After much discussion and criticism last week Oversee/SnapNames.com announced today that it has revised and restated the release they are requiring those wanting to accept the settlement for the bidding activities of the bidder Halvarez to sign. As we have discussed here we thought the release was overly broad and the literally reading would release Oversee and Snapnames from all and any … [Read more...]
An Open Letter To Oversee/SnapNames.com: Hey Guys Here Is A Plan To Fix The Halvarez Scandal
On Friday in response to a post on our finding from our research of our own Snapnames auction history we got into a discussion with Mr. John Berryhill, an attorney I very much respect. During a heated back and forth discussion he asked: “”Hypothetically, what would you do, right now, if you were Oversee, that would make everyone in the world happy over this crappy situation?”" So I … [Read more...]
12,000 Auctions, 8,900 Bidders and 350,000 Bids: We Conclude Halvarez Was The Only Shill Bidder At Snapnames
When Snapnames put each user's entire auction history into there respective Snapnames.com account last Saturday night, we went to work. We scraped all the data from every auction. We got every bid, every bidder, and organized them into a searchable database. We then computed how many auctions each bidder was involved in, how many of those auctions the bidder had placed a bid other than … [Read more...]
Breaking News: SnapNames.com Puts Back Auction History To August 2004
After numerous domain blogs, forums and domainers demanded that SnapNames.com put back the auction history into every one's account, tonight Snapnames.com restored full auction history going back to August 2004. My account which only had 21 pages of auction history earlier today when I checked, now numbers 121 pages or over 12,000 auction I'm planning on pulling all this info and complying … [Read more...]
Will “Halvarez” Face Criminal Charges? It Maybe Up To You
With all the news from Oversee.net this week regarding the SnapNames bidding Scandal, It's still is unclear whether Oversee has or will ever press criminal charges against Nelson Brady for his participation in the shill bidding scheme. It seems the domain community thinks that Oversee is the only party that can ask for criminal charge to be brought, however, in my opinion, Oversee is not the … [Read more...]
The 5 Most Surprising Things That Came Out Of The SnapNames Scandal
Having a day to reflect on the revelation about the Snapnames bidding scandal, I put together a list of the 5 most surprising things we learned yesterday: 1. Who It Was: The most surprising part of the story was the identity of the person involved in shill bidding, Nelson Brady. Not only was Nelson an employee of Oversee, but he was a former officer (VP) and a shareholder of the company … [Read more...]
Our Picks For The RickLatona.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Today
The extended auction of the RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction will be held today online at 1:30pm EDT. There are about 600 domain in the extended auction including those that did not sell in the live auction To view the full catalog or to bid click here Here are our top picks for the auction today: … [Read more...]