NameJet is now Live.

[Devil_Dog]

Read more about it here: http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/10/namejet-goes-live-this-afternoon/

I hope snapnames feels the heat.

 

[Erdy]

Godian,

Thank you for your reply. It certainly helps to understand. You explain it much better than their website does.

I still find namejet rather useless for domains that are not with a partner registrar. Those domains appear in their system only for the last five days. You don't have enough time to search for them.

There is no reason for them not to include other registrar's domains earlier like snapnames does. Only the last five days is not enough. If the domain is not with enom or netsol, you will have to search for those domains somewhere else (at snapnames) and then come back to namejet to backorder them to increase your chances. I bet they won't beat snapnames anyway.

Also there is no reason for them not to integrate pre-release domains with the rest. These should be on the same list. There should be a tickbox on search option where you chose to see only the domains already in their system.

Also 'browse domains' menu is completely unneccessary because if you don't limit a search you are supposed to browse the whole list. These people who designed clubdrop and namejet are neither very intelligent nor they listen to user feedback.

The terminology they use is very confusing as well. It was a bad idea by them to use terms related to expiration circle. Especially there is no way the term "pre-release" can be interpreted as "partner registrar domains". The terms Pre-release or pending delete should not be used for categories.

In their FAQ they use different terms for the same thing. It is veryv badly written. At one place they say the domain will enter a multi-bidder auction then, again on the same page they say the domain will enter a 'private auction'. These are the same thing.

In short, namejet sucks.

I think snapnames is going to feel the heat. Netsol, enom and godaddy domains are now outside of reach of snapnames if you backorder them on time. I think this could be %60 of all domains.

 

[DotWeekly]

When will these drop catching services get the clue to put in a "Great" search feature tool?

I mean, how the hell do you find domains with these search features.

Domains starts with: 1, 2, A, B
Length. 15 char or less thru 5 or less
TLD.

No Keyword, No stat search, No nothing.... Come On!

Who's going to be first to get the new NameJet Search tool released?

 

[Earthian]

I think the interface is pretty good , it just needs certain developments ... the keyword search (that Yofie said) and some other features ... eg. exact length (3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , etc) , numbers (yes/no/only) , PR , number of backlinks , maybe a traffic estimation depended on the traffic received on the after-expiration-parked-page from the expiration until the auction (if the registries can provide such data) , etc ... these features could be rather easy to implement and could increase backorders , bids and sales ...






also , having the domains-for-deletion for more than 5 days visible (as marcello said) might stop people from going (also) to other dropcatchers to search for them ...






but I think that ...

a. they tried to make a rather simple site (not heavy on features) so that they attract many domainers , new domainers and end-users to their service ...

b. they try to concentrate on their strong point which is the NetSol/eNom Pre-Releases and not too much on other registrars while having a snappy 5-day Pending Delete category for all other domains ...

c. it just launched so they will be changing/improving it as days pass by ...

d. I think they kind of hurried a little to launch it now that SnapNames reputation is rather low amongst domain communities because of the SwapNames issue and while certain attention is drown to SnapNames/backordering services ...

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[MadAboutDomains]

Snapnames has had it's glory. It was inevitable that this would happen because Network Solutions are clever enough and rich enough to develop their own platform. Does Snapnames have many sources of domains left?

 

[Erdy]

The only good thing about namejet is that you can see if somebody has backordered a domain. At snapnames there was no way you could know which domains have been backordered.

To see backordered domains,
1. Click on "browse domains" on top menu
2. This will open up a page shwing pre release domains which is what we want to see. Now click the column title "high bid" to sort according bidding amounth.
3. Now you should see a list of domains that have a backorder price next to them. These are all the domains that are backordered by others. Those without a backorder don't have a price.

If you don't see any domain at all, and it says "no data returned" this is a glitch. On right there are page numbers. You are on page 1 but it is blank. Now click page 2 and then click page 1 again. This should fix it.

Under 'my account' > settings> my preferences, there is a choice for number of domains per page. Don't bother with that as it shows 50 domains per page even if you choose the max, 100.

When will those non-domainer web masters learn that 100 domains per page is nothing? It should be at least 500 or even 1000 domains per page. If I want to copy all domains with a backorder I have to go through at least 6 different pages.

 

[seeker]

snapnames can still survive with catching dropped domains from so many other registrars.
They will be basically directly competing with pool as they did before their partnership with NETSOL.

 

[Kate]

The only good thing about namejet is that you can see if somebody has backordered a domain. At snapnames there was no way you could know which domains have been backordered.
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I see this as a double edged sword. This will attract attention to the names you are after :yell:

snapnames can still survive with catching dropped domains from so many other registrars.
They will be basically directly competing with pool as they did before their partnership with NETSOL.

I guess so but no doubt netsol has some good names that fetch high bids. Clearly this will have an impact on revenue.

 

[cdboard]

during login, I was given three check boxes to check, to agree to terms, with a link besides each. but only one link led to terms; the other two led nowhere else. yeah, I tried leaving those two boxes unchecked. it didn't work.

 

[gazzip]

Did anyone find out when the cut off date will be, snapnames are still getting NetSols names at the mo - EnergySmart.com dropped yesterday and is a snap, a netsol name.

