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

 

[myfavorite]

771 domains and only 2 sales?????

you dont think you could have done better with afternic or using your own undeveloped landing pages ?????

Do those 2 sales even cover your renewals?

With the exclusive clause. It makes me wonder

 

[myfavorite]

Still wondering...

 

[farouk20]

@myfavorite its a waiting game

 

[wackawacka1]

Has anybody had a name accepted after 6/30? I still have some pending review from 6/30 through 7/17. No acceptances. Have some rejections through 7/12, but seems they are taking forever to do their second-level review.

 

[sharjeep]

-- Deleted

(wrong thread)

 

[nitg16]

Submitted on 4th July, no dice.

 

[BrandCougar]

>> Has anybody had a name accepted after 6/30? I still have some pending review from 6/30 through 7/17

@wackawacka1 -

Same scenario for us. We received a round of rejections the past 3-4 days, but several names remain in the (submitted) Pending Review queue - as far back as the same date as you mentioned - 06/30 (June 30th).

It appears they are making a huge push recently to catch up on the backlog of Pending Editorial/Logo pile up. As of yesterday, we had several names in the backlog line that have been in the Pending Editorial / Logo queue as far as back as 18 days.

Then in the past 48 hours we had 9 of the 11 names moved out of the queue and went LIVE (were Published) the past 2 nights. Good news.

Pending Review (submission queue): 06/30
Pending Editorial (waiting for logo/editing/final review): most caught up / few names for us in the queue


-Cougar.

 

[nitg16]

After 17 days one of my domain was reviewed and approved but now it is already taken. 17 days is a long time and probability of loosing an unregistered name in this period is high. This has happened second time when I couldn't register an approved name and yet again a Chinese user has grabbed it.

I guess these things are part and parcel of brandable domaining and it is better to move on.

But what I don't understand is severe lack of communication with sellers from BB's side. I am not talking about a private chat/collaboration channel. If there are delays in review process or any other issues, why can't BB notify sellers? Even a simple one liner on Twitter will at least inform sellers.

I think that with so many domains and registered sellers, BB seems to be very busy and communication with sellers has taken a hit.

 

[Furquan]

After 17 days one of my domain was reviewed and approved but now it is already taken. 17 days is a long time and probability of loosing an unregistered name in this period is high. This has happened second time when I couldn't register an approved name and yet again a Chinese user has grabbed it.

I guess these things are part and parcel of brandable domaining and it is better to move on.

But what I don't understand is severe lack of communication with sellers from BB's side. I am not talking about a private chat/collaboration channel. If there are delays in review process or any other issues, why can't BB notify sellers? Even a simple one liner on Twitter will at least inform sellers.

I think that with so many domains and registered sellers, BB seems to be very busy and communication with sellers has taken a hit.

I asked it upfront & BB replied me that because sudden surge of submitted domain name there approval getting delayed. But I got another email 2 days back informing me they have hired more reviewers to get reviewing on track.

 

[BrandCougar]

Update...

We received a round of accepts last night.

(6) accepts that we had submitted during the time frame of 06/30 - 07/06.

For our (submitted) Pending Review queue, it appears they reviewed a week of 2nd round reviews last night and caught up thru to the date of 07/06. Our next item waiting a 2nd round review is dated 07/07.

I hope the info is helpful for others.

-Cougar



- Pending Review (submission queue): 07/06 (14 days)

- Pending Editorial (logo/editing/final review): most caught up / few names for us in the PE queue, tho we do have a straggler from 07/02 (18 days).

 

[BRANDERX]

folks, is my account in good standing with:

-no accepted names removed
-accepted names listed metric disabled N/A
-F for submitted names are accepted

?

im confused.

Thanks

 

[Furquan]

folks, is my account in good standing with:

-no accepted names removed
-accepted names listed metric disabled N/A
-F for submitted names are accepted

?

im confused.

Thanks

Why you are asking?

