@Nametree - I personally was reviewing the hundreds of domains that were submitted each day in the beginning and I started with more lenient guidelines because we were just getting started and obviously wanted to start building some inventory for the platform.
Since then we’ve added more people to the team and established stricter guidelines for domain curation. Yes, there are a few outlier names that should have been declined or should have lower prices but that is one of the reasons we implemented a 30 day timeframe for all listings. If a domain doesn’t sell in 30 days then it means it was priced too high and it has to be resubmitted to our review panel. For some of the names that are resubmitted we will have to correct a previous error by declining or lowering prices
It’s also important to note that names are reviewed by both
@jstenn13 and myself before approving, repricing, or declining names. Does that mean we’ll never make mistakes? Absolutely not, sometimes we might list a name that shouldn’t have been listed. Sometimes we’ll decline a name that could have been approved based on other names that we potentially should have declined. However, our decisions are generally based on DATA, we look at previous sale history, end-user potential, domain investor trends, and our own data on what’s selling for what prices. Even the sellers that have sold multiple domains with us get their domains declined or repriced frequently.
I want to make it clear that this is a new platform so there are many things that are still being worked on but there is one core principle that many domain investors need to understand - This is not a platform that lists your valuation of a domain. It’s a platform that curates good quality domains that are priced at wholesale/reseller price points according to the data we are collecting and the data that is available publicly from auctions.
Our sell through rate is high and one of our most important metrics. We have some of the biggest buyers and sellers in the industry both selling and buying on the platform. I can tell you that we’ve declined and repriced submissions from very successful investors - Even the best of us think our domains are better than everyone else’s. It’s human nature.
Just to reiterate:
1) When I was starting this up by myself I was more lenient with domain submissions (examples below)
2) Since we expanded the team, there are multiple people reviewing names now and the quality criteria got stricter.
3) We will make mistakes from time to time.
4) We don't favor any sellers. We favor quality names.
5) Thanks for the feedback
Btw- Maybe(.co) was incorrectly priced too high by me, and Kalliope was an early submission that I approved when inventory was low. There are many “premium” .co names can be registered for $109 at GoDaddy and drop every day so .co is definitely a unique market at the moment.
In regards to There(.co), I know exactly how much you paid because it was offered to me before you bought it and I passed on it. I won’t comment on how much you paid but it was approved at DNWE for around the same price.