SnapShot - be sure you know what it does

I recently had a customer who was misinformed as to what the SnapNames "SnapShot" function does, and I thought I would share his concerns here since there may be others who get bitten by this.

SnapShot is NOT a real-time notification like a SnapBack without the actual registration function attached.

The SnapShot function will update you once a week - long after the domain information has changed - and in the case of my customer, after the domain dropped and was picked up by someone else.

My customer believed that SnapShot would notify him immediately when the state of the domain changed - allowing him to register the domain manually instead of using any of the drop services. It turns out the actual domain he wanted has dropped for three days and was then registered manually - and he missed the window because he thought that the SnapShot was going to tell him the domain was available...

Read the terms and conditions of the services you purchase carefully...

-t

 

[O.C.]

Why you're a regular Lee Hodgson!

 

[RMF]

Its like with any game. Always read the manual first.

RMF

 

[ToBad]

is it snapnames.com you talking about?

 

[ToBad]

Sorry, but you need to let us know what url you are talking about!

 

ToBad, I'm sorry if you misunderstood, but yes, SnapShot is a service of SnapNames that watches domain name changes - however it is not real time like a SnapBack.

-t

 

[hiOsilver]

And the first 10 snapshots are free. That should have been a clue right off the bat. Anyone offering a service for $70 is not going to offer 10 units of an equal service for free. Additional snapshots are 20 for $10 or $20, I don't remember which.

 

[TurNIC.com]

The only think I know about them is they wasted my $69. Snapback, snapshot, snaphit, snapsnap, snapsniff, snapshit, snapcrap, snapblab I am gonna register all snap things and rip their a$$