SAV.com - $5.95 .com Registrations

[DaveX]

I haven't used them yet but I noticed they have .com for $5.95 and are icann accredited.

I noticed another member has been registering names with them.

Anyone have feedback about them?

@twiki Can you share your experience so far?

 

[Recons.Com]

Hello Everyone! Nick from the Sav team here. We appreciate all the great feedback in this thread and look forward to be an active participant on namePros moving forward. Let me see if I can add some clarity to a few points in this thread:

Payment Methods:
We currently work credit card processor called Braintree which is actually owned by PayPal. We use their Drop-In credit card integration which means your card details are sent directly to Braintree and never once hit our own servers. Because your card is tokenized and securely stored at Braintree, we are able to automatically process payments for your won auctions and caught backorders without having to ask for an authorization every time like we would with PayPal. Expanding our payment methods is something this is on our roadmap though.

NameKing:
We did acquire the NameKing ICANN accreditation about a year ago and have been working to re-brand it as Sav. We will continue to add new features and expand the number of TLDs we offer.

URL Redirects & DNS:
We just launched this feature a few hours ago! You can now set free redirects and free DNS from your Sav.com account by going to the domain’s settings page.

Welcome!

Are you guys planning to join the Fast Transfer network with Godaddy any time soon?

And, what is the secret of all those landers I see with SAV for domains priced at $295?

 

[Nick R]

Are you guys planning to join the Fast Transfer network with Godaddy any time soon?

This is on our very long todo list but we are not sure when this will happen as of now.

 

[tonyk2000]

Hello Everyone! Nick from the Sav team here. We appreciate all the great feedback in this thread and look forward to be an active participant on namePros moving forward

You might want to consider joining afternic and sedo.... As fast transfer partners. And further develop the registrar-based marketplace. As a matter of fact, it would be competition to Dynadot, Epik and NameSilo ...
Competition is always good

 

[Recons.Com]

This is on our very long todo list but we are not sure when this will happen as of now.

Thanks! There are some investors like me for whom this is a must, regardless of promos. Let me know when this is done.

And what about those $295 domains? Are you guys buying the names from drops and setting the low bin?

 

[Samer]

@Nick R, there’s something to be said about tackling many tough questions. Thank you

Samer

 

[Windoms]

Thanks! There are some investors like me for whom this is a must, regardless of promos. Let me know when this is done.

And what about those $295 domains? Are you guys buying the names from drops and setting the low bin?

$295, or $280?
All the ones I stumbled upon in the past months were $280.
Whoever has been doing that has great taste in buying the right domains from drops.

 

[Recons.Com]

$295, or $280?
All the ones I stumbled upon in the past months were $280.
Whoever has been doing that has great taste in buying the right domains from drops.

Could be 280. I think this could be strategy by them.

They might be buying and selling cheap for aftermarket.

They can grow fast by buying for themselves instead of just focusing on discounts. At this price they might be selling 4% of names. If they register 10000 names, that is 400 sold for about 112000 minus 80k to renew, 32k profit.

Not bad for 80k investment, the names won't transfer out, they will get end users. The only negative is they try to lure investors while competing with them at very low price point.

 

[Domain Shane]

This thread was enough to get me to sign up and check it out. But the 2 factor auth doesn't work for me. Has anyone set it up yet. I like to set up 2 factor before I do anything in an account. Even if its just a few hundred dollars. Get it fixed and I'll give it a try

 

[vast]

This thread was enough to get me to sign up and check it out. But the 2 factor auth doesn't work for me. Has anyone set it up yet. I like to set up 2 factor before I do anything in an account. Even if its just a few hundred dollars. Get it fixed and I'll give it a try

Have just checked, email 2FA works fine for me, haven't tried SMS option though.

 

[Domain Shane]

Have just checked, email 2FA works fine for me, haven't tried SMS option though.

Text was the issue for me

 

[dirk]

Text was the issue for me

I think they're messing up the country code in the telephone number. I explicitly used +31 (my CC) and registrant info showed differently.

 

[Domain_savvy]

Sav,
Can you guys allow to remove and add payment methods whenever needed?
I have added my card but unable to remove it after the transaction. Usually i remove the card when the work is done, a step of caution i practice regardless of how fortified a payment gateway is.
Please add this step for users.

 

[RapidNames.com]

Add Crypto payment

 

[vij]

add authentification method like "AUTHY", Like The One Namesilo Uses.

I am still holding out as I don't like giving out my card details, PayPal would be nice

 

[vast]

add authentification method like "AUTHY", Like The One Namesilo Uses.

Agree, TOTP authentication method is the de facto standard.

