My first "win" from Namewinner!

[jalapeno]

It's ironic that I found out that NameWinner snagged a domain for me today by the SnapNames email informing me that they'd detected a change in the domain record. The registrar had changed from Alldomains to Dotster... uh-oh, I thought... grumble grumble... someone else got it. So I checked the whois at Dotster and was pleasantly surprised to see my own name as the registrant!

It's my first name obtained through a dropped names service, and I guess what one would call a second-tier generic, nothing people would really fight over. I had a snap on it and also a bid at NameWinner, and in this case NameWinner got the job done.

Probably nobody cares, but I was excited. I'm easy to please.

 

[buddy]

Congrats on your name jalapeno!! Must be worth something if you went through Name Winnner to get it. Nevertheless, good luck to you with your new domain.

 

[jalapeno]

Thanks kvinsencius! Who knows, maybe I could have regged it myself without using any service, but I thought it would be worthwhile and I had an unused snap I needed to reassign... and figured I may as well back it up with Namewinner too. There's a very cool site at the .com version, and also a working site at the .org. If nothing else it will make a cool email address. I'd share the domain name, but it was registered using my personal info instead of my business info so paranoia wins.

 

[fizz]

Congrats on your first catch using a drop service jalapeno !

 

[Nic]

Congrats,

SAME THINK HAPPEND TO MY BROTHER-IN-LAW, HE HAD SNAPS ON 4 DOMAINS, SNAPNAMES (AS USUAL...) DID GET A SINGLE ONE, BUT HE HAD ALSO USED N.W FOR THREE OF THEM OF WHICH HE GOT.

LOOKS LIKE SNAPNAMES HAS LET DOWN A LOT OF PEOPLE !.
THANK GOD FOR PLAN B HUH!

 

[Domain]

Originally posted by jalapeno
It's ironic that I found out that NameWinner snagged a domain for me today by the SnapNames email informing me that they'd detected a change in the domain record.

Congrats jalapeno,

Same thing has happened to us in the past with NameWinner & SnapNames.
Using both services is the best way for mainstream buyers to get a name in my opinion.

 

[jalapeno]

Thanks fizz, Nic and Domain.

It must all be a matter of timing and luck in which service gets to the domain first, what part of their cycle is running when it happens to drop.

Now I feel almost like it's pre-Christmas again, and I get to hunt for and pick another name to reassign my snap.

 

[hosting3.com]

it's always good to have a backup plan

 

[mole]

The thrill of getting a drop, forget the name

 

[morel]

What was your max bid for this name?
How much did you end up paying?

 

[jalapeno]

Only $25. No other bidders. So either it was overlooked or unwanted by everyone but me... I'd tend to think the latter. Though it did drop sooner that I'd expected, and I don't remember seeing it on "dropping soon" lists, not being a netsol domain. Is it possible to tell with other registrars when domains will drop? The only way I know of is netsol's "not found locally" message and last updated date.