BrandPa.com Experience (Brandable Domain Marketplace)

[Chris Hydrick]

BrandPa.com has announced their presence on NamePros...

Hi there! I'm sorry your experience with BB wasn't pleasant :/ If you'd like to try our marketplace please don't hesitate to do so We're new in the domaining industry but very eager to learn! Let me know what you think or if you have any questions This is us: https://brandpa.com/ (or if you'd like to read about the sellers' rules visit this page: https://brandpa.com/start-selling)

Look forward to hearing from you!

Granted, the above post is from the BrandBucket experience thread, and will likely be deleted for being off topic / wrong thread, it was the first time I heard of them. The founder, @Jowita Emberton, had introduced herself in an earlier thread:

Hi guys! NamePros is a great website to get invaluable information about the domaining industry. As a reader, I'm here pretty much every day. As a writer, I'm starting today

I'm the founder of Brandpa (brandpa.com), a domain name marketplace similar to BB, BR or Namerific. We use AI and human knowledge to create and judge the names’ value according to how easy to pronounce and catchy they are.

I'm here to learn, get to know you and your recent experiences with other brandable name marketplaces We're still developing the business so any insight on our site (brandpa.com) or anything you're missing from other marketplaces will be very useful

Thanks!

I'm creating this thread to discuss their marketplace, and for those who have experiences with them.

Here's what I know so far:

The founder, @Jowita Emberton, runs two other online businesses according to her LinkedIn page.

Delighten.co.uk - Web / brand design firm.

Weddination.com - Polish wedding services

According to her LinkedIn, she has been operating BrandPa since August 2016. Though, the last cached Archive.org screenshot is a server error on October 4, 2016 HERE

BrandPa.com (2006) is registered to Oliver Emberton, founder and managing director of SilkTide.com.

Currently, there are 562 domains published / listed on BrandPa. It appears most domains listed are handregged by the owners. Not 100% on this; I will run a check when my program is working again.

After reviewing their listings, I found two errors.

The domain regged is MonoRaptor.com, but the text reads ManoRaptor.com

The domain regged is UnknownVenues.com, but the text reads UnknownVenus.com

At first look:

Pros

• No Listing Fee
• FREE Logos
• Domain Owner sets price ($1,000+)
• Forwards all offers for sellers consideration
• Brandpa is a pretty memorable / catchy brandable domain.
• Select 'On-Sale' marketing section

Cons

• Low Alexa Ranking (4,557,819)

• New site. Assuming low organic traffic, and low type-in traffic due to quality and quantity of inventory.
• Piggy-back branding off BrandBucket in site footer see below

• Reviews are all from .co.uk domains, yet BrandPa doesn't sell any .co.uk domains. A quick glance at other domains owned by the reviewers and I wasn't able to verify any brandable .com's with history tracing back to BrandPa.

Personal thoughts: I respect that they "allow the seller to submit more domain names" by not charging a listing fee. To me this shows they are willing to work for your exclusivity. Should they gain popularity, I wonder if they'll sustain this business model and/or if their logo / listing quality will decrease over time when resources are spread across the masses.

@Jowita Emberton = Feel free to comment / fill in any of the blanks.

 

[Dannyboy15]

Very happy with with everything upto now. Only have the one listed and from submitting to listed was fairly quick so cant complain. Have more submitted and just waiting to hear back about them.

Love the brandpa website design, very user friendly! Keep up the good work!!

 

[aspecht]

I have 2 more names listed for a total of 3, (I'm at 12% approval rate). Submitted both names 2/8 and they were both listed on 2/28.

predicte.com
onicash.com

The logos are pretty basic but overall not terrible. I've previously had a couple inbound inquiries on each name that went nowhere. Maybe on brandpa I'll get a sale or heck even another nibble.

