BrandBucket Experience

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hello

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

I wish to experience about brandbucket from my fellow members


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[Michael M]

Does this logo make it look like there is a hyphen in the domain to you?

https://www.brandbucket.com/abledrive

Otherwise I don't mind the logo, but I am concerned people will scan over it thinking it is hyphenated...

Thoughts?

 

[Recons.Com]

That is a bad and lazy logo, imho, even without "hyphen" thing, which could definitely be misinterpreted...

 

[trelgor]

Somewhat. But I think it's mostly "domainers disease".

Does this logo make it look like there is a hyphen in the domain to you?

https://www.brandbucket.com/abledrive

Otherwise I don't mind the logo, but I am concerned people will scan over it thinking it is hyphenated...

Thoughts?

 

[Michael M]

Yea... I wasn't sure if it was just me seeing it because I look at domains all day long, or if an end user would see that.

If an end user would think that was a hyphen then I was going to see if it was possible for BB to redo the logo or if I could submit one (even tho I am no graphic designer - so theirs would without a doubt be better)

But I don't want to raise a fuss if the typical end user won't be turned off by it.

 

[RozasMD]

Yea... I wasn't sure if it was just me seeing it because I look at domains all day long, or if an end user would see that.

If an end user would think that was a hyphen then I was going to see if it was possible for BB to redo the logo or if I could submit one (even tho I am no graphic designer - so theirs would without a doubt be better)

But I don't want to raise a fuss if the typical end user won't be turned off by it.

As Trelgor said, I think it's mostly domainers disease, though it definitely makes it look a bit "hyphen-ish".

Anyway, I've got the feeling (no real data to support this) the end user tends to use a new logo when they finally launch the new site, different from the one they get from BB. I try not to worry too much about the logos, which is not always easy. I keep telling myself they're not really that important in the buying decission.

 

[cocaseco]

But I don't want to raise a fuss if the typical end user won't be turned off by it.

If you are unhappy with it, for any reason, you should ask for it to be redone. You are paying $100, or more, for it and should be 100% happy. This is business, not "making a fuss" is reserved for your Grandmas cookies. In my experience, BB will gladly have the logo redone for you and nobody will be upset or think less of you. They want the same thing you do, a sale. If the logo has any chance of reduceing the likelihood of a sale, you should have it redone IMO.

 

[Dominic Belley]

Are BB getting slower in their process?
On Jan 7th I paid and submitted listing for a domain. 12 days later, it is still in "Pending Review".

 

[John Slaney]

First sale of the year closed last week
r/e/l/a/y/o
This was my 5th BB sale since joining
Currently 11 names listed 2 coming soon and 1 pending approval

 

[cocaseco]

Are BB getting slower in their process?
On Jan 7th I paid and submitted listing for a domain. 12 days later, it is still in "Pending Review".

I noticed this too. All steps in the process are running slow. i assumed it is just from the holidays and the Namecon. I would expect it to get going as normal again, very soon.

 

[JimJammy]

Are BB getting slower in their process?
On Jan 7th I paid and submitted listing for a domain. 12 days later, it is still in "Pending Review".

Yes. I've got names that I submitted on the 30th December that have been approved but are still waiting for the review of the description, before going on to the logo stage. It's the 19th January today.

Edited to add: It appears they are working through the backlog right now, the names from the 30th December have just been pushed into the logo stage.

 

[trelgor]

First sale of the year closed last week
r/e/l/a/y/o
This was my 5th BB sale since joining
Currently 11 names listed 2 coming soon and 1 pending approval

You must be doing something extraordinarily right. I don't know how many names you've had listed but your sell-through rate seems off the charts. Most are looking at 3-4 % tops. What are your stats and what is your secret?

 

[Grilled]

I registered P/r/o/m/o/t/e/I/Q/./c/o/m on December 5th. For some reason it appeared on ExpiredDomains.net even though it was still within 75 days of expiration. GoDaddy even allowed me to seemingly register it.

I then submitted the domain to BrandBucket.

GoDaddy then emailed me saying the registration was unsuccessful.

I knew from the following previous email to wait until the domain was accepted to ask for the removal.

I emailed BrandBucket explaining the situation. At that time, I thought somebody registered the domain before me. I researched it and found it was still in the redemption period soon to be deleted. I had been waiting for this domain to drop.

On January 15th, I took a 12AM flight home from NamesCon. I landed at 6 AM and had to drive 4 hours home in negative degree weather. My radiator blew up on the way home. I spent the day at the mechanic instead of domaining. The domain was registered shortly after being dropped by BrandBuckets own @michaeljkrell

Any names found to be Pending Delete will be watched and registered by BrandBuckets employees?

