Atom marketplace (formerly Squadhelp Marketplace)

NYJimbo said:

Anybody do any sales and get paid via Payoneer ? I have a PN account that I have not really used and just realized that SH will allow for paypal AND payoneer. So I added PN as an extra payment option.

Any issues to watch out for with that one ?

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PN is fine, no worries.

Not very keen on their logos. Just got a premium name approved and their logo is sub-par anything I would publish.

Should be an option to submit your own design, and they would have to approve it. Saves them a lot of work while elevating the visual appearance on their premium marketplace.

NYJimbo said:

Anybody do any sales and get paid via Payoneer ? I have a PN account that I have not really used and just realized that SH will allow for paypal AND payoneer. So I added PN as an extra payment option.

Any issues to watch out for with that one ?

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I'm getting payments from 2CheckOut to my Payoneer, for sales in my SEO domain shop. Also from Amazon, straight to Payoneer. Undev also should add Payoneer as a payout option soon, Reza said they already signed contract with them. On SH, i didnt sell anything yet, but i added my Payoneer.

Starting to figure out what they like, got another one approved today.

If you put up a domain as "basic plus" and then upgrade to premium and it is accepted, do they work on a logo after that ? I have two that have been upgraded recently and show them as "searchable", but both show simple text with light blue backgrounds, not a logo.

NYJimbo said:

Starting to figure out what they like, got another one approved today.

If you put up a domain as "basic plus" and then upgrade to premium and it is accepted, do they work on a logo after that ? I have two that have been upgraded recently and show them as "searchable", but both show simple text with light blue backgrounds, not a logo.

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Yes, you should have a logo created for your name, but there is often a backlog. It's not unusual to have a wait time of a week or more.

"Overall Limits: Since you don't have any pending submissions, you can submit up to 200 domains for review."

Ok, that is a huge difference from the limit of 10 yesterday...

I couldn't find any info in their TOS about listing SH names at other marketplaces. Is it BB style (not allowed to list anywhere else) or you can list in other places as well?

The policy varies, according to the type of listing. Here's a quote from the help section.
Can I also list my domains for sale in other platforms at the same time?

In order to ensure that the domains are available at all times, we require that you point your domain name servers to Squadhelp name servers (ns1.squadhelp.com, ns2.squadhelp.com) at all times while your listing is active.

If you have a Premium listing with Squadhelp, you are not allowed to list your domains for sale in a different website while your listing is active on Squadhelp platform. Premium listings should be exclusive with the Squadhelp Marketplace.

However, for Basic and Basic Plus listings you can list your domains on other sites as long as your name servers remain pointed to Squadhelp (ns1.squadhelp.com, ns2.squadhelp.com). Importantly, if you list your domain on another site, the selling price on that site can not be less than the selling price with Squadhelp.

NYJimbo said:

Starting to figure out what they like, got another one approved today.

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In my experience, they really don't like BB style names, especially two words, & they really like BB rejects.

Seriously.

MS-Domains said:

In my experience, they really don't like BB style names, especially two words, & they really like BB rejects.

Seriously.

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Care to elaborate ?

yes, they rejected all my BB names 22, & accepted 3 of my BB rejects, at decent prices.

Got my first 3 names approved.

Now working with friends on the listing descriptions, don't want to f^ck up because of my English...

a little improvement for new listing..

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the basic plus domains can't be shortlisted, even if there are stats on the main dashboard about the % of the shortlist specifically for basic plus. And I think that the same applies for love/like's for basic plus....for example I have 3 love showing on the main dashboard, but which you can't track them anywhere, so probably they were meant to be for basic plus in contests.

golan said:

Got my first 3 names approved.

Now working with friends on the listing descriptions, don't want to f^ck up because of my English...

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That is another pain in the *ss.

This is the description I entered for a domain:

A fun name, for any well-connected business.

A week later, I was looking around & noticed the description changed, to:

A: "Where should we go tonight?" B: "I don't know. Somewhere fun?" A: "Ah, I know just the place.

