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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.

 

[gblasting]

Your domain name, *******.com was viewed by a buyer before they ended up buying other domains (********.com). This is a great validation that the domain is resonating well with buyers. As a result, we have boosted it's ranking in the Marketplace.

I have gotten three of these in the last 13 days and no sale since November. Hurts not to get a sale but nice to know your name is making people's shortlist before purchasing another name.

 

[Ostrados]

I have gotten three of these in the last 13 days and no sale since November. Hurts not to get a sale but nice to know your name is making people's shortlist before purchasing another name.

Same here no sales since Octobor! I used to have 1 sale every 1-2 months before that, and with half number of domains.

It seems SH became super saturated and it is very hard to sell domains. Others might have different experiences though.

 

[boker]

Names listed on Afternic are syndicated to GoDaddy and their partner registrars. So no need to list names on GoDaddy marketplace if they are on Afternic.

To your main question, SH's TOS says Afternic only. There is no additional benefit by listing on DAN and other marketplaces without syndication if your name is not pointed there anyways. You can be almost guaranteed that nobody will find your name on DAN if your nameservers are not pointed to DAN.

Either advertising, either customers who bought something else from dan.com and were looking for other domains, but I had two inquiries( one resulted in a sale, one name was dropped but I forgot to delete)at dan, without pointing the nameservers.

 

[gblasting]

Either advertising, either customers who bought something else from dan.com and were looking for other domains, but I had two inquiries( one resulted in a sale, one name was dropped but I forgot to delete)at dan, without pointing the nameservers.

That's great to hear. All my names at DAN without DAN's nameservers have zero views.

 

[boker]

That's great to hear. All my names at DAN without DAN's nameservers have zero views.

I don't think that they are counting views if you don't have nameservers pointed to them. I've checked and they show something like: 1 inquiry, 0 views, so to be able to have any data, probably you will need to point them to dan.

 

[JudgeMind]

January was a solid month at squadhelp managed to sell

Overleap.com via sh marketplace

Nik.co - I did outbound for this name and brought the buyer into sh. They wanted to use Dan.com but I honoured the sh agreement.

trubello.com - via sh marketplace

In February sh has been slow but I’ve sold a few sh names via afternic including

inlay.io
BloomBiotics.com

I will be monitoring the number of sh listed names sold at afternic vs sold in the sh marketplace over the next months.

No sh marketplace sales to report in February yet. Will share more as sales occur. Cheers

 

[vravis9]

It will be helpful to know if this issue is with me or SH side problem..

When I am searching with keywords I am getting same results every time...

In other words what word you enter doesn't matter...it simply loading same page again.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Thanks,
Ravi

 

[ExDom]

I have noticed the ability to lower the prices below the accepted SquadHelp price is no more. I did a search by price in the marketplace and there are at least 1000 domains priced from $899 to $1499. Probably there are thousands more selling at $1499 but the search is limited to the first 10 pages. These are all curated SH domains, not domains from the WLM.

So a prospective customer comes in, wants a curated domain in lets say Fintech and clicks short by price. He can buy DelVinci for $899 and hundreds of Fintech SH curated names below $1499. He will never see my names because they were accepted at the new SH minimum price of $1999 and there is no way I can change that.

So in order for the playing field to be level, please either put a minimum rock bottom price for all curated SH domains or give ALL sellers the ability to price the domains as low as the like.

 

[November]

They should put a minimum bottom price for all domains.

 

[ecomslice]

has anyone had success in removing their own squad premium listings from showing in their WLM pages ?

I have gone to each individual domain and set the " Make Featured WLM " to " Not Featured "

I have then cleared cache multiple times from both the WLM
Seller Marketplace Preferences , The individual domains cache option & My browser

I am still seeing them in my WLM , and im going crazy. @anyone please.

 

[ALDaisy1]

has anyone had success in removing their own squad premium listings from showing in their WLM pages ?

