advice Which Brandable Market Places Do You Use?

[Darry Shan]

I'm wondering which are the best market places to list domains.
Do you list on one or do you list on several marketplaces at the same time?

I've been domaining for a while and mostly sold to clients that I am doing webdev for. I'd like to expand and currently checking out:
-brandpa
-brandbucket
-squad help
- DAN

Thanks

 

[iecomguy]

List on all marketplaces for more exposure. Put make offer in one marketplace and BIN at others.

 

[kaposzta]

95% of my brandable domains are on Squadhelp. I'm using Afternic and Dan.com (BIN price at both marketplaces) for the ones rejected by Squadhelp.

 

[lock]

Good question for first time post as brands are hopeless without marketing and marketing the names without a product is the same so need these marketplaces for brands as they aren't driving a particular niche. Welcome to the forum see your here to learn over spamming.

 

[Darry Shan]

List on all marketplaces for more exposure. Put make offer in one marketplace and BIN at others.

Thanks. Do you have the time to elaborate on this strategy? I mean, which market place do you put make offer and which do you offer BIN? Does it even matter? Coming from an SEO background I analyzed the monthly traffic to the aforementioned market places, and a couple more, and Squadhelp and dan came at the top. I was thinking brandbucket would be on top as they have the larger inventory of names. Let me know. Thanks

 

[Darry Shan]

95% of my brandable domains are on Squadhelp. I'm using Afternic and Dan.com (BIN price at both marketplaces) for the ones rejected by Squadhelp.

Thanks. This would make sense from my review of organic ranking. Can I list on squadhelp as well as on brandbucket? Why did you choose squadhelp?

 

[OnlineDomainShop]

95% of my brandable domains are on Squadhelp. I'm using Afternic and Dan.com (BIN price at both marketplaces) for the ones rejected by Squadhelp.

What is your annual STR if you mind sharing ? I have 1.45% annual STR and no sale from 7 months with around 245 listings ... Are you sarisfied with results on SH ?

 

[Darry Shan]

Good question for first time post as brands are hopeless without marketing and marketing the names without a product is the same so need these marketplaces for brands as they aren't driving a particular niche. Welcome to the forum see your here to learn over spamming.

Thanks for the welcome. I'm from a web dev, graphics, marketing and SEO background. I dealt in SEO domains for the past couple years but now switched to brandables and kw domains as I noticed they can bring a better return vs SEO domains.

I was thinking about the following scenarios:

1. create simple logos/graphics for the domain, with tagline etc and post these on socials such as linkedin etc. Let me give you can example: ibb/co/yXNxSRh, ibb/co/HYVts99
2. Set up an ecom-shop with the graphic from above and link to the listing on DAN.com for purchase or lease

Not sure if this has been tried before. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

 

[kaposzta]

Thanks. This would make sense from my review of organic ranking. Can I list on squadhelp as well as on brandbucket? Why did you choose squadhelp?

I think you are not allowed to list your domains on both sites.

4 years ago I was on Brandbucket, lots of domains (I owned around 0.5% of total inventory back in 2016), no sales, so I sold all my names (70+) to domainers (ROI was good).

Then I switched to Brandpa, again lots of domains (I owned around 3% of total inventory when Brandpa was new), and I managed to sold 3 names within one year - and then absolutely no sale there for 2 years, so once again, I sold all my names (60+) on Brandpa to domainers (ROI was great).

Then I chose SH because it was the newest brandable marketplace with a moderate size of inventory, with lots of features the other marketplaces lacked, and it seemed they were spending a lot on advertising. There were no fees 1.5 years ago, this was also a huge plus. The commission was (and is still) large, but that was not an issue for me. I managed to sell 2 domains out of around 30 in the last 12 months.

In addition to using SH, I add all my rejected and ineligible domains to Dan.com and Afternic, and I have a very nice STR. Most of my domains on Dan are .co, and I have a handful of .com, .eu and .xyz names. I sold one name for $1500, one for $1000, and I had a couple of sales for $3-500, and lots of sales around $200.

What is your annual STR if you mind sharing ? I have 1.45% annual STR and no sale from 7 months with around 245 listings ... Are you sarisfied with results on SH ?

