Brandroot are after Brandbucket listed names

[Ralph2472]

Hello everyone.

Here is part of an eMail I got today from Brandroot. I have some names listed at Brandbucket; and Brandroot are offering incentives to transfer them.


"If you're interested in listing free with us, respond to this message for your personal coupon key, which you must use when you are on the edit domain details page (before you verify the name.)

Additionally, if you are interested in moving your names from BrandBucket to Brandroot, we offer great incentives to do so, including double the free listings, lower commission paid to us for the names you move over, and featured listings on a select few. If this interests you, please respond with the list of names you would move over and we will get back to you with what we can offer you and the names we would like to take to our site.

We have had a couple of individuals who have taken this opportunity and even sold a couple that were moved over within a month of being on our site. If you're not getting the expected results from your brandables at BrandBucket, give Brandroot an honest try. You most likely won't regret it.

Keep in mind that BrandBucket requires a 30 days notice for any names moved from their site."


I guess they're after everyones business in an aggressive way. I haven't sold any thing at Brandbucket; but I will leave my names there for now.

Regards

Ralph.

 

[NameOffice.]

@great_domains you probably don't want to hear from me, but yes we sell several names every week for domainers. So far this year we've released over $30,000 to domainers, but I'm sure BrandBucket's number is much higher, given that their site has over three times the domains as ours and have been around much longer. I would recommend giving Brandroot a try with other names of yours and which ever site makes you the most money, go all in at that marketplace. We want Brandroot to speak for itself. If we're not producing, tell us to take a hike.

 

[NameOffice.]

Forgot to add that we only just recently opened our marketplace to domainers at the beginning of March this year. Currently, the majority of Brandroot names belong to us.

 

[JudgeMind]

Forgot to add that we only just recently opened our marketplace to domainers at the beginning of March this year. Currently, the majority of Brandroot names belong to us.

Thanks, am i able to list my names in both marketplaces? Is imo the best way to compare success of both marketplaces.

 

[NameOffice.]

@great_domains with BrandBucket's terms alone that wouldn't be possible. Brandroot also requires exclusivity, which I've detailed the reasons why, here.

 

[John Slaney]

unless they are actually SELLING the names, I dont see why I should be paying ANY fees to get it just listed...I still like brandbucket but I always sell names of my own and while I have close to 10 decent names on bb (one of them being single dictionary word .com), none of them sold...so yeah...kinda disappointed. However, i sell domains every other day to both resellers and endusers but never sold a name via bb or namerific...I think thye now just want to listing money and they are happy with that...they dont care if your domains sell...

Alistair,
They sold one of my names this month. I submitted 10 names (These were names rejected by BrandBarrel and Namerific but I just wanted to test out the platform)

I was really pleased with how fast things were done.
May 17 - Submitted 10 names
May 22 - 3 accepted - 7 rejected
May 24 - Logos completed/Listing Published
June 11 - Offer Made on 1 name/Offer accpeted
June 13 - Name transferred
June 16- Payment Received

Meanwhile, I am still waiting for three names at BB to go live that were accepted on May 26.

As long as Brandroot doesn't start accepting everything under the sun and start taking a month or more for names to get published they are worth a shot for a test anyway. My test worked out well and I will submit again in the future when I pick up some names.

 

[Embrand]

Apart from BrandBucket being very slow with their application procedure, I am still very happy with them and have achieved far higher prices for my brandables there than at Sedo.

 

[John Slaney]

Apart from BrandBucket being very slow with their application procedure, I am still very happy with them and have achieved far higher prices for my brandables there than at Sedo.

I agree.
Have sold a couple of names via BrandBucket this year and the amounts were also much more than I would expect from Sedo. I also don't mind the wait too much either since I have seen some results. I won't stop using BrandBucket because Brandroot made a quick sale for me for a name not accepted at BB/Namerific. Instead, I look at it as an additional option.

The good thing about having a choice with the marketplaces is that one platform may like a name and the other doesn't.

 

[DomainBFF]

I currently have three names listed on brandbucket. Has anyone sold anything on brand root? Would it make sense for me to transfer my listings to them?

I would definitely list names at all 3.

If you submit your names at all 3 it's likely one will accept a name that another declines and vice versa, so that's a good place to start in deciding where to list your name. Then if you have names accepted by all 3, try and diversify among them.

As they say, never put all your eggs in one basket!

Sidenote: I will say that NR may not be the best option at the moment if you're in a hurry to have it go live. The logo design queue is pretty backed up, and has been for a while. And because there is no set order, a logo designer could claim it the same day or it could sit there for months.

