BrandPa.com Experience (Brandable Domain Marketplace)

[Chris Hydrick]

BrandPa.com has announced their presence on NamePros...

Hi there! I'm sorry your experience with BB wasn't pleasant :/ If you'd like to try our marketplace please don't hesitate to do so We're new in the domaining industry but very eager to learn! Let me know what you think or if you have any questions This is us: https://brandpa.com/ (or if you'd like to read about the sellers' rules visit this page: https://brandpa.com/start-selling)

Look forward to hearing from you!

Granted, the above post is from the BrandBucket experience thread, and will likely be deleted for being off topic / wrong thread, it was the first time I heard of them. The founder, @Jowita Emberton, had introduced herself in an earlier thread:

Hi guys! NamePros is a great website to get invaluable information about the domaining industry. As a reader, I'm here pretty much every day. As a writer, I'm starting today

I'm the founder of Brandpa (brandpa.com), a domain name marketplace similar to BB, BR or Namerific. We use AI and human knowledge to create and judge the names’ value according to how easy to pronounce and catchy they are.

I'm here to learn, get to know you and your recent experiences with other brandable name marketplaces We're still developing the business so any insight on our site (brandpa.com) or anything you're missing from other marketplaces will be very useful

Thanks!

I'm creating this thread to discuss their marketplace, and for those who have experiences with them.

Here's what I know so far:

The founder, @Jowita Emberton, runs two other online businesses according to her LinkedIn page.

Delighten.co.uk - Web / brand design firm.

Weddination.com - Polish wedding services

According to her LinkedIn, she has been operating BrandPa since August 2016. Though, the last cached Archive.org screenshot is a server error on October 4, 2016 HERE

BrandPa.com (2006) is registered to Oliver Emberton, founder and managing director of SilkTide.com.

Currently, there are 562 domains published / listed on BrandPa. It appears most domains listed are handregged by the owners. Not 100% on this; I will run a check when my program is working again.

After reviewing their listings, I found two errors.

The domain regged is MonoRaptor.com, but the text reads ManoRaptor.com

The domain regged is UnknownVenues.com, but the text reads UnknownVenus.com

At first look:

Pros

• No Listing Fee
• FREE Logos
• Domain Owner sets price ($1,000+)
• Forwards all offers for sellers consideration
• Brandpa is a pretty memorable / catchy brandable domain.
• Select 'On-Sale' marketing section

Cons

• Low Alexa Ranking (4,557,819)

• New site. Assuming low organic traffic, and low type-in traffic due to quality and quantity of inventory.
• Piggy-back branding off BrandBucket in site footer see below

• Reviews are all from .co.uk domains, yet BrandPa doesn't sell any .co.uk domains. A quick glance at other domains owned by the reviewers and I wasn't able to verify any brandable .com's with history tracing back to BrandPa.

Personal thoughts: I respect that they "allow the seller to submit more domain names" by not charging a listing fee. To me this shows they are willing to work for your exclusivity. Should they gain popularity, I wonder if they'll sustain this business model and/or if their logo / listing quality will decrease over time when resources are spread across the masses.

@Jowita Emberton = Feel free to comment / fill in any of the blanks.

 

[anantj]

I see Brandpa is now accepting/publishing .co domains.

or is it old news?

They are not. If fact, they are older published domains. The acceptance criteria was changed to disallow all non-.com domains

 

[Jowita Emberton]

I see Brandpa is now accepting/publishing .co domains.

or is it old news?

Old news. We used to, that is why you can still see some .co domains for sale on Brandpa.

 

[CrocodileDundee]

How long does the "Writing and Tagging" step usually take? thx!

 

[BrandCougar]

>> How long does the "Writing and Tagging" step usually take? thx!

@CrocodileDundee -

From my experience 7-10 days is the norm.

I have had some take only 5 days and a few others take as long as 15 days.

But a week is typical.

Suggestion - anything longer than 2 weeks you might want to ping them an email.

