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08|29|2008 11:59 am EDT

SnapNames/Moniker auction hit by Human Error again

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Domain Auction

In the Silent Domain auction for the SES conference, which originally was supposed to end yesterday, the domain “iq.net” was re-listed accidentally, even though it had originally been reported as sold at the Internext for $17,000.00. Participants in the auction were informed about the problem via email a few hours before bidding ended. Recently Moniker/Snapnames [...]

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08|21|2008 12:23 am EDT

Search Engine Strategies First Live Domain Name Auction Scrapes Up $19,950

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Auction

The Search Engine Strategies live domain auction by Moniker/SnapNames came in with a total sales volume of $19,950 on 26 domain names sold.  The top sale of the day was Groceries.us at $4000. Reports from Moniker staff indicated that the audience size at the event was around 100 people. The online audience at the time [...]

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08|20|2008 8:19 pm EDT

Search Engine Strategies Domain Live Auction

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Domain Auction

We are live blogging the Domain Auction at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose. Please note that these are not the official results and while we do our best to provide correct results, there may make an occasional mistake. See the live results after the jump, or read our summary here. Share

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08|05|2008 4:45 pm EDT

DomainTools Aftermarket.com Launched and Taking Submissions

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Auction

According to the Domain Tools blog, Thought Convergence, parent company to DomainTools, Domain Roundtable and TrafficZ, has officially launched the first phase of their new domain sales site, Aftermarket.com . The company is launching the site to take submissions for the upcoming TRAFFIC conference in Brooklyn. Aftermarket.com plans to run a 90 minute auction at the [...]

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07|30|2008 10:33 am EDT

Moniker/Snapnames accidentally sell the wrong domain

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registrars

Imagine the following scenario: A registrant owns a .NET version of your .COM domain and decides to list it with SnapNames. However he mistypes the domain by entering the .COM version in the spreadsheet he sends to his account manager. The account manager then proceeds to move the .COM version of the domain, which is [...]

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07|07|2008 3:13 pm EDT

SnapNames back online

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

After an outage that started on the evening of Thursday July 3rd, SnapNames has now been able to restore access to their domain auction website.  In an email SnapNames notified their customers that the site is back online since this morning: We are pleased to tell you functionality has now been restored and that important data, [...]

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06|21|2008 3:14 pm EDT

Domain Aftermarket Exec Bidding On Own Auctions

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

As reported by Andrew at DomainNameWire.com, reports have surfaced that Godaddy VP Adam Dicker has been bidding on domain auctions at TDNAM.com, the domain name after-market site he is charged with running. Network Solutions and Enom also allow employees to bid on domain names in auctions at Namejet.com. The practice of allowing employees to bid [...]

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06|20|2008 11:08 pm EDT

DomainerMeeting Paris Live Auction results

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Domain Auction

The following are the official DomainMeeting Paris Live auction results, as provided by Moniker. The extended online auction ends on June 26th, 2008. Aftermarket.com $125,000.00 Rainbows.com $45,000.00 Domain.pl $45,000.00 PhoneAccessories.com $25,000.00 Loans.dk $15,000.00 MotorBikes.net $10,000.00 OUX.com $9,500.00 Bavarian.com $9,000.00 Next.org $9,000.00 ComputerNotebooks.com $7,500.00 AuPair.fr $6,250.00 Hoe.net $6,000.00 Indemnity.com $5,500.00 Propriedade.com $5,000.00 PetSupplies.info $5,000.00 Appeler.fr $3,500.00 AssurancesVoiture.fr $3,500.00 CareerAdvisors.com $3,500.00 BabyMedications.com $2,000.00 DVDs.us $1,800.00 DomainerMeetings.com $1,750.00 ParisCams.com $1,500.00 Meeting.eu $1,500.00 Domain.sc $1,500.00 FreeVideos.jp $1,500.00 AutomobilePolicy.com $1,250.00 Keep.info $1,150.00 Business.vg $1,050.00 Disease.es $1,000.00 LouGehrigsDisease.org $1,000.00 Vacations.org.uk $600.00 LawFirm.es $600.00 Foreclosing.co.uk [...]

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06|05|2008 2:43 pm EDT

SnapNames renews Partnership with Register.com

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

According to a press release SnapNames has renewed their partnership with register.com for listing non-renewed names for auction. After being purchased by Oversee.NET SnapNames had previously lost the exclusive inventory from Network Solutions to the newly launched NameJet. Tucows recently announced that they are dropping their own aftermarket auction as of June 10th, but have [...]

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05|08|2008 3:13 am EDT

NetworkSolutions Cross-Promoting NameJet Services Via Email

by Adam Strong in Categories: News

In a recent letter sent to my inbox, NetworkSolutions.com emailed regarding a domain that will be expiring soon, and they encourage me to place a back-order for the domain name at NameJet.com. The domain name they are emailing about is a .net version of a .com domain name that I own. The [...]

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