BRANDDO Experience?

[cocaseco]

This one was under my radar and I dont remember hearing it discussed much on here. Does anyone have any experience with this company or owners etc?

 

[domvault]

Branded market places are too crowded .... brandbucket 27K plus name (hardly any visibility). Namerific again crowded.... Brandroot : they hardley respond to your query... and now BrandDo...
many more : PlentyOfBrands.com .... TakeAMark.com ..

Just wondering if its better to have a landing sales page ... lol

Question : Do you like brandbuckets.com 10 $ listing fee ... they make a small decent revenue doing that.. ?

 

[AJP1987]

I was considering using Branddo along with Brandbucket.. Has anybody had any major joy selling with them?

 

[Abdillahi Abdillahi]

I'd rather pay 30% to a marketplace that does the job than 12% to the one that would passively wait for sales to happen.

Of course, they might get free targeted traffic from google, but 12% is too small a budget to really promote the names.

Think about it. BB, with the most names sold (not the best rate though), sells around 900 names in a year. That is about $2,000,000 in sales. 30% of the amount is only $600,000 to pay salaries, do advertising/marketing and networking.

Now, if Branddo will manage to sell 200 names in a year, which I doubt (how many names do they have, by the way?) and do $400,000 in sales, their commission would only be $48,000. That leaves nothing to promotion.

That goes on to show that the whole domain industry by size is peanuts industry, very small total global market size. The biggest attraction being a) low barriers to entry; b) fairy tales going around about hitting an accidental jackpot here and there.

Might have been four months since your poat but that is exactly the feeling I got when I read their terms the other day. Another point I did not like was the escrow fees shared term. What? 12 % comm, logi made by seller, then you also pay escrow ? No Thank you. I am not impressed.

 

[Simon Taylor]

Might have been four months since your poat but that is exactly the feeling I got when I read their terms the other day. Another point I did not like was the escrow fees shared term. What? 12 % comm, logi made by seller, then you also pay escrow ? No Thank you. I am not impressed.

I just sold a domain listed at $750, cleared $660 after their fees.
Can't see the issue, I did get free escrow on first sale, I've asked them what their charge would have been.

 

[HKIBC]

I just sold a domain listed at $750, cleared $660 after their fees.
Can't see the issue, I did get free escrow on first sale, I've asked them what their charge would have been.

Congrats!
How many domains in total do you have listed there and for how long prior to this (first?) sale?

 

[Simon Taylor]

5 domains about 3 months?

 

[Muddy Mud Skipper]

I have 13 names with Branddo..

They can be slow in their admin etc.. I almost sold one name this year, but I was away at the time, and buyer found something else in that time (10days). I quite like providing my own logos as they are cheap enough to get done, (5iver) and always useful to have if you pull the listing to sell privately. Support seems friendly and more personal than with some domain companies

 

[HKIBC]

... I almost sold one name this year, but I was away at the time, and buyer found something else in that time (10days).

What?! Are you an astronaut?

I quite like providing my own logos as they are cheap enough to get done, (5iver) and always useful to have if you pull the listing to sell privately.

Cool
How did you get BB to agree to your own logos?

 

[varmuk]

any updates regarding sales ??

 

[NameWell]

Is anyone still using BrandDo? Is it worth it?

 

[Millionaire]

I got listed 2 domains there...& 4 more are in ready to go there...lets see if they can make a sale...then I will apply for more to them.

 

[Recons.Com]

I got listed 2 domains there...& 4 more are in ready to go there...lets see if they can make a sale...then I will apply for more to them.

2 names is not enough for a test. Even if they manage 5% sell-through, which I doubt, the chance of zero sale in your first year is 0.95x0.95=0.9025 or 90.25%. Chance of zero sale in 2 years would be around 81% and in 4 years around 65%. So even after 4 years you are more likely to have zero sales even on a great platform.

 

[Millionaire]

I think you are right...thanks...I need to put more there...listing all these ready to go + few more that I have.

 

[Recons.Com]

I think you are right...thanks...I need to put more there...listing all these ready to go + few more that I have.

You are welcome. I did not suggest you do it. I am not, for one, inclined to spend my time and money on experimenting with something that has little available info about.

I joined BB, BR, BP because there was enough info for me to decide that it is worth the shot and tested each for myself with tens of names before going into hundreds.

But I would not waste my names with an obscure one. Maybe they are great, but no way knowing. Their traffic stats are not impressive with Alexa rank of 1.2MM, meaning 300-500 uniques. Brandpa, for example, is Alexa 190000, which is probably around 10 times more visitors per day. BR and BB, by my estimates, have around 15000-20000 visitors a day.

 

[Millionaire]

BR stands for Brandroot?(sorry I'm new)...to be honest I'm also not a big fan of their slow dashboard. Though support is quick & friendly but they are not even able to fix their NS since last 3 days..this is not encouraging at all..but I'm feeling demotivated for submission to BB as they have rejected all my domains in the past though personally I think those names were not so good. Seems like again I should try BB with these new names that I have now.

 

[Recons.Com]

BR stands for Brandroot?(sorry I'm new)...to be honest I'm also not a big fan of their slow dashboard. Though support is quick & friendly but they are not even able to fix their NS since last 3 days..this is not encouraging at all..but I'm feeling demotivated for submission to BB as they have rejected all my domains in the past though personally I think those names were not so good. Seems like again I should try BB with these new names that I have now.

BR is Brandroot. My experience with them is very good. What is the NS issue you are having? Verification of pointing?

 

[Millionaire]

BR is Brandroot. My experience with them is very good. What is the NS issue you are having? Verification of pointing?

Their Nameservers are not working, showing unavailabilty error. They said we are working & will let you know once corrected. 3 days gone..still not solved.