Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW) officially announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. Shares are down over 2% in early trading today. The questions yet to be answered is how will the acquisition effect where expiring domain names from Web.com registrars, including NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com will be going. All expired domains of Netsol where going to … [Read more...]
SnapNames.com BuyDomains.com Auction Ends Thursday Led By Hikers.com At $11,000
Snapnames.com is holding an auction of BuyDomains.com owned domain names which closes at Thursday 3:15PM on accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. All bidding so far is led by Hikers.com which has a bid of $11,000 but which has not hit reserve. Hikers.com has a reserve range of $10K-$25K Complimentary.com has a bid of $5K but the reserve has not been meet which is … [Read more...]
SnapNames.com Add .Co.Uk and .Cn Dropping Domains To Their System
SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S. announced today that the ccTLD domain names for the United Kingdom, .CO.UK and for China, .CN are now available for backorder services. "As the world's third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions, demand for .CO.UK and .CN is aptly reflected in top worldwide internet usage penetration rates and volumes." "According to the … [Read more...]
Snapnames.com End Of Year Auction Closes Tomorrow & Has Over $100K in Bids
Snapnames.com End of Year Premium domain name auction closes tomorrow, Thursday November 14th at 3:15PM EST As of time of publication there are over $100,000 bids on the domain at auction although most of those domains have not yet hit reserve including Susan.com that has a $25,000 bid and Direction.com that has a $20,500 bid. Here is a complete list of all the domains in the auction with … [Read more...]
Catching Up With SnapNames.com & The $380K of Sales I Tracked From 2013
While Sedo, Afternic, Godaddy and NameJet.com all now self report its sales/auctions of domain names that sell through their platforms, one service that does not generally report the results of its auctions on any regular basis is SnapNames.com I figured I would pull the YTD report of the domain names I followed/backordered at SnapNames.com and report the selling prices. I don't think a lot … [Read more...]
SLY.com Gets $50,000 Bid At SnapNames.com & Yes It Hits Reserve
The domain name Sly.com is part of the SnapNames.com Premium End of Year Showcase Auction and has gotten a $50,000 bid The auction which just started yesterday has 29 days to go. The domain auction closes on November 14th 2013 at 3:15PM in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. The domain name Sly.com has a reserve range of $25,000-$50,000 so it has hit reserve and will … [Read more...]
Afilias .Info Domain Auction Ends On SnapNames Today & Total Bids Are Under $5K
The domain name auction of registry owned .Info domains closes on SnapNames.com in a few hours and as of time of publication bids for all 25 domain names in the auction total less than $5,000. The auction closes at 3:15pm EST in according with SnapNames.com closing procedure. All the domains are lead by Immo.info at $1,001. Immo is the French word for Real Estate. There are … [Read more...]