The winning bidder of the iWire.com domain name is trying to sell the domain name before paying for it. The “buyer” won the domain in a Snapnames auction on the 19th of October for $7,777. …
Read More »World Domain Day Auction On Snapnames: Journalists.com, OKU.com, Babysitters.org
The first World Domain Day conference started on Sunday the 24th August at the Avasa Hotel, High Tech City, Hyderbad, India and ends today but Snapnames auction is under way and ends tomorrow. WDD (World …
Read More »New Spam/Scam Email Targeting Snapnames and An Auction Ending Today
I got an email today that looked a bit suspicious at first glance. The email was send by a Gmail address (snapnamez@gmail.com) and the name was listed as “Domain Auction”. The subject was “LLLL Premium …
Read More »Domain names caught by a SnapNames registrar will be managed by Network Solutions (.COM renewals at $9.59)
SnapNames announced today that all domain names that are acquired at SnapNames, through a SnapNames registrar credential, will now be managed through the Network Solutions interface. Snapnames and Network Solutions are sister companies, both owned …
Read More »Important Information Regarding the Recent Sale of SnapNames to Web.com
Moniker send an email containing some information regarding the recent sale of Snapnames to Web.com. Moniker will continue to work with SnapNames as in the past and the usual business will not be interrupted for …
Read More »Web.com Announces Acquisition of SnapNames
Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. SnapNames is a leader in the daily online …
Read More »WARNING with Register.com / Snapnames expiring domains!
A warning was posted at the popular domain name forum NamePros.com from user “werty” about how register.com and snapnames.com treat expiring domains. Werty claims that he won a domain name auction at Snapnames for an …
Read More »My 4-figure domain name purchases in 2013
Here is a list of my 4 figure domain name purchases in 2013. The purchases were for expired or dropped domains and also directly from the domain name owners using an escrow service. Some of …
Read More »Namejet – Snapnames: 2 auction cancellations – 2 different approaches
In the past few days I learned that 2 domain name auctions that I had won were cancelled. And this was not the usual Go Daddy cancelled auction we all know and love. One was …
Read More »SnapNames Launches .CO.UK and .CN Domain Backorders and Auctions
SnapNames announced today that .CO.UK and .CN domain names are now available for drop-catching through its online marketplace. .CO.UK and .CN are the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions. Here …
Read More »Moniker/Snapnames auction sells 31 domains worth a total of $30,877: StumpRemoval.com $11,770
The Moniker/Snapnames premium spring auction sells 31 domains worth a total of $30,877. There were 168 other domains that didn’t get the reserve such as kx.net $8,500, ylq.com $5,250, yogaclasses.com $10,250, 20.net $10,000, so.net $10,000, vivas.com …
Read More »Moniker and Snapnames are down
Both Moniker and Snapnames websites are not responding at the moment. I was trying to backorder a domain and when that failed I remembered I wanted to renew some of my expiring domains at Moniker. …
Read More »SnapNames gets to auction expiring domains from DomainMonster.com, 123-reg, Heart Internet
SnapNames announced their newest partner, the Host Europe Group and their family of registrars including 123-reg, Heart Internet and Domainmonster.com. Founded in 1997, Host Europe Group (with over 1 million customers) provides domain registration, mass …
Read More »Is Snapnames getting desperate?
On November Snapnames started making charges for “catching” unregistered domains for a $69 fee. The result was that a lot of Snapnames customers were charged for forgotten domains in their accounts with one user being …
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