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[JudgeMind]

Hey Folks,

I've just started using squadhelp.com to list some of my brandable. So far I have 76 domains listed, there is no fee to list. I've had some decent action so far in the way of interested buyers but no sales as of yet. I've only been with them for 1 week now.

A bit of a summary review of SquadHelp:

PROS

• No Listing fee
• No Logo design fee
• Ability to submit your names to end users holding naming contests
• Ability to chat directly or send a message directly to end users.
• Stats of your marketplace domains are shown in the marketplace dashboard.
• Their customer service and support has been great, 24hr a day chat.
• Ability to increase or decrease the list price of your domains or to show a discount. You can decrease or increase the price yourself by $200. If you want to lower more, you can contact support.
• End users can shortlist your domains before they make a decision on which they want to purchase. The number of shortlists is shown in you marketplace dashboard.
• When you submit your names you get to set the price you wish to get. Because their commissions are high I recommend listing at a higher price to offset the commission costs.
• Their landing pages are fairly basic but they work. Because the marketplace is fairly new, I'm sure we will see style improvements in the future.
• One thing I really like is they accept multiple extensions. I have listed .co and .io along with .com
• Each seller gets a direct link to their marketplace portfolio, HERES MY PORTFOLIO. It is handy if your trying to p[promote your portfolio through social media.
• I like that their marketplace doesn't have tens of thousands domain listings like BB. They are fairly strict on the domains they accept to list and so this helps keep the number of domains in the marketplace down and gets your listings more exposure.

CONS

• Their commissions are very high, depending on the domain name they are usually between 30% and 35%. However, there are no listing fees, no logo design fees, so in the end their commission is very similar to brand buckets.
• Their logos are not top quality, in fact I requested to have some of my logos remade.
• I think they have a big backlog of logos to design, the wait time for logo design has been around 1 week, but your names are still listed while the logos are being designed.
• After your names are accepted you need to agree to their commission rate, at this point you also need to apply your own keywords, descriptions etc. I found this was very time consuming.

 

[Furquan]

”Shut up if you don’t have positive things to say” is the mother of evil.

I don’t think there is anything I loathe more than when someone for no obvious reason other than siding with establishment decides to criticize someone for speaking their mind. It makes me cringe.

I don’t think SquadHelp needs your defense. They need development, and I’m sure they value input.

Criticism is a valuable thing. ”Constructive” or not.

There are people including this guy & other who get angry when i try to criticise brandpa. If you want check head over BP review thread you will find it.

 

[Recons.Com]

Your criticism so far isn't constructive enough! Looking more like sheer hatred or due to the fact that many of your domain names weren't accepted.

Well! I think the issue is simple, go elsewhere if you don't like a platform. The sky is big enough for all beds to fly. Your emphases doesn't hold water.

Funny how you also have a company of your own, if i am not mistaken and you are here in a public domain badmouthing another company out of hatred.

I will also like to inform you that Brandable Domain names doesn't have to follow English Language principles. Some don't even have any meaning, reason why they are called Invented or Made Up Names.

One man's food is another man's poison.

If you have no positive things to say or criticise constructively, it is better you just focus on other things.

It seems you have no clue what "constructive criticism" means.

"Constructive criticism is the process of offering valid and well-reasoned opinions about the work of others..."

I provided long detailed and factually supported opinion/analysis. I also suggested that they follow their own guidelines when approving names and suggested they improve the quality of their reviewers. That all is constructive.

While your criticism of me has zero facts or specific suggestions what you want me to improve, besides "either shut up or take your names elsewhere".

And you are completely clueless if you assume there is no logic/rules/stats/analytics regarding what constitutes a good brandable name and, yes, a lot of it is based on some of the English language principles.

 

[Recons.Com]

There are people including this guy & other who get angry when i try to criticise brandpa. If you want check head over BP review thread you will find it.

So, why are you not consistent and why you get angry when someone criticizes SH?

Your whole "criticism" of Brandpa has focused on you not having access to their Slack channel and your assertion that BP doesn't have many sales and they are lying about their 5-6% sell through, while supporting that with exactly zero facts.

And, yet, here you are suddenly fair and supportive.

 

[Furquan]

Your whole "criticism" of Brandpa has focused on you not having access to their Slack channel and your assertion that BP doesn't have many sales and they are lying about their 5-6% sell-through, while supporting that with exactly zero facts

I have their slack channel access from the start but I get kicked out without notification without a warning when I contacted their support than I got to knew that BP from thin air made a slack channel policy & they only allow people who have 35 plus published name. (I call this one of the 'Stupid policy I ever saw'.

It was not Slack Channel it was a mishandling of a seller who have been with them from the beginning. You can't just make policy in a minute & implement it to forcefully without a single warning.

You come here & start criticizes SH but you forget to do same with BP when i posted some 'Real Pure Trash' published names on BP.

For ur reference.

 

[Regietron]

@Recons.Com & @Furquah

Please this thread is about SH marketplace. You both have made your stance clear & known. You are beginning to derail. Kindly take your fight elsewhere.

 

[NYJimbo]

Anyone who lists on the platform can confirm this is the case.

I always add a domain as basic plus, update the

So, why are you not consistent and why you get angry when someone criticizes SH?

Your whole "criticism" of Brandpa has focused on you not having access to their Slack channel and your assertion that BP doesn't have many sales and they are lying about their 5-6% sell through, while supporting that with exactly zero facts.

And, yet, here you are suddenly fair and supportive.

Take this to PM/DM, its not helping anyone.

