BrandBucket Experience

[xtremex]

hello

I am new to BrandBucket. Before getting my hands on this

I wish to experience about brandbucket from my fellow members


Thanks

 

[iko]

I have only two names listed on BB. "Vovita" and "Dypso". Both names are raltively "old" and not handregs.

Problem with BB is that names get "burried" relatively fast if you don't pay the "feature" option.

 

[SearchEngineZ]

Mine are all expired, bought at auction. Typically I have paid high $xx to low $xxx, and they are listed at BB for $2K to $20K. So pretty much one sale pays for all the purchase prices.

 

[SearchEngineZ]

NOTE: The following only applies to what I consider to be excellent brand names - as a reference point I look at the names of startups that are in the news at CrunchBase. I do have several dozen listed at BB that I do not consider to be excellent, but I still hope.

I've sold 2 this month, so I guess I can give an idea of what can be achieved at BB:

These have sold since I started with BB mid-year, average time to sell is about 4 months, with half of my (excellent) domains still unsold.

Spoq
Alternis
Revato
Nibl
Orbex
Adza (paid to be featured)

Average sales price is high $xxxx. Listing price is typically 2-5x what I had unsuccessfully listed them for at Sedo. All were purchased at popular auction sites for low $xxx or less.

Each has an X-factor that helps it find a buyer, helps it stand out:

Spoq - Star Trek, short and funky
Alternis - Alt means alternative, something that does well online
Revato - Rev for revenue
Nibl - Nibble fits in with micropayments and bytes
Orbex - Orb is a globe - global
Adza - Ads are what fund a lot of the web

In general they are easy to spell, and have wide appeal. There would be thousands of ad services that would consider Adza to be a good fit.

 

[Cyphix]

How long have others been waiting for approval/rejection of their names lately? First lot I submitted got reviewed fairly quickly, the latest lot I have been waiting almost 2 weeks now..... :/

 

[equity78]

Brand Bucket met its $1million sales goal for 2013, they are coming out with a gift card and they are giving 5 % off any domain til the end of the year.

Posted here

 

[DEFLECTED]

Brand Bucket met its $1million sales goal for 2013, they are coming out with a gift card and they are giving 5 % off any domain til the end of the year

Yeah and reading this thread it sounds like much of that money came from listing fees from domainers.With all these names you domainers have submitted you'd think there would be much more sales. What happened?

 

[Cyphix]

Yeah and reading this thread it sounds like much of that money came from listing fees from domainers.With all these names you domainers have submitted you'd think there would be much more sales. What happened?

It says in sales, not listing fees.

 

[SearchEngineZ]

2000 listings x $10 = $20K, nothing in the greater scheme of things.

 

[Zoltan P.]

Thanks BB for one more great sale just before Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

 

[TargetNames]

Good experience with BrandBucket. They accepted one of my domains and sold it in one month. From the time they notified me of the sale until money was in my account- 7 days. Not bad.

 

[ruzeen]

It's been one month since I submitted a couple names and there's still no response (hopefully, this week)
And then it'll take them another 3 - 7 Days for a logo design. BB is extremely slow now. Probably due to high volume of submissions.

 

[iko]

They are so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. It seems like eternity to me.

I mean it takes a few seconds to look at the name and see if it has some potential....

 

[ruzeen]

I e-mailed them asking about few of my domains that were submitted in mid Dec. and they said that the delay was due to Holidays and I'd hopefully get the results within this week. IMO it's not a very appropriate answer - however, they could have at least mentioned something about it on their site so the long-waiting wouldn't have disappointed their users.

 

[NameOmnia]

I don't know how the process of accepting / rejecting a name works but I think that, beside being flooded with submissions, they see what comes for every niche and they pick up the best. Let's say 20 domains about " green " come in like greenia, greenxx, cgreeny...my opinion is that they will choose only some of them as I assume they are not going to have too many similar names on their website. So maybe they do that every week or every fortnight. This could be an explanation imo.
It took more than a month for mine too

 

[Abdul Aziz R]

Finally got one accepted, it is now live
Xoora

 

[Domainerr]

Finally got one accepted, it is now live
Xoora

We sold Xoura..xoora is also Nice best of luck..

 

[Abdul Aziz R]

You too... Domainerr
Thanx

---------- Post added at 01:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:41 AM ----------

I thought that the forwarding of my domain (xoora) to brandBucket.com/Xoora is temporary, Just to proof that I have the authority of the domain. When it got validated, I cancelled the forwarding. They sent me that they stopped viewing my domain until I forward it again! I don't know if this happening with you all?

 

[Domainerr]

You too... Domainerr
Thanx

---------- Post added at 01:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:41 AM ----------

I thought that the forwarding of my domain (xoora) to brandBucket.com/Xoora is temporary, Just to proof that I have the authority of the domain. When it got validated, I cancelled the forwarding. They sent me that they stopped viewing my domain until I forward it again! I don't know if this happening with you all?

Yeah, we need to forward it everytime.they require 100% Exclusivity..

 

[SearchEngineZ]

I think this is reasonable. It helps you stick to the exclusive side of the arrangement. It means you aren't pointing to a landing page where it is for sale elsewhere.

I reckon they'd ask you to change the WHOIS to BB if they thought it wouldn't alienate sellers - because that's a loophole they aren't plugging.

IN MY EXPERIENCE - the 30% commission has easily been countered by the much higher price BB have got for me.

 

[John Slaney]

IN MY EXPERIENCE - the 30% commission has easily been countered by the much higher price BB have got for me.

I agree.
I completed my first sale on BB today. It was a much better ROI than my other private brand sales. The whole process was smooth and fast. Really pleased. It wasn't a huge sale I am happy with the result.