EFTY.com - Have you had any sales thru their landing pages?

[BuyWebDomains]

Hi,
Recently signed-up to the free 30 day trial with EFTY.com, which expires in the next days.
This has got me wondering whether to continue with them.

A few questions which spring to mind before committing for those with an account :
1. Have you had any sales thru their landing pages?
2. Have you seen an increase in traffic to those pages?
3. Assuming you've had sales, have these been in the form of offers or Buy-it-Now?
4. What do you think to the new landing pages (released by Efty yesterday)?
5. Best method of directing traffic to those pages? I currently use Twitter.

Personally I've not had any sales, but that would be down to the domains.
Keen to get some discussion going, especially if it assists others.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[indiegrind]

All of my domains have efty landers and I have been using it since the beta. To me, it's exactly the solution I needed.

I get lots of offers. I turn down alot and I sell alot. About 95 percent of my name's are "make offer" with no buy now button.

I have my almost all domains listed on Sedo, afternic, godaddy auctions and flippa as well, but about 90-95 percent of inquiries and offers come direct from my landers.

A lander is to give interested parties a simple and easy way to know the domain is for sale and to buy or contact the owner. It can also help by including a pitch to convey the value and price expectations. They also, if attractive and professional looking, make you appear more professional.

The Efty landers let me accomplish these objectives with a high level of customization and personalization.

I love it. Best investment I've made as a domainer on a tool. I love not having to pay huge commissions by relying on other marketplaces with little to no transparency on who is making the offer or inquiry. I am actually weighing ignoring or rejecting offers on other platforms so that serious parties will contact me directly.

There is no magic lander that will make bad domains attract offers, but nice, professional and appealing landers are helpful in connecting you, and presenting your domains in a positive manner that can enhance value.

If domains are internet real estate, a good lander is like an attractively staged home at an "open house".

 

[420domainer]

All of my domains have efty landers and I have been using it since the beta. To me, it's exactly the solution I needed.

I get lots of offers. I turn down alot and I sell alot. About 95 percent of my name's are "make offer" with no buy now button.

I have my almost all domains listed on Sedo, afternic, godaddy auctions and flippa as well, but about 90-95 percent of inquiries and offers come direct from my landers.

A lander is to give interested parties a simple and easy way to know the domain is for sale and to buy or contact the owner. It can also help by including a pitch to convey the value and price expectations. They also, if attractive and professional looking, make you appear more professional.

The Efty landers let me accomplish these objectives with a high level of customization and personalization.

I love it. Best investment I've made as a domainer on a tool. I love not having to pay huge commissions by relying on other marketplaces with little to no transparency on who is making the offer or inquiry. I am actually weighing ignoring or rejecting offers on other platforms so that serious parties will contact me directly.

There is no magic lander that will make bad domains attract offers, but nice, professional and appealing landers are helpful in connecting you, and presenting your domains in a positive manner that can enhance value.

If domains are internet real estate, a good lander is like an attractively staged home at an "open house".

I completely agree with the above! The landing pages are awesome, I have received a substantial increase in offers over the last 3-4 months and instead of receiving an anonymous bid through godaddy, Efty verifies the bidder and so you get the name, email, phone number, and their IP. The fact that efty does not take a commission is also outstanding!

After a few months and about 6 inquires, I've had two sales and I'm still negotiating with another potential. One sale netted $10,000 from an initial $50 investment. The landing pages are why I joined Efty but the site has much more to offer as well in terms of organization and keeping renewals in check, stuff like that.
Overall, very happy with Efty.com, and contacting customer service is more like making new domainer friends...

 

[Doron Vermaat]

I think you should add paypal option either way.

So do you plan on adding simple contact form with custom description?

PayPal is now integrated into Efty. Check our blog for more details: https://blog.efty.com/2017/05/25/its-here-paypal-efty-awesome/

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Can anyone outline the advantages of Efty vs Uniregistry?

Uni is free and just like Efty also let's me manage my own leads, track purchases, has lead form landing pages (or earn on parking or farm out leads to brokers if I choose)... not sure what else I'd be paying for at Efty other than more options on landers and personal marketplace site.

What am I missing out on?

Great question. There are quite a few differences between Efty and Uni.

I would say the main one is customization. At Efty you can:

• Upload a logo for your domain name
• Upload your own background image
• Choose from more than 30+ different themes. Browse them all here.
• Write your own description and bullet points
• Make Offer or BIN with the option to choose between Escrow.com, Payoneer Escrow, and PayPal to handle the transaction.
• Google Analytics integration to track visitors

Included in the low monthly or annual membership fee you also have access to all the other features at Efty such as domain name managing and tracking, financial insights and of course you can set up your own custom marketplace with a few clicks for no extra costs.

Last but not least, a big difference with Uniregistry is that Efty does have very a clear governance in which is stated we do NOT have access to your data. We do not compete with our clients while Uniregistry's owner operates a business that does.

 

[joro001]

My comment earlier was very short.

To expand a little more I really like the service overall. Get far more serious inquiries/offers than I ever did with uniregistry, have full control over the process and no commissions to pay out post sale. No prescripted emails from brokers who have little motivation to sell your domains and can take an age to reply losing valuable momentum and time and so on.

Efty - Fast landing pages (I requested this to Doron many times and they got there in the end), great choice now of landing pages, marketplace, full details of buyers unlike Afternic et al etc. etc.

Full marks to Efty, there is no reason to park your domains anywhere else as things stand today IMO.

 

[Doron Vermaat]

And they don't have paypal payment - they store our credit card info... well, somewhere. I'm not even sure how safe it is.

