Seriously, has anyone ever successfully snapped a domain name with the godaddy snapping service? I am 0 for 4 now and it seems like the whole thing was a waste of money.

I bought four several months ago and to date I have not caught one. About 20 failed attempts and counting. What a waste!

it was 8 of 10 almost a year ago but not its like 0 to 10 as you mentioned.

pool.com is the way togo and sometimes snapnames catches few

godaddy is a waste of time and money.

Originally posted by RMF
godaddy is a waste of time and money.

you're right. their services suck especially on international customers.

I have caught 2 recently with godaddy but I missed about 10 before those two, with pool I have got one and missed one, pool is more expensive but worth it if you really want the domain

missed once then I got impatient contacted the person now hes re-registerd for 5 years!!

:angry:


duh duh bad kiwi!!

So far, I have read from several forums before.
Mostly, from what I see.
ALL good domains cannot be caught by goDaddy. Maybe they were very very slow.
Unless the names you wanted are not monitior by other snapback services.
Something like.. hmm... www.fsahyhswk.com ;)

Anyway, my point of view.
If that's a very good domain, don't use goDaddy. They will never get it.
Save the money & get yourself a pizza and a coke.
It's more worth it. :)

.....and whatever service buydomains.com uses, it works. Of the 4 I have lost, they won three of them!

With this consistent lack of success, I am wondering if godaddy even uses a "snapping" technology. It appears to me their snapping service just means they check once a day (heck, I can do that!)

buydomains uses their own system with connection to many registrars, thats why they win most of the good names.

NoDaddy! :D

I think buydomains purchased and extended a system they use for snapping(maybe snapnames).

I got suckered into buying the godaddy snap. Out of nearly 6 attempts, nothing.

Everyone beats them.

Even my not-so fast fingers beat them. Seriously. I had a godaddy snap in place and my manual registristration beat them!

The thing I dislike the most about Godaddy is all of their spamming ads they send to your mail box.

When I ask them to stop, they say sorry. "You get these wonderful announcements as part of our service".

I wasted my money. But I should have known better.

Shasta

I really wonder how hard it would be to develop one of these systems, based on everything I've read it seems to be fairly simple software. And based on these numbers, beating GoDaddy should be very simple. Perhaps this would be worth pursuing.

Tomorrow is another day to see how many more failed attempts godaddy can provide me.

No wonder godaddy is against WLS. They get to sell all these backorders, and they don't even have to try to be successful with them!

RMF