Shouldn't we get paid to drive traffic to their marketplaces? It seems to me we're helping them more than they're helping us!
Well, for people like me who forwarded a lot of domain anyway, it might actually help my numbers a bit. My last 3 sales would have snagged me an extra $400+ had these occurred in Feb. I also could have theoretically lost money had these all been at Dan. Flip a coin, but I think on an annual basis I'm a bit ahead or at least breaking even.
What I think GD is doing here is trying to kill the other marketplaces. Other than the GoDaddy Auction Marketplace and its huge intrinsic user base, everyone else depends greatly on forwarded traffic to drive leads and sales. So if GD's new plan steals user traffic from Sedo, then it will cause that business serious harm.
* The thing that has bugged me about this from Day 1 is how Undeveloped/Dan clearly manipulated domain investors. They did a call-to-action to join their "rebel" option and provide an alternative to the "GoDaddy machine" and due to us, started to be a force in the business... then they take the short money payoff and immediately sell out... and worse, to GoDaddy.
That tells me they only started Undeveloped/Dan with the prime goal of attracting a big money buyer and selling out, and all the rest was just lies. Sad world we live in.
