A few weeks ago Namejet.com and SnapNames.com announced that if you placed a backorder on one of the systems for a deleting domain name backorders would be placed for the deleting domain names on both systems. It makes a lot of sense since saves the effort of putting the same deleting domain names into both systems. The idea is if the domain is caught by one or the other service and there … [Read more...]
Expired Domain Drop Catcher BackorderZone.com + 42 Domain Registrars Are for Sale
Backorderzone.com is for sale. Backorderzone.com competes with Namejet.com, Snapnames.com, Pheenix.com and DropCatch.com. Last week Namejet lowered the price of a backorder on a pending delete domain, the only type of domain names BackOrderZone.com catches, to $39. Included in the sale is the BackorderZone.com website, the drop catching software and 42 ICANN Accredited Registrars in good … [Read more...]
.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List
.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage … [Read more...]
.Club Sells $64K In Premium Domains In September
The .Club Registry announced today on its blog that premium name sales for September, including SnapNames auctions, came to $64,423.82. As you read through the report I don't think there is any other registry as transparent as .Club and that is just one of the reasons that I love working with them through RightoftheDot.com ""September marks the first full month that .CLUB names were … [Read more...]
Record Setter: Bidding on Dropped Domain 358.com Reaches $430K With 2+ Days to Go
The domain name 358.com dropped yesterday and shortly after the closed auction started on Snapnames.com, bidding reached $80,000. This morning the high bid on the domain name is $430,000. As you can see there are 7 bidders who bid $250,000 or more. While three number .Com domain names are extremely valuable, I would hope at this level that SnapNames has verified all of these accounts … [Read more...]
SnapNames Catches The Dropping Domain 358.com & Bidding Is At $80,000
The domain name 358.com dropped today and Snapnames.com won the lottery grabbing the domain where its currently in closed auction with 221 bidders. The high bid as of time of publication is $80,000 and the auction has almost 3 days left. I'm not sure the last time I saw a pure dropping three numbered domain (NNN.com) but its pretty rare and there is no vertical in the domain space hotter … [Read more...]
Projects.com Sells for $87,550 On SnapNames.com
The expired domain name auction for Projects.com just ended at Snapnames with the domain name selling for $87,550. The winner bidder has the ID of: qursan There were 5 bidders at $80,000 or more including the winning bidder. We wrote about the auction when it started on Monday. There were 196 bidders in the domain auction. … [Read more...]