RAMPED.com

McKay Taylor said:

Thanks for your complements on the platform

We actually do accept really premium nGTLD's on the platform.

Ramped has a strict approval criteria. We only approve names that we know our marketing and brokerage teams can do proper "active marketing" and enough solid outbound to "actually" bring more buyers for that particular name.

If you have a really premium NGTLD name it will be approved. However the majority of NGTLDs that are owned by investors aren't premium. The premium names are still held by the registries.

In regards to your comment about the name "Ramped" itself. Not quite sure I understand your comment there.

Cheers,

- McKay

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Looks simple and nice. How many payment methods do you provide tp your sellers?

I read this

"" All sales over $2,000 are automatically brokered via Escrow.com — we even cover escrow fees""

What does that mean?

Abdullah Abdullah said:

Looks simple and nice. How many payment methods do you provide tp your sellers?

I read this

"" All sales over $2,000 are automatically brokered via Escrow.com — we even cover escrow fees""

What does that mean?

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Thanks

We have partnered up with escrow.com.

So escrow is integrated seamlessly into Ramped. Just go in your Ramped account profile settings, add your escrow email address and everything is set up!

When a name sales for over $2000 USD (to insure safety for both buyer and seller) Ramped automatically creates a escrow transaction in the background between the buyer and the seller via Escrow.com API. There is no escrow fees for either buyer or seller (Ramped covers that).

Instead of having to email back and forth. Ramped creates and opens a little messaging "hub" (similar to iMessage or Google chat) between just the buyer, seller and escrow (with status updates). So it super simple to handle a transaction post sale.

If the name sales for under $2000 USD. We let the buyer and seller decide which payment method they want to use. (PayPal, Escrow, Payonner) etc..

Hope this helps answer some questions

This looks promising so I just signed up. The auctions have action already and I really like the fact that names are vetted prior to submission. One thing I would like to see is for transparency and to help reassure against possible collusion is the bidding aliases of all bidders participating in the auctions as with NameJet, Pheenix etc.

I really like the site and it's minimalist design!

Fast and easy verification process and submissions!

I also agree with the $5 fee which will most likely keep away the spam. If it was free you would have had idiots listing hundreds of crap names each day and the review process would take ages.

Great idea to launch this, wish you the best of luck with your venture!

$5. Seriously? I'd be embarrassed to complain that $5 prevented me from listing my domain on a premium platform that proactively engages end users!

$5. That's what? The price of a Happy Meal?

Thanks McKay, keep up the great work.

There are also 3 free credits for first 3 free listings if your domain is accepted.
So, you spend zero dollar in trying out the services of Ramped.com.

McKay Taylor said:

Thanks

We have partnered up with escrow.com.

So escrow is integrated seamlessly into Ramped. Just go in your Ramped account profile settings, add your escrow email address and everything is set up!

When a name sales for over $2000 USD (to insure safety for both buyer and seller) Ramped automatically creates a escrow transaction in the background between the buyer and the seller via Escrow.com API. There is no escrow fees for either buyer or seller (Ramped covers that).

Instead of having to email back and forth. Ramped creates and opens a little messaging "hub" (similar to iMessage or Google chat) between just the buyer, seller and escrow (with status updates). So it super simple to handle a transaction post sale.

If the name sales for under $2000 USD. We let the buyer and seller decide which payment method they want to use. (PayPal, Escrow, Payonner) etc..

Hope this helps answer some questions

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Great and detailed answer.Submitted my first name yesterday

Signed up, looks alright. Would like to be able to sort by time left, or by number of bids etc on the list of open auctions

Hey Folks

Okayies so here is my my unsolicited, unbiased and honest review of Ramped.com

Initially when I signed up I figured oh well, here we go again ..another domain market place. Might as well give them a try, nothing to lose. I wasn't expecting anything out the ordinary or anything special at all. I went through the FAQ and 1 thing that caught my attention was the Free Escrow service for deals over $2000, interesting that a new kid on the block can come out and offer this service when older marketplaces are unable to do so... (not for free). So that kinda gave me a little bit of hope that these guys might be different...I was not expecting much else after that.

I saw they had a $5 listing fee and claimed that domains are vetted properly and all of that and thought oh well... here we go again. So I went ahead and deliberately submitted some not so good domains, some average domains and some really good domains. Expecting most of them to get accepted considering there is a $5 listing fee per domain.

