SnapNames.com Has HUGE PROBLEM with Auctions Today!!

[DotWeekly]

I just got off the phone with SnapNames.com......

There system when CRAZY today with about 40 minutes to go in the auctions, so if you won a domain, you might NOT of. The lady I talked to on the phone said some auctions were reset for 20 minutes, some 1 hour and some 3 days. It was sappose to reset for 1 hour, but there system is still haywire.

The domains that I had backordered reset for 3 days, but she said they might reset for 1 hour or so on.... WTF?

It's going to be real hard to try and get the names you had backordered today because who know's when the auction is going to end, or restart I should say......

Keep your eye's open :gl:

 

[gazzip]

I just posted my frustration about this in the other thread - They need to get it sorted out quick !

Mine got put back for two hours - I then won the auction - and now it shows it has 3 days to go on it !!!!!! Aaaaaaahhhhhh :yell:

Damn I'm pi**ed


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[DotWeekly]

I'm F*****G Pi**ed as well.

I already had the names that I won today SOLD and listed another in an auction.

Now I have to babysit the auction, because who know's when it's going to end. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

They should do the right thing and give the people who won the auction there names. None of this extending crap, it's not my fault they had problems with the system. I already had my bid in.

For once, the people that bid early would win, instead of the snipers

 

[greenlight]

i'm in an auction

all by myself, with the clock moving very fast as 2 days have passed in 2 hours.

i hope i win.

 

[ablaye]

These kind of things would never happened on ebay.

 

[wot]

These kind of things would never happened on ebay.

:hehe:

 

[Kate]

Got an E-mail from them saying they have suffered a DDOS attack...

 

[GoPC]

What is amazing in all of this is that if you look closely... SOME of the domains NEVER showed up again.

I had a domain that I really wanted cornered... NO bids. Then the Blackout. When it came back up, most of the domains were there... TWO were not.

They had ended (with NO bidders) but were not listed. The 6 other domains that I had WON, that showed Payment Pending, were RELISTED and extended first for 2 hours, then 2 Days, then 24 hours...

Meanwhile... the two Importatnt Domains that mysteriously vanished, showed up on Whois, Registered to SNAP until 2007.

The letter they sent said that some domain sales were processed and cannot be reversed... these were NOT sold!!! The once I won, that showed payments processing WERE reveresed.

Totally NOT right!!

GoPC

 

[DotWeekly]

I would like to here some of the prices and domains, that ended that they did not Restart. Somebody might of got a really good deal Not me as always

What a MESS!!!!!

 

[GoPC]

I would like to here some of the prices and domains

From what I can see... SNAP got some really good prices.

On a better note, the auctions that were restarted just completed (some for the 3rd time for me now) and other than the 2 that ended up in Snap's coffers, I won them all.

Here's my list:

AdobeUpdates.com
AppleComputerStores.com
BritishRallyChampionship.com
DaltonBookStores.com
jack-o-lantern.net
Lend-co.com
OldWestCafe.com

GoPC

 

[bilirkishi]

Got an E-mail from them saying they have suffered a DDOS attack...

me too...

 

[hawkeye]

I'm just curious, but wouldn't AppleComputerStores, and DaltonBookStores, be more or less blatant TM, infringement, bad faith, and whatever else, issues etc., etc.??

 

[DotWeekly]

Here's my list:

AdobeUpdates.com
AppleComputerStores.com
BritishRallyChampionship.com
DaltonBookStores.com
jack-o-lantern.net
Lend-co.com
OldWestCafe.com

GoPC

Were these $29 backorders or $60?

I got the 3 of mine as well
These are all PR domains with Links

100000Votes.com
AdriainBloom.com
BlueInferno.com I like this one.

 

[gazzip]

BlueInferno.com I like this one.

me too, sounds sweet I got the one I was wanting.


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[IAmAllanShore]

We had a major league denial of service attack today starting at 11:23 Pacific time and it took us a little over an hour to stop it. During that time the auctions reached their closing time as the systems were still running with the data they had, but we could not talk to them even to say stop. When we could connect again we stopped the processing as fast as possible but in the race of human against computer, computer was able to process some auctions to completion including sending all information to the registrar for the winning bidder. This meant that some bidders that had not set proxy bids were shut out. There is no way to reverse that situation as we can not take a name back from the registrant at a registrar without their permission unless they do not pay for the name per ICANN rules.

We apologize to all those who did not get to bid as they wished. We will of course look for ways to prevent such events or at least better reduce negative impact as we can.

For the auctions we could stop, there was still much verification to do and cleanup and we finally decided it was taking so long we reset the auctions to end Saturday at the usual time. Again we are very sorry for the inconvenience of that.


___________________________________________
Nelson Brady, VP of Engineering
115 NW First Avenue, Suite 300
Portland, OR 97209





At least in this case they've let be known what the issue was.
Better than the MJF or Unicef domain situations.

-Allan

 

[GoPC]

I'm just curious, but wouldn't AppleComputerStores, and DaltonBookStores, be more or less blatant TM, infringement, bad faith, and whatever else, issues etc., etc.??

I don't think so... Anyone can own an Apple Computer Store and the correct name of the Book Seller is B.Dalton Books... again, anyone can hold a Book store

My reasoning is this... I belong to an affiliate program that has a ton of Apple Computer Store related affiliate programs, even to the official Apple Store. They openly state "own your own Apple Computer Store" in their advertising.

If I am an Apple Store Affiliate Seller, officially and approved by Apple, am I not an Apple Computer Store?

Kinda makes sense to me.... maybe I'm way off.

GoPC

 

[Jo]

We had a major league denial of service attack today starting at 11:23 Pacific time and it took us a little over an hour to stop it. During that time the auctions reached their closing time as the systems were still running with the data they had, but we could not talk to them even to say stop. When we could connect again we stopped the processing as fast as possible but in the race of human against computer, computer was able to process some auctions to completion including sending all information to the registrar for the winning bidder. This meant that some bidders that had not set proxy bids were shut out. There is no way to reverse that situation as we can not take a name back from the registrant at a registrar without their permission unless they do not pay for the name per ICANN rules.

Obviously the attack was generated by a bidder not wanting any competition. Hoping to get names for cheaper.

 

[GoPC]

But WHAT was the domain?

I have the list for that day... nothing on there struck me as a Million Dollar name.

Thoughts?

GoPC

 

[Jo]

But WHAT was the domain?

I have the list for that day... nothing on there struck me as a Million Dollar name.

Thoughts?

GoPC

I have no idea, I don't use snap, yet! :lol:

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Kinda makes sense to me.... maybe I'm way off.

GoPC

You're way off

It's ok though, most are.

Just because you work as a McDonald's Fry Guy doesn't mean you can legitimately get McDonaldsFries.com or anything similar. Just because your a Boy Scout doesn't mean you can get BoyScoutsofAmerica.org , etc. As well, I guarantee you the "Apple Store" agreement spells out in great detail how "wrong" that move would be.

On the topic of the DOS; I don't see any single "Million $" domain that was being targetted, it was probably rather a collection of smaller names that could be purchased together without raising as many alarms. Just my gut instinct.

-Allan