They are leaving money on the table with poor search features.
It really surprises me that large domain name aftermarket services mainly rely on 3rd party services to provide tools for finding domain names for their platforms. Most main services have very lack luster domain name search tools. Really basic, little data. #domains #aftermarket
— Jamie Zoch (@DotWeekly) February 25, 2019
There are great third-party tools such as ExpiredDomains.net for buying expired domains. I don’t know that the expired domain services need to recreate these but there could be some benefits.
The sites that do need to recreate tools like this are Sedo and Afternic. It’s very difficult to refine a search on these marketplaces. They might have a competitive reason to not expose their entire inventory to sites like ExpiredDomains.net…but this means they need to make it easier to search on their own sites.
Imagine getting an alert when someone adds a new name to Sedo that matches your criteria: length, number of TLDs the keyword is registered under, number of words, keywords, age, etc.
Even without alerts, wouldn’t it be great to search Sedo’s inventory this way? To be able to sort by your own quality metrics?
There are hidden gems listed for sale on both Sedo and Afternic but domain investors can’t find them.
This is low hanging fruit. The aftermarkets are leaving money on the table.
I always felt that. Couldn’t agree more!
Good input… I will implement this to the domain markplace am building soon…
Am brokering many premium domain names like…
Htf.com
Bo.net
Goko.com
Gidu.com
Please let me know if this interests you…
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I’ve tried for years to get both of them listed on my website, but they do not seem to be interested in it. Maybe I have not talked to the right person, but so far they did not provide me with the tools I need to import their inventory nor shown any interest… If they would do that, I could have them included in a week. Same applies to every other domain marketplace.
Yeah, I wonder if they want to keep their inventory “private” for competitive reasons, but I think they are missing out by not doing it.
If they can’t provide support, they sure ain’t going to provide tools
Seriously sedos search tool is beyond bad,it usually shows named that are completely irrelevant to the search inputs such as starts with ends with or even typing in the exact term, I had a lfew blockchain domains listed with them and as soon as they showed near the highest view count bthey disappeared, some would not even show up in search even using the exact match keywords only when you actually typed in xxxx.com would they show, I’ve pulled all my domain’s from Sedo and Afternic a while back and just use domain name sales/uniregistry.