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Unless you have a domain name worth at least a thousand pounds or more, Sedo is not a cheap or economically viable market place to sell your .uk domains for domains at the lower end of the market.

While they have relaxed their high fixed fee policy on .com and other domains, there is still a £100 fixed fee on .uk domains, charged to BOTH buyer and seller. This just seems very greedy on Sedo's part. It's certainly a major obstacle to selling .uk domains for many people. Sellers are being forced to price their domain names unrealistically high and effectively out of the market place. Those lucky enough to make a sale have to wait an incredibly long time, often years.

Why is Sedo being biased towards .uk domains like this? Sedo's costs are not any higher for handling .uk sales, and the buyer pays the transfer fee, so why the big fixed fee from Sedo?

You could take the view that since a large number of domains are parked with Sedo, Sedo stands to make a lot of money on advertising and clickthru revenues, so it's in their interest to have a domain name taking a long time to sell?