Sedo.com and Domainsbot Team Up to Offer Free Domain Suggestion Tool

May 18, 2007; 01:25 AM

Cambridge, Mass. - Sedo, the leading online marketplace for the buying and selling of domain names, today announced a strategic partnership with DomainsBot, the domain semantic search engine. Under this new partnership, a visitor searching for a domain name on a registrar or Webhosting company’s site that is integrated the DomainsBot suggestion tool can now find search results of quality, related domain names that are available to register, as well as domain names that are for sale on Sedo’s secondary market.

"This partnership provides an enormous amount of value to service providers by increasing the domain registration rate while adding a new revenue stream without additional costs,” said Mark Klein, Sedo’s Director of Business Development. “The tool itself adds tremendous value to the customer experience by making it increasingly easy for people to find a domain name that fits their needs."

When a Webhost company or Registrar integrates and displays the Sedo portion of the domain suggestion tool to its users, Sedo will pay the costs that would normally have to be paid to Domainsbot for the queries executed and will also pay the service provider commissions of any transactions that come through Sedo.

DomainsBot executives are excited about the opportunities this integration brings.

"Having Sedo sponsor our name suggestion is a terrific win-win for the entire market,” said Emiliano Pasqualetti, DomainsBot’s Chief Operating Officer. “This gives registrars the opportunity to increase their sales and profit from the exponentially growing secondary market at no cost, and registrants the advantage to find the most relevant domains available and for sale in one place."

About Sedo

Sedo, an acronym for "Search Engine for Domain Offers," is the leading online marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. With offices in Cambridge, Mass., and Cologne, Germany, Sedo has assembled the world's largest database of domain names for sale, with more than seven million listings. Buyers and sellers are brought together through a searchable online marketplace, and conduct negotiations anonymously using an offer-counteroffer system. To facilitate successful transactions, Sedo has introduced a range of related services, including domain name escrow/ transfer services, domain name appraisals, a domain brokerage service and paid domain name parking program. The success of Sedo's model has attracted a global membership base of more than 500,000 domain professionals, and helped more than 10,000 businesses start their Web presence off on the right foot with a great domain name. Sedo offers regional versions of its site for the UK (Sedo.co.uk), France (Sedo.fr), Germany (Sedo.de), and Spain (eSedo.com). For additional information, please visit www.sedo.com.

About DomainsBot

DomainsBot, founded in Rome, has been active in the domain name industry since 1999. Over the last two years DomainsBot has taken over the leading position in the domain name suggestion market, working with such registrars as GoDaddy, Tucows, and Register.com. DomainsBot is now extending its offerings into the secondary domain name market, providing essential tools to domainers for name generation and analysis. To learn more about DomainsBot visit http://www.domainsbot.com

For more information about Sedo’s integrations: Mark Klein, Director of Business Development, Sedo.com, LLC, [email protected] For further information about Sedo: Mike Kaplan, fama PR, (+1) 617-758-4156, [email protected] For further information about DomainsBot: Emiliano Pasqualetti, [email protected]