for multiple clicks and Sedo does not Sedo still came out in top overall on PPC daily and monthly. Lastly was NameDrive at significantly (70%) of the five sites. PPC was also (on average for one month) approximately 40% of Sedo
CTR was pretty much the same at Sedo, Fabulous, Parked, and NameDrive. However, with such a steep disappearance of traffic at Sedo, these results are pretty much skewed to reflect the same CTR as a representative of traffic caught. Bodis provides not breakdown on visitors/clicks making it impossible to capture results. Bodis essentially gives a total of visitors and earnings.
NOTE: Although Parked may have similar CTR rates, the disappearance of traffic (60% less than all others) is bothersome. One has to wonder why 4 out of 5 testing reflect higher traffic for the same names and thirty days. For what ever reason or whatever excuse one can come up with, Parked was capturing approximately 40% of the traffic all the other three trialed were getting for the same names.
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However, for non-dotcom domains, Bodis did exceptionally better (perhaps 75%) in terms of CTR and PPC than the other four sites.
Support for Fabulous and Parked were far above the others tested. NameDrive was good but slower than Fabulous and Parked. Bodis is smaller in terms of size and staff than the others tested and has been undergoing major changes in appearance, usability, and feeds. Overall, support was the worst with Sedo and virtually no one even close.
Being a member of domain name forums, one has to wonder why customers are ignored, not responded to, or encounter several days in getting a response. One has to wonder if Sedo (based in Germany) has been using the model of a four day work week for a couple of years now. It seems like any names parked on a Thursday are not added to the system until the following Monday. The same can be said for an email or support request. Having been a long time user of Sedo (nearly 5 years) these same problems and issues have been reported, responded to, and discussed numerous times but still occur as a matter of practice.
With that said, my impression of rating the five tested would be
1. Sedo
2. Bodis
3. (tie) Parked, Fabulous, NameDrive
A ranking of 1 for Sedo by no means puts it in a category by itself and is mostly due to earnings overall.
Pluses and minuses can be said equally about each.
Stephen Douglas
June 27th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Anyone getting the feeling that DNhop is having a discreet “friendship” with Bodis.com?
This is the second comment by DNhop, word for word, that was placed on DNhop’s review of Fabulous.com. Will this same post appear on every PS listed on ParkingJudge.com? Dub-A? Maybe a cleanup?
I smell a fish processing plant in the North Atlantic.
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