Domain is F/u/n/V/e/n/u/e

Sure, it is a better description, close to being a story but if they were gonna change it anyway, why have us do it in the first place.

On BB, I just type domain. Please describe the name: "the domain" & they come up with top-notch descriptions in most cases. Unless its a new writer.

boker said:

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the basic plus domains can't be shortlisted, even if there are stats on the main dashboard about the % of the shortlist specifically for basic plus. And I think that the same applies for love/like's for basic plus....for example I have 3 love showing on the main dashboard, but which you can't track them anywhere, so probably they were meant to be for basic plus in contests.

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Check your domains approved for premium listing.

I had such experience where a name earlier rejected for premium listing was shortlisted by a potential buyer and they pre approved it for premium listing.

That increased their commission from 15% for basic listing where I left it, to 35% for premium listing. You will see a recommended price which you need to authorize before they can upgrade it to premium listing.

myfavorite said:

Check your domains approved for premium listing.

I had such experience where a name earlier rejected for premium listing was shortlisted by a potential buyer and they pre approved it for premium listing.

That increased their commission from 15% for basic listing where I left it, to 35% for premium listing. You will see a recommended price which you need to authorize before they can upgrade it to premium listing.

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I've sent already some screenshots to SH and they could not say why it's like this, so it's not about basic plus or premium.

Some interesting stats shared by squadhelp in a recent article:

https://helpdesk.squadhelp.com/domain-marketplace/the-real-costs-of-listing-domains-in-marketplaces

As of March 2019, the 12 month Sell-through rate from Squadhelp premium domain Marketplace is above 20%. The 6 month sell through rate is above 9%.

In other words, for anyone who has listed their names with SH for over 12 months, they were able to sell over 20% of their portfolio on average. Based upon our research, this is currently the highest sell through across the industry.

SH's marketplace has a lot of potential and it's innovating the industry. The staff is also awesome and very open to feedback. A few things to keep in mind: most of the domains that were sold at SH were around the low $1,XXX range (mostly $1000-$1300 and some in the high $XXX range). Only recently the average sales price has begun to go up as SH started raising the average prices for domains and adding much more expensive inventory. There still are few sales above $2000, but I think that will change. In my opinion, the very high sale through rate has a lot to do with the fact that the amount of sellers there was small. Not a lot of sellers=high sell through rate. This rate will very likely go down as now a lot more sellers are there, but hopefully it'll continue to stay high for everybody and higher than the alternatives.

SuperBrander said:

SH's marketplace has a lot of potential and it's innovating the industry. The staff is also awesome and very open to feedback. A few things to keep in mind: most of the domains that were sold at SH were around the low $1,XXX range (mostly $1000-$1300 and some in the high $XXX range). Only recently the average sales price has begun to go up as SH started raising the average prices for domains and adding much more expensive inventory. There still aren't a lot of sales above $2000, but I think that will change. In my opinion, the very high sale through rate has a lot to do with the fact that the amount of sellers there was small. Not a lot of sellers=high sell through rate. This rate will very likely go down as now a lot more sellers are there, but hopefully it'll continue to stay high for everybody and higher than the alternatives.

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My first two sales with them were $2299 and $4199

@JudgeMind I'm aware. As I said... things are changing lately and you're still the exception. I've been following the marketplace from the very beginning, have 15 sales to date and have been following the data and the prices of each domain that sold there.

SuperBrander said:

@JudgeMind I'm aware. As I said... things are changing lately and you're still the exception. I've been following the marketplace from the very beginning, have 15 sales to date and have been following the data and the prices of each domain that sold there.

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Congrats on your sales!

NonHipster said:

Your portfolio looks great, and thanks for the info!

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I agree that the sell through rate has more to do with very low prices and until recently not that many sellers. Only time will tell if it’s still consistent with more sellers and slightly higher prices.

The fact that installment plans exist (they're relatively new) will likely help make more sales happen in all ranges and SH has definitely been aiming higher with prices in recent months. I think the average sale price now is probably in the $1400-$1700 range. Sort of an educated guesstimate based on what I've been seeing sell.