Discuss BrandBucket Rejects

starizec · Oct 16, 2015

My rejected names
R e c y c l i f y
S q u a d T a s k
F e a t f u l
E x c e s i o r

Any thoughts?

Keith DeBoer · Jun 23, 2018

I think you made a mistake.
Exxxa and Llanza are not published on BB

but congrats on the others

franka46 · Jun 23, 2018

Keith DeBoer said:
I think you made a mistake.
Exxxa and Llanza are not published on BB

but congrats on the others

Keith ,je hebt me gered ..hah I renewed and transfered these two to a different registrar and forgot to set the BB nameservers .Bedankt !!

Keith DeBoer · Jun 23, 2018

OK
thanks for clearing up the mystery

Nice domains!
I hope you get some sales on them soon!

William P · Sep 25, 2018

Hi everyone. The following names have been declined by BrandBucket and I'd like to hear your thoughts, please:

Cred / ifier
Ben / efees
Oncryp / ter
SharpNe / xt
Agron / eer
LiteDi / sk

What should I do now? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

JudgeMind · Sep 25, 2018

William P said:
Hi everyone. The following names have been declined by BrandBucket and I'd like to hear your thoughts, please:

Cred / ifier
Ben / efees
Oncryp / ter
SharpNe / xt
Agron / eer
LiteDi / sk

What should I do now? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Try brandpa or namerific. You can also just list at afternic, Sedo, efty and godaddy and get the same results but pay less commission. Brandbucket commission of 30% is robbery.

I moved my domains away from brandbucket and sold them myself. Same conversion rates if not better and pay 0-15% commission which means way more money in my pocket.

Good luck to you

William P · Sep 25, 2018

Thanks so much for your reply. My main concern is that it might be (too) difficult to sell invented names on those places. I mean, who would search for "a / gro / neer / . / com"?

Is anyone having success with made up names on Afternic and the like?

Recons.Com · Sep 26, 2018

Here is the incomplete list of BrandBucket rejects:

W/ultra - sold by brandpa
Finance/fi - sold by brandpa
Chef/ix - sold by Afternic
Hair/gy - sold by Afternic
Answer/iq - sold by me, but paid via Afternic
Noble/metal - sold by me
in/haste - sold by Brandpa
globular/ity - sold by Brandroot
Watch/match - sold by Brandroot
Tast/ry - sold by Brandroot
Fio/rr sold by Brandroot
Dent/ira sold by Brandroot

Have better sell through with the rejects at somewhere else than with accepted, although BB had the first look at the names...

kaposzta · Sep 26, 2018

Recons.Com said:
Here is the incomplete list of BrandBucket rejects:

W/ultra - sold by brandpa
Finance/fi - sold by brandpa
Chef/ix - sold by Afternic
Hair/gy - sold by Afternic
Answer/iq - sold by me, but paid via Afternic
Noble/metal - sold by me
in/haste - sold by Brandpa
globular/ity - sold by Brandroot
Watch/match - sold by Brandroot
Tast/ry - sold by Brandroot
Fio/rr sold by Brandroot
Dent/ira sold by Brandroot

Have better sell through with the rejects at somewhere else than with accepted, although BB had the first look at the names...

Brandbucket is too huge, and it's beneficial only for the big players. Brandpa has lots of domains in their inventory, but nowhere near Brandbucket.

JudgeMind · Sep 26, 2018

kaposzta said:
Brandbucket is too huge, and it's beneficial only for the big players. Brandpa has lots of domains in their inventory, but nowhere near Brandbucket.

And still, even brandpa no sales in 7 months with 26 domains listed. Though I’ve sold a ton through godaddy, efty, Flippa and afternic.

bojan1 · Sep 26, 2018

My recent rejections:

Tea/Silo
Logo/Bull
Time/Define

kaposzta · Sep 26, 2018

JudgeMind said:
And still, even brandpa no sales in 7 months with 26 domains listed. Though I’ve sold a ton through godaddy, efty, Flippa and afternic.

I didn't have sales for 9 months (2017 April-December) with 50+ domains when Brandpa had less than 1200 domains, but then I sold 2 domains on the same day in January, then another one in April, so 3 sales in 2018 (with an average portfolio size of 75). Be patient, the sale will come when you least count on it.

JudgeMind · Sep 26, 2018

kaposzta said:
I didn't have sales for 9 months (2017 April-December) with 50+ domains when Brandpa had less than 1200 domains, but then I sold 2 domains on the same day in January, then another one in April, so 3 sales in 2018 (with an average portfolio size of 75). Be patient, the sale will come when you least count on it.

No point, I get more sales in the same price range using, sedo, afternic, godaddy, flippa and most of all efty. And commissions are far less.

OnlineDomainShop · Sep 26, 2018

Healtthy dot com Rejected !
Last sold on Brandroot for high xxxx$
You can check status here brandroot.com/names/healtthy
I picked it from Expired list of domains.