 

[DAN.COM]

You can sell domains there too, the landers are a sharp and precise 100% copies of DAN, I notified @DAN.COM long ago.
That cheap .com registration was already there in september when people were going crazy over epik's 6.99$ 300 likes.

I'm sure they won't be around long if they blatantly keep copying our UI/UX. We'll look into who the owner of SAV is, but Emerge Media is a seller with us that parks all their domains with DAN as well so we'd be surprised if they are the owners of SAV.

 

[Grilled]

We'll look into who the owner of SAV is, but Emerge Media is a seller with us that parks all their domains with DAN as well so we'd be surprised if they are the owners of SAV.

I don't think there is a huge mystery here. https://www.sav.com/pages/terms_toc

@Nick R (I assume is the CTO)

As for Anthos C (CEO) there is a public linkedin profile linking him as the founder and CEO of Emerge Media, INC.

Maybe you're thinking of a different Emerge Media?

Also noting, the Sav.com landing pages I've seen appeared to be seller (Sav Customer) owned listings.

---------------.com is owned and listed by a Sav customer. Get your domains listed today.

And as noted in my previous screenshot, the option to sell my domain in my Sav domain management console is currently not available, stating Coming Soon. Possibly suggesting it's currently in beta or invite only mode.

 

[efizi]

Hello Everyone! Nick from the Sav team here. We appreciate all the great feedback in this thread and look forward to be an active participant on namePros moving forward. Let me see if I can add some clarity to a few points in this thread:

Payment Methods:
We currently work credit card processor called Braintree which is actually owned by PayPal. We use their Drop-In credit card integration which means your card details are sent directly to Braintree and never once hit our own servers. Because your card is tokenized and securely stored at Braintree, we are able to automatically process payments for your won auctions and caught backorders without having to ask for an authorization every time like we would with PayPal. Expanding our payment methods is something this is on our roadmap though.

NameKing:
We did acquire the NameKing ICANN accreditation about a year ago and have been working to re-brand it as Sav. We will continue to add new features and expand the number of TLDs we offer.

URL Redirects & DNS:
We just launched this feature a few hours ago! You can now set free redirects and free DNS from your Sav.com account by going to the domain’s settings page.

Hello @Nick R
I do have a question about the auctions at Sav.com. Why does the auction process differ from every other domain auction site we know? When an auction is won, the bidder with the winning bid has time frame to pay for the domain, Godaddy has 48hrs and the other sites has their respective period also. So why the use of "Preauthorized Payment" when bidding for domains?

I placed a bid for a domain last week Friday but did not win, however, my card was charged because the preauthorized payment involved. Now that I did not win I am yet to get a refund for the sum charged. So this makes me think, assuming there were 114 bidders interested in a name and the auction ended in say $3,500.00, what happens to the preauthorized payment made by the 113 bidders who lost in action? Will Sav be refunding dollars every day for bidders who did not win? If 100 of the 114 bidders placed a bid above $1,000.00 then that means Sav just charged at least $100,000.00 from bidders who did not win the name. This, to my knowledge, does not happen in any auction in the domain industry.

So, I am quite confused about this modus operandi. I will appreciate if you can clarify further on this,

I also look forward to a refund of the preauthorized payment made for the bid I placed last Friday. I assume this should be almost immediate since the winning bidder has already paid for the domain.

Regards.

 

[Soofi]

Hello @Nick R
I do have a question about the auctions at Sav.com. Why does the auction process differ from every other domain auction site we know? When an auction is won, the bidder with the winning bid has time frame to pay for the domain, Godaddy has 48hrs and the other sites has their respective period also. So why the use of "Preauthorized Payment" when bidding for domains?

I placed a bid for a domain last week Friday but did not win, however, my card was charged because the preauthorized payment involved. Now that I did not win I am yet to get a refund for the sum charged. So this makes me think, assuming there were 114 bidders interested in a name and the auction ended in say $3,500.00, what happens to the preauthorized payment made by the 113 bidders who lost in action? Will Sav be refunding dollars every day for bidders who did not win? If 100 of the 114 bidders placed a bid above $1,000.00 then that means Sav just charged at least $100,000.00 from bidders who did not win the name. This, to my knowledge, does not happen in any auction in the domain industry.

So, I am quite confused about this modus operandi. I will appreciate if you can clarify further on this,

I also look forward to a refund of the preauthorized payment made for the bid I placed last Friday. I assume this should be almost immediate since the winning bidder has already paid for the domain.

Regards.

This is bizarre.. Did SAV respond?

 

[efizi]

This is bizarre.. Did SAV respond?

I have only reached out via this thread, so I await a response from @Nick R