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


Thanks

 

[Justin Matmor]

Same person who questioned why I still support bb, just questioned why I used a CVAAV as an example, given, even if the enduser buys my CVAAV from bb, the sale is still $X,XXX profit.

In light of that, apply my example to a more valuable pattern such as a CVCV.com

If someone publically criticized my brand/business I too would probably ignore them.

 

[Abdillahi Abdillahi]

@Abdullah Abdullah used to have his brandable marketplace linked in his signature. He removed that, and in return, he added links to all of his bb domains.

Though It might be kinda off topic , I.feel I have to make clear why a link to my marketplace is no longer there. I am still setting up the site and it is pointless to have a link to an under construction website. As you.can see from my avatar the logo has been done and.hope to have the site up soon too.

 

[Grilled]

EDITED: MOD/ NP Policy question... PM'ing @Abdullah Abdullah

 

[Grilled]

@Justin Matmor - Sorry for the late response. I didn't see your message. I suppose you have a point. I put you on ignore for a similar reason. bb might have done the same per your logic.

I stopped going to bb privately when I published 50 domains that went to Gmail spam for having a malicious domain associated with it. I contacted them within a few hours, if not sooner, hoping they would take some sort of corrective action. When you pay $500 for listings, you look forward to that newsletter being sent out. Since then, I've tried to be public with my comments so I don't have to write a post about it after the fact should they fail to take corrective action and/or make it right with those affected.

 

[anantj]

Hi @anantj Welcome to NamePros!
I've explained a lot of my concerns in this thread, and others bb related threads. If you wish to know my concerns, please read through this thread. If you have questions after, I will be happy to answer. Lot's have had great success with bb, and they have been a wonderful asset to the brandable industry.


I would love to republish my bb invested domains, and possibly publish more if bb made some changes that would better the industry. However, until then, despite my success, I don't believe bb is worth landing page exclusivity given the looming questions of integrity.

This is my position today; it may not be my opinion tomorrow. Meaning, bb is an intelligent company, and if they deem any of the issues presented to them on NP as serious issues, I assume they will improvise, adapt, and overcome. We saw this recently when they:

(1) changed domains to be sorted by default chronologically opposed to sorted by staff pick.

(2) changed BINs for domains with scorecard landing pages to go directly to checkout.

Thank you for the details and apologies for the late response. For some reason, I never received an email notification of your reply.

 

[Abdillahi Abdillahi]

I have received sale confirmation email so all hail BB

 

[JimJammy]

WAHAY! Fantastic news, congratulations

 

[Reetam]

I have received sale confirmation email so all hail BB

Great news Abdullah...

 

[Simon Taylor]

Had my best acceptance rate on 15 names submitted recently.
7 out of 15 accepted, 2 reject, rest still pending. 2 of the pending I am hopeful for the others are keywords so not really BB fit.

One accepted name was picked of the expired list, the others were ones I had sat down and brainstormed, and then bulk checked. 2 Brainstormed were rejected, 2 are pending review, the remaining rejects and pendings were off expired list on day of registration.

Pretty happy with that, far better than my average of 15% - I run all of my names past them, even my two worders that I know won't fit, don't ask em why its just habit.

The second batch of names I submitted the following day are going to fair far worse, only a few were brainstormed, the rest were off the following days deleted domains.

I can see now that I need to rely on my gut feeling and not be swayed by domains on the expired list that look "half ok"

 

[belmar313]

Hi guys, I just started with BrandBucket....I have some doubts...so far I've sent a few domains, to test drive let's say. These domains are mine. However, I have a doubt, of course that in case I use a domain generator or I think of a good, catchy name and would like to register it, I'm not going to send the domain for acceptance before registering it. But I wonder, If I see a brandable domain name that I see published somewhere else for a fair price, and I got a feeling that It might be accepted by BB (however no way to be sure), may I submit it for acceptance test even if it's not mine and it is publicly published for sale (and the seller says he has not submitted it before) so I can buy it in case it gets accepted? What sort of research might they do when looking at submissions? Could this affect the acceptance process or might the domain ''get sold'' to someone else because of ''insiders''? Do they look at domain listings when accepting submissions, or do they only take a look at this when domain is ready to be listed?

Thanks!

 

[creataweb]

Hi guys, I just started with BrandBucket....I have some doubts...so far I've sent a few domains, to test drive let's say. These domains are mine. However, I have a doubt, of course that in case I use a domain generator or I think of a good, catchy name and would like to register it, I'm not going to send the domain for acceptance before registering it. But I wonder, If I see a brandable domain name that I see published somewhere else for a fair price, and I got a feeling that It might be accepted by BB (however no way to be sure), may I submit it for acceptance test even if it's not mine and it is publicly published for sale (and the seller says he has not submitted it before) so I can buy it in case it gets accepted? What sort of research might they do when looking at submissions? Could this affect the acceptance process or might the domain ''get sold'' to someone else because of ''insiders''? Do they look at domain listings when accepting submissions, or do they only take a look at this when domain is ready to be listed?

Thanks!

You can buy BB accepted or published names here on NP in the Marketplace section. Zero risk on regging names that may not be accepted.

