beating snap names

[matimer]

How can i beat snap names at their own game?

I want a domain already in line to be snapped?

Is there any hope for me as the little guy, or is snapnames domainate the expired domain "industry"?

gracias

matimer

[Lisa]

Name Winner is a great way to go.

[cabbie]

Namewinner has never beaten snapnames in my experience and I have tried them often enough.
what I find helps is to see if the previous registry is associated with a snapback service.E.G. dotser.com is associated with namewinner so there seems to be some advantage using them for names that were registed by dotser.
snapnames are affiliated with most of them however and they are hard to beat.Sometimes expirefish can beat them and sometimes little blokes like you and me can beat them but very rarely.

alan

[Shak]

Name Winner is a great way to go.

I 2nd that for what its worth.

Shak

[Lisa]

previous registry [registrar] is associated

Actually previous registrar doesn't increase odds at all.

[cabbie]

It shouldn't by rights but stuff goes on that we might not be aware of.
By all rights its a equal playing field when a domain is held pending delete(for .org and .net anyway).you can even predict at what time and what day the name becomes available.
But I have seen it happen TOO many times for it to be a coincidence.If the registrar that had held the name previously wants it back -It usually gets it.
my 2cents worth.

[Hunter]

>Namewinner has never beaten snapnames in my experience
And the pro's would like everyone to keep on thinking that :)

[BobXpl2k3]

About a year ago I was told by someone in the corporate office of Network Solutions."Snapnames - that's us" Recently they've denied this.At the time Network Solutions was one company - VeriSign - since last year they've split up. It was due to the pressure from ICANN that was on the verge of banning Verisign from registering domains (Feb 2002).
I've watched many domains being "snached" by the registars
One of my domains (I did not renew) was first registered by
the registrar via NameScout whitch coicidently has the same address as Canadian Registry. Within 24hrs it was re-registered to some blind company in Tortola V.I.
This domain NEVER showed up as "available" - it seems that
the domains are tranfered directly.

Recently I've paid to get one expiring domain. It was transfered to me one day with the registrar showing prior day as the registration date? - this is strange and not unique to this incident.

This domain is a plural version of my domain and using it in the same industry would infinge on my trademark and copyright of my site.

This is a wide spread problem the above is one of many incidents I've seen. talking to ICANN did not help.DOJ should look into this. Network Solutions acts as they own the domains.Year ago I was offered to buy domains via Great Domains that Network Solutions did not own, were not offerd for sale by owner and were not expired?