OnlineDomainShop · Sep 26, 2018

Kudxu in king
Rejected

Keith DeBoer · Sep 26, 2018

To @OnlineDomainShop, @William P, @bojan1 and anyone else who needs help,

If you'd like some individualized feedback on your BB rejects, or on domains you are thinking to submit, send me a message and I'd be happy to give you some coaching. I've been with BB for 4 yrs and my accept rate is around 40%.

Cheers!

AfterBreak · Sep 26, 2018

what do you expect from brandbucket?
they are ugly platforms, I don't understand why my domain is rejected and some are accepted but at a low price

when my domain was rejected, he did not explain the reason, only said that it did not suit their market. really sucks

AfterBreak · Sep 26, 2018

Keith DeBoer said:
To @OnlineDomainShop, @William P, @bojan1 and anyone else who needs help,

If you'd like some individualized feedback on your BB rejects, or on domains you are thinking to submit, send me a message and I'd be happy to give you some coaching. I've been with BB for 4 yrs and my accept rate is around 40%.

Cheers!

if their platform is good and transparent, you don't need to coaching about it

Recons.Com · Sep 27, 2018

Keith DeBoer said:
To @OnlineDomainShop, @William P, @bojan1 and anyone else who needs help,

If you'd like some individualized feedback on your BB rejects, or on domains you are thinking to submit, send me a message and I'd be happy to give you some coaching. I've been with BB for 4 yrs and my accept rate is around 40%.

Cheers!

Keith, thank you for representing BB here and being always courteous and patient.

Was wondering is this 40% rate with "blind" screening? I.e. do the moderators see who owns the names? What was your accept rate before becoming the brand ambassador?

richasis · Sep 27, 2018

Rejected Kings: 1.) nyjo & 2.) tempbox

Keith DeBoer · Sep 27, 2018

Hi Recons, thanks for the kind words. You are correct.

According to BrandBucket, as a domain is processed from first review to sale there is no info on the screen that designates who owns the domain.This is to reduce the chances of incidental bias. At the same time I'm sure an employee could go out of their way and research a domain and find out the owner if they wanted but that is not what they are supposed to do. Instead the system is set up to be generic even at the point of sale. The sales person only looks up the owner when they have completed the sale and its time for the transfer.

My acceptance rate has increased over time as I increased my understanding of what kinds of names BB is looking for. (I've submitted several thousand domains for review)

When I started my rate was horrible. Probably less than 5% but these days I sometimes get half accepted. Some do even better. On an old Domain Sherpa interview, Margot said some veteran sellers had an accept as high as 80%.

So it's a gradual thing. I have not noticed any shift between before or after becoming a brand ambassador.

I have no access to BBs system except for the same seller dashboard everyone else has. I have no access to sales info or any stats except what appears in the BB newsletter. My interactions with Margot and BB staff are in regards to the suggestions and desires of the seller community and giving my opinions on their ideas for seller engagement etc. We don't discuss my portfolio, my domains or my sales. Never.

Like other sellers I sometimes disagree with BB on a domain rejection or a price. I appeal these thru the standard channels (help desk and seller dashboard) and sometimes they adjust to my desire but many times not. I once waited two months to get a response on a domain I appealed

So I don't feel I am getting any substantial advantage. My sell through rate is around 2% per year which is low overall compared to other sellers but which I think is normal for a large portfolio that generates a significant amount of sales and income.

Recons.Com · Sep 27, 2018

Great informative and to-the-point response, as always. Thanks!

Keith DeBoer said:
Hi Recons, thanks for the kind words. You are correct.

According to BrandBucket, as a domain is processed from first review to sale there is no info on the screen that designates who owns the domain.This is to reduce the chances of incidental bias. At the same time I'm sure an employee could go out of their way and research a domain and find out the owner if they wanted but that is not what they are supposed to do. Instead the system is set up to be generic even at the point of sale. The sales person only looks up the owner when they have completed the sale and its time for the transfer.

My acceptance rate has increased over time as I increased my understanding of what kinds of names BB is looking for. (I've submitted several thousand domains for review)

When I started my rate was horrible. Probably less than 5% but these days I sometimes get half accepted. Some do even better. On an old Domain Sherpa interview, Margot said some veteran sellers had an accept as high as 80%.

So it's a gradual thing. I have not noticed any shift between before or after becoming a brand ambassador.

I have no access to BBs system except for the same seller dashboard everyone else has. I have no access to sales info or any stats except what appears in the BB newsletter. My interactions with Margot and BB staff are in regards to the suggestions and desires of the seller community and giving my opinions on their ideas for seller engagement etc. We don't discuss my portfolio, my domains or my sales. Never.

Like other sellers I sometimes disagree with BB on a domain rejection or a price. I appeal these thru the standard channels (help desk and seller dashboard) and sometimes they adjust to my desire but many times not. I once waited two months to get a response on a domain I appealed So I don't feel I am getting any substantial advantage. My sell through rate is around 2% per year which is low overall compared to other sellers but which I think is normal for a large portfolio that generates a significant amount of sales and income.

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