Brand Bucket has been a marketplace that has been .com only, the brandable boutique has never listed any other extensions on their website before. They have done a deal with the company behind Register.ly and are releasing about 230 premium .ly names into the BrandBucket marketplace — some valued as high as $120k. Again these names are the first names on the site that are not .com.
Here is the press release:
BrandBucket (www.brandbucket.com) and Libyan Spider (www.libyanspider.com), the technology company behind Register.ly, are partnering to offer an exclusive collection of high-value domain names. Names such as social.ly, month.ly and pub
Hadi Naser, the Founder and CEO of Libyan Spider, was invited to become a BrandBucket Ambassador based on his strong portfolio of domain names and strong ties to the domain name industry. “After exploring options with other domain aftermarkets, I am happy to be working with BrandBucket because of their established customer base of entrepreneurs and proven track record of selling into the startup community,” said Mr. Naser.
BrandBucket Ambassadors are afforded special perks, resources and budgets to help them promote their portfolios and help represent BrandBucket’s ever-growing collection of available business names. The BrandBucket Ambassador program is by invite only, and ambassadors are selected for their quality domain portfolios and for their ability to represent BrandBucket to future customers and partners.
“While our marketplace previously was exclusively .com domain names, we are excited about incorporating this strong collection of .ly names in order to provide more choices for our buyers seeking premium brands,” said Margot Bushnaq, Founder of BrandBucket. “Creative, alternative extensions to .com domains are becoming more accepted by new companies seeking a memorable, descriptive web address, and we want to provide these types of names that our customers are demanding.”
Am surprised they want to this route and add .ly. How about me and co ?
I wasn’t going to leave a comment but I can’t stand when I see my name listed with a comment that I didn’t make. These blog systems need to be updated where only one name can be used per blog. If Todd is being used then the next person would have to add another letter like ToddG or RaymondH. To be able to post multiple comments under the same name between different people is ridiculous.
Here is what I think about Brand Bucket listing .ly names on their site. This comment was posted on Namepros
“It just proves the point that BB is doing anything and everything possible to make sales. Why don’t they show Sold names anymore? Why isn’t the name you just got listed there on the front page? If it’s not on the front page at least for a little while your chances of selling the name go way down.”
“I have said for many months that BB is hurting and that is why they are doing site upgrades and accepting less quality names etc…. This proves it. Social.ly at $120,000, Free.ly at $70,000. I’m probably going to pull my names. The only person that sells names on BB anymore is Michael Krell. He has over 600 names listed with only about 20 sales. That’s about 3% in sales of what he gets listed. So basically for every 30 names you list you may sell 1. That’s not a very good percentage especially since the names have to be exclusive to BB only.”
Was that a joke ? You believe you have the worldwide rights to the name Todd, if wordpress had such a system, you are probably not the first person to use Todd, so why don’t you use your last name or last initial ?
Thanks, I have not lol’ed that hard in a long time
“you are probably not the first person to use Todd, so why don’t you use your last name or last initial ?”
I read every blog in domaining and I see every comment made and I know that I am the only one using the name Todd. It’s not the most common name. So it’s odd that I see my name here again making a comment in a Niche that I follow closely.
I also assumed that the blog software didn’t allow multiple people to use the same name. How would a conversation sound if everyone posted as John? If forum software doesn’t allow multiple users to have the same name than why does blog software allow it?
I can say you’re not the very first person to ever comment on my blog that was named Todd wayback there was someone named Todd that left a comment when all I did was write about.tv. I get what you are saying but this is not a forum where you register Disqus is a commenting system you register, of course if a blog uses Facebook or Twitter well then that’s going to be unique but with the basic comments that come with every blog no one has to register you can’t have anything unique if people don’t register.
I do know of that Todd from reading your archives. I always assumed that blog software was more advanced.
Regardless I still think it’s a bad move for Brand Bucket to start selling these names. As soon as a brandable boutique starts selling alternate extensions it then gives every extension that is not dot com credibility.
If .CO started getting more and more credibility than why would someone pay $2,500 for my brandable dot com when they can register the same name in .CO for 20 bucks.
When brandable sites start accepting these names they are basically saying that alternate extensions are OK to use. That’s not good for selling $2,500 brandable names. They are basically taking themselves out to pasture and shooting themselves.
Oh yeah Todd I get your point, but with no one registered, if someone leaves a comment and just their first name, there is not much I can do, if I add their last initial they may say, “you violated my privacy” So without registration this is a problem. For example because I know a couple of them, its not always the same Richard leaving a comment here.
I just read the back and forth with you and Margot on Namepros. I like Margot but I don’t understand downplaying the home page, if it was not valuable sites would not sell feature listings.
An interesting move, it is after all to be used for branding purposes so no harm in adding others if it makes sense.