Efty doesn't store your credit card details. These are stored with our payment provider, Stripe which is one of the largest payment companies in the world. https://stripe.com/

 

[Pattern]

I love Efty's landing pages, great designs. One of the best features is the ability to view traffic stats using Google Analytics, and I use it to help determine what to keep or drop.

 

[Doron Vermaat]

efty landers are the best....but their marketplace needs more freedom

1:No about us page
2:No blog
3:No privacy or terms page
4:No contact us page
4:No custom headers

Without these i doubt a customer will have cofidence to buy a domain when they vist the marketplace....

i have requested doron lets hope for the best

Now that we just pushed a big update live for the landers all our development efforts are focussed towards further improving the marketplace feature. Expect some cool updates soon

 

[AndyM]

I've actually just recently closed my Efty account. This is in no way because of any bad experience. What Doron and his team have created for all us domainers is quite remarkable.

My absence from Efty may only be a temporary one as I have to try and see if my own market place and landing pages will work out as well or better for me.

I had 3 notable sales through Efty over a 6 month period which totalled $1700 I then had a further enquiry on a 4th domain but I had not long sold it through GoDaddy (forgot to remove it from efty portfolio)

TBH, efty is fantastic for portfolio management and a great way to cut out "the middle man". But at the end of the day, it's the quality of your domain that's going to bring the enquiries and offers.

 

[AndyM]

Your'e probably right, I agree that should be the focus, but adding options never hurts. on that note, anybody know a good broker? =P

@MediaOptions or @Ali . Two of the best in the business.

 

[BrandClub.com]

Can anyone outline the advantages of Efty vs Uniregistry?

Uni is free and just like Efty also let's me manage my own leads, track purchases, has lead form landing pages (or earn on parking or farm out leads to brokers if I choose)... not sure what else I'd be paying for at Efty other than more options on landers and personal marketplace site.

What am I missing out on?

At EFTY you can also upload LOGOS

 

[bluebox]

Right now I pay $10 per month but to be honest I don't think I will be sticking with them. I don't need statistics and other unnecessary stuff.

If you just want "make an offer" landing page you have it for free at bodis.com. And they are planning improvements I see:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/bodis-2-0.484866/page-202#post-5771973

The 3 times that somone clicked "buy now" they either were confused about the price or not even reading what the hell they are agreeing to. And for cheaper names escrow is too expesive - so I just want to state the BIN price (in desctiption) and give option to contact me via contact form (no "make an offer").
I can't do something simple like that since URDP safe themes have no option to change description.
I might as well use my own hosting account.

And they don't have paypal payment - they store our credit card info... well, somewhere. I'm not even sure how safe it is.

 

[Doron Vermaat]

I think you should add paypal option either way.

So do you plan on adding simple contact form with custom description?

We will be looking into Paypal integration next year so that users have an option next to Escrow.com to offer to buyers (for lower priced domains for example).

We currently do not have plans to add a lander with just a contact form and custom description but if there's a strong demand we will certainly consider adding one.

 

[internext]

efty is good i purchase few items from efty and it delivered me on time.

EFTY not ETSY

 

[Doron Vermaat]

I use Efty.com exclusively now with great success....I own just under 1k names.
There is 1 feature I wish they WOULD implement already, and that is the ability to ADD Stripe, Paypal, or custom BUY IT NOW code for each domain.
I recently sold BirthdayB*E*E*R in king and a few other names just in the last couple weeks.
@Doron Vermaat would like to hear your feedback on this.

We are currently working on PayPal integration among other things!

 

[End Game]

I sold my first name this week on efty to end user. Domain was VideoTelematics.com for $1799.00. Had it parked at parking crew with "buy now" tag leading to my portfolio OMGdomains.com on efty.

 

[garptrader]

I forwarded a select number of domains to my EFTY marketplace Dominero.com
I have received several lowball offers and even one $1000 offer for a two-word aged .COM but no sales yet.
I need to adjust my settings and landing pages somewhat as they have come out with new features since I first launched several months ago. In the end, it is the domain which attracts the offers while the platform merely facilitates lead capture and potential sales conversion.

 

[joro001]

Yep, a good number of sales through Efty. Really like the platform overall.

 

[NameClerk]

Interested people just can make an offer. They can do the same if the landpage was provided by uniregistry etc.

True but Efty allows for much more customization and they don't take a commission. That's a substantial difference in my opinion.

 

[Asfas1000]

indiegrind summed it up perfectly for me.

 

[offersity]

Efty works, i have been using it since beta. Doron is great!
I keep getting inquiries from the landing pages and the new addition of google analytics for each landing page is beyond awesome!

What even better is they keep improving it from time to time, if you are on the fence, give it a try folks, efty works!

 

[bluebox]

Efty doesn't store your credit card details. These are stored with our payment provider, Stripe which is one of the largest payment companies in the world. https://stripe.com/

I think you should add paypal option either way.

So do you plan on adding simple contact form with custom description?

 

[Domain Monk]

efty landers are the best....but their marketplace needs more freedom

1:No about us page
2:No blog
3:No privacy or terms page
4:No contact us page
4:No custom headers

Without these i doubt a customer will have cofidence to buy a domain when they vist the marketplace....

i have requested doron lets hope for the best

 

[Brandworthy]

But I don't think it would make any different if I use uniregistry landpage or sedo as the inquiries are from type in traffic and not through marketplaces themselves.

One very substantial difference between Uniregistry (not DNS) landers and Efty is that Uniregistry now forces leads to create a Uniregistry account in order to make the inquiry. Personally I think that's a barrier to getting the lead into the system, and one of the major put-offs of Uniregistry Market for me. I understand they are trying to build a network, but the pros of using Uniregistry are diminishing as they take more value out of our user interactions for themselves.