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

 

[Keith DeBoer]

Cougar, that's an excellent suggestion, I'll pass it along
@MS-Domains New sellers are on a sort of probation until they get about 10 names published on the BB platform. Then when they have a proven track record of published their accepted names, the seller gets Good Standing status. I hope that's helpful. I know it is confusing.

 

[BRANDERX]

Cougar, that's an excellent suggestion, I'll pass it along
@MS-Domains New sellers are on a sort of probation until they get about 10 names published on the BB platform. Then when they have a proven track record of published their accepted names, the seller gets Good Standing status. I hope that's helpful. I know it is confusing.

Hi Keith

thank you.. so I can't receive any domains I may buy here, into my account..

 

[BrandCougar]

Hi @Keith DeBoer -

Thanks for passing the suggestion along.

It is a question I get often and by having one's "account standing" clearly displayed in the Summary section of the User's Dashboard would be terrific and would clear up a lot of confusion. (especially for new members)

Thanks again for your help.

-Cougar

 

[BrandCougar]

@MS-Domains

Send me a PM if you'd like to do a test transfer to verify your BB account standing.

Glad to help.

-Cougar

 

[BRANDERX]

@MS-Domains

Send me a PM if you'd like to do a test transfer to verify your BB account standing.

Glad to help.

-Cougar

PMed Cougar.

Thank you much

 

[Keith DeBoer]

Hi Keith

thank you.. so I can't receive any domains I may buy here, into my account..

Often times if the seller/buyer emails the help desk, the domains can be transferred to your account if the only reason you do not have good standing is that you have not met the min. requirement for published names. But check with the help desk in advance to be sure. Their email is: [email protected]

 

[BRANDERX]

Often times if the seller/buyer emails the help desk, the domains can be transferred to your account if the only reason you do not have good standing is that you have not met the min. requirement for published names. But check with the help desk in advance to be sure. Their email is: [email protected]

Thank you Keith

 

[Keith DeBoer]

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.

This is very good feedback and a good suggestion to alert sellers about delays. I've passed this suggestion along to BB's seller rep. Thanks for taking the time to give feedback.

 

[BrandVenue]

I am also aware of BrandBucket's search result conspiracy. I did find that myself, when I would search a keyword there would be some totally unrelated, madeup domains at 1st position or 2nd position (not 1st or 2nd page), sometime multiple madeup domains, owned by same person . When I'd look up whois to find the owner it'd either Boxador or former Managing Director MK's name. That was before Boxador portfolio moved to Namesilo and used privacy for whois.

NP member 'offthehandle' wrote a detailed post regarding this conspiracy.

To show proof of my statement above -

So this morning I was doing a Brandbucket search for keyword "Vision", noticed 2 pure madeup brandable domain without any relation to word "Vision" at 1st and 3rd place.

I wanted to see who own these 2 domains. And without my surprise - they both owned by Boxador.

When I first noticed the search results are favoring the BB insiders - probably 1.5 / 2 years ago that time Boxador / Margot started to move their portfolio to Namesilo to use free privacy. So if I wanted to see who owns those pure madeup brandables coming at top of search results, I would see those are at Namesilo using privacy but no way to be sure who was the owner.

Since these 2 madeup names of "Vision" result page are at GoDaddy and whois info is public, I just wanted to show others who don't believe BB search results are rigged.

 

[nitg16]

To show proof of my statement above -

So this morning I was doing a Brandbucket search for keyword "Vision", noticed 2 pure madeup brandable domain without any relation to word "Vision" at 1st and 3rd place.

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I wanted to see who own these 2 domains. And without my surprise - they both owned by Boxador.

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When I first noticed the search results are favoring the BB insiders - probably 1.5 / 2 years ago that time Boxador / Margot started to move their portfolio to Namesilo to use free privacy. So if I wanted to see who owns those pure madeup brandables coming at top of search results, I would see those are at Namesilo using privacy but no way to be sure who was the owner.

Since these 2 madeup names of "Vision" result page are at GoDaddy and whois info is public, I just wanted to show others who don't believe BB search results are rigged.

Both these domains contain word "vision" in descriptions/tags, may be it is because of that?

The search results seem relevant to me as per the query entered in the search box. However, it could be possible that within these relevant results, they may be pushing their own names up higher.

 

[sohel momin]

Two domains got approved after 20 days. One domain applied to publish at BB. The good thing is No fee for publishing, special promotion offer.

“At this time, the $9 listing fee is being waived for all published names. This is a special promotion and subject to change at any time.”

 

[Domain Monk]

How are BB sales lately..

 

[BRANDERX]

..

Two domains got approved after 20 days. One domain applied to publish at BB. The good thing is No fee for publishing, special promotion offer.

