Tag Archives: snapnames

Thu 2nd July 2015
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Projects.com Sells for $87,550 On SnapNames.com - The expired domain name auction for Projects.com just ended at Snapnames with  the domain name selling for $87,550. The winner bidder has the ID of: qursan There were 5 bidders at $80,000 or more including the winning bidder. We wrote about the auction when it started on Monday. There were 196 bidders in the domain auction.     ... read more ...
Mon 29th June 2015
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Projects.com Drops To SnapNames & Is Over $20K Only 1 Hour Into The Auction - The domain name Projects.com just dropped and went to Snapnames.com closed auction about an hour ago and already has already topped $20,000. The domain name expired on April 11, 2015. The domain was registered under privacy at Fabulous.com. The last registered owner of the domain was Merlin Kauffman of True Magic in 2014. I cannot find a reported sale of the domain name, which if it sold in the aftermarket, I would assume sold in the six figures. Estibot.com has the domain name Projects.com valued ... read more ...
Fri 10th April 2015
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SnapNames Is Holding Auction of 36 Registry Owned .Yoga Domain Names - SnapNames.com is holding an auction of  36 .Yoga domain names. About 1/2 the domain names have a reserve range price of $1k or less. Many are at no reserve and only one domain has a high range reserve of $2,500 All of the 36 .Yoga domain names are owned by the registry, Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). The auction closes on May 4th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. As of publication one domain, Practice.yoga has a bid,  but has not hit reserve. Here is the entire ... read more ...
Thu 5th February 2015
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Today's The Day: RightoftheDot Extended Auction From Namescon Ends Today On Snapnames - The extended auction held by RightoftheDot at the Namescon conference ends today on Snapnames.com at 3:15 PM EST. As of publication 10 domain names have hit reserve and will sell led by Tamales.com which has a high bid of 12,000 The live auction at Namescon did just under $1 Million in domain name sales. There are two bids on 877.com with a high bid of $235,000 but is below reserve. With this years sale of 345.com for $800K and the $17 Million dollar blockbuster sale of 360.com should make all three ... read more ...
Tue 3rd February 2015
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My Top Picks From The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon - The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescom conference is running on Snapnames.com and closed out on Thursday at 3:15pm EST according to the normal closing rules for Snapnames.com As of publication 19 domain names have bids. Here are my favorite domain names in the auction;  Those I think are the best buys: Photographers.com Its a category killer A Huge category with 10,200,000 results on Google for the term. This is a developed website and all content is available for purchase as well. The ... read more ...
Wed 28th January 2015
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Estibot Values RightoftheDot.com Extended Namescon Auction At Over $13 Million Dollars - The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference is ongoing on Snapnames.com and ends on February 5th which is a week from tomorrow. I ran the list of the domain names included in the extended auction through Estibot and the total value of the inventory came to over $13 Million dollars All domains were led by Investment.com which makes sense since invest.com recently sold for over $5 Million and investing.com sold a couple of years ago for $2.5 Million Auctions which is certainly ... read more ...
Tue 20th January 2015
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Land.com Gets A $850K Bid In RightoftheDot Extended Domain Auction: Now Over $1.1M In Bids - The domain name Land.com has gotten a verified bid of $850,000 in the RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference running on SnapNames.com The domain has a stated reserve of $1M-5MM but the fact that Snapnames.com took the bid means by its own rules than the bid represents at least 50% of the actual reserve price. There is now over $1.1 million dollars in bids. The auction does not close on SnapNames.com until February 5th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames.com normal ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2015
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The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon is Live On Snapnames.com - The extended RightoftheDot.com auction is now live on Snapnames and there is already almost $250,000 in bids. As you know by now almost $1 million dollars in domains were sold on Tuesday at the Namescon show in Las Vegas. There are over 300 domain names in the extended auction that will close on February 5th at 3:15 pm EST subject to Snapnames.com normal closing rules. The extended auction includes the 40 or so  domain names that didn’t sell in the live auction along with over 250 new domain names ... read more ...
