Tag Archives: snapnames

Tue 2nd September 2008
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Domain Companies Need to Increase “Switching Costs” - The road to profits lies in an integrated approach to domain management. In the domain business there are low “switching costs”. A switching cost is the time and money you incur to change service providers. Consider domain parking, where you can move 1,000 domains from one parking company to another in about 15 minutes. Even switching registrars is relatively painless compared to many other service provider changes you do in the “offline” world. To see ... 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 ...
Thu 21st August 2008
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Moniker SES: Steals of a Year - If you didn’t bid in Moniker’s SES auction, you missed out on some great deals. If you haven’t already heard, Moniker’s live auction at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose was a flop. It’s just further proof that selling domains to non-domainers (unless they are into adult) is a challenge. The official tally on Moniker’s web site is about $16,000 in sales. It doesn’t include a sale of Groceries.us which appeared sold in the auction for $4,000 but ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2008
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Analysis: Oversee.net Cutbacks a Sign of a Times - Oversee cuts 10%; domain companies need to tighten the ship. It’s never fun when companies lay off staff. The first company I worked for out of college called a Saturday meeting to lay off 33% of the company. Worse, I was on the finance team that had to figure out how much fat to cut. The news today that Oversee.net cut 10% of its staff isn’t a big surprise to me for a number of reasons: 1. The company acquired Moniker and SnapNames. There are overlapping roles ... 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 23rd July 2008
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Moniker Sends Silent Auctions to SnapNames - Move will increase audience for silent auction domains. Moniker announced that it will now use the SnapNames platform for auctioning domains in its silent auctions. Previously, silent auctions were held on Moniker’s online platform which required a separate login and access code. By moving to SnapNames, silent auction domains should get more attention and ultimately sell for more. Other benefits include: -SnapNames customers will no longer have to login to multiple ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2008
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4 Ways to Liquidate Domain Names - Hmm, I’m curious about who Frank means about the person “behind Namemedia.” That could be an interesting story in itself. Will he care to elaborate further? (hope hope hope) As someone who sells client domains and my own everyday, I find the following sources for domain sales the best: 1. Snapnames Private Auctions – Get your domains registered at Moniker.com, send your list to Jonathan Stanfill at Snapnames, and if you have halfway decent domains, you’re going to sell through ... read more ...
Tue 8th July 2008
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Monte Cahn Leads Aftermarket Business during Oversee.net - Moniker CEO expands role at new parent company. Oversee.net’s Monte Cahn speaks at a TRAFFIC conference. Photo courtesy DNJournal. Moniker CEO Monte Cahn has expanded his role after his company was acquired by Oversee.net. Cahn is now spearheading the Aftermarket Registrar business division at Oversee.net. I recently caught up with Cahn and Oversee.net to understand what this division entails and what’s in store for the future. Domain Name Wire: What does ... 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
 
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Moniker Streamlines Auction Submission Process - No more e-mailing spreadsheets; Moniker enables online auction submissions. Anyone who has submitted a domain name to Moniker for inclusion in its auctions knows how much of a pain it can be. You have to fill out lots of data on a spreadsheet and send it into your account representative. Then you have to fill out and fax in a contract. Today, Moniker announced a new online submission process for auctions that significantly reduces the time and headaches. Here’s ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
Wed 28th May 2008
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OVT Matcher Makes Finding Traffic Domains A Snap - I just checked The big NameJet pre-release list and 192 names have OVT an score. Here is the list and a bonus for all visitors to this page: The first Number is January, The second Feb, the third March bigbettysbingo.com, 0, 28, 0 isec.com, 0, 25, 0 mofairsfest.org, 0, 0, 33 thegreens.com, 105, 86, 83 usavoice.org, 1740, 0, 56 airdate.com, 98, 98, 91 eluxuryforless.com, 35, 28, 27 evom.net, 52, 39, 29 gospelnet.com, 315, 217, 280 greekwarez.com, 101, 82, ... 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 ...
Tue 29th April 2008
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Survey: Sedo “Most Innovative” Domain Aftermarket Company - Company selected as “Most Innovative” when it comes to selling domain names. 45% of those surveyed in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey believe Sedo is the “Most Innovative” company in the domain aftermarket. This is the first year the question was asked on the survey. Sedo sold about $75 million worth of domain names last year, mostly through its online sites. It holds monthly “Great Domains” auctions featuring high quality domains and has over ... 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 ...
 
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Survey: Sedo Best Online Sales Venue - Sedo tops list of best online sales venues. For the second year in a row, Sedo has been selected as the best online sales venue for buying and selling domain names. In a survey of 841 domain name professionals, 51% selected Sedo as the top online sales venue. Last year Sedo was first but only grabbed 36% of the vote. The question on this year’s survey was slightly different from last year, as the question specified that it only pertained to online sales venues. ... read more ...
Thu 21st February 2008
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Moniker Auction Nets $4.4 Million, SkiResorts.com sells for $850,000 - Moniker’s live domain auction ends with mixed results. If tonight’s domain name auction was a barometer for the domain industry, we know nothing more than we did before the auction began. The results were, well, mediocre. Before it began, I set a personal range for the auction. Anything less than $4 million would be a failure, anything greater than $6M would be a success. The auction ended up squarely in the middle, with $4.4 million changing hands (including ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2008
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SnapNames Live Auction Enters Day 2 - First day has solid sales; big ticket domains to be auctioned off today. The first day of SnapNames’ live domain auction at DomainFEST appears to have been a success. The first day included lower priced domains. Big ticket domains — including invitro.com, track.com, and athlete.com — go on auction today. Domain Name News blogged results as they happened yesterday evening. It looks like Alimony.com was the clear winner, taking in $75,000. Butcher.com did ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2008
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Oversee.net Receives $150M Investment from Oak Hill Capital Partners - Domain company continues aggressive growth; receives $150M investment. Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, SnapNames, and Moniker, expects to close a $150M investment round with Oak Hill Capital Partners by the end of the month. Oversee.net has been on an aggressive growth trajectory over the past year. In January 2007, the company scored a $60M line of credit from Bank of America. This was partially used to purchase SnapNames this past summer. Earlier ... read more ...
Thu 10th January 2008
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Top Domain Name News Stories of 2007 - A look back at a watershed year for domains. It’s time again for Domain Name Wire’s annual roundup of the domain industry. In 2006, the top stories were surging domain values and major investors entering the market. This year includes some familiar stories, but also includes new trends in the industry. 7. Registries increase prices. We new it was going to happen, but it still hurts. This year VeriSign increased the wholesale price of .com domains by 7% and ... read more ...
 
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DomainTools Auction Sells $30,000 in Domains - Bidders absent during online live auction. DomainTools‘ January auction has concluded with lackluster results. Based on sales completed during the live portion of the auction, I calculate $31,800 in sales with a median price of $1,000. Domains are still available for purchase, however, and the number will increase before everything is said in done. Already a couple late bids have been received. So what went wrong? 1. It was put together too late. The call for ... read more ...