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.

 

[King]

I recently had a "Good Fit for Premium" approved within hours.

So I tried my luck submitting a different name (Atom score 8, appraised at $3,599), which was subsequently turned down.

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I got a bunch of 7 & 8s rejected, somehow only a 6 has gotten in so far.

 

[Future Sensors]

https://domaininvesting.com/atom-launches-atomappraise-bot-on-x/

 

[Future Sensors]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016289627452162296

 

[NicTraders]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016289627452162296

Well, they never slow down with their development, that's for sure. Personally, I would take it a bit slower and make sure everything on the sell-side works flawlessly first, but apparently this is the modern way...
[Edit to say... I'm not modern it would seem...]

 

[URL Stream]

I don't mind it. It's better than most of the logos it's creating for me

ChatGPT just made this logo for me on the first try, with no prompts other than: "make a logo for HumanScientia.com".

No coins necessary ; )

 

[GoKaizen]

They really should start kicking the domains from a few years ago off the platform.

Atom is being real picky with premium names at the moment, "Good Fit for Premium" don't seem to get auto approved anymore. Atom should have done this before all the trash got into premium.

 

[E. Silvera]

Today I requested an appraisal of a Premium listing to @Atom.com 's AtomAppraise handle on X. I did it just for the sake of joining in the party, knowing beforehand that the appraisal would match the listing price. I could see no harm in having a little visibility.

Everyone seemed to be getting their timely replies and leveraging them for promotion.

Not me, though. Hours went by, and.. crickets.

Getting used to it, indeed.

 

[End Game]

Today I requested an appraisal of a Premium listing to @Atom.com 's AtomAppraise handle on X. I did it just for the sake of joining in the party, knowing beforehand that the appraisal would match the listing price. I could see no harm in having a little visibility.

Everyone seemed to be getting their timely replies and leveraging them for promotion.

Not me, though. Hours went by, and.. critters.

Getting used to it, indeed.

Did they only appraise domains that are already listed on atom?

 

[E. Silvera]

Did they only appraise domains that are already listed on atom?

No, the automated tool replied to all the posts where someone asked it to appraise a certain domain. As far as I know, only my post went unanswered.. A glitch, maybe.

 

[Future Sensors]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016611711722176758

 

[Future Sensors]

@Atom.com Hello.



I've run into several 500 Internal Server Errors today on both Atom.com and WLM. It seems your capacity needs further refinement.

 

[NameGroove]

When is the launch of the Atom registrar?

 

[rereraa]

Its oh so quiet recently
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Unfortunately, the "Repeat Views & Inquiries" and "Strong Buyer Interest" features contain some bugs. My dashboard list shows x repeated domains in the last 30 days. However, when I select the filter "Buyer Interest - Strong 30 days" in the domain list, it shows my x domains from the dashboard plus a few additional ones that were never displayed in the dashboard and they show repeated visits in the details. This is a bug I have already reported here long time ago and it still persists (unfortunately like others).

 

[Chris Co]

However, @Atom.com I am having one problem with some of my logos where it appears to be zooming in slightly and clipping the top and bottom of the chosen image.

The image generation itself appears to be fine as they look good in the thumbnails. It's only the chosen logo that ends up getting clipped, and only if the art appears above the title text rather than beside it.

However, it's happened enough times now that I've had to use a few credits to generate new images.

For example:

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This one didn't turn out so bad though so I've kept it. Others haven't been quite so forgiving.

Thank you @Atom.com I've not had this issue again since, I think it's safe to say it's been fixed .

One slight issue I've noticed lately is when your domains get accepted to premium, the review & approve button in your emails is no longer linking to the proper approval screen. Instead it just shows the domain listings.

 

[DomainRecap]

Nevermind, I see that DNS settings are now edited through Settings -> Custom DNS Settings

 

[King]

Cool new sidebar.

 

[King]

The registrar is live

https://www.atom.com/register/


Transfer in:
https://www.atom.com/transfer-in-domains

 

[King]

Yikes, they charge an extra credit card fee...

That's a first?

 

[nlitenme]

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Yikes, they charge an extra credit card fee...

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That's a first?

Transparent - yes, surprise charges - YES

 

[King]

The interface is pretty clean.