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Has anyone used undeveloped.com to sell domains? They claim to be able to increase a domainers sales by 54%.
I can only tell you that from my point of view I could care less if the "Undeveloped marketplace" has any traffic coming to it.There are two possible comparisons:
1. Compare undeveloped, using their landing pages, to a different marketing group, using their landing pages. (Or, I suppose you could compare undeveloped landing pages, to using your own landing pages.)
2. Compare undeveloped, not using their landing pages, to other marketing groups like Afternic, Sedo, DomainAgents, etc., not using their landing pages either. With this comparison you are able to compare undeveloped against multiple other sites, simultaneously.
If "Comparing Undeveloped to Afternic/Sedo is not apples to apples either," then that means...what? That Afternic and Sedo have a lot of buyer traffic and Undeveloped has none? What are you saying?
I don't know about you, but almost all my sales come from visitors to landing pages - not searches at Sedo, Afternic or Undeveloped.
I could make my own landing pages but I would still have to have a payment processor and/or escrow service.
I am sure Undeveloped is not for everyone...My buyers pay all escrow fees, so it is just time. My average sale is mid four figures, so 9% for a little time to set up an escrow, is worth my time!
I can see how if you have many smaller sales, okay, then 9% versus the time spent on each escrow, would be something.
Thoughtful points. The issue of "credibility" never occurred to me as being an issue, because no inquirer ever brought it up, I close sales regularly from landing page inquiries, and I am offered domains to broker weekly, so people must think I know what I am doing, which I do believe I do know what I am doing. The current iteration of the XYNames website is not the only one, had a prior version at a different URL going back many years.
Anyway, I'll go back to undeveloped and see how I may upload all my domains, which are a couple thousand currently plus brokered ones. Let's see if there is any buyer traffic at undeveloped; I would be remiss in my diligence if I did not take it one step at a time.
You must compare apples with apples. Compare Afternic/Sedo NOT using their landing pages with undeveloped, not using theirs. That is what I will test, soon.
I just don't understand the crusade to corner Undeveloped into saying they aren't as good as a marketplace when their focus is the Landing Page. But to each their own...
As far as inquiries/offers, I would say it's about 50-50, my landing pages versus those marketplaces.
I have signed up to Undeveloped today and have a newbie question.
Can you disable "more domains from this seller" feature? Sure, it's nice to have an option to push all the domains - related and unrelated - given any opportunity, but I don't really think this adds value from end user perspective, unless you have a collection of thematic domains, which I don't. So I would rather keep the page focused on this specific domain and not distracting elsewhere. Anycase, they can click on seller account to see other domains listed by the seller.
An option to add your own image to the landing page, similar to efty, would be fantastic!
Thats awesome! Thanks!Hi All,
Effective from today, the commission rate at Undeveloped is lowered from 15% to 9%. You can now use the best performing domain marketplace to park with while paying even less commission!
Happy selling!
Reza
I have a feature suggestion. When potential buyers visit a seller's profile/domain shop, it would be nice if they could choose to search either this particular seller's inventory or the entire Undeveloped marketplace instead of as now only the entire marketplace.
Not sure if this is possible (or desirable).
Thanks Michael! This worked, stupid on me not to check the settings first! I wasn't looking into account settings - was expecting to see option under each domain. Seems like it's more universal approach, but maybe it's good - saves time.
How long does it take for the main domains dashboard to refresh usually? I have parked pages 12hrs ago, and the landers on pages updated immediately, but the dashbord still says 0% parked and shows greyed lines under any stats.
The main dashboard takes 24 hours to update which I think is too slow. Then again so does Uniregistry and Sedo. Only efty via Google analytics provide immediate updates for each domain. So you can check which domain has had a visitor, where from etc.
The main total count ticker is updated instantly at Undeveloped. So it will add a visitor to the tally there and then when you have someone who has just visited one of your landing pages or seen your offer page. However you will never know what domain that was (but all individial domain traffic is refreshed after 24 hours). Again only Efty with their google analytics integration will do this, immediately.
On a side note has anyone noticed a dramatic reduction in direct traffic since moving domains to Undeveloped? The landing page visitor detection is working for sure as I test my own landers and it adds my visits to the visitor tally on the dashboard.
I received a large supply of visitors via efty landing pages daily via direct traffic. Granted some may have been bots but since switching to Undeveloped nameservers for over a week I have noticed a massive fall in direct traffic.
And I used to get regular genuine offers at Efty too. Maybe it's just been a slow week.
Yes, I picked today of all days to try to upload my domain list via .csv and I'm getting
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
will give Undeveloped a try see if listing about 1500 of my domains there gets any action.
Update, hold on, I logged into the account and I see domains under my portfolio, so appears it worked after all, notwithstanding the error. One suggestion, all I see are pages, not a numbered list so I can't tell at a glance how many domains are in there. Unless I am missing something?
Seems like 37 pages x 25 per page which would be 925, which is about five hundred short of the amount I uploaded.
Is there a way to note a minimum offer on all of them at once?
Hmm, it also made my email address a domain by mistake, lol.
To hide your domain list on your landing pages - Click on your name in the top right corner of Undeveloped's site when logged in, click on Settings, under the "Meet the Seller" section choose "Don't show anything".
To upload an image for your landing pages - Under settings choose Seller profile on the left of the settings screen. Click choose file under background image and upload. (you can go to istock or similar to get an image to use if you don't have one)
Hi All,
In case you hadn't noticed yet, all infrastructure issues are resolved since Friday late in the evening. It turns out it wasn't a DDoS that caused the issue. One of our instances at AWS (Amazon) was corrupted and had driven the CPU to a 100% which caused the problem. This problem is fixed and Undeveloped + your for sales pages load now faster than before. Again apologies for the inconvenience last week. We didn't mess up, it was AWS and these things unfortunately happen.
Finally, as DNGear mentions, from now on you can see the country + IP of your buyers in the lead view!
Take care,
Reza