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thorrvik55:Bro will you name your company Beautiful//Pertrol Question; Is a Pertrol Beautiful? ![]() Lovely//Kerosene Chai !! ![]() To start with none of those 2 keywords (Kerosene and Petrol) are hot or in demand in the western world, they prefer to use the term "Fuel". Note you don't just mix two words together for the fun of it, unless you'll be burning some dollars for fun and will register names that'll hardly or never sell. I remember during the crypto/bitcoin craze. Someone registered Cancer//Bitcoin back then, like what the Hell is that?? ![]() Advice: When you mix up names in this regard, it end in frustrating what would have been a more valuable and prudent investment. I'll advice you to start reading first, just a couple of read-ups from this thread, and on namepros will give you an idea of what kind of names are important and the ones that are not (between that's why thousands of domains expire everyday because people are registering crap), again thousands of names are being renewed by owners everyday because some other people registered wisely. The choice is yours sir. Goodluck. Peace ![]() |
pwetie:Good observation dear, However don't let those large portfolio's intimidate you cos sometimes it's not about portfolio size. It's more about luck with your names (Right buyer coming for your name at the right time) plus Quality/Uniqueness of your names. Brandable Names have gone beyond just submitting your name in a brandable marketplace and getting it accepted. Now aside from Ultra premium short names, popular dictionary words, Super premium 2-keyword names. Every other type of brandable name like invented, hybrid and some random 2-keyword names are like lottery tickets where there is just one chance of a sale out of many similar alternatives. Take for example, you own a name "Freshera" and a beverage company is looking to incorporate the word "Fresh" to brand her product. And they search the brandable marketplace for fresh related names, now they'll be bound to make a choice from variety of fresh related names like "FreshCrunch", "FreshCost", "Freshzie", "FreshVivo", "FreshVigor", "FreshThirst", "Freshix", "Freshera"(Probably your name by assumption), "Freshio", "YeahFresh", "Fresholo", "Freshra", "Freshivo", "Freshry" and a host of other fresh related names in the marketplace. Now you'll notice that all the above names stand the same chance from a neutral buyers perspective(and buyer needs to fall in love with just one name to purchase it. But then if one name is chosen at the end of the day the rest will wait for a next time when another buyer with similar specs comes along. Another example is say you own random invented name like "Zapata". listed in the brandable market, you might see similar names like Zapato, Zapero, Zapego,Zapoto etc. Now there nothing really special about this type of names to a potential buyer's perspective who have to pick from a just one "Zap" related keyword, thus all the names are random and all stand the same chance of being picked[b](Similar to a lottery ticket)[/b] that's because these are handregs at best and considered as average names and can't be compared to say "Zap dot com" or "Zaps dot com" or even something like "GoZap dot com" or "UpZap dot com" (the later examples are more better premium options that can easily stand out when listed with the rest because of their uniqueness and quality. Hence that is why it is important to diversify your portfolio, that is, try to have a name in most major niches like Health,Tech, Fashion, Business, Consulting, Entertainment, Fitness Beauty and Cosmetic brands etc. This way when a potential buyer comes for a name in any of those niches, you already stand a chance. Between i think Squadhelp have been "Even/Fair" and miles better when you compare them to other brandable marketplaces in terms of seller sales ratio(every seller have a chance there but like i said its way more than getting your names accepted, a bit of luck and trying to own names that'll stand out above its competitors are important factors too) While in Brandbucket back in the days, Making a sale was like a miracle for the common seller, the same can't be said for Squadhelp cos I've seen sellers with less than 10 SH names Make a sale while on the other hand someone with 100 names is still yet to record a sale, I've even seen less number of portfolio name with success. Personally for me, I've been lucky so far with Squadhelp with a current portfolio of 175 names I've had 6 sales along the way, this month will make it. (1 year and 2 months) i joined the platform. I started with probably around 14 names at a time. And it's been a bit of luck, and God's grace. But then, in my 3 years and a half years at Brandbucket I've had Zero sales till date. Even at a time when i had roughly 70 names there, at some point i just grew frustrated and was selling my BB names to other domainers at Namepros for little profit and my portfolio was always fluctuating during that time, due to lack of sales. But this year i started building a portfolio again at BB with 52 published names currently (mostly i bought some of these from fellow domainers) but still no sale at the moment. But what keeps me motivated is the sales report of new comers at their BB slack channel (So that's why it's still a bit of luck and your name being at the right place at the right time. At Sedo for example, I hear people always making sales there every now and then, but all through last year i had all my portfolio there after going through a rigorous verification process for a whole year i recorded Zero sales at Sedo marketplace lol, But every now and then people sings their praises too. So from my experience so far, I've noticed that some stroke of luck and patience is needed in this business, it is not about the amount of names its more about the right names, and while that is imperative, one thing might work for some, while it'll not work for others. And like you said listing in different platforms might give your names a better chance of selling faster. Keep the hope alive. Peace ![]() |
