Tag Archives: expired domains

Tue 21st October 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domaining.com Launching Expiring Domain Liquidation Service - Popular site offers way to liquidate domain names you no longer want. Last month I wrote about how I was trimming some unwanted domain names from my portfolio. A couple people emailed to ask which domains so they could buy them from me cheap. That’s great, but also an inefficient process. Popular domain blog aggregation site Domaining.com is launching a new service to solve this problem. Here’s how it works: 1. Submit list of domain names expiring within 15-60 ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2008
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Afilias Accidentally Deletes .Info Domains from RGP - Registry for .info takes back domains mistakenly dropped. .Info registry Afilias accidentally deleted some of the domain names that were in the redemption grace period this past weekend. Some of the domains were snapped up by new registrants and from backorders, but those people had the domains rescinded. Afilias released the following statement to Domain Name Wire: “This weekend a limited number of names were inadvertantly released from RGP. Afilias has rescinded ... read more ...
Tue 16th September 2008
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Deadbeat Bidder during NameJet? Just Pay Ten Bucks. - Are expired domain auction services doing enough to deal with deadbeat bidders? Expired domain auctions can get very competitive. But often times the winning bidder never makes the payment, sending the domain back to auction and wasting everyone’s time, not to mention increasing the total prices winners pay. That’s the case with one NameJet bidder that a reader tipped Domain Name Wire off to. This bidder — “jerry” — defaulted on over $13,000 of domain ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2008
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SnapNames Outage Continues - Service has been down since Saturday evening. Regular users of the SnapNames expired domain marketplace are experiencing their third outage of the past several weeks. The company says it will not return online until tomorrow. The company cites a third part vendor for the outage: We recognize this is the third outage for our service within the last several weeks. The problem is related to one of our vendors’ systems, unfortunately, and our team has been working ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2008
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How GoDaddy Domain Name Backorders Work - Backorders are only effective on domains not registered at GoDaddy. Before GoDaddy launched its domain name aftermarket TDNAM, I used to backorder a number of domains from the registrar. They were fairly good at grabbing expired domains, especially non-.coms. But then the company started sending its own expired domains to auction at TNDAM, which seems to conflict with placing a backorder. I placed a backorder a couple months ago for a domain at GoDaddy that was ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2008
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Ever Get a “Domain Name Break”? - Have you ever felt like you got really lucky on a domain name purchase? Competition for domain names at auctions can be intense, especially expired domain auctions at SnapNames. Have you ever scored a domain at auction that you feel was really undervalued? You couldn’t believe it when other bidders stopped bidding, as you kept refreshing the screen to make sure no one else snuck in a bid at the last second? I had that wonderful feeling last week. But the story ... read more ...
Mon 14th April 2008
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Man Gets Lucky, Then Dispenses Bad Advice - Domain name owner thinks he got his web site back because he was savvy. He just go lucky. I came across a blog post by Zack Katz titled “How I got my domain name back from cyber squatters“. In a fit of stupidity, Katz let his domain name expire to make it easier to transfer to another “host”: I was given the domain zackkatz.com for my 17th birthday by my mom…I owned the domain (and let it stagnate) until around 2006, when I wanted to switch hosts. I waited ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2008
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How to Buy Expired Domains during Afternic - Afternic’s new expired domain service provides opportunity to get expired domains without much competition. Expired domain catchers that are tired of bidding wars at SnapNames and NameJet may want to check out Afternic’s expired domain auctions. I first wrote about the new service in December, but domains finally started going to auction in late January. Much like other services, Afternic expired auctions require you to preorder domain names. I preordered a ... read more ...