Use Sedo Search? Fill Out the Survey

This morning when I visited Sedo to search for new listings, I noticed a new banner under the header asking users to fill out a survey: “We need your Feedback! Help us to improve the search and thus your experience with answering a few questions.

The survey is being hosted via Google Forms, and it is reportedly anonymous. I do not know if Sedo will be able to track participants who may be logged in to their Google account when they do a survey though.

I think it is a good idea for Sedo to ask users for feedback on the search functionality. Here are a few of my comments:

  • Don’t automatically check off the box for IDNs, Hyphens, or Numericals. It’s easy enough to uncheck those boxes under “Special Characters,” but I will never want to search for IDNS or Hyphens, and I imagine many more people would uncheck those boxes than willingly search for those types of domain names.
  • Improve the word recognition functionality. It’s frustrating to do a search for a one or two word domain name and end up with typos. Typographically incorrect words should not be returned if one or two word domain names is chosen.
  • Default should be .com searches. It’s funny to search for newly listed domain names by price and see a bunch of overpriced one word .ROTFL domain names at the top. Again, the extra steps are no big deal, but I would prefer to not have to take extra steps.

I am sure other Sedo users have additional feedback, and now is a good time to provide the feedback since Sedo is asking.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

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