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BrandPa.com has announced their presence on NamePros...
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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I contacted Brandbucket today to terminate/delete my account. After 30 days I'll move my domains to Squadhelp and Brandpa :greedy:
Sh is rejecting my almost 70% BB published names , BP also rejects BB published names sometimes, All marketplaces have different criteria of selecting names.
 
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Sh is rejecting my almost 70% BB published names , BP also rejects BB published names sometimes, All marketplaces have different criteria of selecting names.
you can pur rejected domains in basic plus listings
 
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you can pur rejected domains in basic plus listings
If they allow our own designed logo's in basic plus listings that would be great otherwise without logo chance of sale are rare.
 
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Why is this decrease in Brandpa's clicks/visitors? What do you think?
 
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Why is this decrease in Brandpa's clicks/visitors? What do you think?

I dont know but my "Favourites" have gone sky high all of a sudden. Names that didnt have any now have 4, 5, 9, as high as 14 when for a year they maybe had one. So odd. I would rather see traffic stats history with graphs than the "last 90 days" because a graph of the entire year would tell me more. I could maybe see a yearly cycle or seasonal...
 
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Is there anyway to up your submission limit at a 10 a week this is going to take a long time. It'd be good just to be able to do them in batches and have them go in a queue
 
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Anyone knew why BP is losing traffic and ranking.

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Anyone knew why BP is losing traffic and ranking.
Domain not sale and members transferred domain to other market place.
 
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Anyone knew why BP is losing traffic and ranking

Maybe it's your effort to devalue their marketplace that can be felt :xf.grin:
 
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Currently average hotness score lowest point
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Compare with other markets and let's see the difference

Yeah, I am doing this for all of my sites & I knew it better than anyone. As you wish

BrandBucket & SquadHelp both are a lot more better then Brandpa in term of traffic & ranking.

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Brandbucket is better, but there are listed 50 000+ domains.... So it's hard to sell something... O_o:ROFL:
 
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Brandbucket is better, but there are listed 50 000+ domains.... So it's hard to sell something... O_o:ROFL:
Yeah we all knew but both BP & BB do not report their sales data so can't say which one is hard & better for sales
 
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BP says 4.5 days avg to review domains. I got a half dozen domains waiting for 8 days for the first review. :xf.confused:
 
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Brandbucket might get more visitors than Brandpa, but its inventory is 8-10 times higher. I think Brandpa performs better.
 
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Brandbucket might get more visitors than Brandpa, but its inventory is 8-10 times higher. I think Brandpa performs better.
Then I must assume you have some sales data?
 
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SH doing well because they price domains very low. You don’t need to give 30 plus percent to someone for a lower price domain you can sell on your own if it’s any good. Brandpa has higher prices more reflective of end users so stands to reason it takes more time.
 
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Then I must assume you have some sales data?
Not much, I have only my own sales data, last year 3 sales with an inventory of 60 names.
I haven't had a sales yet this year.

The bottom line is that if Brandbucket has a 3x traffic but 10x inventory, then math says most times you have better odds when selling on Brandpa.
 
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It would be a huge boost (I think) to some of these marketplaces if they instituted the ability for potential buyers to pay in installments. This type of payment system is quickly becoming popular in the space and platforms like Brandpa tend to have high list prices. It seems they would make more sales if they allowed buyers to pay in 6 monthly installments or something similar. It definitely helps with initial sticker shock, especially for startups who don't have experience purchasing premium domain names and didn't budget for a price that high.
 
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It would be a huge boost (I think) to some of these marketplaces if they instituted the ability for potential buyers to pay in installments. This type of payment system is quickly becoming popular in the space and platforms like Brandpa tend to have high list prices. It seems they would make more sales if they allowed buyers to pay in 6 monthly installments or something similar. It definitely helps with initial sticker shock, especially for startups who don't have experience purchasing premium domain names and didn't budget for a price that high.

Agree 100% ...
 
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It would be a huge boost (I think) to some of these marketplaces if they instituted the ability for potential buyers to pay in installments. This type of payment system is quickly becoming popular in the space and platforms like Brandpa tend to have high list prices. It seems they would make more sales if they allowed buyers to pay in 6 monthly installments or something similar. It definitely helps with initial sticker shock, especially for startups who don't have experience purchasing premium domain names and didn't budget for a price that high.
Yes, Squadhelp has installments and Undeveloped does too. Everyone should have it.
 
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I believe installments will be occurring at Brandpa soon.
 
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