I have always felt brandable investors benefit as a whole from BrandBuckets success. The director already has the most domains on the marketplace. Does a person in that position really need to troll domains submitted by their sellers to stay on top?

Since submitting P/r/o/m/o/t/e/I/Q/./c/o/m on December 5th, I have paid over $910 in listing fees publishing 91 domains. Forgive me for feeling mistreated. All I ask for is a fair marketplace like NamePros where the mods don't use information in our private messages to register domains for themselves.

 

[Nerevar]

Well, IMO we can not ask anyone not to register a domain that drops. Not ever our best friends. Because if a domain is not registered by one person, some another person will take it, there are plenty of domainers around. All we can do is pay the dropcatching services.

 

[12345]

Hey, Chris,

I'm sorry to hear about your rough trip back home from NamesCon.

All names that are not registered at the time of submissions are rejected by the reviewers. We would eventually like this to happen automatically at the time of submission, but this is currently our system.

Yes, I do still actively invest in domains and scour the GD auctions and pending deletes, but I do not look at a list of names that BB rejected because they are not registered or in a pending delete stage. IQ is definitely one of the "keywords" I look for in the drops, and it came up on my list as well. I've probably drop caught, or regged from the drops, a handful of "IQ" names in the last month.

Dozens of sellers email me lists of domains available for hand registration to get my advice on them, and to see if BB will accept them. I am always happy to answer these questions, and would never register a name that they sent to me. If you have a questions of any names that are available for hand registration please let me know and I will throw in my 2 cents.

EDIT: I realize that this was clearly a GD error, Chris, and you did not knowingly submit a name that you didn't own. For those that don't know sellers are required to click the check box agreeing that they are the current owners of the domain and have the rights to sell them.

 

[DNGear]

Well, I usually send names to @michaeljkrell before registering, to save some bucks. He replied me always. Thanks Krell.

 

[Grilled]

I just wanted to highlight how competitive the Brandable industry is. Like Nerevar pointed out, DropCatching is the lesson learned here.

I want to believe you would have registered P/r/o/m/o/t/e/I/Q based off the IQ suffix alone. I'm sorry for not coming to you privately, but because of this rare sequence of events, and minute chance you noted the dropping of this domain, I wanted to do so publicly to ensure user domain data accountability. I understand there may be difficulties in balancing a fair marketplace when you are a brandable domainer at heart and director by title. I hope you don't mind the documenting of this rarity to ensure things like this don't become a pattern.

Let's move past this and hope these hot keywords bring in repeat buyers and increase the overall sales percentage!

 

[RozasMD]

Does anyone know the growth rate of BB overall portfolio lately?

I'm quite surprised the inventory is just about reaching 24K names, considering a seller like @bazabizo, who I think owned about 400+ names, left the platform early this month. Even with that (400+ names less in a just a couple of days), the inventory has gone from about 23K to 24K in just one month.

I feel really curious (and maybe a bit worried too) about BB strategy and how they face the challenge of this huge portfolio growth.

 

[campout]

I think the growth rate has slowed since the introduction of mandatory listing fees.

 

[Nerevar]

I think the growth rate has slowed since the introduction of mandatory listing fees.

Yes, except that the last few days the growth has been extreme.

 

[bazabizo]

Does anyone know the growth rate of BB overall portfolio lately?

I'm quite surprised the inventory is just about reaching 24K names, considering a seller like @bazabizo, who I think owned about 400+ names, left the platform early this month. Even with that (400+ names less in a just a couple of days), the inventory has gone from about 23K to 24K in just one month.

I feel really curious (and maybe a bit worried too) about BB strategy and how they face the challenge of this huge portfolio growth.

BB didnt remove my names fully. There were still some names in there with the Inquiry button beside them for some reason. I was even finalizing a sale a couple of days ago and the buyer asked me to include the logo that was there on BB. I simply told him I cant, as its no longer on BB.

The good part is , the buyer stood by my side and asked me for a logo, and I asked a designer to make him 3 mockups. Now the buyer asked me for a couple of names for a few startups he owns instead of going again to BB. We established a relationship. If BB, gave me 30 days to go away, they should also do teh same and remove my names within that period, but they didnt and I didnt make a mess out of it. I am sure they will do as time passes.

I will always say it, if you dont like the platform, just leave it in peace. Its a business, no emotions attached or anything

Another good thing that happened to me is I sold a name that was on BB 72 hours after I left. AND I got 2 people asking me to broker their names as well. Just make a decision, stay on the platform with its good and bad, or just leave. If you will leave, make sure you have a plan. Not just leave out of anger, dont make a business decision based on personal feelings!

Good Luck everyone, you will need it