Company seeks market share with low commissions.
Domain name registrar Sav has launched a new marketplace for domain investors to sell domains through for-sale landing pages.
The company has two key selling points for its marketplace: low commissions and an optimized lander.
Sav charges just 4% of the sales price, effectively giving the service away for free when you consider credit card payment processing fees. Compare this to 7.5% for Squadhelp and 9% for DAN.com. (It’s worth noting that neither Squadhelp nor Sav currently protect against chargebacks. Sav founder Anthos Chrysanthou said the company is looking to guarantee payments in the future.)
Sav says it tested landers across hundreds of thousands of domains and one (pictured) stood out from the rest of the pack in terms of conversion rates.
Domain investors need to apply to join the beta. I signed up today to test it and found it very simple to use. Note that all domains must be priced.
Sav has made inroads into the domain investor community since launching last year. Key selling points include low registration fees, free SSL, and no-fee backordering. The low-commission sales option should help it attract more domain name investors.
Samer Faragalla says
Great! Call when Sav in Afternic, Sedo MLS; and clarify DAN status.
It seemed like these where in beta forever.
They also need to clean some things up with auctions;
https://www.namepros.com/threads/sav-auctions-advice-dont-bid-against-user-s_n.1197400/
Samer
Andrew Allemann says
I know they’re in SedoMLS now and I think Afternic is coming really soon.
Samer says
Thanks, Andrew! Look forward to afternic; Didnt know; further than i thought!
Samer
Yakov says
As I predicted, the industry is moving towards 1% comission structure. I guess Escrow.com or Epik.com will roll out 1% commission landers which will cover their Escrow services.
Pete says
It looks like they just copied the lander design from “hundreds of thousands” of DAN’s lander.
Compare the lander for the mentioned civilforfeiture.com (SAV) with snd.me (DAN)
Observer says
Who cares?
There is nothing patentable or proprietary about these landers.
Observer says
Let them copy each other to death…It’s all generic web flow which no one has any exclusive rights to.
Peter says
No HTTPS on the domain landings???
Observer says
For what benefit?
No sensitive information is being collected from the landing page, so it’s a no-value added layer.
All the sensitive information is being collected via a link to Sav.com which has the HTTPS.
Just because DAN.COM does it doesn’t mean you should be fooled into thinking it’s somehow an essential feature because it’s not.
Kalyan says
SSL landers creates trust to users and chrome is flagging non-ssl pages for safety. Having SSL might do good imho.
JoeB says
All of these are the same and I’d rather pay 0% by using efty or domainagents. Or you can do your own.
Andrew Allemann says
You’re still paying something for payment processing.