beating Snapnames

Is there any chance

[umbria]

If someone else is using snapnames to reserve a soon to expire domain name is there any chance of beating it?

[Lisa]

Sure, Snapnames loses all the time. But the people that beat snapnames don't do public grabbing. Snapnames is not able to catch the best names. They catch a lot of names because so many people request names through them.

[umbria]

Lisa
Thanks for the quick response. I gather that this is your area of expertise and that you have access to resources most people don't.

Perhaps I could rephrase the question. Is there any way a normal person can beat snapnames? Are those of us limited to what you call "public grabbing" doomed to loose to snapnames? Are there other resources we can access?

[teeceo]

Also, i always wondered, can a company(or company's) sell the same name snap shot to all comes? If so then i am in the wrong line of work.

teeceo

[Hunter]

umbria, it all depends on the domain in question and how much demand it generates. If it's in high demand (high resale potential) you will have too much competition unless you are well equipped. If it's not in high demand then yes you have a good chance. Either pay attention to the drop cycle yourself or pay a service like the one mentioned above to try for you. There are a few other services like snap as well, just look thru this forum (domain names)because they have been mentioned before.

[umbria]

Hunter
Thanks I'll keep my eye on it and maybe try one of the other services.

teeceo
Snapnames will only allow one person to backorder a name. I went there do back order a name and found that someone else had done so, which prompted my question to this forum.

[edited by: umbria at 5:20 pm (utc) on July 23, 2002]

[teeceo]

oowwwwwwwww man, I was just about to pack up the youngan and move out the to beverlyhill to live next to jethough. Well, i guest it's back to sunning moonshine and chasing all the wrong women..

teeceo.

[korkus2000]

I have heard that expirefish has out shot snapnames. If you are looking at a domain that is already backordered with snapnames then it might make sense to register with expirefish. their only 10 dollars a month.

[mreeves]

The players in grabbing expiring domain names are...

For .com, .net and .org

http://www.snapnames.com (as mentioned)
currently claims to have about an 80% success rate. have used them myself and they are pretty good unless your after a 3 letter or one word domain.

http://www.namewinner.com
auction type system, seems to be quite successful although have heard some bad things on various forums.

http://www.expirefish.com
don't like this web site myself but is cheaper than the 2 above

For .uk domains there is a new service (yes, run by me, but thought it was relevant) at http://www.nametrack.co.uk and in the interests of covering the market, a competitor to NameTrack can be found at http://www.detagged.co.uk

[amhitvl]

most domain drop about 2pm easter time
check domain every day at 2pm
you might got name you want
snapnames.com got most name
namerwinner got best name

[NeedScripts]

I have not read all the messages but I did read *expirefish* and I would highly *NOT* recommend ExpireFish to grab expired domains - they suck.

I use multiple services for grabbing domains and *expirefish* is worst of all, and my recent experience proved that it is not worth wasting money with them.

I was wanting to get www.domain.com [a high price domain name :)] This domain was registered by Enom - parent company of ExpireFish. So I was kinda posivite that they will be successful in grabbing this domain for me. And the funny thing is, one evening, I checked the domain on my own and it was available to register but *expirefish* showed me that it was *still* not available to grab. Well I did hurried up and got the domain manually and cancelled my account with expirefish for good.

Also, above is just one horror story of Enom - My another experience with them was their fraud/stupidity about not giving me back US$ 780.00 that they took for .us registration - but that is a another story :) :) :) :) <snip>

[edited by: Lisa at 4:46 pm (utc) on Sep. 12, 2002]
[edit reason] No accusations please. [/edit]

[Lisa]

Just to clear things up.

eNom is not the parent company of expirefish, expirefish is only a reseller. eNom doesn't have any control over what a reseller promises or does in their business; they are just there to enforce ICANN rules and assist resellers with direct access to the registries.

I too have had problems with RegistryFly (ExpireFish), but eNom has been more then helpful in correcting the problem. They have pulled domains out of RegistryFly's reseller account and then given direct access.

[saurabh]

I would highly *NOT* recommend ExpireFish to grab expired domains

I Agree. I wrote 3-4 emails to their support department about a problem I was facing and got no reply, not even an acknowledgement.
I also missed 2 about to expire domain names to some other service (maybe SnapNames). So I guess their system isn't as good as they claim.

[buckworks]

Back in March I came across a soon-to-expire domain that I decided I wanted. I got a Snapnames subscription for it. I learned about ExpireFish a few days later and set it to watch the name too. Snapnames got it for me.

As for private services, how does one reach these mysterious entities who supposedly are more clever and better-equipped than all the rest together? A few weeks ago I came across another "already expired but not yet released" name which I suddenly lusted for, but others already had both Snapnames and Namewinner watching it. I approached a person who claims expertise in this area to see about getting some help, but the person brushed me off with a totally useless answer.

I'd have been willing to pay into four figures for effective help obtaining the domain ... if I could have found one of these elusive domain-grabbing experts.

BTW, the new owner hasn't done anything with it, but says it's not for sale. I checked.