As you may already know there are 2 different auction types at sedo 1. The one that you send to auction when you receive the first bid from a buyer 2. The one with the approval of Sedo's team and after a deal regarding the quality and the reserve price they put on schedule for auction The 2nd auction type is the one you see at sedo's homepage at the column "featured auctions" at the very top with the bold characters Now i wanted to sell QWA.com so i contact Sedo's team, they approved the quality of the name, suggested a 4999 Euro reserve price (i suggested a bit higher) but i agreed with the 5K because i make some other investments and this would help The auction was scheduled on 22nd (yesterday) When the auction started i saw at the homepage the names : america.com won.com cognac.com but nowhere the QWA.com You must search for it at the page of the "more" link located at the bottom of featured auctions table What type of promotion is this from Sedo for an auction they want to call it premium ? Question No1 : Why do they schedule a premium auction to collide with other premium auctions, they should put it one week later for example to give all the names the proper exposure Question No2 : They put WON.com for a Reserve price range: 200,000 - 499,999 EUR Usually the biggest price is the reserved price so in USD we have a price range of : 315,278.36 - 788,159.18 that i don't find very realistic for this name, however Sedo agreed with the price and put at featured spot an auction with VERY HIGH expectations. I'm not sure if this will break the reserve limit Question No 3 : The auction of QWA.com and rest of the featured names i mentioned above end the same time so it will not get even the countdown promotion the simple auctions get Niiiiiice work Sedo
Just received Sedo's reply for this issue : Your domain has been accepted into May Premium Auction. These auctions are marketed by Sedo in a variety of ways.Domains that are of exceptional value may be placed into the Featured Auctions section of our homepage prior to the end of the auction. The domains you mention, america.com, won.com, and cognac.com., are such domains. These domains would be of higher value than qwa.com as they contain real words.The decision to place domains in the Featured Auctions section of our website, aside from the auction ending time, is at the sole discretion of our professional brokers. The decisions made are final. Unfortunately, the domain qwa.com was not selected. Your domain will appear in the Featured Auctions section of our homepage as the auction gets closer to the ending time That's a warning for all users concerning the premium auction of Sedo Also really bother me the evaluation of WON.com I thought the brokers in Sedo are well informed about the domain names This price is extremely high I found (in Sedo) better LLL.com for less than 200,000-500,000 Euro
Removed the cognac.com and put diamantes.com from their homepage list Reserve price range: 200,000 - 499,999 EUR for this too