I have gone to each individual domain and set the " Make Featured WLM " to " Not Featured "

I have then cleared cache multiple times from both the WLM
Seller Marketplace Preferences , The individual domains cache option & My browser

I am still seeing them in my WLM , and im going crazy. @anyone please.

As far as I'm aware, you do not have the option of hiding your SH premium listings from view on your WLM. The featured/not featured function changes where on the page a name is displayed, but it doesn't remove the name completely. Your SH premium names are included in your WLM automatically.

 

[ecomslice]

As far as I'm aware, you do not have the option of hiding your SH premium listings from view on your WLM. The featured/not featured function changes where on the page a name is displayed, but it doesn't remove the name completely. Your SH premium names are included in your WLM automatically.

@GrantP could you chime in here please. I see both options in drop down of 1-50 AND " Not Featured " option. It would be disappointing for me if I'm forced to blend my premiums with a WLM I want to be unique on their own.

 

[loredan]

Gotta say it ... pretty impressed with the review process lately.

Yesterday I submitted a name (paid 1 Coin) and less than 20 hours the domain has been reviewed, listed and logo designed already. The designer also took time to get in touch and ask me how I want the logo to look like.

Impressive! Well done SH!

 

[gblasting]

Very soon, the Featured Sales section of SH dashboard will be completely taken over by Private Seller.

 

[Josytal]

Very soon, the Featured Sales section of SH dashboard will be completely taken over by Private Seller.

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What's private seller and why do you think it's a (not) good sign if ...?

 

[ExDom]

@GrantP Will you please explain us the difference between Relevance Search (which is the current default) and Most Popular Search?

From example when I search for keyword "Health", the Relevance Search shows me Health related domains that almost all do not have the word "Health" in the name. The Most Popular Search shows me names, which ALL contain the exact keyword "Health"

Personally I believe the search names should be switched so the Relevance will be the keyword influenced and the popular based on the name's ranking and popularity in SH.

 

[ecomslice]

Very soon, the Featured Sales section of SH dashboard will be completely taken over by Private Seller.

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It is a mix of reasons. For me it was childish fake offers that magically stopped when I was private seller on the stats top 10

It is a requested feature by individual sellers

 

[Atom.com]

@GrantP could you chime in here please. I see both options in drop down of 1-50 AND " Not Featured " option. It would be disappointing for me if I'm forced to blend my premiums with a WLM I want to be unique on their own.

Currently the Premium domains in your portfolio are automatically added to your White Label Marketplace in addition to your standard listings. You do have the option to adjust the position of the names you would like to see in the homepage of your WLM. In future we will be adding additional options to manage the rankings of the domains.

 

[Atom.com]

@GrantP Will you please explain us the difference between Relevance Search (which is the current default) and Most Popular Search?

From example when I search for keyword "Health", the Relevance Search shows me Health related domains that almost all do not have the word "Health" in the name. The Most Popular Search shows me names, which ALL contain the exact keyword "Health"

Personally I believe the search names should be switched so the Relevance will be the keyword influenced and the popular based on the name's ranking and popularity in SH.

We continue to make updates to our Search algorithm to ensure that the search results are relevant to user's intent. In our experience, when users search for broad industry keywords such as "Clothing", "Health", "Beauty", "Finance" etc, they are typically not looking for those exact keywords inside the name - rather, they are are looking for names that are a good fit for those industries. On the other hand, if someone is searching for specific keywords such as "Logic" or "Herb", they are likely looking for names that contain those keywords.

In addition to above, we now personalize the search rankings based upon your previous interactions with the platform. For example, if you have previously explored names in the "Food" category, and then you do a search for a keyword such as "Green", you will likely see Food related names that contain "Green" keyword ahead of other names that contain the "Green" keyword.

We have made several adjustments to the Relevance sorting to optimize the results, however this is currently in progress and we will be making further adjustments on an ongoing basis. In addition, we will be applying similar rules to the Most Popular sorting in the near future as well.

 

[TauseefKhan]

I sell none last year... though portfolio is small (under 50)