 

[nparab]

Got Picnami listed for $7595
https://brandpa.com/name/picnami

 

[nparab]

Got Voqan listed for $4695
https://brandpa.com/name/voqan

 

[nparab]

Got Convoro listed for $4295
https://brandpa.com/name/convoro

 

[Recons.Com]

Can we stop posting listed names? That is not the purpose of the thread

 

[BrandCougar]

Agree with Recons.

The intent of this thread is to post your Brandpa Experience, not create backlinks to your listings.

 

[BrandCougar]

FYI - there is a new NP thread (link is below) about a specific Brandpa experience that I found insightful and interesting.

There are varying opinions (comments) provided in the below mentioned NP thread - some I appreciate - some are outright rude - but what I felt important to share is that the OP's original post provided a direct insight to a seller's "Brandpa Experience".

Personally, I found the original post to be a perfect example of the positive approach and engaging nature of Brandpa management. Very encouraging their "thinking outside the box" to help cultivate a prospect to drive home a potential sale for the seller.

Especially encouraging is the collaborative dialogue that BP management is having with the seller. Not something you see every day with other marketplaces.

A++ for seller engagement, transparency and creative approach to closing the deal.

Best of luck with the sale.


https://www.namepros.com/threads/brandpa-offer-received-legitimate.1095415/

 

[BRANDERX]

@nparab you can showcase your "recently published names" in:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/show-your-brandable-names-that-recently-published.1047623/page-12

 

[BRANDERX]

I guess you all know Brandpa no longer provides a reason for "rejections" but I didn't know that so I replied to the rejection email, asking about it, & who replied? none other than Jowita .

Notifying me that they no longer provide a reason, & even providing it one last time.

very friendly communication.

 

[nparab]

@nparab you can showcase your "recently published names" in:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/show-your-brandable-names-that-recently-published.1047623/page-12

Will do. Thanks v.much for the link!

 

[NameWell]

Does anyone know if Brandpa is still accepting only registered domain names?

 

[karmaco]

Does anyone know if Brandpa is still accepting only registered domain names?

Yes only registered names.

 

[polymorph]

Does anyone know if Brandpa is still accepting only registered domain names?

I had one unregistered handreg approved there. I have submitted more than 60.

 

[BrandCougar]

I recall about 3 months ago Brandpa changed their policy to longer accept unregistered domains during the Submission process. They auto-reject.

@jowita - Has this policy changed back to allowing non-regd names to be submitted as long as we purchase them prior to paying the Listing Fee? [Please advise] -Thanks.

 

[karmaco]

I had one unregistered handreg approved there. I have submitted more than 60.

I need clarification on this. If that’s the case should have been announced.

 

[polymorph]

I need clarification on this. If that’s the case should have been announced.

Well, it happened in May, so probably it was before their policy change.
Cheers.

3 months ago Brandpa changed their policy

 

[NameWell]

Well, it happened in May, so probably it was before their policy change.
Cheers.

They changed it earlier than three months ago. On February 15th 2018 (I checked this in my stats) I had 6 domains rejected with the message "We only accept domains that have been registered". But now I heard rumors that they are accepting unregistered ones again. @Jowita Emberton could you please clarify this?

 

[polymorph]

I had 6 domains rejected with the message "We only accept domains that have been registered"

I got a lot of rejected names, but never with this message.
Now I wonder, If I had my names regged, maybe I would have better acceptance rate?
We will see.

 

[creataweb]

 

[NameWell]

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And yet someone says they had an unregistered domain approved @polymorph could you please check the date of approval and the date of registration of the domain name you mentioned above?

 

[karmaco]

I do believe some have snuck through. I bought an accepted name that the person registered on the day I bought it from them. So it went through the process unregistered.

I wish we could submit unregistered. Would make for peace of mind in making a decision to buy or bid etc.

 

[polymorph]

Turned out I have submitted 50 names only.

could you please check the date of approval and the date of registration

Both done on 22.05.
Submitted on 17.05.


WHOIS: 2018-05-22T07:00:00Z
Approval Email: 22/05/2018 16:11

Looks like the reg is earlier, but it is because of the time zones.