I'm confused


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[DotWeekly]

Did anyone find out when the cut off date will be, snapnames are still getting NetSols names at the mo - EnergySmart.com dropped yesterday and is a snap, a netsol name.

I'm confused

My guess is Oct 25th will be the last day for NetSol domains to be at Snap.

Source...... It's a secret but this is my educated guess!

 

[gazzip]

My guess is Oct 25th will be the last day for NetSol domains to be at Snap.

Source...... It's a secret but this is my educated guess!

aaahh, inside source eh :blink: Thanks Yofie, I have a few backorders I don't want to miss but everytime I check at NameJet they still don't show.

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[DotWeekly]

aaahh, inside source eh :blink: Thanks Yofie, I have a few backorders I don't want to miss but everytime I check at NameJet they still don't show.

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Thanks Gazzip....

So I was off a couple days. Here is offical word from NetSol

"Any backorder requests for domains that expired on or after September 21, 2007 and are scheduled to go to auction October 27, 2007 or later will be handled by NameJet, our new auction provider. If you have already placed a backorder request with our previous auction provider, SnapNames(R) for domains coming up for auction after October 27, 2007, you must place a new request with NameJet in order to participate in the auction.

Backorder requests expiring prior to October 27, 2007 will still be handled by SnapNames. If you have a SnapNames account, it will remain active, however SnapNames will no longer carry Network Solutions expired domain name inventory. All backorder requests for Network Solutions inventory will need to go through NameJet."

Thanks for the NP's Gazzip!

 

[italiandragon]

I tried a name with both NameJet and SN.....and it`s there on both of them.

On SN min bid is $60 while at NJ is $70.

NJ sucks already......how do I browse all the names without some filtering criteria?

And they call themselfes EXPERTS ?

 

[Erdy]

italiandragon,
You need to click 'browse domains' on top menu.

I agree that this is stupid. If you seach domains and don't apply any criteria, you are supposed to see the whole list. But NJ shows you nothing.

I bet it will take like 2 or 3 years until they correct this.

The worst thing is still the terminology they use. How stupid it is to use the term "pre-release" and "pending delete" when they actually mean "partner registrars" and "other registrars".

 

[notlikeyou]

I tried a name with both NameJet and SN.....and it`s there on both of them.

On SN min bid is $60 while at NJ is $70.

I happened to do a search on both before placing a bid on a name as well..

SN bid was $11 cheaper than NJ, I guess it pays to shop both for the time being.

 

[gazzip]

Thanks Gazzip....

Here is offical word from NetSol

Yeah, I just got that email and was about to post it


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The worst thing is still the terminology they use. How stupid it is to use the term "pre-release" and "pending delete" when they actually mean "partner registrars" and "other registrars".

I'm still now sure how it works yet


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[Erdy]

Hello gazzip,

When you make a search (or browse) you must have seen the two main tabs that say "pre-release" and "pending delete".

By "pre-release" they mean these are domains with enom or netsol and we don't need to catch them. They are already within our system and they will be auction of definately in this website and not somewhere else. Right now enom domains are within their system but netsol domains will come later as you pointed out.

By "pending delete" they mean, these are the domains not with a partner registrar but we will try to catch them for you if you are naive enough to backorder from us.

 

[thebutler]

An Italian 4 letter problem

Italiandragon and myself might be some of those folks searching for some nice LLLL.com dropping BUT the under 5 characters search on Namejet sucks. With snap you could select 4 chacacters and exclude numbers or hypens.

Namejet needs some work on their search set up.

I won't say they are experts in search set up.

I tried a name with both NameJet and SN.....and it`s there on both of them.

On SN min bid is $60 while at NJ is $70.

NJ sucks already......how do I browse all the names without some filtering criteria?

And they call themselfes EXPERTS ?

 

[Earthian]

some interesting news ... namejet.com was sold on afternic for $600 on 10th of September 2007 (sauce , or go straight to bid history)








marcello - I think their terminology is correct ...

first of all , the domains are registered at the companies that own NameJet , namely NetSol and eNom (and also BulkRegister which is owned by DemandMedia that owns eNom) , therfore it is not preferred registrars anymore ...

secondly , they don't need to use the terminology of other sites or competitors' sites (in deleted dropcatching only in a couple of weeks) ...

thirdly , they want to be more descriptive for new customers/domainers and the word Pre-Release is much more stronger than Preferred-Partners , giving an extra level of assurance ...

lastly , Pending Deletions , which refer to domains from all registrars (and not just "other registrars") is again a more descriptive term for domains that will be deleted soon while adding an element of urgency (with "Pending") , which is "needed" , both because customers should be aware that the auction is in <5 days and so as to boost purchases/sales ...

some descriptions and the wording could use a touch-up , but I think it is to be expected since it is a brand new service ...








people looking for better searches - try the Advance Search (on the top right , under the Search button) ... it should have a specific wordcount and possibly more features (eg. price , bids or bidders ... though , someone might say that prices and bidders can be sorted by clicking the respective buttons on the top in the search results) ... but at least it has 4 keyword searches (with "contains" , "starts" , "ends" , "matches" for each) for searching up to 4 different keywords at once ... and also dashes/number exclusion ...

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[seeker]

I won't say they are experts in search set up.

You mean... They suck at it...