Tag Archives: expired

Fri 3rd April 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How To Play a Expired Domain Game in 2009 - A practical guide to profiting from expired domain names in 2009. Because of the economy and faltering parking revenue, you should expect to see more domain names expiring and dropping in 2009 and 2010. Most of these added drops will be of low or mediocre quality, but some of them will be worth backordering. To new comers, buying expired domains can be somewhat daunting. But in many ways it’s easier now than in the days of many competing services slamming the ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2009
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Survey: Which Expired Domain Name Service is Best? - Aha! That “novel” wasn’t submitted for some reason! Luckily I saved it before I clicked “submit”. But some editing was lost, so please be forgiving. Here it is, again: +++++ H*ll yes, I will choose Snapnames first over any of the others. Reasons? For Dub-A, I will come out of my normally shy and quiet demeanor, and be uncharacteristically blunt: 1) Snapnames has consistently run a well-managed expiring domain service for at least four years (although they’ve been around ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2009
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What Should Domain Registrars Do with Expired Domain Names? - Perhaps letting domain registrars do as they please is OK. For the 2009 Domain Name Wire Survey I added a new option for the most important factors when selecting a domain registrar: what they do with expired domains. With all the commotion over what domain registrars do when domains expire (e.g. GoDaddy and Tucows), I wondered if this affected peoples’ decisions about which registrar to use. Apparently not; it was ranked the least important factor when choosing ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2009
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Tucows Signs Up To $1.8M Expired Domain Name Deal - Domain name registrar signs deal to sell expired domain names to third party. This is a follow-up to Domain Name Wire’s report this morning about Tucows (AMEX: TCX) selling a $1 million portfolio of domain names and entering into an agreement to sell up to $1.8 million in domains to the same entity over the next 18 months. As the previous article mentioned, the latter is some sort of expired domain deal. On the same day it announced the $1.8 million deal, Tucows ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2009
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Tucows Inks Expired Domains Deal with NameJet - NameJet now has three of top four domain registrars on its platform. Starting today, NameJet is the exclusive sales channel for domain names expiring from domain name registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX). NameJet is now the exclusive provider of inventory from three of the top four domain name registrars: eNom, Tucows, and Network Solutions. Tucows previously had a deal with Afternic.com for expired domains. But Afternic was never set up to process expired domain names ... read more ...
Wed 14th January 2009
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SnapNames Awarded Domain Backordering Patent - Company awarded divisional patent covering business of expired domains and domain monitoring. Expired domain name service SnapNames, a subsidiary of Oversee.net, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,472,160, covering a broad array of expired domain services. The patent is a divisional patent filing that continues several filings made by the company earlier this decade. Among the areas of invention covered include: Domain monitoring and acquisition – monitoring ... read more ...
Wed 7th January 2009
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FreshDrop Analyzes a Numbers on Expired Domains - Service helps you find good expiring domains. Expired domain catchers sift through reams of data to find the best expiring domains. Over the past couple months I’ve been test driving what may be the best data source for finding high quality expiring domains for the price: FreshDrop. FreshDrop provides a searchable, easy-to-use interface for finding domains that meet your criteria. Looking for domains on TDNAM in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Pinyin, Turkish, ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2008
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GoDaddy Changes Expired Domain Pricing - In response to Standard Tactics coverage, GoDaddy has changed starting bids on TDNAM auctions. Last week I mentioned that GoDaddy was making a change to its TDNAM auctions based on some of my commentary on Standard Tactics. In my commentary I had suggested that, by setting minimum bid prices higher than the standard $10 bid price, GoDaddy was effectively bidding against its customers on TDNAM. In response, GoDaddy has changed how it prices expired domains. All domains ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2008
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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 ...
Thu 28th August 2008
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SnapNames Down Again - Expired domain and domain auction platform hit by outage. Domain name auction site SnapNames is unavailable again, marking at least the 4th major outage this summer. A notice on the company’s web site for at least the past hour reads “The SnapNames site is temporarily unavailable. We’re sorry for this brief inconvenience. Please try again in a few minutes”. The first time I noticed the outage was shortly after the scheduled conclusion of the Search Engine ... 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 ...
