SnapNames reviews anyone?

[cluck]

OK so I bought my first snapnames credits today and picked 5 very high end one word mainstream names. I'm just wondering how many of these I might actually win. They're all expiring between november and january and none of them have a developed site up.

Was it worth my $345 or not?

[joshuawk]

IF you have a snap on them and they expire I would say you
have a 65% chance of winning them.

[Dirty F]

I think that depends on who else did the same thing.

I sounds obvious to me that its a big difference if 2 or 50 people backordered those same names.

I did it for the first time a few weeks ago with 2 names using godaddy.

I got 1.

[SomeCreep]

Nowadays with auto-renew coming standard with most registrars, its not as easy to snap domains. If no other snap back providers have orders for those domains and the domains are not renewed, then your chances are good.

[Sleazylee]

Maybe back in the day you had a 65% chance with having the Snap, but nowadays Pool owns and there is way too much competition. If you want a name bad, cover all the bases that you can and hope to god a private catcher like BuyDomains doesn't catch it.

[chowda]

Originally posted by Sleazylee
Maybe back in the day you had a 65% chance with having the Snap, but nowadays Pool owns and there is way too much competition. If you want a name bad, cover all the bases that you can and hope to god a private catcher like BuyDomains doesn't catch it.

dont forget the asian guy from hk who owns mils of domains.

[kad]

During the period from May 2002 to November 2002, Dark Blue Sea
progressively acquired a portfolio of approximately 120,000 domain
names, as an additional source of traffic for our advertisers and
affiliates. The total cost of the portfolio was approximately US$1.1
million. The company's domain name portfolio is now one of the
largest in the world both in terms of size and the volume of traffic
it generates.

Was reading it when I saw this thread. Kinda releated :P

http://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics...&issuerid=4979

[Jamie]

I've successfully snapped back 1 domain using snapnames. I have 1 more domain I'm waiting on. crosses fingers

[slavdogg]

if WLS goes into effect, than snapnames goes out of biz oct 27th this year.

cluck, wanna make a deal ?
sell me the list of those domains that you just put snaps on.

[sacX]

think the WLS will hits a few snags before October 27.. especially since ICANN recently sent a letter asking whether VRSN had fulfilled several obligations, to which this point they've made no public disclosure of doing so..

anyway I thought if WLS goes into effect snapnames were basically going to buy WLS on every name with a snap.

[slavdogg]

Originally posted by sacX

anyway I thought if WLS goes into effect snapnames were basically going to buy WLS on every name with a snap.

thats what they promised but did not deliver

[sexeducation]

Originally posted by cluck
OK so I bought my first snapnames credits today and picked 5 very high end one word mainstream names. I'm just wondering how many of these I might actually win. They're all expiring between november and january and none of them have a developed site up.

Was it worth my $345 or not?

Depends on the names.
I once offer $1500 for SexEducation.NET and I think he wanted 5000 so I purchased a SnapNames and got it for 69 bucks 4 months later. : )

There was once screwup on SexEducation.com in payment processing and Snapped my own domain back ...
I think their good.

Good Luck with your names.

[joshuawk]

the asian guy from hong kong being ultimate search?

who are they.
they beat me all the time.

[DarkJedi]

SnapNames are great. I've had a 100% sucess probability with them.

Just don't go after high PR domains, because after you re-register them the PR will drop (it happed to all the domains i re-registered)

[Nima]

Originally posted by joshuawk
the asian guy from hong kong being ultimate search?

who are they.
they beat me all the time.

that fucker stole one of my domains!!!!!!!!

[sacX]

Originally posted by Nezster

that fucker stole one of my domains!!!!!!!!

you mean u forgot to pay for your domain and it became free to register

[WiredGuy]

Snapnames has been the worst snapper I've used, Pool, GoDaddy and NameWinner have all done better.

WG

[sacX]

Originally posted by WiredGuy
Snapnames has been the worst snapper I've used, Pool, GoDaddy and NameWinner have all done better.

WG

yeah except pool sucks ass if the name is semi-decent, because then the name just goes into an auction and buydomains.com will out bid you .. same sort of setup with namewinner now too

namewinner used to be the best value for money out there, pretty decent success rate and you could lock them in for $8.75..

you gotta hook up your own RRP connect to make it in the drop game, imo

[WiredGuy]

Originally posted by sacX
yeah except pool sucks ass if the name is semi-decent, because then the name just goes into an auction and buydomains.com will out bid you .. same sort of setup with namewinner now too

namewinner used to be the best value for money out there, pretty decent success rate and you could lock them in for $8.75..

you gotta hook up your own RRP connect to make it in the drop game, imo

I've been mostly in the snappers for good PR domains so the competition hasn't been as rough as say trying to get type-in quality domains. But I agree, sometimes the registrar that wins is some lame ass registry that's private for getting good drops. It sucks but not much you can do...

WG

[Triple 6]

omg, this thread just reminded me i was supposed to place an order at pool.com for a gaming domain ive been watching thats now in redemption period.


shit.