Last Friday, Sedo informed its parking customers about a malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack the company was facing, which impacted its parked domain names. Apparently, Sedo techs were able to alleviate most of the affects of the attack within a few hours.

This morning, the company provided an update to SedoPro customers informing them that the company has “not been monetizing optimally since that day.” In light of this, the company wants to inform customers that they aren’t going to lose money as a result of this attack and stated, “we will be compensating you for the parking decrease, should you be affected by it.” Details about how this will be done have not been released yet.

I don’t park domain names with Sedo, so I am not exactly sure how much of an impact the DDoS has had on parking, but hopefully the company will make everyone whole. More information about this will be provided when I hear more.

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For many people throughout the world, the past few years have caused quite a bit of economic hardship. In concert with the world economy, the domain market took a tumble towards the middle or end of 2008, and it hasn’t yet fully recovered. Domain names have been selling, but the prices haven’t been nearly as heddy as 2006-07.

That said, the financial crisis that has impacted billions of people may be over… at least according to a press release distributed by Sedo  this afternoon, and posted below.

I think the signs of an improving domain market are great news for domain investors, and I agree that the market has certainly rebounded significantly since the end of 2009. I wouldn’t declare the end of the financial crisis with so much uncertainty in world affairs, but it’s nice to see the domain aftermarket is rebounding.

Here’s the press release:

A friend sent me the link to a Sedo  parked landing page, and I think it’s interesting to see. I haven’t come across a similar Sedo lander, so I assume it’s either a test or something the company recently launched for parking clients.

I don’t want to link to the parked page because of TOS issues, but as you can see in the screenshot, the landing page for FairCredit.com has the look and feel of a Facebook page. I would imagine it could pose some additional risk for trademark and/or typo domain names since that can appear a bit misleading. For instance, if you owned Facebok.com and used a lander like this, it would be confusing to visitors.

From my perspective, this is probably a high performing landing page because people who are accustomed to visiting Facebook pages will likely instinctively recognize the layout and navigation. It’s reminiscent of the survey landing pages  that look similar to big brands  like Facebook and Google, but it’s obviously not collecting personal information from visitors like those surveys.

Has anyone else seen similar Sedo landing pages? What are your thoughts on them?

Thanks to NameBio for the tip.