 

[karmaco]

I just paid for 10 listings. Waiting for them to get listed. My experience with the listing process:
1. Paid for 10 domains via 2 transactions. Did not receive a confirmation of payment success or an invoice/receipt either on the website or via e-mail. I'd have liked a receipt for book keeping purposes!
2. No confirmation that 10 domains have been moved to the approved status. Lack of communication continues.
2. No instructions or help on the website on what happens next. Overall, their self-serve help documentation is non-existant (or at least, too difficult for me to locate).
3. On payment completion, status of the domains changed to approved. What does this mean? What am I supposed to do next? How long does the next step in the listing process take? There is zero information on this. In fact, I wasn't and still am not aware what is the difference betweed accepted and approved (and what is this approval for?).
4. Most importantly, I was previously informed by Anna (Brandpa Support) that I'd get an invite for their Slack channel when my first name is listed. Now they've suddenly changed the criteria for me to have at least a >30% acceptance rate with a minimum of 25 domains accepted. WTH? Why this sudden change in policy with no information. So far, I was trying out all my names which has caused my acceptance rate to reduce. I'd likely have been more picky in my submissions had this requirement been clear. Quite unfair in my opinion.
5. Brandpa support says listing can take 7-14 days. I'll wait and watch so see how long it take.

@Jowita Emberton Can you take a look at the points above and see if they can be addressed?

Thank you

Approved means you paid and it’s in the que to list as long as you pointed your Name servers to them.

Why is the Slack channel so important to you?Just curious.

 

[anantj]

Why is the Slack channel so important to you?Just curious.

I'm new to Brandpa and I believe there is a lot to learn about the platform, the type of names that are getting accepted and general pricing strategies. Plus I like Slack

 

[Jowita Emberton]

I just paid for 10 listings. Waiting for them to get listed. My experience with the listing process:
1. Paid for 10 domains via 2 transactions. Did not receive a confirmation of payment success or an invoice/receipt either on the website or via e-mail. I'd have liked a receipt for book keeping purposes!
2. No confirmation that 10 domains have been moved to the approved status. Lack of communication continues.
2. No instructions or help on the website on what happens next. Overall, their self-serve help documentation is non-existant (or at least, too difficult for me to locate).
3. On payment completion, status of the domains changed to approved. What does this mean? What am I supposed to do next? How long does the next step in the listing process take? There is zero information on this. In fact, I wasn't and still am not aware what is the difference betweed accepted and approved (and what is this approval for?).
4. Most importantly, I was previously informed by Anna (Brandpa Support) that I'd get an invite for their Slack channel when my first name is listed. Now they've suddenly changed the criteria for me to have at least a >30% acceptance rate with a minimum of 25 domains accepted. WTH? Why this sudden change in policy with no information. So far, I was trying out all my names which has caused my acceptance rate to reduce. I'd likely have been more picky in my submissions had this requirement been clear. Quite unfair in my opinion.
5. Brandpa support says listing can take 7-14 days. I'll wait and watch so see how long it take.

@Jowita Emberton Can you take a look at the points above and see if they can be addressed?

Thank you

Thank you for your input Anant. With regard to your comments:
1 & 2. Good point. We'll look into this.
3. This has never been pointed out by any of our sellers. Thank you for bringing it up to our attention.
4. I believe this has been already addressed
5. We'll see

 

[BrandMart]

My domain was approved and paid for on Feb 24, still waiting for it to get listed for sale. How long does it take to get done?

 

[Merakilous]

My domain was approved and paid for on Feb 24, still waiting for it to get listed for sale. How long does it take to get done?

For simple logos it's faster, for more complex ones it takes up to 2 weeks. I would say, based on my experience as a seller, that your domain will be live monday at the latest. I might be wrong though, they seem to be very busy these days, too much work on their hands.

 

[Merakilous]

@Jowita Emberton

There's something I want to point out.
Currently there's only one option for the log in wich is using the email address. Can you add the option to log in using our username as well? I don't know if someone else asked that question before but here it is.

Kind regards,
Merakilous

 

[Yusupbabay]

hello brandpa.com
I can not enter data 5 new domains per day. please tell me what to do.
thank you

 

[wwwulff]

hello brandpa.com
I can not enter data 5 new domains per day. please tell me what to do.
thank you

Show attachment 82389

Read the message you posted from BrandPa

 

[Yusupbabay]

Read the message you posted from BrandPa

thank you for the information my friend

 

[Jowita Emberton]

@Jowita Emberton

There's something I want to point out.
Currently there's only one option for the log in wich is using the email address. Can you add the option to log in using our username as well? I don't know if someone else asked that question before but here it is.