Thu 13th November 2014
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SnapNames.com End of Year Auction Closes Today: Won.com $90K Bid; Hi.Net $25K - The SnapNames.com End of Year domain name auction closes today at 3:15 EST under snapnames normal closing rules. There are 179 domain names in the auction. As of publication 17 of the 179 domain names have a bid. The domain name Won.com leads all bids with $90,000 however is still below the reserve range of $100,000-$250,000 Hi.net has the next highest bid at $25,000 but also has not hit reserve which is between $25K-$50K Here are all the domain names in the auction with the current bids as of publication:     Domain ... read more ...
Wed 8th October 2014
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.NYC Says Over 10K Landrush Applications Were Received For Domain Names - AdAge.com just published a post covering today’s .NYC launch into general availability.  Its just one of many publications that have covered New York City big day but a quote from the story caught my eye. AdAge updated their story for a correction: CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said more than 100,000 people signed up for a .nyc domain. More than 10,000 people signed up. In total there are about 50 founders representing a diverse group of people and organizations across the city. ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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In Auction At Snap: Gynecologist.com & Obstetrician.com: Is Moniker Pulling A Tucows? -             There are two great bang on medical domain names in closed auctions at Snapnames.com, Gynecologist.com Obstetrician.com More about the auctions in a few, but the history of the domain names may indicate that Moniker has gone the way of Tucows and is picking up expired domains for its own account and then selling them instead of letting the simply drop. The domain name Gynecologist.com was owned by a a company called IDEAS, Inc. out of Saddle River New Jersey on August 9th, with ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
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Snapnames BuyDomains Auction Ends Today; 17 Domains Out of 153 Have Bids - Snapnames.com’s online auction of domain names owned by BuyDomains.com ends today at 3:15Pm EST in accordance with Snapnames normal closing rules As of publication 17 of the 153 domain names have a bid but only 2 of the domain have hit reserve and will sell. The highest bid at the moment is on EOB.com at $13K and Hikers.com at $12,500 but reserve has not been met on either. Here are the domain names in the auction with the high bids (if any) as of publication along with the reserve ranges.   hikers.com $12,500 $10,001 ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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SnapNames Holding 4 Themed Auctions, All Ending On Sep 4th + 2 More - Snapnames.com is holding 4 themed domain auctions all of which are live and all of which end on  September 4th. The verticals at auction are Insurance, Legal Service, Real Estate, and Accounting. As of publication of the hundreds of domains in these auction only 2 have bids. All auctions close on September 4th at 3:15Pm in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. In addition to these auctions,  Snapnames is also holding a BuyDomains.com auction which closes on August 26th which has bids ... read more ...
Wed 23rd July 2014
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GreatDomains and SnapNames auctions finish tomorrow - Several domain name auctions end tomorrow, including two online-only auctions. The big fireworks may come from the Heritage Auctions domain name auction tomorrow, but there are two other auctions ending as well. Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction concludes tomorrow at 12:00 pm EDT. So far three domain names have hit their reserves, including the head-scratcher LosAngeles.de at 3,000 EUR. The two letter domain name BL.com has been bid up to $172,500, which is below ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2014
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Over $300K In Bids The Snapnames.com Spring Premium Auction Closes Thursday - The Snapnames.com Spring Premium domain name Auction closes tomorrow on Thursday May 8th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames closing rules. As of publication there are over $300,000 in bids placed with the highest bid being on Airline.com at $170,000.  The domain name Airline.com has a reserve range of $250K- $500K so it has not hit reserve as of yet. Likewise the domain name Won.com has a bid of $75,00o, short of its Reserve Range of $100K-$250K. The domain name with the highest bid that ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2014
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Web.com paid $7.4 million for SnapNames - Web.com paid $7.4 million for SnapNames and hopes for a revenue contribution of $5 million this year. Web.com paid $7.4 million cash to acquire SnapNames from KeyDrive, the company revealed on its investor conference call yesterday. The company described it as a “small tuck-in acquisition” at a financially attractive price. Web.com expects SnapNames to generate about $5 million in revenue for its period of ownership in 2014. The acquisition became public on March ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2014
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Domains Acquired Through SnapNames Creds Will Be Managed By NetworkSolutions.com - Snapnames.com just announced that starting today, “domain names acquired at SnapNames®, through a SnapNames credential, will now be managed through Network Solutions. Before anyone freaks out about the price,  these domains will be subject to a special renewal rate of just $9.59 To quickly identify the registrar of record for purchased domains refer to your SnapNames confirmation email. Once your purchased domain is ready to manage, you will receive an email from Network Solutions containing ... read more ...