Also expected to wait maybe a week or so until I got any response.... the following day (within 24hours) I received a few emails from Ramped....saying some of my domains were declined, then when I actually read the emails...I was REALLY surprised...they actually went along and provided a personalized response to each domain that was rejected along with reasons why they believed that the domain were not ideal for there market place!!... I WAS LIKE wooooaaah! now that's impressive!!... I logged into my account and saw some of the other domains were still being reviewed and thought okay cool...lets see what happens there..... Then I get another reply with even MORE details and it said whilst the domain has great keywords and it was a good domain it is not suited for their market place, it will probably sell else where... These were actual responses from @McKay Taylor himself so that was even more impressive that he was taking the time to respond to customers himself.

He also mentioned:
We truly only approve listings (after) we know we can actually bring a buyer(s) to the table.
Otherwise we feel Ramped would become just another platform full of cluttered names without any buyers, and names wouldn’t get the right exposure that they need to do well in a auction format. We are working hard to stay true to our core values and hope we can help you along the way as we grow as well!

That's only a small extract of the email I received - the entire mail was written specifically about my domain, it was detailed, sincere and honest.

Some of the domains I submitted where non English domains so they are currently vetting the domains using their contacts and overseas brokers that deal with domains in that language and also doing outbound to see what sort of interest there is.

I was left thinking HOLLY SH*T BALLS!!! Ramped is going to be an industry game changer, if they can keep up the momentum they already have then I can tell you now the other market places are going to suffer considerably. I will be submitting all my decent domains to Ramped...Its been a long long long time since I was down right impressed with exceptionally good service like this.

For far too long Domainers have had to endure absolute cr@ppy service from MOST (not all) service providers... all the way from registrars to market places. We are often treated like we should be grateful for being allowed the privileged of dealing with a certain registrar or a certain marketplace, for the most part we simply just grind our teeth and accept the shockingly poor service. Ramped is refreshingly different, they understand the concept of customer service and they understand that it is us, the domainers who are essential to their success. If we are making money on their marketplace then they are making money. So we deserve to be treated accordingly and it's great to see that Ramped realizes this.

I very seldom take the time to write reviews unless I am extremely impressed.... I can in all honesty say that I am gobsmacked at the exceptional levels of service I have received thus far.

Im looking forward to forging a long term business relationship with the Ramped team.

@McKay Taylor & the rest of the Ramped team: Well done guys, keep up the good work. I'm confident that guys will grow to be one of the preferred marketing places very quickly.

Same here @deez007 yesterday when my one extremely niche business got declined, it was properly reasonated of which i received an email. how the domain is cool and why it was declined. was really impressed. Kudos to @McKay Taylor

DefinitelyDomains said:

Has anyone had any experience in using RAMPED.com?
Never heard of them before so assume they are new?

Noticed the banner ad here at NP, and had a quick scan earlier today.

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Just a thought - maybe you should add "Ramped.com - New Domain Market Place" or something to the title of your thread?.... It kinda looks like a sales thread where you are selling ramped.com when you look at it among all the other threads in the "new posts" section lol... just my 2 cents though.

deez007 said:

Hey Folks

Okayies so here is my my unsolicited, unbiased and honest review of Ramped.com

Initially when I signed up I figured oh well, here we go again ..another domain market place. Might as well give them a try, nothing to lose. I wasn't expecting anything out the ordinary or anything special at all. I went through the FAQ and 1 thing that caught my attention was the Free Escrow service for deals over $2000, interesting that a new kid on the block can come out and offer this service when older marketplaces are unable to do so... (not for free). So that kinda gave me a little bit of hope that these guys might be different...I was not expecting much else after that.

I saw they had a $5 listing fee and claimed that domains are vetted properly and all of that and thought oh well... here we go again. So I went ahead and deliberately submitted some not so good domains, some average domains and some really good domains. Expecting most of them to get accepted considering there is a $5 listing fee per domain.

Also expected to wait maybe a week or so until I got any response.... the following day (within 24hours) I received a few emails from Ramped....saying some of my domains were declined, then when I actually read the emails...I was REALLY surprised...they actually went along and provided a personalized response to each domain that was rejected along with reasons why they believed that the domain were not ideal for there market place!!... I WAS LIKE wooooaaah! now that's impressive!!... I logged into my account and saw some of the other domains were still being reviewed and thought okay cool...lets see what happens there..... Then I get another reply with even MORE details and it said whilst the domain has great keywords and it was a good domain it is not suited for their market place, it will probably sell else where... These were actual responses from @McKay Taylor himself so that was even more impressive that he was taking the time to respond to customers himself.

