Why could snap DELETE a domain after successful auction with >40 participants?

**tonyk2000** · 07-31-2008, 09:22 PM

An auction for logik.com was finished today 31-Jul-2008 and there were >40 participants; winning bid was $2,200.00.
Nevertheless, the domain name was deleted about 1 hour ago and at the time of this writing whois is the following:

Domain Name: LOGIK.COM
Registrar: SBNAMES LTD.
Whois server: whois.sbnames.com
Referral URL: http://www.sbnames.com
Name Server: NS.GETNAMENOW.COM
Name Server: NS2.GETNAMENOW.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 31-jul-2008
Creation Date: 31-jul-2008
Expiration Date: 31-jul-2009

It would be interesting to find out why can such things happen...

**Acro** · 08-01-2008, 12:22 AM

Maybe halvarez won it.

**Raider** · 08-01-2008, 12:47 AM

What do you mean the name was deleted? deleted from what?

Originally Posted by Acroplex

Maybe halvarez won it.

**tonyk2000** · 08-01-2008, 01:17 AM

The domain in question was acquired by snapnames on July 28th from regular drop. It was sitting with one of their registrars with "Creation Date: 28-jul-2008". Auction for the domain name was finished on July 31st. Within a few hours after the auction, the domain name was deleted, and, since it was <5 days old, the domain name became available for immediate registration again (with no redemptionperiod/pendingdelete). Subsequently, the domain name was (hand?)regged by SBNAMES registrar.

Another domain name with exactly the same history is raww dot com:
1) acquired by snapnames on July, 27th
2) successfully auctioned with >20 bidders and $XXX winning bid
3) deleted
4) now regged with enom, creation date July 31st