UrVillagePpl:It means domain was purchased from one of afternic's fast transfer partners but afternic is yet to verify payment. By verification of payment means they are checking to ensure it was not fraudulent payment and its legit. Once this is verified status will change from pending sale to sold. I've had similar experience before on 2 occasions on one payment was verified on the other sale was canceled because they couldn't verify payment. Pray its the former on your case. Goodluck. Peace ![]() |
ikhalyfah:On the Expert Reviewers Initiative, Here's my Experience/Thoughts; At the beginning i was furious with the idea and mad at SH for coming up with such an idea in the first place cos i do more of submitting my own names than unregistered Names. So in the first few weeks of the Expert reviewer introduction i had roughly 90% rejection rate. And i was completely madt at everything happening with the new system lol. ![]() But I'm beginning to gradually understand the module of the new system and my acceptance has improved. Now here are Some examples of what they accept "2 keywords names" like (DefendHero,LendQuick,CrunchBoss, TotalCure) and very short Play on words "Hybrid like" names like ( Milksy,Hackio,Foodiza,Curivo, Joburo,weblytic,edulytic etc. "they must be super short" or pronouncable 5 letter words like (Rivar,Fexen, Grixy, Kidoy, Qoozu etc) You can check for more of these names on the daily premium listing in their homepage of the marketplace when you click "view brand names" and you sort by "new arrivals". Also what i figured about the Expert reviewers taste is that it's slightly different from what squadhelp initially accepted as you no longer see weird names being accepted but now you see more quality names listed in the marketplace. So there's a bit change of orientation and understanding.THE CONS Different Reviewers means Different Judgment : While some of these 'experts' are our peers (Veteran domainers) who have large portfolios on SH probably 500 plus names listed in marketplace others are those who started with Squadhelp as CREATIVES or content creators or Logo Designers and migrated to becoming a domainers pretty when anything and everything was accepted in the marketplace and these category of sellers have proven themselves in the SH platform through winning contest awards, with proven sell through rate(STR), high ranking, higher acceptance rate etc but might lack a bit of knowledge of how domaining works. Now here's the thing, brandable Names are subjective meaning that what might be good in one person's eyes, might be bad in another. So the outcome is that if your name is not super catchy or super premium dictionary word or 4l/5l pronouncable, or soronous 2-keyword name your chances of acceptance becomes pretty slim because in your eyes name might seem pretty cool but it's different judgment to another. (Different experts means different judgment, what looks good to Mr "A" is a complete thrash Mr "B" and vice versa. Time Constraints : Now these Experts are shown 4 names at once and in seconds to click on names they feel are good enough now this is different to allowing the expert to take their time and assess the names properly as SH look to achieve faster review time (As a result of previous seller complaint in the past that led to the introduction of the new system in the first place) So little time to analyze these names means hastily judgment made at times by the reviewers. Knowledge of the market and current Trends: As Reviews are now conducted by quick multiple choice polls like (which name do you like best?). Reviewers do not see descriptions. And going by the fact that brandable domain names are a bit subjective (which means it might take a second look to see how good a name really is or the potential it may have. Now i feel Description can help convince on reviewers judgment and Again if a reviewer lacks the knowledge of Current trends and demand of the marketplace it becomes difficult to make the right judgment. But a good name can always be spotted from a far without much conviction, i feel that's what the new policy intends to achieve. There might be other cons which i may not mention but have been extensively discussed over there at namepros by forum members like conflict of interest, and other similar concerns THE PROS One good thing about SH is that they know how to make use of technology more than all the other brandable marketplaces and are super innovative, creative, listens to seller concerns and are quick to react/adapt to new changes. Some concerns seller's raised pre-expert reviewers era was that squadhelp accepts thrash (low quality names) most of the time and the review time needed to improve (this was