Ted Levy
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I'm a relatively new domainer. I began accumulating brandable domains about ten weeks ago and I now own 30 BrandBucket published domains with listing prices ranging from about $900 to $4,000. As of now, none have been sold. From what I read here, BB has perhaps 15,000 domains listed and perhaps 2,000 annually are sold. I may be way off with these numbers.
I'm trying to develop a business plan to guide my domaining efforts in the near future. I would like to answer a simple question... how likely is a BB published domain to be sold? To quantify this so that I can collect some good information from those of you experienced domainers who wish to contribute to this thread, let me make the question more precise:
A randomly selected BB domain with a list price of 2,000 is published on January 1. How likely is it that it will be sold by December 31, one year later? How does that likelihood vary if the price is lower or higher? I assume that all similarly priced domains are more or less equally likely to sell, which is the same as saying that I roughly trust that BB knows its market.
Can anybody refine the numbers of BB-listed domains and BB-sold domains? Also, I have read suggestions that BB favors "its own" listings over those of other submitters? Is that true? If so, how do they favor them? Is it by pricing them better (cheaper? more expensive?), by featuring them somehow more prominently? By "pushing" them in discussions with propective buyers?
I really like the concept of a market directed to end-users that theoretically allows bridging the wholesale-to-retail (end-user) pricing gap--a marketing channel--but I don't want to devote too much money and energy to a concept that doesn't really work.
Any commentary would be greatly appreciated.
- Ted
I'm trying to develop a business plan to guide my domaining efforts in the near future. I would like to answer a simple question... how likely is a BB published domain to be sold? To quantify this so that I can collect some good information from those of you experienced domainers who wish to contribute to this thread, let me make the question more precise:
A randomly selected BB domain with a list price of 2,000 is published on January 1. How likely is it that it will be sold by December 31, one year later? How does that likelihood vary if the price is lower or higher? I assume that all similarly priced domains are more or less equally likely to sell, which is the same as saying that I roughly trust that BB knows its market.
Can anybody refine the numbers of BB-listed domains and BB-sold domains? Also, I have read suggestions that BB favors "its own" listings over those of other submitters? Is that true? If so, how do they favor them? Is it by pricing them better (cheaper? more expensive?), by featuring them somehow more prominently? By "pushing" them in discussions with propective buyers?
I really like the concept of a market directed to end-users that theoretically allows bridging the wholesale-to-retail (end-user) pricing gap--a marketing channel--but I don't want to devote too much money and energy to a concept that doesn't really work.
Any commentary would be greatly appreciated.
- Ted