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[Omni]

Hello everyone, need help real quick please...

I want to register a domain name which will be expiring really really soon. I found Snapnames.com from this forum and some people said they had successes in them...

Does everyone know how they work? I mean... the charges are $69 for every domain. What happens if the domain I wanted to 'snap' wasn't 'snapped' successfully? As in the current owner holds it... and then on the last minute before it expires he/she renews it... does everyone know what happens to my $69? Do I lose it? Or is it still a credit for me to 'snap' other domains?

The domain name is going to expire in 6 days... please please please everyone who knows about snapnames help me out...

Or if there're better methods of 'snapping' it if anyone knows how to, could you please post it as well. (kinda confused about snapname... so if it's alright could someone explain it in detail?)

Thanks everyone!

[thewitt]

They answer your question clearly in their Support area FAQs.

The short answer is your $69 is good for a year's service attempting to snap dropping names. You can move it from one expired domain to another, no problem.

If after a year you have not been lucky enough to get a domain, your $69 is gone.

-t

[Omni]

Do you know how successful they are at what they do? With that one $69 can you back-order two domains at the same time?(so let's say one didn't work.... but the other did...?)

[thewitt]

They have as good a chance as any other dropped name service.

If you want to have multiple active SnapBack's they will cost you $69 each.

-t

[Omni]

which are the other ones?
which one would you say is the best? best as in most sucessful... pricing... everything..

[Omni]

I was looking at expirefish.com and snapnames.com and it seems snapnames seem to do it better than expirefish... snapnames claims that they are able to do it in the miliseconds while expirefish saids they'll register it as soon as it's possible (no mention of time). Does anyone know which is better between the two?

[hostjet]

in my opinion, snapnames is without a doubt, the better of those two services.

[thewitt]

Originally posted by hostjet
in my opinion, snapnames is without a doubt, the better of those two services.

Curious why you think this? I've not seen any data that supports one over the other as far as success of grabbed names goes. Do you have experience that shows something different?

-t

[dgessler]

If I remember correctly ExpireFish checks monitored domains every 10 minutes, I used ExpireFish once, never really had too much luck on the better names..

[Magic]

Snapnames beats them ALL as it is run with Verisign (which runs the internet domain names). I dont think Snapnames can be unsuccessful.

IF the domain expires, snapnames WILL get it for you.

[thewitt]

Originally posted by Magic
Snapnames beats them ALL as it is run with Verisign (which runs the internet domain names). I dont think Snapnames can be unsuccessful.

IF the domain expires, snapnames WILL get it for you.

Nonsense.

-t

[Magic]

Originally posted by thewitt

Nonsense.

-t

Excuse me??? Would you like to elaborate on your extremely detailed insult?

[dgessler]

LOL! Sorry just had to burst out laughing


I heard my friend who is really into this domain thing, and he said he beat out snapnames a few times on huge drops by NS on occasion.

[Omni]

How does he do that!?

[hostjet]

I've not seen any data that supports one over the other as far as success of grabbed names goes. Do you have experience that shows something different?

Thewitt, have you used either service?
I have tracked names on many an occasion. I always look at who gets the names that I am after and the data points to snapnames being pretty good at what they do. expirefish does not even come close. It is always changing, companies evolve different techniques etc and who is king of the domain name expiring market one day may not be the next. IAREgistry used to be one of the top players, not any more.

I have also used namewinner and snapnames on the same name and snapnames wins out.
Of course snapnames are far from being a successful gurantee of securing an expired domain name, there are people out there who must have links or deals with some of the smaller registrars who repeatedly beat snapnames every time for the very top names.

But I dont think you will find any data to dispute my claim that snapnames is better than expirefish, if you do, please let me know.