Kind regards,
Merakilous

From our research and experience, using emails to log in is best practice. Usernames are harder to remember (it's easier to remember your email address rather than a different username for each website). Different websites have different requirements for username (capital letter, numbers, etc) and you have to make sure a username is unique - your email is always the same and is always unique.

Some examples: Facebook - only allows you to log in via email or phone, LinkedIn - email address, Quora - email address, etc.

 

[anantj]

Thank you for your input Anant. With regard to your comments:
1 & 2. Good point. We'll look into this.
3. This has never been pointed out by any of our sellers. Thank you for bringing it up to our attention.
4. I believe this has been already addressed
5. We'll see

Thank you. I appreciate taking a look at this. On 4, yes it has been. On 5, hope I'll get a notification of the domain being listed

 

[Merakilous]

From our research and experience, using emails to log in is best practice. Usernames are harder to remember (it's easier to remember your email address rather than a different username for each website). Different websites have different requirements for username (capital letter, numbers, etc) and you have to make sure a username is unique - your email is always the same and is always unique.

Some examples: Facebook - only allows you to log in via email or phone, LinkedIn - email address, Quora - email address, etc.

I see your point

 

[Jevsim]

Sold my 4th domain at Brandpa. 2 XXX USD. 7 char-s. Based on 1 word. Was quite surprised about this domain sale as IMHO I have much better unsold names. Had even some doubts to renew it.

 

[Haykay2005]

Sold my 4th domain at Brandpa. 2 XXX USD. 7 char-s. Based on 1 word. Was quite surprised about this domain sale as IMHO I have much better unsold names. Had even some doubts to renew it.

Congratulations. You have how many names published now?

 

[Jevsim]

Currently 120 - 130. At some point I had > 150 (but had to sell some).
Everything that was sold was published from March to June 2017.

All my recent submissions were rejected. =(

 

[Yusupbabay]

Currently 120 - 130. At some point I had > 150 (but had to sell some).
Everything that was sold was published from March to June 2017.

All my recent submissions were rejected. =(

Congratulations

 

[Haykay2005]

Currently 120 - 130. At some point I had > 150 (but had to sell some).
Everything that was sold was published from March to June 2017.

All my recent submissions were rejected. =(

Good. It's difficult to get names approved. I just joined bp and have submitted more 100 names for review. Currently 9 names published and another 15 waiting for logo.Let's see how it goes.

 

[Merakilous]

Sold my 4th domain at Brandpa. 2 XXX USD. 7 char-s. Based on 1 word. Was quite surprised about this domain sale as IMHO I have much better unsold names. Had even some doubts to renew it.

Great! Congratulations!

 

[BrandPlease]

I cant wait until I am able to submit some more, I really like the BrandPa team and you know they are actually looking at names. I got a very funny rejection reason that made me laugh & yes it was a valid reason. But it made that rejection much more fun.

 

[DnFolk]

Hello @Jowita Emberton on one side you want sellers to sell brandpa names in reseller only on your slack channel but on other side you set rules to be allowed there.

 

[Haykay2005]

Hello @Jowita Emberton on one side you want sellers to sell brandpa names in reseller only on your slack channel but on other side you set rules to be allowed there.

I don't really understand this part bro

 

[Merakilous]

Hi @Jowita Emberton

There's a small spelling mistake in the "ideas for this brand" section for my domain https://brandpa.com/name/curefully
Someone wrote "Life coahing" instead of "Life coaching".
Can you fix it please? Thanks in advance

 

[Haykay2005]

Hi @Jowita Emberton

There's a small spelling mistake in the "ideas for this brand" section for my domain curefully.com. Someone wrote "Life coahing" instead of "Life coaching".
Can you fix it please? Thanks in advance

You should have sent her a mail