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

 

[Recons.Com]

Why did you decide to go with DNS landers?

 

[bazabizo]

We are developing Brandzo.com but it will take sometime, so DNS is good until then. Not using their brokers ofc.
The reason I handle leads myself is my 12 years sales experience in top Multinational IT vendors. I can sell anything to anyone ... just kidding I try

 

[Theydon]

Each to their own but I like the new efty landers, example of one gbdd(dot)com

 

[bazabizo]

Efty is great, but they must use Scalable cloud technology as their primary hosting. Loading time sometimes is more than 4 seconds for a single lander, this might cause people to think there is a website and not a domain for sale! my 2 cents

 

[Galleshem]

Guys... I left BB officially on the 8th of Jan 2016... Sold the first name on teh 11th for 2.2K through Afternic..
2 hot leads at the moment, should take a decision within 2 weeks. These are 2 startups that came using inbound on DNS landers, then I proposed to them my entire portfolio, each of them chose a different name than the initial request (same BB style, but I did it manually with them). If I dont sell anything in the coming 8 weeks, then I am on par with my BB rate, not to mention that I get $3-5 daily parking revenue, which i never got before!
So far, very happy i took the decision!
Also, working with some felow domainers on handling their inbound leads for FREE! Im preparing to be an official broker by 2017 so trying to gain sellers confidence before then.
Contact me through pm here whenever you want any stats or anything, i like to help.

I know you had around 500 names on BB but you probably also had a lot of rejects. How much brandables do you have in total right now?

 

[bazabizo]

900

 

[pokainc]

have you tried other landers besides dns? trying to figure out if their specific landers are making a difference

 

[tomcarl]

Please keep in mind when you guys start quoting/bashing actual domains published on BB that these belong to people who have vested interest in them. They are actually owned by someone who who paid to acquire it, paid to have it listed, and is actively trying to sell it and these pages are indexed by Google. You may not like the name personally but you are potentially costing someone a sale with your comments and losing them money. NamePros should be a place to help people advance financially and not hurt them.

 

[cocaseco]

Please keep in mind when you guys start quoting/bashing actual domains published on BB that these belong to people who have vested interest in them. They are actually owned by someone who who paid to acquire it, paid to have it listed, and is actively trying to sell it and these pages are indexed by Google. You may not like the name personally but you are potentially costing someone a sale with your comments and losing them money. NamePros should be a place to help people advance financially and not hurt them.

True, but it is equally true that you have no reasonable expectation to privacy here, and that when you post any name (anything), you run a risk a future buyer will see it and use it against you. If anyone is really concerned with this, they shouldn't post on here, or at a minimum, disguise the domain by any one of a number of popular techniques.

 

[tomcarl]

We can have a debate about technicalities and privacy on the internet or we can just have a mutual respect for one another. There are tons of names I don't like on BB, but I'm not going to quote and single out an actual name as a reference and list similar examples of what's available for regfee unless a person specifically requested an appraisal. I think it's just the decent thing to do.

 

[bazabizo]

Ethically and Professionally.... I must say the ugly truth about a very bad name when I see one. I will make its owner sad (no hard feelings), BUT I will be saving 10s of domain noobs here from cloning that strategy and buying similar ugly domains. These noobs, end up paying almost all what they got into buying shit! Then they hate domaining and hours of work earninings into a bad investment.
I would save the noobs everyday! I have 5% of my portfolio worthy the worst criticism ever! These are the names I mostly bought when I started domining, I let most of them expire. I wont take it personal if you say they are bad! Actually, i go one step further, I dont even try selling them here! coz I believe they are shit and shit must be buried in the ground! not given to people!
Take my words with a grain of salt, but I will always do what saves noobs that come here to learn! One day someone else did this to me in domaining and I will remain thankful to him till I retire!
Good Luck hunting and selling!

 

[tomcarl]

I get what you're saying but who's to say what's a good brandable or not when it's a made up word, while made-up words account for a large portion of the sales on BB? It's all a matter of one's personal opinion and opinions are great and everyone is entitled to one, but if you're claiming your opinion is to help people and not hurt them, you can start helping by not hurting the owner of a name that's listed. And I'm not saying you personally, just in general.

 

[BrandVenue]

Please keep in mind when you guys start quoting/bashing actual domains published on BB that these belong to people who have vested interest in them. They are actually owned by someone who who paid to acquire it, paid to have it listed, and is actively trying to sell it and these pages are indexed by Google. You may not like the name personally but you are potentially costing someone a sale with your comments and losing them money. NamePros should be a place to help people advance financially and not hurt them.