 

[Justin Matmor]

Hi guys, I just started with BrandBucket....I have some doubts...so far I've sent a few domains, to test drive let's say. These domains are mine. However, I have a doubt, of course that in case I use a domain generator or I think of a good, catchy name and would like to register it, I'm not going to send the domain for acceptance before registering it. But I wonder, If I see a brandable domain name that I see published somewhere else for a fair price, and I got a feeling that It might be accepted by BB (however no way to be sure), may I submit it for acceptance test even if it's not mine and it is publicly published for sale (and the seller says he has not submitted it before) so I can buy it in case it gets accepted? What sort of research might they do when looking at submissions? Could this affect the acceptance process or might the domain ''get sold'' to someone else because of ''insiders''? Do they look at domain listings when accepting submissions, or do they only take a look at this when domain is ready to be listed?

Thanks!

There is a very easy way to own BB published names for around 20-25 per name.

Don't waste you money registering names. Most will probably get rejected anyway.

Just visit the marketplace here at NP and bid for them.I recently sold 5 BB published names here for $110.

 

[belmar313]

Most names are waiting for acceptance. I got one approved (hand regged), FundRoyal.com...and there are some others also hand regged that might have luck, such as Polkia.com, LingoSpin.com, Luizy.com....I bought a few others. I have been following the domains offered, really need to love the way they sound, or be a name, or be smart......there are very good combinations to hand reg.....but it's like you said, there's the risk of not knowing. But waht If I see names that look like brandables...offered here, ot GD, or anywhere, with fair price, and don't know if they are accepted? could I send them for acceptance and then get them if still available?

Thanks...

 

[creataweb]

Most names are waiting for acceptance. I got one approved (hand regged), FundRoyal.com...and there are some others also hand regged that might have luck, such as Polkia.com, LingoSpin.com, Luizy.com....I bought a few others. I have been following the domains offered, really need to love the way they sound, or be a name, or be smart......there are very good combinations to hand reg.....but it's like you said, there's the risk of not knowing. But waht If I see names that look like brandables...offered here, ot GD, or anywhere, with fair price, and don't know if they are accepted? could I send them for acceptance and then get them if still available?

Thanks...

It takes time for them to accept or reject, IMO not worth the risk if you don't own them already.
GL

 

[Justin Matmor]

Most names are waiting for acceptance. I got one approved (hand regged), FundRoyal.com...and there are some others also hand regged that might have luck, such as Polkia.com, LingoSpin.com, Luizy.com....I bought a few others. I have been following the domains offered, really need to love the way they sound, or be a name, or be smart......there are very good combinations to hand reg.....but it's like you said, there's the risk of not knowing. But waht If I see names that look like brandables...offered here, ot GD, or anywhere, with fair price, and don't know if they are accepted? could I send them for acceptance and then get them if still available?

Thanks...

You can because they are still registered so they will review them. However do you have permission to send them for review? It is a grey area.

 

[slimjim270]

@belmar313

Great question...

At the time of submission to BB, the site asks a question (with a confirmation box to click) to confirm you own and are authorized to sell the name you are submitting.

Submitting names that you do not currently own is outside of TOS.

Also, it is not fair to the person who currently owns the name that you are submitting it to BrandBucket without their consent.

Suggestion - if you want a 100% approval rating when submitting to BB, then I recommend buying previously published/approved names that are listed for sale on NamePros. There is a solid secondary market here on NamePros with known/trusted members who wholesale names to BB members interested in accelerating the growth of their portfolios.

I hope the suggestion helps...

-Jim

 

[belmar313]

I was taking a look at BB previous sales, and decided to check on what type of site was built on each sold domain. For the first 20 domains I checked at DnBolt.com, I believe only 2 took me to a service/product site, or at least an ''under construction'' site. The rest of them took me to the domain page at Brandbucket as if it was still for sale.....what could be the reason for that? Maybe buyers have not developed the site yet? or the purchase was cancelled? Looking for insights....thanks!

 

[equity78]

I was taking a look at BB previous sales, and decided to check on what type of site was built on each sold domain. For the first 20 domains I checked at DnBolt.com, I believe only 2 took me to a service/product site, or at least an ''under construction'' site. The rest of them took me to the domain page at Brandbucket as if it was still for sale.....what could be the reason for that? Maybe buyers have not developed the site yet? or the purchase was cancelled? Looking for insights....thanks!

Yes that usually means they bought the name but have not even started on a website. They have not even changed the nameservers.

I have checked quite a few from the sold list, the largest ever published by DNGeek which built upon the very first compilation that I did years ago with a contribution from Hookbox.

This post is required reading and worth referring back to for your own research.

http://dngeek.com/2015/05/here-are-1134-names-that-sold-on-brandbucket/

 

[equity78]

In a week or two I will have 25 names in Brandbucket and 30 names with Namerific all with very similar price points (low x,xxx to low xx,xxx) so that should be a pretty good litmus test. BB is so far winning 1-0 and Namerific had a 5-7 week lead time.

Doing some research on old postings I came across this,

Kind of like the first appearance of Batman in a comic book, this was the first appearance of Michael Krell 3 years ago.

You have come a long way Michael.

 

[equity78]

Today is the one year anniversary of Votes for Credits going bye bye.

Around 14,000 names at that time on BrandBucket

http://brandbucket.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/j/30C165E48D905654/586DF2BBB710F6630CC2E775D3CF5869