BrandBucket Experience

xtremex · May 16, 2013

hello

I am new to BrandBucket. Before getting my hands on this

I wish to experience about brandbucket from my fellow members

Thanks

Dominic Belley · Sep 3, 2015

@cocaseco

No I understand that 20K is a lot.

But it was illogic to think BB inventory would stay under 5-8K names by having an open public sign up form. They should have said "only the first 50 sellers signing in will be allowed to sell on our platform each allowed to publish 200 names.".

If you want to control the number of domains in your marketplace, you have to remove the sign up page. You just let in a few lucky sellers and they will take care of the inventory.

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But the $10 listing fees will considerably slow down the inventory progression. We started to notice it already. People do not have credits anymore and new sellers will quickly realize it is expensive to get a 15% success rate and have to pay that 10$ fees in addition.

cocaseco · Sep 3, 2015

DoumB21 said:
@cocaseco
But it was illogic to think BB inventory would stay under 5-8K names by having an open public sign up form.

Perhaps, but that was the goal and the vision.

I actually think it was completely achievable and actually increased the value of being on BB. But at this point I have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they saw something that indicated this was the better way to go.

Michael M · Sep 3, 2015

cocaseco said:
Why do you think this would be bannable? At this time they do allow transfers and I don't think there are any limitations on how they are obtained..

I just assume they may consider it emailing sellers outside of their system to acquire names - which was bannable by their Terms of Service if I recall correctly. Though technically you are only trying to grab the drops before they drop - so in theory they should look the other way.

London555 · Sep 3, 2015

When was the last time Michael Krell checked in here?

equity78 · Sep 3, 2015

Michael is on vacation.

campout · Sep 3, 2015

I am now at 7,228 "listed-days" and can report I had my second sale last week.

P I T Z O

Equates to a 10.1% annual sell-through rate... beginner's luck??

My ~100 domains have been listed for an average of ~2.5 months each.

hookbox · Sep 3, 2015

equity78 said:
Michael is on vacation.

Now we know why only 575 names have been added in the last 16 days.

Dominic Belley · Sep 3, 2015

hookbox said:
Now we know why only 575 names have been added in the last 16 days.

Well my submissions continue to be reviewed within 4-5 days and after I paid fees for my 11 domains yesterday, they were already in logo phase a few hours later.

Dominic Belley · Sep 4, 2015

August 22nd : Registration and submission of Wagera.
August 31st : Reviewed and approved.
September 2nd : Paying fees and listing.
September 4th: Live for sale.

It took 13 days for the whole process.
And only 2 days after I paid the fees for them to write description, create logo and publish.

That's quick.

Brandchovy · Sep 4, 2015

I am sensing a higher rejection rate of late in relation to submissions that I consider are better than the names I currently have listed on BB.!! not sure if they are putting the brakes on names as they get close to the 20K mark

Dominic Belley · Sep 4, 2015

Brandchovy said:
I am sensing a higher rejection rate of late in relation to submissions that I consider are better than the names I currently have listed on BB.!! not sure if they are putting the brakes on names as they get close to the 20K mark

The weird thing is that on my side, my recent approval rate has never been so high. I used to be around 25-28% .. I now flirt with 35%.

Dominic Belley · Sep 4, 2015

DoumB21 said:
BB is at 19,578 today ... is it that 7 domains where removed in 1 days or there was some sales.

Again today a big drop in inventory quantity during the night.
Down to 19,466 ... 112 less then yesterday.

EDIT : 2 hours later ... count is 19,446 .. 20 less domains.

London555 · Sep 4, 2015

It took them 15 years to find Whitey Bulger-I wonder how long it will take us to find Michael Krell?

London555 · Sep 4, 2015

DoumB21 said:
Again today a big drop in inventory quantity during the night.
Down to 19,466 ... 112 less then yesterday.

EDIT : 2 hours later ... count is 19,446 .. 20 less domains.

D-why wouldn't you just buy all pre approved and published names and have 100% approval rating for not much more money re listing fess etc. ?

Dominic Belley · Sep 4, 2015

London555 said:
D-why wouldn't you just buy all pre approved and published names and have 100% approval rating for not much more money re listing fess etc. ?

I purchased around 20 published names in the last month.

But to be honest, finding names and receiving the "approved" email is a big part of the pleasure for me. I wonder how cool must be the feeling to get a sale email from BB ..ahah

I do all this mainly for fun and I have more fun submitting domains than buying already approved names.
I don't mind if it cost me a bit more. I feel I am selling names I like and found and not other peoples names.

But of course for a pure "money logic". I should buy already approved names.

London555 · Sep 4, 2015

DoumB21 said:
I purchased around 20 published names in the last month.

But to be honest, finding names and receiving the "approved" email is a big part of the pleasure for me. I wonder how cool must be the feeling to get a sale email from BB ..ahah

I do all this mainly for fun and I have more fun submitting domains than buying already approved names.
I don't mind if it cost me a bit more. I feel I am selling names I like and found and not other peoples names.