due to huge volume of names submitted to SH daily) even though their review time is way more quicker than it's competitors, Now in response to these concerns squadhelp introduced the "Expert Reviewers" system. Here are the pros they achieved so far with that, as admitted by some sellers. *Improving the overall quality of domains on the marketplace, better curated names means more demands by potential buyers. *The process is smoother and faster, occurs within 24-48 hours, plus logo design as well within a short space of time. Drastically reduces review times of marketplace. * The two aforementioned points leads to makeplace efficiency and zero lagging. Going forward i feel that squadhelp make go on with the new Reviewer system this is according to the comments made by GrantP on their namespros thread although the can make some adjustments and amendments as the marketplace is highly flexible and trend oriented. Peace ![]() |
Ever wondered why most sold names remain undeveloped for a while or even dropped at some point later on. Now here might be why @Screenshot. For me most names I've sold may 70% have ended up as developed sites and the others with same nameservers i sold it with or pointing to an unknown destination. There are other reasons though, again I've seen cases where a seller picks a name be sold from the drop and resells it again. ![]() Peace ![]()
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tosan200:Nah this kind sale dey make me scratch my head Goto my portfolio check a few things Scratch my head again (@Farouksenior abeg make i borrow your trademark emoji small) Congrats bro. More sales!! ![]() |
golamike:Squadhelp Owned names automatically appear on Afternic. As squadhelp had agreement to partner with afternic earlier this year. They also partnered with Sedo and flippa recently too to increase exposure. |
Electricboy:Yeah simply edit it and add something like from Beckplanets last year post. I made some comments there that seemed present. If you understand what I mean. This is important not to confuse peeps. Not everyone was here last year. |
Electricboy:Bro that was last year post. Please modify. |
Electricboy:Yeah bro. My only regret, i allowed squadhelp own it. I don't personally subscribe to that ideology, i like to own my names myself. |
Sales in the past 2 months Payonator//dot//com Sold Price : $1595 (Squadhelp Owned) My commission : $385 Sold on Afternic Hold Time : 8 months Cleanexa//dot//com Price : $1699 My Commission : $1099 List venue : SquadHelp Sold Venue : Afternic Hold time : 2 months Solevault//dot//com Price : $299 My commission : $225 Sale venue: Afternic Hold time : 8 months Had a private (Can't reveal name based on agreement with buyer) Name is a 7 letter herb related. Herb***//dot//com Price : $1295 Hold time : 1 year/6 months Seems afternic is doing a better job than squadhelp here. I recently dropped Over 100 names from my portfolio and renewed around 40 names. That's the result of not regging long term / quality names. Trimming my portfolio at the moment to suit quality over, quantity. Between none of these sales just happened,i have to wait and wait and wait again. In Domaining patience is virtue. Sometimes it's a waiting game(especially for Brandable Names), other times you just get lucky. All thanks to God. Peace ![]() |
Mccainreal:Nice one bro... Your contributions to this thread has been immense. Keep it up. ![]() |
ikhalyfah:Nice one ![]() |
Osnami:How did you submit all the names on Brandbucket? Did you use $1 BB credit for each? If you did then listing is free as there is no need of paying $10 listing fee for each name again, but if you are still operating with the old account where you list free, then maybe you have to pay the $10 listing fee per name (You can further confirm from the support). On the Sales through Rate (STR) at BB, it is Relative (Varying from one member to another, BB currently have over 90,000 names listed on their marketplace) so the chances that your names sales quickly will be pretty slim considering your 40 names will be competing with the other 90k names in the marketplace, of whom some sellers owns thousands in their portfolio.) Personally i haven't had any success at BB like i did in SH but i believe some others here have in the past, and even currently now because i still see alot of reported BB sales in their slack channel. Like i said everything is Relative as it differs for each seller, so you might give it a punt if you got the funds. But again you need to have a deep pocket to make these investments. Peace ![]() |
Wawuu, congrats to all the recent sellers. It's amazing that one minute someone reports a sale on a geo name, everyone goes to geo, next minute another person reports a sale on brandable, attention shifts to brandable Names(Chai ). Just a reminder, this industry doesn't work by fluctuating but by dictating what works for you and sticking to it. Firstly I'll like to congratulate the seller of cure/vast, i pray for more sales bro . However or unfortunately this will plunge many folks to go on a regging pree on anything that have the keyword Cure or Vast and definitely miss the point and end up regging names that'll never sale. First of, Cure/Vast though a made up name of some sought makes sense and have a flow as a keyword combination. Hence forming a synergy that means a Vast amount of Cure or Healthcare services. This doesn't mean that anything that