I am really sorry I should have disguised the names, honest mistake. Currently I don't have privilege to edit my post. Maybe one of the mods will disguise the names on behalf of me. Reporting my post also might help to get mod attention.

I get what you're saying but who's to say what's a good brandable or not when it's a made up word, while made-up words account for a large portion of the sales on BB? It's all a matter of one's personal opinion and opinions are great and everyone is entitled to one, but if you're claiming your opinion is to help people and not hurt them, you can start helping by not hurting the owner of a name that's listed. And I'm not saying you personally, just in general.

BB used to follow some sort of rules before accepting made up brandables, and they used to be pretty strict that's why acceptance rate was very low those days, But after starting to charge $10 listing fee they are now not maintaining those rules anymore, that's why we are seeing a marketplace with lots of similar made up brandables. Couple of these names might sell each week but again they are adding hundreds of more each week too. I am totally against this strategy of BB.

• If the name is based on a dictionary word -- and sounds the same as that word -- it should have no more than one spelling variation or "error" away from the original word. This makes it easy to explain to customers. For example: Digg is "dig with two g's".
• Pronunciation should be straightforward.
• Spelling should be as expected.
  • Ask your friends to spell your name -- can they get it in one or two tries?
  • Is the same vowel being used for two different sounds, or is the same sound represented by two different vowels (for example, the 'ee' sound can be an 'e' or an 'i')?
• If the name has a keyword, or root word, it should apply to a popular industry, or be broad enough to apply to several different business types.
• There should be no more than three syllables.

In some cases we do approve domains with keywords, but that follow specific criteria. For two-word (compound) names. we're looking for:

• Both words should be spelled fully and correctly.
• The words should have something in common, or a linguistic connection (same first letter, same vowel sound, etc.). They can also be a common phrase, or play on a common phrase.
• One (or both) of the words should relate to either a popular industry, or be broad enough to apply to many different types of industries.

Other things we try to avoid:

• Numbers
• Keyword combinations over two words
• Very long names
• Prefixes like 'a', 'the', or 'my'
• Suffixes/endings like 'app', 'biz', or 'inc'
• Plurals, except in some rare cases where a domain would make a clever consumer product name (not a company name).

 

[Grilled]

@sweetdomains

Please enlighten us what YOU feel a brandbucket domain should be. Care to share your profile?

 

[Brandworthy]

Please tell me why "vurada.com" is so special that a company should pay $2,035 where similar pronounceable names like vuradi, vuradu available for handreg?

I think as sellers gain more experience of the phonetic and linguistic make-up that makes a good brand, they'll probably find it easy to distinguish between the names you mention there. The name ending in "ada" is probably worth 3-4x at a minimum the value of the other 2 mentioned IMO.

 

[BrandClub.com]

Ouch my eyes!
That guy uses the same font and its impossible to read.

BB logos are 90% of the time just fine. I read M. Krell's blog and he posts a lot of names that he sold. When I revisit these sites, none of them are using BB logo.

So the logo does not have to be super elaborate. No matter what, the company buying the names will always use their own logos that fits their website design.

Almost nobody who purchase a brandable domain with logo, use that logo for their website ...
The logo only helps to present and "PACK" better the domain name.

 

[Georgi Ivanov]

Almost nobody who purchase a brandable domain with logo, use that logo for their website ...

I have a case, when the purchased domain was not used and ended being parket at GoDaddy...

 

[disaac81]

Because passing the "radio test" is not nearly as important as it was back when the primary advertising vehicle was...radio. A quick check will find lots of big companies who's name doesn't pass this outdated test. All else being equal, sure throw it in, but it certainly isn't the universal standard it once was.

Very true. The radio test is just one attribute of which a name can be assessed. If it meets other attributes (such as length, unique, positive sounding, evocative, relevant etc etc) then it can still be a VERY good name.

Not many brand names these days tick every single "wish list" box, since branding has been going on for so long that very obvious names are already gone, and trade-marked.

 

[BrandClub.com]

I have a case, when the purchased domain was not used and ended being parket at GoDaddy...

I sold a domain years ago on BB for $4,560 and one year later I got it back on GD auctions for $30 ...

 

[pokainc]

Crazzzyyyy