Atom / Atom.com - Marketplace (formerly Squadhelp)

[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.

 

[Chris Co]

Your graph is exactly the same shape as mine, with no increase in lander visits.

I always assumed direct lander visits was traffic from people visiting your domain directly, i.e. typing the address into their web browser.

 

[clickcents]

My graph also going insane ..today screenshot and last 7 days results..

 

[meowmeow]

@Atom.com other people have already said that, but please let us see the stats for all our domains. It is really pointless to see just the top 10 "most popular" which somehow tend to be pretty much the same bundle of domains every day/week.

 

[carob]

@Atom.com other people have already said that, but please let us see the stats for all our domains. It is really pointless to see just the top 10 "most popular" which somehow tend to be pretty much the same bundle of domains every day/week.

Hi in the new view if you click to expand the Domain Stats column it shows four sub-columns, and the fourth of those is Views. Then to sort by views you go to the Sort By option up by the Search box and select sort by # of views.

 

[meowmeow]

Thanks but that is the same total "views" we had in the old lisitings page, accumulated there for millenia since the Ice Age. I really hope they start showing us the relevant recent views/visits which they've proven they do record but for all the domains.

 

[Optimal Names]

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[Optimal Names]

I know @Atom.com did a marketing push. But the numbers keep going up. Any idea where all of this traffic is being seen ?

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What has me confused is if its a marketing push then why are the visits 99.9% internal? Why arent these visitors coming in from outside of the platform? Or, do I have the wrong idea of what "platform discovery views" are?

I assumed they are from persons inside the system already whereas "direct lander visits" are people typing in the domain name and going directly to its lander.

Its confusing, to me. I (we all) have a list of top 10 domains that get (in my case) anywhere from 0-8 direct lander visits but they are in the low 1000's for platform discovery views -- it just doesnt make sense to me. Where are these visitors coming from? Other landers? If so, how?

I'd like to see the date, time, geo-location of the visitors, perhaps an estimate of time spent on the lander before bouncing to other landers. That will tell me immediately if they're organic visits.

 

[Optimal Names]

@Atom.com

Seems to be something wrong with the hearts on each domain name when I visit the main domains for sale page. They're all shifted over to the left.

Further down I see what seems to be a duplicate but only the casing is different.

 

[Chris Co]

@Atom.com

Seems to be something wrong with the hearts on each domain name when I visit the main domains for sale page. They're all shifted over to the left.

*tries to think of some witty joke about their heart being in the right place...*

 

[Optimal Names]

*tries to think of some witty joke about their heart being in the right place...*

Yes! Good one!

 

[silentg]

Here's what i noticed with current logo creations:
1. not following instruction
2. muted colors

are you seeing the same?

 

[Optimal Names]

Here's what i noticed with current logo creations:
1. not following instruction
2. muted colors

are you seeing the same?

I have always struggled with #1. For #2, I am colorblind so I just accept them.

 

[clickcents]

After long long months,today atom matched my portfolio popularity with site average..it was in 30-35% for long time and I believe it reached to 50% now because of their recent marketing..hope that it increased to others also..

 

[Optimal Names]

After long long months,today atom matched my portfolio popularity with site average..it was in 30-35% for long time and I believe it reached to 50% now because of their recent marketing..hope that it increased to others also..

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Yes, same thing! Just cracked the 50% mark as well!

 

[Chris Co]

Congrats!

Mine is the same, only last month I was saying about being on 40%:

My exposure is less than the average (40% vs 50%). I don't know if this is because of them being exact match or if it makes no difference, or if it's just because my names suck . But I have had a single sale out of 600 premiums listed so far though in those 2 months, so it does seem reasonably promising so far.

And now it's up at 55%:

I'm going to enjoy it all the way up until the new site averages get calculated, where i'll probably end up back down below 50% again

 

[DomainRecap]

Hi in the new view if you click to expand the Domain Stats column it shows four sub-columns, and the fourth of those is Views.

Thanks for the tip, as I would have never tried that.

Hopefully the expand setting is sticky so I don't need to keep clicking it.

 

[DomainRecap]

What has me confused is if its a marketing push then why are the visits 99.9% internal? Why arent these visitors coming in from outside of the platform? Or, do I have the wrong idea of what "platform discovery views" are?

I don't think anyone by Atom knows for sure, but my guess is that it includes any domain that showed up in any Atom search, so if you have domains with popular keywords that shows up on the first page (or if Atom promotes your specific domain(s)) then your Platform Discovery Views are going to be very high. There is really no other explanation for these numbers being like this.

I think the real question is whether Direct Lander Visits include both external (type-ins and links) and internal (clicks from search results), which I think they might.

The way I view it is:

Platform Discovery Views = The number of times an Atom user may have come across your listings in Atom search or promotion

Direct Lander Visits = The number of times users actually visited your marketplace lander, both internally and externally.

Like I said, it's really the only logical explanation for the numbers being the way they are.

 

[eisDomains]

I'm seeing the same spike on Atom starting last week. Well, my graph looks the same, but it's a modest portfolio so not the same totals as the stats in this thread!

Also noticed a spike in traffic on my WLM site. Anyone else see that? It's not as dramatic, but assuming it's related...?

What seems really odd is that most of the traffic on my WLM is concentrated on 1 domain that i just added on Friday - and it's not like it's real a 'whopper,' at least i didn't expect it to be. But it also got the bulk ok Direct Landers in the Atom stats. Maybe they're prioritizing promoted domains based on how new they are.

Any one know if the Direct Lander views and Platform Discovery include from the WLM sites?

 

[DomainBFF]

After long long months,today atom matched my portfolio popularity with site average..it was in 30-35% for long time and I believe it reached to 50% now because of their recent marketing..hope that it increased to others also..

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I've been at 61% pretty much the entirety of the time I've been at Atom and I only moved up to 65%, but they're alleging I have this dramatic of an increase all of a sudden

The math doesn't math....

Also, what is all of this "new marketing" that is being claimed? I haven't seen any of it I'm aware of.

And the amount of lander visits would in theory stay proportionate to # of views over time which is not the case at all, so I can't help but have my doubts.

What seems more likely is they read all of the uproar from everyone when they started showing stats and weighing the exclusivity + price increases at other markets VS exposure from Atom, so they decided to pump up the numbers. It smells fishy

Edit: It's like shortlists all over again. If you left a domain name for X amount of time it would continue to add a few shortlists every X amount of time, to where you can tell that names that were added around the same time all had around the same number of shortlists, regardless of name quality. Even though the metric was BS and they claimed it was BS, it still was enough to keep people there and checking every day.

 

[NameVessel]

I’ve noticed that since September 2, they’ve implemented anti-bot filters. This has significantly reduced the noise, and I believe it’s reshaping domain rankings, since that noise was distorting how their algorithms and AI evaluated things. I can see that every day one or two of my domains are being pushed into testing, and the percentile shifts accordingly. Before, I only had two or three domains in the top 10, but now I have around ten. Honestly, I’m seeing a clear improvement, which is really encouraging. Hopefully, this will lead to a sale.