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Old 08-03-2007, 07:13 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

You shouldn't be surprised.

Remember this....

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=231614

Once everyone who uses them gets screwed a couple of times and quits using them, another service will come along to replace them.
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Old 08-03-2007, 07:26 AM   #42 (permalink)
 
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

I think snapnames now hold such a monopoly on decent dropping names it means they can pretty much run the marketplace how they like. I have been waiting since 31st july for access to a name I paid for (at a crappy unknown registrar of course) since I'm here whinging already!!
I honestly think the entire way this system is operated is a scandal which leaves no open market for anyone else. Maybe we should all band together and laucnch our own drop catcher!
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Old 08-03-2007, 07:27 AM   #43 (permalink)
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

Snapnames has won me and my partner alot of names for $60, some make $5-$10 per day...but that was back in the golden days of yesteryear...those times are all over now, this is just the way the ball bounces when there is money & greed involved..why make $60 for a name that evades most peoples radar when they could catch it, keep it, & earn money daily from it? They know which ones are which because they park them the second they catch them. I understand their logic, but it still is not right..but what can you do when they have the power of the drop catch?
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Old 08-03-2007, 03:21 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

Snapnames and Pool failed to catch good names for me this year. But Club Drop (eNom) delivered
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Snapnames and Pool failed to catch good names for me this year. But Club Drop (eNom) delivered
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

I am still waiting for access to a name I won and paid for on 31st July. Two support tickets sent now. Nice to see snap have parked the name in the meantime and have taken a weeks worth of my PPC earnings as payment for their own incompetence. To be honest, I think its more the registrar, but if snap insist on using shite registrars (you know who you are simplynamed.com), whose site doesn't even work properly then its going to be their name dragged through the mud too.
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Old 08-06-2007, 05:35 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

Snapnames has the same problem many registrars and new companies showed before..let me paint a little scenario...
some new executive realized that with a little unethical behavior here and there they can make a lot more money...advance his career...etc.
..next thing you know they are making more money..putting in fake bids...keeping names...screwing over customers...

...a while after that customers just like myself dont bother with this BS anymore and focus on other things... ..auction participation drops... that guy that started the BS in charge at Snapnames or wherever blames the marketing guy and the market conditions for fewer people bidding on names...

..so he fires the marketing guy and takes on the marketing department too..because the CEO loves his initiatives...and the guy pretends to be his best buddy...
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...soon after he gets an offer from another domain company because they mistake his greed and incompetence for genius...and he leaves with all the confidential info and screws over the old company..seen it a million times...
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

This sounds less than a scenario and more like having inside information
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

won my first name with snapnames today - well, sort of. now its no longer in my account. thought i had gotten a steal on it, snapnames must have thought so too and stole it back. any better alternatives?

update: shortly after posting this and emailing support, snapnames corrected the problem. have to commend the quick response

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Old 08-07-2007, 04:25 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

I've had no issues with Snapnames really. I've had a couple of small issues, but they usually reply to my support e-mails in only a few hours and they are very quick to straighten things out. If Snapnames have a problem it must be the registrars they are affiliated with .. Have you ever had a domain at domus-llc.com ? No ? .. Will the domain ever be able to escape from the dungeons of domus-llc.com .. No .. Doesn't look like it .. :(
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

Just my 2 cents - If you want a domain that is dropping badly enough, you're pretty much safe if you just back order it using ALL of the 3 of big dropping services. Enom, Snapnames and Pool. One of them is bound to pick it up and from that point you just need to deal with the auction.
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

Not when the drop service decides they are going to keep the domain and no auction happens.
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Re: Dirty game of Snapnames!

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Not when the drop service decides they are going to keep the domain and no auction happens.
Obviously. But none of us have control over that. If the current registrar doesn't want to give it up, then it's tough luck for us. But if it's going to auction, you're pretty much guaranteed that it's going to either Snapnames, Enom or Pool. I pick up dozens of domains a day and I've never had one that I didn't get in on the auction when it went to auction.
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