Hi All A new domainer here

[nogger]

Hi all, i am Graham & i am hoping to learn a lot off you experienced domainers. It's certainly not as easy as i initially thought, i probably own about 30-40 domains but have yet to sell my first one. Like a lot of people i guess i purchased on impulse (intoxication) but i think i have 1 or 2 good ones. I also have a lot of them parked up at Sedo but to be honest i'm quite dissapointed at the response & the return i'm getting for them at Sedo, basically nil. Do you guys find it's a waste of time parking them or ?

I work from home running a small company repairing electronic modules such as power supplies for consumer equipment (TV's PVR's etc) so my background is not in computing as such but i have built a couple of half decent websites with Dreamweaver (mainly for my business).

Anyway, glad to be on the forum & looking forward to selling my first domain

Graham AKA NOGGER

 

[Skinner]

Parking is pretty much dead unless you have high traffic (like 100k+ a month), develop decent sites is the only good option now. Thin sites are dead and buried too.

 

[Edwin]

If your domains get significant natural traffic, you can still make some extra cash from parking.

If nobody types them in, then there's no traffic, therefore no potential ad clicks, therefore parking is a total waste of time. You can park a domain with zero natural traffic at any parking company in the world, and the result will be the same: zero clicks, zero revenue.

Type-in traffic is like the fuel to run the engine of a car. Without fuel, it's just a lump of rusting metal parked in the driveway. You can park it on the street, or in a carpark - no fuel means it still isn't actually going to go anywhere.

 

[frankp57]

. I also have a lot of them parked up at Sedo but to be honest i'm quite dissapointed at the response & the return i'm getting for them at Sedo, basically nil. Do you guys find it's a waste of time parking them or ?

Graham AKA NOGGER

Hello Graham from a fellow newbie. I've parked a few of my domains at Sedo and like you found it to be a waste of time.

How do people rate Sedo as a marketplace anyway. I have a few listed with them but not even a sniff. I understand that it may be that my domains are not appealing enough but it is difficult to confirm that when I am unable to fulfill all of their recommendations for a quick sale.

I have, as they suggest, set BIN prices and parked domains with them (not all of them, only a few). But in order to achieve maximum exposure with them they suggest joining their Premium service. In order to do that you have to have your domain registered with their registrant partners.

Most of mine are registered with the one (one of the largest in the industry) registrants, who very surprisingly, are not on their list of recommended registrants. So, as a result I cannot include these domains in their premium service thereby only receiving limited exposure.

I don't know if transferring to one of their preferred registrants is worthwhile. To transfer of course costs money. Is it worth doing this if Sedo is a really good marketplace, or is it best to try an alternative marketplace. If so, which one?

Sorry Graham, I went off on a bit of a tangent there. Best of luck with your domain business.

 

[RobM]

I think sedo are dying. Apart from some problems with their system throwing out irrelevant ads or not loading style sheets properly they are also not paying anything for some clicks. This may be them being greedy or it may be due to the payout structure to them. Either way it's not a good sign.

 

[frankp57]

I think sedo are dying. Apart from some problems with their system throwing out irrelevant ads or not loading style sheets properly they are also not paying anything for some clicks. This may be them being greedy or it may be due to the payout structure to them. Either way it's not a good sign.

It would seem that they are dying as you put it. I have contacted their customer services to ask why some of my domain names parked with them are redirected to unrelated websites when I enter my domain in the web browser. It is not the same one website either but what appears to be quite a random selection of websites.

All in all, not happy with Sedo. I'm thinking of marketing my domains elsewhere.

 

[Edwin]

It would seem that they are dying as you put it. I have contacted their customer services to ask why some of my domain names parked with them are redirected to unrelated websites when I enter my domain in the web browser. It is not the same one website either but what appears to be quite a random selection of websites.

That's "zero click", a parking solution used by a lot of parking providers when they can't drum up enough tier one ads to be worth displaying against a particular domain name. So instead they send the traffic automatically straight to an advertiser (usually from a rotating pool which is why you see different websites) and you get paid a tiny, tiny amount per visitor in contrast to the "normal" tier one ads where you only get paid if somebody clicks your ads, but the per-click amount tends to be much higher.

In other words, they're rewarding traffic they can't monetise via their tier one provider (either Google or Yahoo, depending on the parking company) on a quasi-CPM basis.

 

[Systreg]

If you send Sedo a support ticket asking them to turn off the Zero Click feature on your account, they will do.

 

[frankp57]

That's "zero click", a parking solution used by a lot of parking providers when they can't drum up enough tier one ads to be worth displaying against a particular domain name. So instead they send the traffic automatically straight to an advertiser (usually from a rotating pool which is why you see different websites) and you get paid a tiny, tiny amount per visitor in contrast to the "normal" tier one ads where you only get paid if somebody clicks your ads, but the per-click amount tends to be much higher.

In other words, they're rewarding traffic they can't monetise via their tier one provider (either Google or Yahoo, depending on the parking company) on a quasi-CPM basis.

Thanks Edwin. The whole parking thing then doesn't look like a worthwhile option.

 

[frankp57]

If you send Sedo a support ticket asking them to turn off the Zero Click feature on your account, they will do.

Thanks Systreg - I'm going to do that.

 

[Edwin]

Thanks Edwin. The whole parking thing then doesn't look like a worthwhile option.

Parking works just fine for commercial terms that get natural typein traffic. Zero click usually comes into play if parking providers fail to find suitable ads (which says a lot about the domain name) or if it's been banned by the upstream ad provider (usually if it detected a potential trademark conflict)