Sedo and GoDaddy Tops for Domain Sales
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Where’s the best place to sell domain names online?
Sedo and GoDaddy have been selected as the two best online domain name sales venues in the 2010 Domain Name Wire Survey.
Sedo’s position at the top of the charts is nothing new — it took 40% of the vote. But this is down from 48% last year. Where did those 8% go? Well, more people are flocking to GoDaddy.
Here are the top five:
1. Sedo 40%
2. GoDaddy 13%
3. NameMedia (Afternic, BuyDomains) 10%
4. Forums 10%
5. SnapNames (non-expired) 7%
Last year GoDaddy was #3 on the list with 8% of the vote. But the company is expanding its offerings to enable domain owners to take advantage of its huge retail “end-user” reach. One of its key additions is letting domain owners list their domains for sale in the domain search process.
Other changes this year include NameMedia jumping from fifth to third, and forums continuing their fall. SnapNames fell from 4th to 5th, but its percentage of responses was unchanged.
Further Reading:
That’s interesting to see GD pick up steam. I always wondered how come it took them so long seeing as how they already had most of the puzzle pieces in place.
It’s my opinion that NameMedia would do a lot better if they were not so short and rude to their customers. Their reps just come across to me as having the personality of arrogant bill collectors.
Based on what I am seeing personally I believe SEDO better watch out for Godaddy. I have now had six Godaddy Premium Listing sales in 2010 while still waiting on my first $100+ SEDO sale of the year.
I keep wondering why a premium domain selling group has not risen from nowhere?
The problem with Godaddy is they consider themselves first. And, customers are secondary.
NameMedia is interested in selling their domains first (they probably own 1 mil. domains) and if necessary broker the domains of the clients.
Pete use to refuse to answer the question –
“how many of NameMedia’s weekly reported sales are NameMedia’s domains and how many are brokered?”
Now that NameMedia is brokering Oversee’s domains (1/2 mil. domains?), the smaller domain holders will sell less domains thru NameMedia.
That is why there is a void building for a new player.