Sapphire Marketplace: A New Destination for The Best Non-.Com Domains (2.Viewing)

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What Is the Sapphire Marketplace?​

Sapphire is a groundbreaking marketplace designed exclusively for single-English-word domains with alternative extensions. We’ve created a space where these domains can shine, offering:

Read more: Introducing Sapphire Marketplace: A New Destination for The Best Non-.Com Domains

Yup, just what we need, a way to make Atom even more complex

This platform has zero appeal to me, too many menus, too complex, too cluttered, convoluted listing process.

Tried it, was turned off by it pretty fast.

Yeah it has so many bells and whistles. They need to tone it down.

Sapphire supports .ca now. Before you can add Market Exposure to .ca domain and it only ran retargetted ads. With the Plus exposure, they'll run ads to promote the domain.

https://www.atom.com/sapphire/all/tld/.Ca

MapleDots said:

Yup, just what we need, a way to make Atom even more complex

This platform has zero appeal to me, too many menus, too complex, too cluttered, convoluted listing process.

Tried it, was turned off by it pretty fast.

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I was thinking of adding my domains there, but I did some searches and found it totally useless. Put in a word and you get a pile of "Premium" garbage being foisted on you, while a lot of the more relevant non-premium options remain hidden. It's Boost on steroids.

I can't imagine any buyer actually using their search engine, and I doubt they have much intrinsic traffic. It's just more flashing lights, bells & whistles, and naturally more surcharges and higher commissions, to lure in the foolish and weak-minded.

The only way I would ever use Atom is at the "no frills" 7.5% commission rate just for a lander.

I remember you saying no to web hosting and your own landers.

You pay 7.5% only once and your hosting would have been paid for many times over.

For me, my own landers have consistently yielded the highest gains and the most control over customer information.

MapleDots said:

For me, my own landers have consistently yielded the highest gains and the most control over customer information.

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For me it's a question of free time and the amount of effort it would take. It's no small chore to be changing gears like this with a semi-large portfolio, and right now I just can't devote the time. And it's not the cost of hosting as I already have hosting accounts, including Enterprise at WHC. It's more the logistics of it and the block of time I'd need to set aside to make it happen.

I still plan to do this, as it's the only viable end game. Until then, I need to deal with marketplaces and their inherent costs.