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Hey Folks,

I've just started using squadhelp.com to list some of my brandable. So far I have 76 domains listed, there is no fee to list. I've had some decent action so far in the way of interested buyers but no sales as of yet. I've only been with them for 1 week now.

A bit of a summary review of SquadHelp:

PROS
  • No Listing fee
  • No Logo design fee
  • Ability to submit your names to end users holding naming contests
  • Ability to chat directly or send a message directly to end users.
  • Stats of your marketplace domains are shown in the marketplace dashboard.
  • Their customer service and support has been great, 24hr a day chat.
  • Ability to increase or decrease the list price of your domains or to show a discount. You can decrease or increase the price yourself by $200. If you want to lower more, you can contact support.
  • End users can shortlist your domains before they make a decision on which they want to purchase. The number of shortlists is shown in you marketplace dashboard.
  • When you submit your names you get to set the price you wish to get. Because their commissions are high I recommend listing at a higher price to offset the commission costs.
  • Their landing pages are fairly basic but they work. Because the marketplace is fairly new, I'm sure we will see style improvements in the future.
  • One thing I really like is they accept multiple extensions. I have listed .co and .io along with .com
  • Each seller gets a direct link to their marketplace portfolio, HERES MY PORTFOLIO. It is handy if your trying to p[promote your portfolio through social media.
  • I like that their marketplace doesn't have tens of thousands domain listings like BB. They are fairly strict on the domains they accept to list and so this helps keep the number of domains in the marketplace down and gets your listings more exposure.
CONS
  • Their commissions are very high, depending on the domain name they are usually between 30% and 35%. However, there are no listing fees, no logo design fees, so in the end their commission is very similar to brand buckets.
  • Their logos are not top quality, in fact I requested to have some of my logos remade.
  • I think they have a big backlog of logos to design, the wait time for logo design has been around 1 week, but your names are still listed while the logos are being designed.
  • After your names are accepted you need to agree to their commission rate, at this point you also need to apply your own keywords, descriptions etc. I found this was very time consuming.
 
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Have not had an approval or decline in 5 days.
same here, I have names pending since 11th. Its unusual things have been slow for 2weeks.
 
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same here, I have names pending since 11th. Its usual things have been slow for 2weeks.
Could be summer vacations/holidays. Short staffed.
 
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Has submission been frozen?

Have not had an approval or decline in 5 days.

same here, I have names pending since 11th. Its usual things have been slow for 2weeks.

If read what say SquadHelp.com when you submit a domain (any plan)

"All basic listings are uploaded. We're a bit backed up. Due to an overwhelming number of marketplace submissions, we are doing our best to review the requests and clear the backlog. You should be able to submit to marketplace once we have less than 2000 outstanding requests."

Basic stil work apply only for premium & basic plus
( All you want only premium to be :-P:xf.grin::xf.smile: )

Kind regards,
 
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If read what say SquadHelp.com when you submit a domain (any plan)

"All basic listings are uploaded. We're a bit backed up. Due to an overwhelming number of marketplace submissions, we are doing our best to review the requests and clear the backlog. You should be able to submit to marketplace once we have less than 2000 outstanding requests."

Basic stil work apply only for premium & basic plus
( All you want only premium to be :-P:xf.grin::xf.smile: )

Kind regards,
I just submitted one last night and did not see that.
 
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I just submitted one last night and did not see that.
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Now you see :xf.smile:
 
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Well then it sucks to be you, dude. I got in under the wire. :-P

I think you are rude! (to say about me i am a sucks person) Just help community ( because YOU ask/say why SquadHelp not accept for moment domains as Premium ('Have not had an approval or decline in 5 days') - if you have previous domains accepted ok - now , (for moment for you) is over as for others until will be 2000 as submit domains
 
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I think you are rude! (to say about me i am a sucks person) Just help community ( because YOU ask/say why SquadHelp not accept for moment domains as Premium ('Have not had an approval or decline in 5 days') - if you have previous domains accepted ok - now , (for moment for you) is over as for others until will be 2000 as submit domains
It was a joke, that's why I put the smilely. "sucks to be you" is an American saying, it's not serious.
 
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I think you are rude! (to say about me i am a sucks person) Just help community ( because YOU ask/say why SquadHelp not accept for moment domains as Premium ('Have not had an approval or decline in 5 days') - if you have previous domains accepted ok - now , (for moment for you) is over as for others until will be 2000 as submit domains

I can tell by the way you use English grammar that you are from a country other than the USA.

So you do not understand the meaning of what was said to you.

@NYJimbo was not trying to insult you.

"It sucks to be you" is an American expression or saying.

What @NYJimbo means by using this expression is he would not want to be in your position.