He also mentioned:
We truly only approve listings (after) we know we can actually bring a buyer(s) to the table.
Otherwise we feel Ramped would become just another platform full of cluttered names without any buyers, and names wouldn’t get the right exposure that they need to do well in a auction format. We are working hard to stay true to our core values and hope we can help you along the way as we grow as well!

That's only a small extract of the email I received - the entire mail was written specifically about my domain, it was detailed, sincere and honest.

Some of the domains I submitted where non English domains so they are currently vetting the domains using their contacts and overseas brokers that deal with domains in that language and also doing outbound to see what sort of interest there is.

I was left thinking HOLLY SH*T BALLS!!! Ramped is going to be an industry game changer, if they can keep up the momentum they already have then I can tell you now the other market places are going to suffer considerably. I will be submitting all my decent domains to Ramped...Its been a long long long time since I was down right impressed with exceptionally good service like this.

For far too long Domainers have had to endure absolute cr@ppy service from MOST (not all) service providers... all the way from registrars to market places. We are often treated like we should be grateful for being allowed the privileged of dealing with a certain registrar or a certain marketplace, for the most part we simply just grind our teeth and accept the shockingly poor service. Ramped is refreshingly different, they understand the concept of customer service and they understand that it is us, the domainers who are essential to their success. If we are making money on their marketplace then they are making money. So we deserve to be treated accordingly and it's great to see that Ramped realizes this.

I very seldom take the time to write reviews unless I am extremely impressed.... I can in all honesty say that I am gobsmacked at the exceptional levels of service I have received thus far.

Im looking forward to forging a long term business relationship with the Ramped team.

@McKay Taylor & the rest of the Ramped team: Well done guys, keep up the good work. I'm confident that guys will grow to be one of the preferred marketing places very quickly.

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Glad to hear this from you deez. I have submitted some of my domains with Ramped and have had 1 rejected yesterday ( non com ) and still waiting on the response on others.

I sincerely hope they turn out to be different from other marketplaces and I will gladly list all my domains at ramped.

Other auction marketplaces ( not talking about non auction marketplaces like afternic etc.) are at the moment saturated and expect us to pay them listing fees and commission yet do most work ourselves to bring in sales/ end users to the listing for what should be their job .

@McKay Taylor can I please know what's the current response time on domains that have been submitted? Thanks.

@deez007 Where do you check this - domains under review... I do not see any of mine , not the one that was rejected nor the others that are under review. I just got 1 email for the one that was rejected.

deez007 said:

Just a thought - maybe you should add "Ramped.com - New Domain Market Place" or something to the title of your thread?....

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Great idea - although it seems this can no longer be edited. Perhaps @Admin could change this? It is, however, nice to see so many of you comment in what is now a great thread!

produced1509 said:

@deez007 Where do you check this - domains under review... I do not see any of mine , not the one that was rejected nor the others that are under review. I just got 1 email for the one that was rejected.

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Basically you need to go to the Auctions section...then there is tab for "Your Auctions" then ur domains will be listed there.. all u need to do is click on the domain and it will show u that it is being reviewed

flippa charges $9 to have a domain listed

@deez007 you've got it right on the spot man! I felt the same way you did and when something
is good from the top to the bottom, then that's a blueprint to a successful business for all of the
involved parties.

For me it took only 24 hours to have some of my domains reviewed, still waiting for others,
but to be honest I wouldn't mind even if it takes a few more days because having them
properly vetted and even get some insights from their perspective is more important then
having them list in a hurry.

franka46 said:

flippa charges $9 to have a domain listed

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Yes, but you if your domain doesn't sell, you get one domain free auction.

very quick and good support @ Ramped.com

I think $5 listing fee for each domain still a lot. How about if it doesn't sell? I think $5 listing fee is also called a one time fee; untill a domain will sell. eBay does not charge listing fees for any items. eBay only charged if you sell. This is good.

It's always great and encouraging to see other domainers do big things!

ZapNano said:

I think $5 listing fee for each domain still a lot. How about if it doesn't sell? I think $5 listing fee is also called a one fee; untill a domain will sell. eBay does not charge listing fees for any items. eBay only charged if you sell. This is good.

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You get 3 free listings to try the service out - Also there isn't a single market place that puts in the effort that Ramped does. Give them a try and submit some of your domains then you will see what I'm talking about - After dealing with them, if they charged $10 even I would still use their service.

I will do that... compititors is pouring in.. Goods one will survive, bad once will die.

i think 5$ is absolut ok
it keeps the level up

if you go for a drink ( alcohol ) you pay also 5$ and you get drunk
to pay 5$ to get a good chance to sell a domain is fair and smart

@Sedo you pay 69$ for a ShowCase only