What's the definition of type-in and search this context?
Type-in leading to a sale of the typed in name?
Type-in of one name, leading to BB being discovered, leading to a search, leading to another BB name selling to that buyer? Is the latter considered a type-in sale or a search sale?
The biggest advantage of having a name listed on BB used to be that buyers would discover your name via search. I'm sure a lot of my past sales have come from people typing in other sellers names, and then doing a search, and then discovering one of my names as a result. People have probably typed in my names too, and ended up buying a completely different BB listed name instead as well, but I always felt that I gained more sales than I lost at BB in 2015 to mid/late 2016. I think the majority of marketplace search sales still happen in this way, rather than people going to brandbucket.com to search.
With the massive inventory growth, I see far less of the kinds of sales I had in 2015-16. I'm selling much fewer "average" names at BB this year. Had lots of sales for $1495 $1795, $1995, $2395, $2795, etc. in past years. This year, I've had more sales above $5000 than below $5000. That's good for short term results, but I have far more average names (and averaged priced names) listed at BB so it is not looking too good for those names, and the seeming decrease in such sales seem to attest to the decreased efficiency of having average quality brandable names listed at BB, and then have end-users discover and buy them.