This is a way of saying he is sorry to see that you are having trouble.

It is in no way an insult towards you.

He was sympathizing with your situation.

Hope this helps :xf.smile:
 
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I have now had 2 premium domain sales cancelled at SH as the buyers have backed out.

The first one paid the initial installment and then cancelled the transaction a couple of days later. I received payment for one month.
The second paid the initial installment and then failed to pay the next monthly installment in time. Again I kept the first installment.

On one hand, I have received something and kept two decent names.
On the other hand it is quite frustrating that it is so easy for buyers to withdraw from an agreement with SH. As both names were withdrawn from the marketplace, one for a considerable length of time, I could have potentially lost out on a sale to a more serious buyer.

@GrantP what does SH plan to do about this?
It affects SH just as much as it affects the owner of the domain.
 
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We have fairly detailed process for following up and reporting on domain registrations. When a domain is registered, it can be registered by any of the following:

1. Contest Holder
2, Other Creatives who also came up with similar ideas
3. Someone completely unrelated to SH platform

When a CH (or their colleagues) registers a domain, many times they are not aware of the bonus policy, and once they are made aware of the policy, they are happy to send a compensation as outlined in our Terms of Service.

A large majority of companies who are paying to launch naming contests on SH are large corporations or startups that are raising funds and expect to become large. It is our belief that most customers do not willfully violate Terms of Service just to save $100 of bonus compensation. It is not prudent for a business (small or large) to expose themselves to a legal risk, when they can simply acquire the name by paying a $100 bonus to the creative. Of course there can be exceptions, and your experience or belief might be different.

Unwanted domain registrations are not good for anyone. We have invested in significant resources who followup with CH's everyday when a domain is reported as registered. If you believe that our process for following up on domain registration does not meet your expectations, or the risk of submitting unregistered domains outweighs the benefits, we urge you to only submit registered domains to contests.

Our team can also assist in changing your account setup such that the unregistered domain submission feature is blocked from your account - this way you can only submit registered domains to contests. In fact, if you are a domain investor, we highly recommend removing the unregistered domain submission option and submitting only registered names to contests. By submitting unregistered domains, you are taking a risk and it is only a matter of time that those ideas will get registered by someone. If you believe those ideas are a good fit for a contest holder, they are likely worth making the upfront investment to register them.
$100 is worth about 15mins of my time.

The only reason it may be worth entering a competition is in the event that a domain sale is made imho.

I also think it's amazing how many want a 1 word domain name that matches their business, a 5 letter brandable etc. For $1200?
Maybe SH should educate the buyers a little bit about the reality of pricing scales in this business. Even your staff who reject some really high volume EMD domains etc. aka bargains.
 
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I have now had 2 premium domain sales cancelled at SH as the buyers have backed out.

The first one paid the initial installment and then cancelled the transaction a couple of days later. I received payment for one month.
The second paid the initial installment and then failed to pay the next monthly installment in time. Again I kept the first installment.

On one hand, I have received something and kept two decent names.
On the other hand it is quite frustrating that it is so easy for buyers to withdraw from an agreement with SH. As both names were withdrawn from the marketplace, one for a considerable length of time, I could have potentially lost out on a sale to a more serious buyer.

@GrantP what does SH plan to do about this?
It affects SH just as much as it affects the owner of the domain.
Hmmm... I was just thinking that you and the buyer won on this.

That is the essence of the protection scheme being offered. Do what? Maybe the buyer encountered problems and had to back out. You were paid according to that deal and the buyer could break it with a minimal loss. It sounds great to me.
 
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I think you are rude! (to say about me i am a sucks person) Just help community ( because YOU ask/say why SquadHelp not accept for moment domains as Premium ('Have not had an approval or decline in 5 days') - if you have previous domains accepted ok - now , (for moment for you) is over as for others until will be 2000 as submit domains
A better understanding of the use of american idioms will greatly improve your communication with americans.

This was not an insult.

"You suck!" is an insult.

"Sucks to be you!" means... well lucky I didn't end up there. Good luck with that.

A very appropriate saying for you now would be "Stop getting your knickers in a twist!", now is that an insult or a term of speech telling you to try to understand what is meant first before you... fly off the handle?
 
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Premium is where the money is at SH
True that!

I have sold 2 names out of a portfolio of 7 premium names in less than 6 months.

On the other hand, my 18 Basic Plus names are just there collecting dust. I just upgraded 2 of them with contest likes and shortlists to Premium.
 
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I have 10 premiums and none sold yet although 7 are red hot and all on shortlists.
 
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Reviewed in under 48hrs, good job.

One thing I contacted support about, in the email they're asking 25%, in the dashboard 30%.

Confusing, waiting for a response.
 