 

[Doron Vermaat]

I have a decent number of names listed (and sold) with both Brandbucket and Namerific. More recently i decided to list around 15 or so of newly acquired names with Brandroot to see how they do. I haven't sold any yet but i have been happy with both the speed of the listing process (an area where the other two sites are under-performing imo) and the agreed listing prices (an area where i feel BB has been lacking lately).

 

[discobull]

Thanks @listser. They get taken fast with the $3 incentive, which was the reason for the incentive, to decrease the wait. Now the design wait is nearly non-existent. We just approved a great logo designer who has made close to a 1k in less than a couple months with us. He gets them pretty fast and provides great work.

I've just listed a few domains with you and I have to admit the logos your people created were head and shoulders above the competition ( especially compared to some of the horrible stuff BB has created for me. ).

 

[NameOffice.]

@discobull thank you. We reject a lot of logos and deny a lot of logo designer applications as our way of trying to set a higher standard. We'd rather have two or three great designers than 15 mediocre ones. When you have many designers, each designer sees few to no sales. When you have just a few, they see sales over and over, which allows us to have more say in what is acceptable and also motivates those few designers to produce great stuff. Anyway, I'll send on your compliments.

 

[equity78]

A lot of good stuff in this thread, I wrote a post about the topic and this thread, the link is in signature. I think you are making good strides Michael getting the logos up fast, people can't and should not have to wait months to get a logo done.

 

[johname]

"Brandroot are after Brandbucket listed names"

Translated to: There a finite amount of these domains unless you go long. And its more beneficial to raid the other company and hopfully score some of the better shorter ones, than hope domainers can keep regging long ones end users like.

And the logo part of it is so over blow. Painful to to see 5er type of logos paraded as $xxx And have people wait for them.

 

[NameOffice.]

Good read @equity78. I'd just like to add that Brandroot has been ahead of Namerific (in terms of sales and traffic) almost since Brandroot launched. I don't mean that as some proud boast, more as of a carrot to attract more sellers. It's been the case for as long as I've known Zane. I've noticed more and more the ruthlessness of this competitive niche. Instead of sitting back as the defender, we are making it clear that Brandroot is the competitive aggressor. We've been a little put out by some resent passive-competition so we decided it was time to switch roles. And to address what was mentioned earlier, we certainly don't believe anything we are doing is unethical. To call competition unethical is silly. After all, those who win are the customers.

 

[NameOffice.]

"Brandroot are after Brandbucket listed names"

Translated to: There a finite amount of these domains unless you go long. And its more beneficial to raid the other company and hopfully score some of the better shorter ones, than hope domainers can keep regging long ones end users like.

And the logo part of it is so over blow. Painful to to see 5er type of logos paraded as $xxx And have people wait for them.

Hi @johname. Actually the majority of short, 4-letter premium names on Brandroot belong to Brandroot. We've attracted a lot of popular length name (5-9). We didn't go after BB sellers for any particular reason other than building our brand for what we've built it to be. No company increases it's value by sitting around acquiescing. Prior to this promotion we never had a shortage of submitted names.

 

[johname]

I am sure you're up to your ears in submitted names. People that own 4-letter premium would probably much rather handle the deal themselves. You build your brand by getting the most pleasant shorter names as possible so you can have more happy customers. Goodluck

 

[NameOffice.]

I am sure you're up to your ears in submitted names. People that own 4-letter premium would probably much rather handle the deal themselves. You build your brand by getting the most pleasant shorter names as possible so you can have more happy customers. Goodluck

Thank you. BTW, that was not to say that we don't list and sell 4 letters for others. In fact we've sold four in the past couple of weeks that don't belong to us.

 

[DnEbook]

i like emd's

 

[DU]

There was a misunderstanding on my part - it was not clear to me (maybe I missed it) - that this promotion was sent only to their already existing customers. Not sure that I see anything wrong in marketing this way to their customers at all so I've deleted what was here before.

I was under the impression it was unsolicited email - which sounds like it wasn't. I didn't care either way, myself, but don't want to mischaracterize this marketing effort as anything it wasn't.

Mea culpa.

 

[NameOffice.]

Thank you for the correction @DU. To further clarify, none of the email addresses were harvested electronically, nor were they taken from any of our competitors websites. This email was sent ONLY to users who have an account at Brandroot, to those who provided the email to us and to those who we send periodic feature updates and promotions.