Syndicated to 1&1 Internet, but… — Sedo Listings

Sedo domain listings are now on 1&1… but I can’t get it to work.

Domains listed for sale on Sedo are now being offered to clients of 1&1 Internet, one of the largest domain registrars. Sedo and 1&1 are owned by the same parent firm.

Still, the system for buying or requesting a price on a Sedo domain doesn’t appear to work. When you attempt to register a domain, 1&1 will show a list of related domains that are for sale at Sedo. In this example I searched for “bamboo.com”:

Obviously Bamboo.com is by now registered, so I was presented with a few options of by now registered domains listed with Sedo. Checking a box next to one of the Sedo domain names and clicking “continue” sends you to a page that states “You will receive a non-binding offer from our partner Sedo.”

But from there you can’t “check out”, so there’s no way to get the non-binding offer. The only way to check out and submit your request is to add an actual available domain name to your cart. Every time I click “continue” in the shopping cart, it takes me back to the domain selection page.

I suspect that if any of the suggested domain names at Sedo had “buy now” prices, you could actually check out. But few of them do, so until then the system appears to be broken. I’m surprised 1&1 didn’t catch this during quality assurance, but hopefully it will be fixed soon.