Company removes listings from Sedo but it may be only temporary.
Notice anything missing from Sedo lately?
NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains and Afternic, has yanked all of its domains from Sedo. The company previously listed its owned and operated domain names on Sedo’s marketplace.
Sedo changed its commission rate and terms and conditions a few months ago, although Sedo says this wasn’t the reason for the removal.
Sedo Marketing Team Manager Heather DelCarpini informs me:
“While NameMedia did temporarily remove their names from our marketplace, this had nothing to do with the change to our terms and conditions. Their contract with us expired, and at that time the names were removed.”
NameMedia owns about one million domain names.
Meyer says
I would assume that helps the other domainers using Sedo.
And, it implies NM was getting a special deal with Sedo.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Meyer – why does it imply NM was getting a special deal?
Trico says
“..why does it imply NM was getting a special deal?”
Not that any special deal is necessarily implied but I think it would be very stupid of NameMedia not to have one…and I don’t think NM is stupid.
If NM did have a special deal in the contract that just expired then by leaving their domains in Sedo’s marketplace, NM may be subject then to Sedo’s regular Terms and
commission schedule.
That may explain Meyer’s implication.
David J Castello says
You don’t simply allow a contract to “expire” and pull a whopping 1,000,000 names without some type of failure to renegotiate.
Mike says
Better for me. I cant stand Afternic and BuyDomains – the way they conduct business and the crappy, crappy, CRAPPY online interface that they claim is so wonderful.
So, good. Let them go play somewhere else. The smaller guy needs an advantage and having BuyDomains and Afternic out of the mix helps a lot.
Heather DelCarpini says
I apologize, I should not have used the word “expire” in reference to our relationship with NameMedia. I retract the comment as published in the article.
Sedo’s Marketplace is open to anyone who wants to buy and sell domain names.