“At this time, the $9 listing fee is being waived for all published names. This is a special promotion and subject to change at any time.”

20 days? few months ago, I submitted my first 2 domains on a Thursday, one was accepted/one was rejected the following Monday.

I also submitted a few, around 9 days ago. nothing yet

whats changed.. 20+ days for a review is way too long

 

[sohel momin]

..

20 days? few months ago, I submitted my first 2 domains on a Thursday, one was accepted/one was rejected the following Monday.

I also submitted a few, around 9 days ago. nothing yet

whats changed.. 20+ days for a review is way too long

Total I submitted three domains, one got rejected after 7 days & the remaining two got selected.
we can assume that the one which takes time might be selected.

 

[NYJimbo]

we can assume that the one which takes time might be selected.

Hopefully, I'm waiting on one for 14 days now.

 

[NamesMax]

I have raised the white flag wit Brand Bucket. In nearly 3 years I have only sold 4 names, none in about a year. I have 300 names listed. Which means I lost $3,000 in just listing fees on the names with them plus the renewal fees for them to keep the names exclusive to themselves, so I have flushed about $10,000 down the drain with them. Last week I emailed them to start the delisting process and remove my entire portfolio with them.

Unfortunately it is a good idea, but I see them doing no proactive marketing of my names. Just if somebody just happens to see it amongst the 50,000 other names listed, I might have a slim chance of having my name considered by them. I have come to the conclusion I could do better with just my own landing page and some outbound marketing.

I just can't see continuing to see my investment money being sucked down the whole.

 

[NYJimbo]

Just if somebody just happens to see it amongst the 50,000 other names listed, I might have a slim chance of having my name considered by them. .

I think they have WAY TOO MANY nonsensical-but-pronounceable domain names. I have a friend who wants to start a business and all the names he wants are taken. I told him about BB and he told me him and his business partner spent an hour on BB checking domains.

The funny thing was in the end they made up their own name simply by paying attention to how these made-up words sound and flow. He said something like "I'm not paying $3500 for a name I can make up in a few minutes". He might be right, I mean if you get drunk and start slurring your speech you might come up with the perfect new domain name.

 

[BRANDERX]

I have raised the white flag wit Brand Bucket. In nearly 3 years I have only sold 4 names, none in about a year. I have 300 names listed. Which means I lost $3,000 in just listing fees on the names with them plus the renewal fees for them to keep the names exclusive to themselves, so I have flushed about $10,000 down the drain with them. Last week I emailed them to start the delisting process and remove my entire portfolio with them.

Unfortunately it is a good idea, but I see them doing no proactive marketing of my names. Just if somebody just happens to see it amongst the 50,000 other names listed, I might have a slim chance of having my name considered by them. I have come to the conclusion I could do better with just my own landing page and some outbound marketing.

I just can't see continuing to see my investment money being sucked down the whole.

Hi, thanks for sharing & truly sorry sales have been slow.

I have a few questions, if I may.

1- your 300 BB names, are lets say 25,50,75% of your entire portfolio?
2- how many of your names at BB are 1 "made up words"? you could share a link to your portfolio if you like.
3- why remove the entire portfolio, why not remove some & keep some?

thanks

 

[NamesMax]

1. A little less than 10% I have just under 3,500 names.

2. About 50/50

3. I am betting I would get a much better sell through with services such as Afternic (or outbound or Efty lander) like I do with the rest of my portfolio. Even if the net sales are lower, inventory turnover will help my overall portfolio ROI. If am wrong, BrandBucket has told me they will allow me to relist them without an approval process or listing fee.

As in any business I have been involved with, when a program, marketing plan, even a store is not producing you shut it down and find a new direction for your assets. You don't kill the plan little by little. When you believe it is unsustainable, you pull the plug and not leave a part of your assets sitting around being unproductive.

 

[BRANDERX]

1. A little less than 10% I have just under 3,500 names.

2. About 50/50

3. I am betting I would get a much better sell through with services such as Afternic (or outbound or Efty lander) like I do with the rest of my portfolio. Even if the net sales are lower, inventory turnover will help my overall portfolio ROI. If am wrong, BrandBucket has told me they will allow me to relist them without an approval process or listing fee.

As in any business I have been involved with, when a program, marketing plan, even a store is not producing you shut it down and find a new direction for your assets. You don't kill the plan little by little. When you believe it is unsustainable, you pull the plug and not leave a part of your assets sitting around being unproductive.

Thanks for sharing. appreciate it..

Good luck to you. just remember, the program/store is not shutting down. you're just pulling out.

If I were you, i'd keep some. be picky, but keep some.

but im not you.

all the best..

thanks