Mon 7th July 2008
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SnapNames Back Online After Weekend Outage - Domain auctions scheduled for weekend will end starting July 8. Domain auction service SnapNames is back online after a weekend outage. The site went down starting last Thursday at 10:30 PM EDT and just went live again within the past half hour. Fortunately for SnapNames it was a holiday weekend, so some buyers were probably on the lake rather than in front of the computer (but perhaps SnapNames’ web team was on vacation too). The company is rescheduling auctions ... read more ...
Thu 3rd July 2008
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Recap: Domain Name Auction Firestorm - Here’s a look back at the firestorm that hit domain auctions over the past two weeks. It’s been a busy week at Domain Name Wire. And perhaps a busier week for GoDaddy. Here’s a run down of what took place and what it means for the industry. It all started when a reader tipped me off to a thread at NamePros. The thread started out benign and was simply about the number of .us domain names going through auction at GoDaddy’s TDNAM and the high prices they ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2008
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OVT Matcher Software Releases Upgraded Version - Tool for finding domain names with traffic releases improvements. OVT Matcher, a tool that automatically checks lists of domain names for “Overture Scores” from January, February, and March 2007 has released an upgrade. (See OVT Matcher Makes Finding Expired Domains a Snap). In the previous version, users had to manually download expiring domain lists from companies such as SnapNames. That is now automated, as well as a number of other improvements: – Import ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and Pool Explain Employee Policies for Bidding - Sedo has strict policy on domain speculation, Pool outlines rules. [If you have arrived on this article from Slashdot, NoDaddy, etc., you may wish to see how this all started with GoDaddy.] Many people (63 comments and counting) have commented on Domain Name Wire’s article about GoDaddy letting its employees bid on domain name auctions on its site. Several readers e-mailed requests for information on other companies’ policies. Here’s what I’ve found: Sedo ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2008
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Expired Domain Services Let Employees Bid Against Customers - Two of the major services let employees compete with domainers. [Note: See update at bottom of article.] Earlier today a reader tipped me off to a discussion at NamePros about GoDaddy’s TDNAM service. Apparently GoDaddy VP (and owner of DNForum) Adam Dicker won a couple auctions for domains through the service. Dicker runs the aftermarket service. The reader was surprised that GoDaddy let its employees bid against its customers and push bid prices up: These employees ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2008
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Tucows to Auction Expiring Domain Names during Afternic - Registrar opts for Afternic platform for expiring domain names. When domain registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX) recently announced they were shutting down their in-house expiring domain platform, there was speculation where they would send their domains. (Although Tucows had an auction platform, it also sold domain names through SnapNames). We now know the answer: Tucows is sending expiring domains to Afternic. Afternic will add the domains to its auction system alongside ... read more ...
 
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Tucows and Afternic Deal Q&A - Bill Sweetman of Tucows answers questions about its deal with Name Media’s Afternic. After today’s announcement that Tucows (AMEX: TCX) is sending expired domain names to Afternic, there were a couple lingering questions. I asked Bill Sweetman, General Manager – Domain Portfolio at Tucows to fill in the gaps. Domain Name Wire: With SnapNames and NameJet the dominant players in expired domains, pulling in higher bid prices than other platforms, what made you ... read more ...
Mon 19th May 2008
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GoDaddy TDNAM Starts “Buy Now” Expired Domain Auctions - Expired domain auctions now have option to buy domains immediately. GoDaddy’s domain name aftermarket TDNAM has added a new wrinkle to its expired domain auctions. Bidders can now buy expired domain names immediately instead of bidding. Once someone bids on a domain, the “buy now” option goes away. The “buy now” option is not available on all expired domain auctions, and appears to only be on auctions with starting prices of $20 or more. The “buy now” ... 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 7th May 2008
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Survey: SnapNames Still King of Expired Domain Names - Despite a turbulent year, SnapNames is still #1 for expired domains. 37% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s third annual domain survey use SnapNames more often than other expired domain catching services. This is the third year in a row that SnapNames had led the charts, despite a very challenging year for the service. After being acquired by Oversee.net, SnapNames lost key registrars Network Solutions and eNom. The two registrars formed a competing drop catcher ... 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 ...