 

[BRANDERX]

Why you are asking?

in case I buy some what is sold here(already published) my account must be in good standing to receive the domains..

it says the account must score A & B, in the last 2 circles. Well, the one of those is disabled.

why do you think im asking. lol

 

[BrandCougar]

Another quick update...

This morning we received another round of accepts.

(4) accepts that we had submitted during the time frame of 07/07 - 07/13.

For our (submitted) Pending Review queue, it appears that this morning they completed another week of 2nd round reviews and brought the review date up to 07/13.

I hope the info is helpful for others.

-Cougar



- Pending Review (submission queue): 07/13 ( 7 days)

- Pending Editorial (logo/editing/final review): most caught up / few names for us in the PE queue, tho we do have a straggler from 07/02 (18 days).

 

[BrandCougar]

@MS-Domains -

A quick response to your question.

In your SCORE section on your BB Dashboard, what color are each of your 3 circles? grey / red / green?

Please post a screen shot of your 3 SCORE circles and that will provide us the necessary data to let you know your account status.

Thanks,

-Cougar

 

[BRANDERX]

@MS-Domains -

A quick response to your question.

In your SCORE section on your BB Dashboard, what color are each of your 3 circles? grey / red / green?

Please post a screen shot of your 3 SCORE circles and that will provide us the necessary data to let you know your account status.

Thanks,

-Cougar

Hi Cougar

 

[BrandCougar]

@MS-Domains


Perfect! Thanks for the screen shot.

The 2 circles you care about (as it relates to being "In Good Standing" with BB) are the 2 circles to the right.

Both circles to the right are BRIGHT GREEN which is what you want to see. Step # 1 of the test is Good.

Now onto Step # 2...

One other screen shot will help verify your account status. In the top right of your BB Dashboard, you will have a summary section in a big grey box containing data for Credits / Domains / Logos.

Please provide that screen shot.

Thanks,

-Cougar

 

[BRANDERX]

@MS-Domains


Perfect! Thanks for the screen shot.

The 2 circles you care about (as it relates to being "In Good Standing" with BB) are the 2 circles to the right.

Both circles to the right are BRIGHT GREEN which is what you want to see. Step # 1 of the test is Good.

Now onto Step # 2...

One other screen shot will help verify your account status. In the top right of your BB Dashboard, you will have a summary section in a big grey box containing data for Credits / Domains / Logos.

Please provide that screen shot.

Thanks,

-Cougar

 

[BrandCougar]

@MS-Domains

For the 2nd test, you are looking for the (blue) text "Join Our Slack Channel" displayed under the Domains section of your Summary (please see above screen shot).

And... success!! The answer to your original question is - your account is "In Good Standing".

The background info...

1) Yes, the 2 circles to the right in your SCORE section need to be BRIGHT GREEN.

2) In addition - some folks don't know this - but BB runs a program every night and recalculates their "Good Standing" score for each account nightly. It is not real-time, it is a nightly batch run. After the calculation is run at night, those accounts that meet the "Good Standing" status will display the (blue) text "Join Our Slack Channel"


As a group, we submit quite a few names to BB each week and have sold and transferred many names to a couple dozens BB members over the past 6 months supporting their inventory growth needs. When the name transfer (BB push) is not successful with a buyer and we get an error message indicating the receiving account is "Not in Good Standing", we ask the buyer to provide us the above 2 screen shots to help diagnose their account status and the root cause of the error message.

I hope the insight is helpful...

-John
"Cougar"


ps: Why doesn't BB have text in the top right Summary section that simply states "Account Status: Good Standing" or the alternative "Account Status: Not in Good Standing" ? No clue! Sort of seems obvious that's what should be provided, because I can tell you I get asked this question a couple times a month on NamePros from various buyers - BB members who want to build their inventory via acquisition, but can't determine with certainty what their account status currently is as it's not indicated (clearly outlined) on their BB Dashboard for reference purposes.

ps: I guess my question to BB would be - why not clearly state the account status (standing) for each user in their Dashboard? (sort of seems to be an easy fix and a helpful user insight)

 

[BRANDERX]

@BrandCougar thank you very much..