It was in May 2007 that Oversee bought Snapnames.com for tens of millons of dollars. Shortly thereafter, Network Solutions its largest registrar partner used the escape clause in their contract with Snapnames.com to pull out of their agreement. Now it appears that the former employee of Snapnames engaged in shill bidding was also a shareholder of the company that sold Snapnames.com to … [Read more...]
Oversee Uncovers Huge Inside Bidding Scheme At SnapNames.com & Will Offer Refunds
In a huge breaking story for the industry that will continue to unfold over the next hours and days, Oversee.net the parent company of SnapNames.com, recently discovered that a now former employee has been shill bidding on Snapnames.com auctions in violation of the company's policy for many years. This employee who was not identified by name, but is described as a long time employee of … [Read more...]
Our Moniker.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Picks
The Moniker.com TRAFFIC extended auction closes in just about 3 hours and here are some of our picks as domains we think are interesting and may have been overlooked in the 2K+ domains currently in the auction. Most of these do not have an opening bid. The auction closes at 3:15 today EST To join an auction just click on the link so we can take some of Oversee's cash Opening bids are … [Read more...]
Moniker.com Extended TRAFFIC Auction Now With 38 Domains With Bids
38 domains currently have bids at the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which closes tomorrow, Wednesday November 4th at 3:15 EST on Snapnames.com Yesterday, there was a bid on a domain at over $100K, but that bid could not be verified and it was deleted. The amounts listed are the current high bids and all the reserves on all of these domains have been met. This list is current as of … [Read more...]
Yellowstone.org Sells For $13K on NameJet.com
The domain name Yellowstone.org sold for $12,978 at NameJet.com Of course Yellowstone National Park is one of the most visited National Parks in the US. Yellowstone.com is a parking page with almost 5K monthly visitors and Yellowstone.net is an active site with almost 50K visitors a month (visitor stats by Compete.com) Another big sale on NameJet.com was buyside.com for $9,088. Buy … [Read more...]
Moniker Responds To TRAFFIC Live Auction Results & Auctioneer Problems
Monte Cahn posted the following as comment to our post last night on the results of the Moniker.com Live TRAFFIC auction. I thought his response should have the same prominence as the original post, so here is Monte comments regarding yesterdays auction, which may answer many of your questions and comments: Folks """"I know it looked disappointing and YES we did have some bad luck on the … [Read more...]
The City Of New York Fails To Renew Their Domain & CUNY.com Sells For $30K On NameJet.com
In a big 4 letter .com sale, the domain CUNY.com sold for $30,050 on NameJet.com today. CUNY stands for among other things, the City University of New York, which holds 3 trademarks on the term The City seems to have owned this domain and let it drop, as it was pointed to Cuny.edu according to the wayback machine most recently and CUNY.Edu is the official site for the University system and … [Read more...]