 

[Recons.Com]

I always add a domain as basic plus, update the

Take this to PM/DM, its not helping anyone.

And how would you know that? There is nothing private here. It is a discussion about SH marketplace and opinions are shared.

@Recons.Com & @Furquah

Please this thread is about SH marketplace. You both have made your stance clear & known. You are beginning to derail. Kindly take your fight elsewhere.

I find it amusing that two new members in @Regietron and @Oruko with combined under 100 posts feel entitled to indicate to others what derails a topic and what doesn't, what is constructive and what isn't.

Your post is completely off the topic and doesn't add anything. And people don't "begin to derail", the discussions though might. You feel that way, you click on "report" link below post, don't "begin to derail" yourself without adding anything to the subject of the discussion.

 

[Eric Lyon]

Please keep this thread on-topic about SquadHelp. Any further off-topic posts may result in a warning or infraction.

Thanks,

 

[Regietron]

One of my unregistered domains preapproved but it was registered by someone else recently...

They have worked on this now. For Any unregistered name they approve, it becomes live & registered the moment you accept terms & publish.

 

[Cdomains]

My advice would be keep a close track on what sells and on newly added names

I have, and I do not think it matters. If you try to add names like they already have listed, they reject them.

One thing I noticed is they only accept names that have no real application to a particular type of business.

They seem to like weird, generic names that are non-specific and could be used for anything.

If you try to submit a name that seems too close to a niche, it will be rejected.

It seems very subjective and depends on who is doing the selecting when they are checking names.

If the person reviewing the names does not like certain types of names you are screwed.

It is a game of luck. Spin the wheel and hope the person doing the selecting that day likes the kind of names you submitted.

 

[OnlineDomainShop]

They have worked on this now. For Any unregistered name they approve, it becomes live & registered the moment you accept terms & publish.

The thing is they are rejecting every single submission on their site without proper knowledge and backgrounds ....

 

[NameWell]

The thing is they are rejecting every single submission on their site without proper knowledge and backgrounds ....

No they do not. I get new names approved every week. Sometimes even daily.

They show more statistics than any other marketplace I used before. Use it! They even show actual names that recently sold. I have been manually tracking sold names since they started sharing this data and now I have a quite large database of sold names, best selling keywords, best selling patterns, best selling niches etc. This + keeping a close track on the stats of my names and sales helps me the most to come up with names that get approved.

Do your homework, use your analytical and strategical thinking, don't just blindly submit everything and anything that comes to your mind hoping it would somehow get approved and when it doesn't, come here to complain that "nothing gets approved".

 

[NameWell]

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[OnlineDomainShop]

No they do not. I get new names approved every week. Sometimes even daily.

They show more statistics than any other marketplace I used before. Use it! They even show actual names that recently sold. I have been manually tracking sold names since they started sharing this data and now I have a quite large database of sold names, best selling keywords, best selling patterns, best selling niches etc. This + keeping a close track on the stats of my names and sales helps me the most to come up with names that get approved.

Do your homework, use your analytical and strategical thinking, don't just blindly submit everything and anything that comes to your mind hoping it would somehow get approved and when it doesn't, come here to complain that "nothing gets approved".

What if i say i am submitting Brandroot namerific and BB domains each day ? if they are rejecting a domain accepted by all other brandable marketplaces what you get a result here ? BTW i have 53 names on SH and i know what they want but these days they are rejecting names blindly ...

 

[NameWell]

What if i say i am submitting Brandroot namerific and BB domains each day ? if they are rejecting a domain accepted by all other brandable marketplaces what you get a result here ? BTW i have 53 names on SH and i know what they want but these days they are rejecting names blindly ...

Today I submitted two names and got them both approved.

 

[Domain_savvy]

What if i say i am submitting Brandroot namerific and BB domains each day ? if they are rejecting a domain accepted by all other brandable marketplaces what you get a result here ? BTW i have 53 names on SH and i know what they want but these days they are rejecting names blindly ...

Have SH ever accepted published domain from Bb or brandpa ?

 

[Cdomains]

these days they are rejecting names blindly ...

I agree

 

[OnlineDomainShop]

Have SH ever accepted published domain from Bb or brandpa ?

In my case they accept few random 2 words ... But not even a single invented name ...

 

[BrandCougar]

Have SH ever accepted published domain from Bb or brandpa ?

@Domain_savvy -

Short answer - Yes.


Also to consider...

But there is no favoritism applied and you'll get SH's typical 8-10% accepted rate with submissions. Being BB or BPA published adds no pixie dust to them during the SH review. I get the same acceptance rate for names submitted whether BB published, BPA published, hand regd, or otherwise. Don't assume because BB or BPA liked a certain name that SH will get horny over it. Curation is a subjective process - and at times a head scratcher for any "brandables" platform.

Also keep in mind that both BB and Brandpa have a "30 day removal window" in their TOS, so before changing NameServers to NS1.SquadHelp.com, etc, you will need to request a removal from the other platform first, then enjoy a 30 day thumb twiddling.

Personally, I think the "30 day removal period" requirement is a bit nuts, but to avoid jeopardizing your BB or BPA account - it is what it is. (same issue with BR)

-Cougar

 

[bojan1]

I have one domain that is rejected by BB and BP but accepted by SH, and accepted at biggest price of all my SH domains. Also I think that most of my SH listed domains would be rejected at BB and BP. So they all have their own requirements that are slightly different for all of them, just need to be figured out. And it takes practice in order to increase acceptance rate.