Last month, Shane Cultra of DomainShane.com posted a report about how Sedo temporarily closed his account due to suspicious traffic activity.
The culprit turned out to be domains that he had listed for sale on NameJet but which were still parked at Sedo. Something systematically clicked on these domains, generating unusually high revenue, which was then clawed back.
A handful of domains that I sold on NameJet last month had the same pattern: an unusually high number of clicks for the three days of the auction, all while they were parked at Sedo.
While I did not have issues with my Sedo account, it seems that Sedo learns quickly; their fraud department is expert in identifying bad clicks. Whatever crawled the NameJet listings generating hundreds of clicks was quickly identified. As a result, that revenue was not credited to my account.
Although I’m not able to identify the source of traffic, I’d advice anyone who lists their domains on NameJet to pull them from parking during the days before and during an auction; thus avoiding unnecessary issues with Sedo or other parking companies.
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