I have two major concerns about moving from SEDO (who I hate) to domainmanage or similar, I'm very surprised these have not been raised on this forum:
1. SEDO is a known brand. People actually go there to search for domains to buy, I know I do. This will be lost. That is, people who have perhaps not identified my exact name won't see its for sale like they may do when searching a globally known domain sales platform. I've been getting a sale a month from SEDO in 2016.
As far as I am aware you can still leave your domains at sedo (in their ‘marketplace’) - changing nameservers to ns1.domainmange.uk won’t stop offers coming in or other domainers who search via via SEDO. Take the domain webschool.co.uk its still at SEDO: https://sedo.com/search/?keyword=webschool&language=e
..but you have the benefit of bypassing SEDO commission and pain with your own sale page http://www.webschool.co.uk/
The way I see it is that SEDO can still be a compliment to your domain sales strategy. Ypu could decide to have some domains at SEDO, some with DomainManage.
2. SEDO is providing a built in escrow service. There will be no escrow with you and I will have to achieve trust from the buyer as they will have to pay upfront without certainty of getting the domain.
I’ve never had an issue with selling domains via direct contact, then raising an invoice for BACS or PayPal. I can see the value of ESCROW for certain level of sales, but for your average £50 to sub 1k it’s a completely unnecessary complication. I’ve never had a buyer pull out because I said make payment first. If a buyer is not prepared to pay up front (after issue of invoice) then I think seller maybe lacking some credibility in their set-up or negotiation.
A minor 3rd point would be a make a very small amount of money from SEDOs ads on my parked domains. Do you have a way we can replace this e.g. inserting adsense code?
Yes you can embed your own Adsense, AWIN affiliate code, 301 it, PayPal button it – and keep the lot.
Domain Manage does not take a single penny in domain sales commission or ad revenue.
Personally, unless the domain is generating exceptionally consistent CPC then most parking revenue is peanuts and nearly always declines over time anyway. By using SEDO your presenting your domains e.g.
www.netuniversity.de (which must be confusing, complicated and dodgy looking process as hell to non-domain types) you could be losing out to B2C end user sales. Of course experienced domain buyers won’t care too much what it looks like! I’m not generally convinced SEDO parking page concept is good for B2C sales anyway. I think a clean sensible looking sales page is the way to go.
A few other observations after years of this industry, I see 2 reoccurring themes:
I gave up catching ages ago but I still see people smashing their catch straight on DL For £50 within a week or a few months – unless their really up against it financially and need that hit, their not giving it enough time to marinade out there and see if some ‘real’ end users come out of the woodwork who would pay more. I feel their now stuck in some kind of B2B domainer reseller loop – there is definitely a wider audience than DL who will
pay more for your domains! – with a system like Domain Manage you can load a lead generation page is seconds, taste what’s going on out there, before you decide to toast it in an auction.
Which brings me on to my second point – the general time wasted by domainers in trying to set up a vaguely credible looking sales page/platform is unreal - their whole setup is just a time consuming mess, when they should be spending time acquiring new names or pushing their current portfolio.
Domain Manage requires
no technical knowledge to use the system:
- no CPANEL
- no WordPress
- no Plugins
- no Stressful setups!
- No App downloads or installs
Hope that answers everything!