have any of these keywords is going to sale, i remember reporting s few sales here and seeing folks trying to reg anything similar to the reported name, 90% of the time that permutation is bound to fail (don't get me wrong i wish everyone well but taking caution and being prudent is important in Domaining) the sale of the aforementioned name is a combination of Luck and Timing. Considering the times we are in, medical related domain names is bound to peak. (but the right names too). That doesn't mean that everything having cure or vast is going to sale, go to Brandbucket and see alot of better vast related names still laying there and collecting dust, so it not a matter of keyword. It's all about good word combination and timing and it rarely happens that way most of the times. Again to drive home the point here is that we fluctuate too much and that isn't a good thing for a Domainer. I'm 99% damn sure that if anyone report a sale on a geo name now, attention shift there immediately. Please people, stick with a plan, reg wisely and don't follow the crowd. Wishing every hustling domainer out there all the best and most importantly a successful quarantined season ![]() Peace ![]() |
TheSTreetman:Bro are you kidding me ![]() If i have a quarter of that, that means I'll be contesting for presidency by 2023 ![]() Abeg oo ![]() |
Os3e:Like @Promxy94 rightly pointed bro. Dot King or //King is a term substituted for Dot com by domainers. This is because most domainers see the dot com extension as the superior extension that has value above the rest of other domain extensions like (dot org, dot net, dot info, dot biz, dot xyz etc) They feel the dot com extension is way miles ahead than it's counterparts and that can be clearly shown in the price difference between the dot com extension and the rest extension(there's a big gap of value difference) Hence they term the DOT COM AS KING OF ALL DOMAIN EXTENSIONS Hence dot com = dot king //com = //king And vice versa. They all mean the same thing. King is used as a sing of respect to differentiate the dot com from other extentions by domainers and to remind ourselves that the dot com is still above the rest when it comes to value. That is why we sometimes advice you to focus on dot com. ![]() Peace ![]() |
ikhalyfah:More reason i tell people not to be greedy, sell and move on... You can easily re-invest the proceeds of a sell to get at least 3 better names, even if it's a $100 sale take it and reinvest, this puts you in a more stronger position than waiting for a sale and sitting on a name forever, when you should have sold, add more names and give yourself more potential selling opportunities.... It's simple maths. Mind you, i don't say that sitting on a name doesn't work too, if you got the financial strength it's all good. But if you're a struggling domainer like myself ... You have to sale fast, add more, give yourself more advantage(Domaining is a numbers game) .... Rinse and Repeat the process and grow from there. Than waiting for a single Mega sale that might never happen.Peace ![]() |
slimjosh43:I made a typo there's no l there it's Deli-ish...modified Previous post ![]() |
GentlePEACE:Thing is Brandbucket and Squadhelp are the more popular and most accessible ones then you have brandpa and namerific...Although the Last aforementioned two have their own flaws and limitations. Then there are other brandable marketplaces out there but mostly they are not open to everyone most of the time it is just the owners listing and maybe with his few domainer friends and others you'll see out there some still charge hefty listing fees. |
Dreydoe:I'm afraid not, because of the double letter in between. Checked on the name and sites using something similar trust to separate words with hyphen like Deli-ish... And again i don't know what sound exactly the name fits in whether it's a short term delicious inspired name or a Kind of Indian term (Deli).... But you can submit it to SH and check. You have to put alot of factors into consideration before purchasing / handregisterring a name. And again please i don't appraise names oo ![]() Peace ![]() |
GentlePEACE:Yeah both for registered and unregistered names BB charge $1 to submit the name their marketplace for evaluation. Peace ![]() |
GentlePEACE:Yeah it does, but no free submission there you need to submit each name with $1(1 BB credit) and then you wait for approximately 35 days for approval unlike Squadhelp where approval is within a couple of days. And if you're unlucky names will get registered before the 35 days is complete. Although if you start with a New BB Account and attach your PayPal account to the BB account, you get Free $10 BB credit for starter to submit just 10 names. I recommend you submit already registered names than unregistered ones because of the long wait and to avoid anxiety, depression or regret when the unregistered name gets registered after successfully wait and approval period. Peace ![]() |
