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BrandPa.com Experience (Brandable Domain Marketplace)

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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.

upload_2017-2-20_14-26-8.png The domain regged is MonoRaptor.com, but the text reads ManoRaptor.com

upload_2017-2-20_14-27-32.png 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
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Cons
  • Low Alexa Ranking (4,557,819)
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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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. :penguin:
 
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Please PM if anyone is interested to acquire B r a n d p a listed domains (would be great if you have a live seller's account there). Always welcome!
 
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Hello @Jowita Emberton on one side you want sellers to sell brandpa names in reseller only on your slack channel but on other side you set rules to be allowed there.

What are you talking about? Are you on the slack channel? There are no rules for selling over there. It’s between two Brandpa sellers.

If you want to sell names here they ask you remove them from Brandpa first.
 
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Downloaded slack as want to purchase from other sellers. Can someone guide me in the right direction. Pm no problem.
 
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What are you talking about? Are you on the slack channel? There are no rules for selling over there. It’s between two Brandpa sellers.

If you want to sell names here they ask you remove them from Brandpa first.


There are rules to be allowed in their slack channel. You require 30% of acceptance ratio and fixed number of submissions.
 
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Downloaded slack as want to purchase from other sellers. Can someone guide me in the right direction. Pm no problem.
What is your acceptance ratio there? is it at least 30%? if not then you are not allowed there. also minimum submission should be of 25. thats what i was talking about.
 
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It is above 30% but under the 25 submissions which sucks. Not to worry, its good to know. Thanks for that.

What is your acceptance ratio there? is it at least 30%? if not then you are not allowed there. also minimum submission should be of 25. thats what i was talking about.
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I only have one name listed thus far and hope to list more soon. So far I like the stats, personalized approach, even the 'X # of people are looking at this domain', that has garnered more views creating a bit more urgency. Also, the 'recently added' is helpful. Fingers crossed!
 
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Wheres the invite link for the slack channel?
 
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Things seem to be ok so far and I like it. I also like the fact that not everyone can get into the Slack channel as it creates some sort of balance and organization. Just my person view as a user
 
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I guess brandpa doesnt like me :xf.frown:
 
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For simple logos it's faster, for more complex ones it takes up to 2 weeks. I would say, based on my experience as a seller, that your domain will be live monday at the latest. I might be wrong though, they seem to be very busy these days, too much work on their hands.
Thank you. My domain got listed and is already HOT on Brandpa - See here.

Quite happy with a simple and professional logo.
 
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Quite happy with a simple and professional logo.

Umm. Logo doesn't show first letter 'B' of Brand but last letter 'D'. Interesting

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Umm. Logo doesn't show first letter 'B' of Brand but last letter 'D'. Interesting

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They merged the last letter of Brand & first letter of Clerks. hence DC. It's a unique thought, pretty much happy with that.
 
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I guess brandpa doesnt like me :xf.frown:
They have a criteria... You need to have at least 25 submission and a >30% approval rate from those...
 
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They have a criteria... You need to have at least 25 submission and a >30% approval rate from those...
Perhaps I should rethink names I submit to help bring up the approval rate. Happy with the----> name that did get accepted, encouraged by the clickthroughs, interest. Hoping it results in a sale!
 
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Perhaps I should rethink names I submit to help bring up the approval rate. Happy with the----> name that did get accepted, encouraged by the clickthroughs, interest. Hoping it results in a sale!
I've started doing this as well. Going to submit only selective names which I feel are more brandable than others in my portfolio.

In other news, my 10 domains up for listing have gone live last week... Happy and looking forward to how they do :)
 
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Quick question, anyone that is selling Brandpa names on NP get their names removed from BP? I see a bunch of people selling names here that are BP listed and thought we were allowed to do that and push the names on the BP accounts (similar to BB) - yet I did it as well and all my names were suspended.

So I guess I paid all those fees for nothing :unsure:.
 
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Quick question, anyone that is selling Brandpa names on NP get their names removed from BP? I see a bunch of people selling names here that are BP listed and thought we were allowed to do that and push the names on the BP accounts (similar to BB) - yet I did it as well and all my names were suspended.

So I guess I paid all those fees for nothing :unsure:.
Did you send them an email? I guess you gonna need to pay the fees.
 
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I did pay them lol. But now my names are removed and I lost the fees along with that.
Your previously published names are removed? Or the ones you bought from someone which were also published? Something is not right apparently.
 
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@creataweb aweb also you should check the NS for the domains.
 
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