Snapnames Auction - A little warning

[John Baron]

not sure if everybody knows about this so...
a little story and advice to you all

i recently wanted to sell a name , so i listed it on a few places and i also decided to list it on snapnames - on the offer/counter offer option,
the name is listed at moniker ( you cant list a name on snap if its not being hosted at moniker )

i admit i did not read the little letters in contract agreement , but i was really surprise of what happen next ...

day after my listing was approve and confirm at snap i did a whois on the domain from some reason and i was really really surprise to see the name is no longer listed on my name and the whois was saying "snapnames pending auction "

i did not had control over the name any more !

i could not sell it on outer venous , and worse then that - i emailed a few domain buyers about it - but now i cant really prove i own the name any more...

i must also say that after calling and emailing moniker and snapnames i could manage to cancel the listing and get the name back to my control so the response i got from them was pretty quick and good .

again - part of it was my own fault for not reading the little letters in the sale contract but still... changing the whois of the name seem very brutal , i know i wont be listing my name there again .

so if you are planing to list your name at snapnames take that factor into account .

just my 2 cents :blink:

 

[dotMPEG]

thanks for the information.. it is good to hear you got the domain again..

 

[nuco6]

well known

 

[RazorNF]

Yeah, they do this to prevent buyers from contacting you directly while the sale is going on.

Otherwise you could agree to a sale outside of the auction, and Snap would lose the commission.

 

[John Baron]

Yeah, they do this to prevent buyers from contacting you directly while the sale is going on.

Otherwise you could agree to a sale outside of the auction, and Snap would lose the commission.

yeah , there have reasons to do it , but they are the only one that are doing it , sedo,godaddy,bido etc are not doing it , just the fact i listed it on a make an offer listing on snap does not mean i will not make an effort to sale it on different venous as well

 

[D0MA1N]

After end of auction, whois-data will be yours again.

 

[mosilager]

Thank you for pointing this out, I did not know that, and I've put some of my domains for sale on snap-names via moniker too!.

 

[domainbartender]

It could happen to anyone of us.. thanks for sharing your experience!

 

[CamMK27]

Thanks for sharing this. Now people who don't know about this can avoid headache in future.