As BrandBucket Nears 20,000 Names A look at some recent sales and other data

BrandBucket is approaching 20,000 names listed on the site, the company put out its first sellers newsletter 12 days ago which gave a peek into what things look like on the sales front.

July Sales
What started as a normal July ended as one of our better months to date. Keywords and pure brandables were almost evenly split with 51% of the sales being keyword domains and 49% being invented names. 54% of the keyword sales were made up of two word combinations, another 27% that sold consisted of a root word with a common ending added such as ly, sy, za, etc. The remaining 19% were alternate spellings of dictionary words and other prefix/ending combinations. It is probably no surprise that shorter is better for the invented domain sales with the average character length being 6.

Top Searches
The biggest mover is definitely “metro”, which hasn’t been anywhere near this high in the past. We’ve seen a few urban/city names sell, so it appears this search is leading to some nice sales. The other 14 search terms have stayed pretty consistent over the last few months.

Big Sales
Over the last three months we have made some great sales including the 6-figure sale of Responsive.com, and several 5-figure sales of LLLL.coms and generic keyword names. If you have any premium generics, or any pronounceable 4 letter names, please send them our way!

Commission Junction Deactivated
We have stopped the use of Commission Junction and are currently working on a better affiliate solution. We will update you once a new system has been implemented.

Finally, this is a great time to push through any names that are currently in progress. Our publishing queue has been optimized over the last two months, and your name will go through editorial and logo design very quickly. It’s also a good time since we experience stronger sales in the second half of the year, once summer wraps up. It’s not too early to start thinking about having a few extra bucks when Christmas rolls around!

The BrandBucket experience thread on Namepros is an active discussion of all things BrandBucket. In that thread Michael Krell and a few others have reported names they have sold. There are no sales figures but you at least get to see what kind of names have recently sold. Here is recent list over the last few months, most of these are Michael Krell’s names.

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