Ayobamms:Bro I'm still learning oo (Not Pro Max maybe ground level )... There were names i registered a month ago that i wouldn't have registered today and decisions i made 6 months ago that when I look back at I'm banging my head on the wall and wondering what was i thinking . Truth is Domaining evolves everyday and is all about trends, hence, some 10 years old experienced domainer investor can be stuck with what he knew years back and relax to watch a 6 month old domainer come in and start making 6 figures constantly while him is still stuck with some outdated knowledge without following the current trend... Domaining is all about trends and how much you know in the Now... So when i tell you I'm still learning, believe me bro i truly am . Again I'm not even that good oo, just because i come out here to share the little i know doesn't mean I'm that good.... There are Alot of coded silent badass Brandable gurus out there that are way better than me, who are in the background making silent success and way way ahead who are Nigerians. Nah because say i talk (teach or share) make some of una feel say i know something truth be say i no Sabi anything and I'm always humble to learning new things.. Sometimes i question my decisions sef ... So i hope we see it in that light that everyone is still learning and no one is ever full coz this is Domaining and it is Dynamic. Hope it makes sense , i felt like i just wrote a poem ![]() Peace ![]() |
GentlePEACE:Although it is better to give a name a more specific description, that way a potential buyer would not have bias or get confused during the selection process. Maybe you can pm the name and I'll come up with a more specific description or tell what category name might fall to. But it's not necessary if you wish to go with the already suggested descriptions. Peace ![]() |
GentlePEACE:This powerful, descriptive and modern name is versatile and unique with endless possibilities for nearly any industry. Or A dynamic multifaceted name that suggests growth, innovation and sophistication Or An elegant and luxurious name with multiple applications. You can add and minus (edit) as you like to get what you want. Peace ![]() |
viktor88:Lol, bro we're all bosses of our own nah... Me still dey learn work oo ![]() |
TheSTreetman:It's Ok to register a previously listed name that dropped and its fine to re-submit it to SquadHelp for approval. But there's no guarantee if the name might gets approved or not. I've tried it on some occasions most times they approve it and other times they don't. (Reason is because according to squadhelp policy they try to adapt to current market trend, thereby names that were previously approved might be seen as not good fit for her marketplace few years later, this was explained by GrantP on their namepros thread sometime ago and again squadhelp do not have Auto- re accept previous published names like Brandbucket) And secondly with the introduction of Expert Reviewers who now vote for every registered name at the marketplace, it might be inevitable that all names submitted have to be re-evaluated by these Expert Reviewers but there's high probability that name will be approved if it is really good and make sure it was previously listed as premium not basic plus or basic listing. I wish you all the best. Peace ![]() |
ikhalyfah:Thanks ikhalyfah for the kind words. ![]() On the name GoStead.... I was skeptical at first about the popularity of second keyword "Stead" although it's obvious that "Go" is already a top Rich keyword. Then after a few research on Stead.. I Saw its a popular term in the major brandable marketplaces and is relates to home or shelter. Nice name. Wish you the best on this one. Peace ![]()
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James39:Spysteady isn't balanced combination... Cleftr i don't even not what it means. Rebel is a negative word and wouldn't work well with suffixes. Ask yourself one question, would i name my company with any of those? Start reading my brandable guide it's here on this thread and it's free of charge. After that head over to dngeek dot com and read everything you can find there. This would take you months to digest before making any decisions on playing with words if not you might end up wasting money. (The brandable niche is hard and if you don't have enough funding focus attention on quick flips then make some cash and start studying how it works before investing. Investing on names is the last thing on the list. If you start it first, there's high probability you'll loose money), Anyways the names you came up with are nice try's but will be a hard sell in a competent market. You need to study more to know what appeal to the market audience (even at that the brandable market is highly unpredictable market, no one knows for sure what is certain to sell) wish you all the best. Peace ![]() |
fergusen:Yeah won a contest last month. The challenge is you got to submit alot of unregistered names(sometimes quality names) and risk losing/exposing them to be registered. Just like Squadhelp contest. They haven't addressed the issue of Names getting registered by Unsuspecting Contest Holders (CH). Peace ![]()
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Question; Is a Pertrol Beautiful? 

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or pronouncable 5 letter words like (Rivar,Fexen, Grixy, Kidoy, Qoozu etc) You can check for more of these names on the daily premium listing in their homepage of the marketplace when you click "view brand names" and you sort by "new arrivals". Also what i figured about the Expert reviewers taste is that it's slightly different from what squadhelp initially accepted as you no longer see weird names being accepted but now you see more quality names listed in the marketplace. So there's a bit change of orientation and understanding.
Scratch my head again