It's hard to tell as the number of domains are constantly growing. As I mentioned above, I sold 2 domains out of 30-ish since last October, so my STR is around 6-7% on SH, or even better. I'm pleased with the results. I'm still waiting for a sale related to a SH-owned name (currently I have ~10 such names on SH) - if I sold one such name, I would focus more on such domains.

 

[Darry Shan]

4 years ago I was on Brandbucket, lots of domains (I owned around 0.5% of total inventory back in 2016), no sales, so I sold all my names (70+) to domainers (ROI was good).

Then I switched to Brandpa, again lots of domains (I owned around 3% of total inventory when Brandpa was new), and I managed to sold 3 names within one year - and then absolutely no sale there for 2 years, so once again, I sold all my names (60+) on Brandpa to domainers (ROI was great).

Then I chose SH because it was the newest brandable marketplace with a moderate size of inventory, with lots of features the other marketplaces lacked, and it seemed they were spending a lot on advertising. There were no fees 1.5 years ago, this was also a huge plus. The commission was (and is still) large, but that was not an issue for me. I managed to sell 2 domains out of around 30 in the last 12 months.

In addition to using SH, I add all my rejected and ineligible domains to Dan.com and Afternic, and I have a very nice STR. Most of my domains on Dan are .co, and I have a handful of .com, .eu and .xyz names. I sold one name for $1500, one for $1000, and I had a couple of sales for $3-500, and lots of sales around $200.



It's hard to tell as the number of domains are constantly growing. As I mentioned above, I sold 2 domains out of 30-ish since last October, so my STR is around 6-7% on SH, or even better. I'm pleased with the results. I'm still waiting for a sale related to a SH-owned name (currently I have ~10 such names on SH) - if I sold one such name, I would focus more on such domains.[/QUOTE]


Thanks for the info. The time invested in scanning hundreds of thousands of domains a week to choose a couple to then sell 2-3 a year on a brandable marketplace does not seem like a sustainable endeavour.

Also, is it possible that these marketplaces promote domains in such a way to equalise the spread of sales among vendors?

 

[kaposzta]

Thanks for the info. The time invested in scanning hundreds of thousands of domains a week to choose a couple to then sell 2-3 a year on a brandable marketplace does not seem like a sustainable endeavour.

Also, is it possible that these marketplaces promote domains in such a way to equalise the spread of sales among vendors?

To be honest you could get decent handregs much easier back then. Also, if you choose your prefixes/suffixes or patterns wisely, it's not too difficult to check a few hundred names on expireddomains.net. I admit it was too exhausting for me and recently I do not check available brandable names that often. I'm also focusing more on a different niche (.co domains). Less pain, more gain. Of course I still love brandable domains, but owing to their popularity and the all-devouring marketplaces those are species on the verge of extinction.

 

[Darry Shan]

To be honest you could get decent handregs much easier back then. Also, if you choose your prefixes/suffixes or patterns wisely, it's not too difficult to check a few hundred names on expireddomains.net. I admit it was too exhausting for me and recently I do not check available brandable names that often. I'm also focusing more on a different niche (.co domains). Less pain, more gain. Of course I still love brandable domains, but owing to their popularity and the all-devouring marketplaces those are species on the verge of extinction.

Yes, you're right. I find that going through the domains every day has allowed me to buildup a small database of names I can deconstruct. I know there's a lot of marketplaces for deals. I think godaddy auctions maybe the best. I however find looking at the droplists works for my flow so I decided to focus and specialise in it. I had 2 choices to learn DNAcademy or 'jump in the deep'. I did the latter as I think this is the best form of education as well I could possibly score a couple of great domains.

What made you go for .co? How has it been for you? I intend to just stay in .com. I find the others too confusing.

 

[jiy k]

Hello,
In Standard Listing of SQ, what does Exp Commission besides List price means.
Thanks.

 

[BrandPlease]

Hey Darry,
Just a quick heads up - that may not matter, but just in case.

You mentioned coming from an SEO/Dev. background. Just be cautious as you will find that domains that fall into the "brandable" space - wont follow what would be "logical" from an SEO/Dev. point of view. Brandable is a wide & generic term - but make sure you see what names f9it into what nitch. Other nitches will more logically follow your SEO/Dev interests.(EMDs, Keywords, etc.) - but IMO brandables are the most interesting & often rewarding from an ROI point of view.

GL!