 
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Some SnapNames-caught domains to be managed during NetworkSolutions - Domains caught by SnapName’s own registrars will be managed through Network Solutions. Here’s the first notable change as a result of Web.com acquiring expired domain marketplace SnapNames. SnapNames announced today that domain names acquired through a SnapNames credential (i.e. registrar) will now be managed via Web.com registrar Network Solutions. Previously these names were managed by Moniker. I can already hear the collective groan from domainers not wanting ... read more ...
Mon 3rd March 2014
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Web.com Officially Announces The Acquisition of SnapNames.com - Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW) officially announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. Shares are down over 2% in early trading today. The questions yet to be answered is how will the acquisition effect where expiring domain names from Web.com registrars, including NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com will be going. All expired domains of Netsol where going to SnapNames.com until it was acquired by Oversee.net, the company that sold SnapNames.com to Keysystems. Once Oversee.net ... read more ...
Sat 1st March 2014
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Web.com acquires SnapNames - Part-owner of NameJet acquires competing service SnapNames. Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) has acquired expired domain name service and domain marketplace SnapNames from KeyDrive. The deal will formally be announced on Monday after the closing bell, Domain Name Wire has learned. Web.com employees tweeted about the acquisition yesterday afternoon. Web.com marks the third corporate parent of SnapNames since 2007. In 2007 Oversee.net acquired the company. It then sold it to ... read more ...
Mon 16th December 2013
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SnapNames.com BuyDomains.com Auction Ends Thursday Led By Hikers.com At $11,000 -   Snapnames.com is holding an auction of BuyDomains.com owned domain names which closes at Thursday 3:15PM on accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. All bidding so far is led by Hikers.com which has a bid of $11,000 but which has not hit reserve. Hikers.com has a reserve range of $10K-$25K Complimentary.com has a bid of $5K but the reserve has not been meet which is in the $5K-$10K range. In all 15 domain names has bids on them Here are all the domains in the auction, the number of ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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SnapNames.com Add .Co.Uk and .Cn Dropping Domains To Their System - SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S. announced today that the ccTLD domain names for the United Kingdom, .CO.UK and for China, .CN are now available for backorder services. “As the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions, demand for .CO.UK and .CN is aptly reflected in top worldwide internet usage penetration rates and volumes.” “According to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, 80% (more than double the global rate) of ... read more ...
Wed 13th November 2013
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Snapnames.com End Of Year Auction Closes Tomorrow & Has Over $100K in Bids - Snapnames.com End of Year Premium domain name auction closes tomorrow, Thursday November 14th at 3:15PM EST As of time of publication there are over $100,000 bids on the domain at auction although most of those domains have not yet hit reserve including Susan.com that has a $25,000 bid and Direction.com that has a $20,500 bid. Here is a complete list of all the domains in the auction with the current high bid and reserve range:   <![CDATA[]]>Domain Name Bidders Current Bid ReserveRange ReserveStatus susan.com 1 25000 $25,001 ... read more ...
Sun 20th October 2013
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Catching Up With SnapNames.com & The $380K of Sales we Tracked From 2013 - While Sedo, Afternic, Godaddy and NameJet.com all now self report its sales/auctions of domain names that sell through their platforms, one service that does not generally report the results of its auctions on any regular basis is SnapNames.com I figured I would pull the YTD report of the domain names I followed/backordered at SnapNames.com and report the selling prices. I don’t think a lot of these have been reported before. All sales took place in 2013 and includes all transactions I had on my ... read more ...
Wed 16th October 2013
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SLY.com Gets $50,000 Bid At SnapNames.com & Yes It Hits Reserve - The domain name Sly.com is part of the SnapNames.com Premium End of Year Showcase Auction and has gotten a $50,000 bid The auction which just started yesterday has 29 days to go. The domain auction closes on November 14th 2013 at 3:15PM in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. The domain name Sly.com has a reserve range of $25,000-$50,000 so it has hit reserve and will sell. The domain name Pineapple.net has a bid of $7,060 and also has hit reserve. There are 148 domain names in the ... read more ...