Several auctions of NameJet.com that were suppose to end today were extended due to technical problems.
In a note send by NameJet.com tonight to customers they said:
“””Due to a configuration issue one of our web servers became unavailable during a portion of the auction process this afternoon. Customers that had established a connection using one of the other web servers did not experience any issues with the auctions.
The unavailability of the system to a subset of our customers impacted the outcome of a number of auctions that were ending during that timeframe. In order to ensure that our customers that were not able to place bids at the end of those auctions have an equal opportunity to participate in those auctions, we will be reopening those auctions with a close date of 24 hours from the current close date.
You are receiving this email because you were a participant in one or more of those auctions (see list below). By the end of the day the auctions that you were a participant will appear on the “My Auctions” page and you will be able to place additional bids if you desire.
The last accepted bid will be the current highest bid when these auctions resume. Please check your bid status and increase your proxy bids if you wish to continue to participate in these auctions.
The list of auctions that will be extended is as follows:
australiahoteldiscounts.com
aye.biz
beachhead.net
bluejackaddicts.com
bostonma.com
cityfinder.com
couchcovers.com
djjobs.com
drugdealers.com
ebling.net
ebling.org
elitehotel.com
elitehotels.com
isnoop.com
japanhoteldiscounts.com
keywest.net
localfeatures.com
longdistancelearning.com
motoringtoday.com
needles.org
outrageouscookie.com
partytheme.com
passwords.net
ranku.com
sacrum.com
soaked.org
speechfeed.com
womenministers.com””””
We applaud the auction service for recognizing the problem, extending the auctions and allowing all participants an opportunity to bid.
I won one of auctions above yesterday. I was battling with 10 people for like two hours. So what was the problem? Only Keywest.net and CityFinder.com were unavailable to bid.
I am really pissed off, they are wasting my time and money. Things like this happened in communism.
Maybe, Namejet/Enom/Netsol figured they didn’t get enough for the domains so they wanted to put them back in the pot and stir it a little bit longer.
Just like the domains they continue to include on the pre-release page.
lol
Cynic
I think the domains that are continuing to appear on the pre-release page are a different situation than the domains whose auctions got extended by a day.
I think they did have a glitch and our of fairness to all bidders, gave those names an extra day before closing them out
The downtime was real and it affected auctions ending between 4:47pm and 5:00pm EST. It was only fair to extend the auctions. I ended up getting one domain from the list.