But of course for a pure "money logic". I should buy already approved names.

I'm really not surprised by what you said. I think a big part of BB is the fun of having a name approved or sold that you went out and found yourself-the only real question is how much does that fun cost.

Dominic Belley · Sep 4, 2015

Wow.
Out of my 11 names listed on September 2nd, 2 are published and 5 are already pending publish.
Their Logo queue must be near empty to process domains so quickly.

Edit .. 2 more published now. One shy of 50 !! I should get it later tonight.

Edit .. Yeah !! 50 published. Let's drink to that.

equity78 · Sep 5, 2015

London555 said:
It took them 15 years to find Whitey Bulger-I wonder how long it will take us to find Michael Krell?

Michael shouldn't be back to next week, I pmmed him and he told me he was going on vacation about a week and a half ago.

JimJammy · Sep 6, 2015

Michael M said:
If someone did this, it would be mighty kind of them to share the statistics here.

I've been tracking their servers for a while now. This his how many domains that have sold that have been removed from their servers, note that some buyers leave their domains pointed at BB for a while (I suppose until they are ready to use it) so these figures are 100% accurate but not accurate to each month. I won't share which names sold but...

June - 40 names removed that sold - ?? Michaels, I wasn't tracking then.
July - 36 names removed that sold - 12 of them were Michaels.
August - 44 names removed that sold - 2 were on Michaels previous sales lists and Michael hasn't posted his August list yet.

I haven't included Margos as her whois is hidden and I can't be 100% sure the sales I think are hers, are actually hers. An average of 17 domains are being removed each day. This includes the sales above, people removing their names and drops. Several portfolios have been removed this month. On 15th August I noticed an entire 300+ portfolio get removed. These domains do not point to BB yet are still listed on BB, I'm sure they will disappear soon.

There has been one regular repeat buyer, he has found many of us direct recently...

I've also just sold another name, low x,xxx.

JimJammy · Sep 6, 2015

I've bought some of the drops, emailed BB and asked them to move them into my account which they've done. If anyone wants any, you just need to do the same, here are a few of the recent ones:

m e t r o n y m
b l i t z t a n g o
c l i c k o r t a p
f a r m e r i n d e x
m u s e l o o s e
r o c k m y l o g o
s n a p i t m e d i a
w i l d o r i g i n
i n t e l l e g r i d

Doron Vermaat · Sep 6, 2015

JimJammy said:
I've bought some of the drops, emailed BB and asked them to move them into my account which they've done. If anyone wants any, you just need to do the same, here are a few of the recent ones:

m e t r o n y m
b l i t z t a n g o
c l i c k o r t a p
f a r m e r i n d e x
m u s e l o o s e
r o c k m y l o g o
s n a p i t m e d i a
w i l d o r i g i n
i n t e l l e g r i d

I would've dropped these too if I owned them.

trelgor · Sep 6, 2015

JimJammy said:
I've bought some of the drops, emailed BB and asked them to move them into my account which they've done. If anyone wants any, you just need to do the same, here are a few of the recent ones:

m e t r o n y m
b l i t z t a n g o
c l i c k o r t a p
f a r m e r i n d e x
m u s e l o o s e
r o c k m y l o g o
s n a p i t m e d i a
w i l d o r i g i n
i n t e l l e g r i d

I don't think these would have been accepted today. Do you? I incidentally regged a dropped BB accept too.

JimJammy · Sep 6, 2015

dv82 said:
I would've dropped these too if I owned them.

These drops get picked up regularly, I thought it would be good if someone here got the chance to get them.

A couple more if anyone wants them:
b i t z y c l i c k
h y p e r s c r y b e
p r o s t i o
g o a w n

DNGear · Sep 6, 2015

are they good? @doron

London555 · Sep 6, 2015

JimJammy said:
I've been tracking their servers for a while now. This his how many domains that have sold that have been removed from their servers, note that some buyers leave their domains pointed at BB for a while (I suppose until they are ready to use it) so these figures are 100% accurate but not accurate to each month. I won't share which names sold but...

June - 40 names removed that sold - ?? Michaels, I wasn't tracking then.
July - 36 names removed that sold - 12 of them were Michaels.
August - 44 names removed that sold - 2 were on Michaels previous sales lists and Michael hasn't posted his August list yet.

I haven't included Margos as her whois is hidden and I can't be 100% sure the sales I think are hers, are actually hers. An average of 17 domains are being removed each day. This includes the sales above, people removing their names and drops. Several portfolios have been removed this month. On 15th August I noticed an entire 300+ portfolio get removed. These domains do not point to BB yet are still listed on BB, I'm sure they will disappear soon.

There has been one regular repeat buyer, he has found many of us direct recently...

I've also just sold another name, low x,xxx.

So if i'm reading this correctly and one was to"project" out the most amount of sales for the year would be (again approx.) 600 names TOPS or approx. 3% of the entire BrandBucket existing portfolio.

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