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.

 

[Future Sensors]

Sedo DDoSing Atom's servers?

I don't know the exact cause, but the bottleneck is clearly capacity on Atom's origin servers, not Cloudflare.

Atom is running a museum piece of Apache, 2.4.41, dust and all.

Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at www.atom.com Port 443

Mind you: Apache HTTP Server 2.4.41 was officially released on August 14, 2019.

Later Apache releases have addressed numerous security vulnerabilities.

The most recent release is 2.4.65.

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

 

[Chris Co]

I don't know the exact cause, but the bottleneck is clearly capacity on Atom's origin servers, not Cloudflare.

Atom is running a museum piece of Apache, 2.4.41, dust and all.

Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at www.atom.com Port 443

Mind you: Apache HTTP Server 2.4.41 was officially released on August 14, 2019.

Later Apache releases have addressed numerous security vulnerabilities.

The most recent release is 2.4.65.

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

Sounds like an area they haven't innovated in a while. Time for an overhaul @Atom.com ?

I'd get your devs to seriously look into Rust & Axum.

 

[carob]

Do we know when Atom's Sedo syndication will be switched off?

Atom listed domains still seem to be showing in searches at Sedo.

Presumably those syndicated listings will be wiped from Sedo, so we can list our names on Sedo directly ourselves - or possibly we do that already,

At present if you try to list a domain at Sedo that Atom have already syndicated to Sedo for you, you can't - you get a message saying it is already listed in another account.

A while ago I removed a batch of listings from Sedo because Atom would list them there for me. Now I'll have to spend time listing the domains at Sedo again and setting prices.

I wonder if Atom's ambitions as a registrar and forcing transfer of sold names to their registrar was a factor in ending the Sedo syndication? Sedo have accounts at many registrars to receive pushes.

Has anyone here ever actually sold a domain listed at Atom via Sedo syndication?

@Atom.com How do we turn off Sedo syndication at Atom.com? When will you switch it all off ?

 

[NameGroove]

Atom's appraisal amount is not working for me (but the rating is) @Atom.com

 

[Chris Co]

Atom's appraisal amount is not working for me (but the rating is) @Atom.com

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It's been like it since yesterday. However, the Atom chrome browser extension seems to be still working as an alternative.

 

[King]

So did all lifestyle, beauty, fashion, food, travel, home, pet businesses move to AI domains?

 

[URL Stream]

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So did all lifestyle, beauty, fashion, food, travel, home, pet businesses move to AI domains?

Is this "data" independently verified by other sources, and reflected across all platforms, or is it something only @Atom.com is reporting?

 

[URL Stream]

Could this inside data be related to their recent decrease in how much data they’re willing to share with sellers?

 

[Velocity.Now]

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So did all lifestyle, beauty, fashion, food, travel, home, pet businesses move to AI domains?

 

[Velocity.Now]

Is this "data" independently verified by other sources, and reflected across all platforms, or is it something only @Atom.com is reporting?

Its an Atom thing

 

[wwwulff]

My last 3 sales were 1 travel, 1 food and 1 home related name - They were not sold through Atom, but via Afternic and BrandBucket

 

[Inframan]

Does anyone know how individuals are able to change the background color on their A.I logo?

e.g Warms.org
(the art style looks more advanced than what Atom A.I is capable of)

 

[Optimal Names]

Does anyone know how individuals are able to change the background color on their A.I logo?

e.g Warms.org
(the art style looks more advanced than what Atom A.I is capable of)

That is interesting! The second image (use the dots under the image) looks like a screenshot, no?

 

[Inframan]

That is interesting! The second image (use the dots under the image) looks like a screenshot, no?

That logo perfectly conveys the domain name. That has to be one of the best name matched logos on Atom.

 

[Future Sensors]

Does anyone know how individuals are able to change the background color on their A.I logo?

e.g Warms.org
(the art style looks more advanced than what Atom A.I is capable of)

All this can be done easily with the right prompt on ideogram.ai. It's not a logo created by Atom's AI implementation.

 

[Future Sensors]

 

[Velocity.Now]

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Thanks, but with the amount of issues the Atom marketplace has on a continuing basis and Spaceship having $9 .coms there is 0 chance I would even consider it.

 

[Velocity.Now]

How long is Black Friday? Seems a long time for a sale ... Doesn't seem normal to me

 

[silentg]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990765182386405530

NamePros is experiencing Cloudflare network issues.

 

[Gabriel360]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990765182386405530

NamePros is experiencing Cloudflare network issues.

The monopoly in internet infrastructure seems WORSE than the one in the domain industry.

Problems with ONE company take out almost the entire internet.
First, it was AWS. Now, it's CloudFlare.

I can't access my registrar accounts at Dynadot, Spaceship, NameSilo, NameCheap and even Sav.

Infuriating stuff.