What is your top marketplace and why? (1.Viewing)

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Atom was working for me, but then they made a lot of changes and a lot of them were either AI flash-n-dash or functionality updates that went 1-step forward, 2-steps back.

For example, I used to really like their negotiation system, but after a major update, I'm not even sure what's going on anymore. There is almost a total lack of updates and even when you agree to an offer, there is no indication of a pending sale. And I'm far from the only one to complain about this.
 
Most of my domains point to my own lander. I have about 200 at DomainEasy which is a pretty simple set up and apparently is still active - I haven't seen them report any major sales in social media but they responded when I contacted them this week. Then I have a handful of domains at Saw and just yesterday added a few to Atom to try it out. Was pretty impressed with the Atom backend, they automatically create a nice looking sales page with their AI - along with a domain logo and description that I thought was pretty good. Can't say anything about experiencing the sales process at Saw or Atom yet, hopefully soon though.

Seems like Atom is a place where domain buyers go to brainstorm to look for domains, so that would mean getting a sale from someone that never would have visited your domain if it wasn't there.
 
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Seems like Atom is a place where domain buyers go to brainstorm to look for domains, so that would mean getting a sale from someone that never would have visited your domain if it wasn't there.
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Yeah, except Atom tries everything in their power to make sure your listing doesn't show up unless you're paying for a listing.

For example, search for "ranger". Even "arranger.ca" is listed before "ranger.ca". You'd think exact matches (different TLDs) would all be listed before the countless ranger{this} and {that}ranger matches.

Now search for "prosper". If you search without quotes, prosper.ca never shows up (at least not in the first 40 pages of results, which includes mostly junk that doesn't even have the word prosper in it.

Now search for "prosper" with the quotes. Now their results only shows domains with the word prosper actually in it. Now there are 4 pages of results, and prosper.ca isn't one of them.

Now search for "prosper.ca". The only way it shows up is if the user does an exact match search for prosper.ca.

Now search for a substring of prosper, such as "rosper.ca" with the quotes. ProsperCapital.co is the only result. Not even the right tld! And how does that not match prosper.ca ?

The only explanation is that Atom does anything and everything they can to ensure your unpaid listing doesn't show up.
 
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I have less than 10 names on each of Saw and Atom, mix of .ca and .com. Will just see how it goes. Has been pretty slow this year whether I use my own lander or marketplaces, so figure why not try to see how it goes - see what features they offer. Their incentive is to sell domains and get commissions. On Atom the base commission is 7.5% which gets you the lander and some minimal exposure, then 15% gets you some extra promotion on the site. The top tier seems to be a range of 15 - 30% which is even more exposure. I've listed mine in the two lower tiers, 15% is the max I'd want to go in a commission.
 
I'm not willing to pay 7.5% for just a landing page, I can do that for free and keep my own leads for free. To earn any commission from me, your platform has to bring_me the lead or you don't deserve a commission. Period. So to expect to collect a 7.5% commission on a zero effort, automated listing, they should at least show the domain in user search results.

I'm not paying a commission on my own leads, so I'll never point my traffic to a platform lander. When a GoDaddy broker approaches me, at least i know they actually brought me the lead because I don't use their landers. And their brokers are doing the manual leg work. At least they're earning their commission.

From what I see, Atom isn't doing anything to earn a 7.5% commission on a basic listing. If anything, they're doing everything to avoid it.
 
The trick is to get onto as many marketplaces as you can while maintaining your lander. They find it on marketplace and you sell it on your lander.

As long as you have the marketplaces at "make offer" instead of bin this works. In the end a potential client will come to your lander even though he found it on a marketplace. I know I love dealing directly with the domain owner.

BODIS probably does it the best, it's a simple form and that's it. I prefer to use them without the parking but worry they may eventually ban me because I only use their forms and not ANY parking. I usually keep my domains there when I don't want anyone to know that MapleDots owns it. A lot of domainers do that because it's about as generic as it gets and you have the ultimate control with no commission.
 
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Yeah, except Atom tries everything in their power to make sure your listing doesn't show up unless you're paying for a listing.

For example, search for "ranger". Even "arranger.ca" is listed before "ranger.ca". You'd think exact matches (different TLDs) would all be listed before the countless ranger{this} and {that}ranger matches.

Now search for "prosper". If you search without quotes, prosper.ca never shows up (at least not in the first 40 pages of results, which includes mostly junk that doesn't even have the word prosper in it.

Now search for "prosper" with the quotes. Now their results only shows domains with the word prosper actually in it. Now there are 4 pages of results, and prosper.ca isn't one of them.

Now search for "prosper.ca". The only way it shows up is if the user does an exact match search for prosper.ca.

Now search for a substring of prosper, such as "rosper.ca" with the quotes. ProsperCapital.co is the only result. Not even the right tld! And how does that not match prosper.ca ?

The only explanation is that Atom does anything and everything they can to ensure your unpaid listing doesn't show up.
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Interesting I will have to check this out, are all the domains in the previous 40 pages all paid listings?
 
I don't have enough domains to really have a great objective opinion, I have sold 3 domains on Atom and all transactions went through with out issue. Mine are all basic/standard listings. The fee's are I think some of the lowest for basic tier.

I find a lot of issues with the platform and not sure if that is because of my standard listings, but I don't receive any buyer info, It's not "my lead" which should be a deal breaker, all the analytics they have is spotty and inconsistent, they could capture so much more info and pass it on to the seller. They have had a *Alert Alert: Due to heavy traffic, we have temporarily limited the processing of analytics data. Therefore, visits and shortlists may not be accurate. on the site for over a year and a lot of my data in the dashboard is skewed.

I have had my names on Afternic for years and only seem to get inquiries a month before my domain is set to expire... 🤔 I have used godaddy, efty, unregistry, epik Saw and so far Atom has been the most successful for me.

Im not set / stuck or loyal to any just trying to find one that offers the most eyes on my names. I think it boils down to how people find your names, if someone is just shopping around for a good name in a niche and uses a platform to see available names then i think Atom / Godaddy etc are great in some ways but if you have a buyer looking for your exact name they will type it directly into google and the platforms in this case may just hurt your sales?
 
I use Afternic, been working well for me for ~10 years. But I have been testing a few at Spaceship and like what I see. They seem very quick and receptive to change requests.

Always wanted to use my own lander, but never got around to it. Can anyone share their self-hosted Landers as example? I've seen MapleDots @MapleDots examples and like what I see. Curious to see others if you don't mind sharing
 
don’t forget a commission isn’t a complete loss from a sale. let’s say I make a sale and pay a $1000 commission. for me depending on the year, if I’d been able to keep that $1000 commission then 35 to 50% of it would be going to taxes, so the loss in what I get to keep is really $500 to $650. sure it’s still a forgone amount but not a full $1000 ‘loss’. it would be different for everyone based on your tax level and if you sell domains for yourself or within a company. as a company I’d imagine the tax burden could be made less.

the government probably prefers everyone to sell on their own landers and get the full sale taxable 😃
 

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