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Hey Folks,

I've just started using squadhelp.com to list some of my brandable. So far I have 76 domains listed, there is no fee to list. I've had some decent action so far in the way of interested buyers but no sales as of yet. I've only been with them for 1 week now.

A bit of a summary review of SquadHelp:

PROS
  • No Listing fee
  • No Logo design fee
  • Ability to submit your names to end users holding naming contests
  • Ability to chat directly or send a message directly to end users.
  • Stats of your marketplace domains are shown in the marketplace dashboard.
  • Their customer service and support has been great, 24hr a day chat.
  • Ability to increase or decrease the list price of your domains or to show a discount. You can decrease or increase the price yourself by $200. If you want to lower more, you can contact support.
  • End users can shortlist your domains before they make a decision on which they want to purchase. The number of shortlists is shown in you marketplace dashboard.
  • When you submit your names you get to set the price you wish to get. Because their commissions are high I recommend listing at a higher price to offset the commission costs.
  • Their landing pages are fairly basic but they work. Because the marketplace is fairly new, I'm sure we will see style improvements in the future.
  • One thing I really like is they accept multiple extensions. I have listed .co and .io along with .com
  • Each seller gets a direct link to their marketplace portfolio, HERES MY PORTFOLIO. It is handy if your trying to p[promote your portfolio through social media.
  • I like that their marketplace doesn't have tens of thousands domain listings like BB. They are fairly strict on the domains they accept to list and so this helps keep the number of domains in the marketplace down and gets your listings more exposure.
CONS
  • Their commissions are very high, depending on the domain name they are usually between 30% and 35%. However, there are no listing fees, no logo design fees, so in the end their commission is very similar to brand buckets.
  • Their logos are not top quality, in fact I requested to have some of my logos remade.
  • I think they have a big backlog of logos to design, the wait time for logo design has been around 1 week, but your names are still listed while the logos are being designed.
  • After your names are accepted you need to agree to their commission rate, at this point you also need to apply your own keywords, descriptions etc. I found this was very time consuming.

UPDATE

I have been a seller on SH now for 6 months. They have made some great changes to the platform and have been very open to my suggestions for edits, some of which have come to fruition!

Currently my listing portfolio size is 220 premium listings and growing.

I have had 6 sales so far and anticipate the time between sales to decrease as my portfolio grows larger.

I have moved most of the names I had listed with brandpa or brand bucket to SH.

Interested to hear if anyone here jumped on the SH wagon after I shared my original review and if so have you completed any sales?

JM
 
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UPDATE

I have been a seller on SH now for 6 months. They have made some great changes to the platform and have been very open to my suggestions for edits, some of which have come to fruition!

Currently my listing portfolio size is 220 premium listings and growing.

I have had 6 sales so far and anticipate the time between sales to decrease as my portfolio grows larger.

Interested to hear if anyone here jumped on the SH wagon after I shared my original review and if so have you completed any sales?

JM


55 names and Growing , 1 sale so far , also sold 8-10 names on reseller prices here on NP.
 
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Typically, what's your range on reseller pricing? I have 10 SH listed names with 18 shortlists and 800 views on the portfolio.
@JudgeMind
220 names that's a Huge Wow!. Congrats on Verosity! I saw it on one of my twitter feed just a few days ago.
 
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@OnlineDomainShop
Typically, what's your range on reseller pricing? I have 10 SH listed names with 18 shortlists and 800 views on the portfolio.
I sell my names for 30-150$ range recently , I have

Total Views

85,625

Total Shortlists
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UPDATE

I have been a seller on SH now for 6 months. They have made some great changes to the platform and have been very open to my suggestions for edits, some of which have come to fruition!

Currently my listing portfolio size is 220 premium listings and growing.

I have had 6 sales so far and anticipate the time between sales to decrease as my portfolio grows larger.

I have moved most of the names I had listed with brandpa or brand bucket to SH.

Interested to hear if anyone here jumped on the SH wagon after I shared my original review and if so have you completed any sales?

JM
I have just decided to dip my toe.

A couple of questions I have (sorry if this has already been asked) is, is the number of domain views...

A - The number of times the name has been viewed specifically by SH customers (i.e clicked through) or...

B - The above plus natural traffic from the DNS redirection to the landing page?

If B then are they filtering bots out of this stat?

Is there a way to differentiate between SH visitors and the organic traffic?

I only ask because the one domain I have there at the moment as premium has recieved 33 views in 2 days. The same name when set up as a standard landing page was only receiving 2 visits a day (according to Google Anylitics).

Another thing I don't understand is that on the dashboard it says 51 views but when I go to the individual domain it says 33 views? I wonder why the discrepancy? I only have one name there so what else can they be looking at to give me another 18 views?
 
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