Won Snap auction - Dubious WHOIS creation date

[NameCharger]

What would cause a WHOIS record for a domain won through a Snapnames auction to show the creation date as the same day I took control of it?

Every other domain I've won through drop catching services shows the creation date from previous years.

This particular domain has archive.org results back to 1999, shows no drops, yet according to the WHOIS, the creation date is in Jan '08.

I emailed the registrar awaiting response, just wondered if anyone has had similar problem.

Thanks for your insight.

 

[Len]

I am also curious to know the answer to this. The same thing happened to the last 2 domains I won at Snap!

 

[Name Trader]

If SnapNames drop-caught the domain, it would be a new registration.

 

[NameCharger]

Snap has caught some for me recently where WHOIS shows > +1 years continuous reg. These particular domains are registered with Register & Answerable.

Why are some domains showing > 1+ years continuous reg while others are not?

 

[hostingsearch]

If Snap can sell those expired domains, their partner registrars won't drop those domains. They simply move the domain to your account. Because they've never been deleted, the Creation Date won't change.

If a domain had been dropped and later caught by Snapnames, it's shown as a new domain in whois database.

 

[JoeCanadian]

If you are the only bidder on the day of the drop they register the name and give it you immediately instead of having a 3 day auction. So creation and date you take control are the same.

 

[NameCharger]

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[Malaysia]

so to clarify does that means if u are the only bidder ..u get the 1999 creation date ?

 

[alanchau]

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I think you're looking at the registrar's creation date and not the "true" one from the registry.

Use iWhois.com and look at the very bottom where it says "registry whois lookup" and that will be the "true" creation date.

 

[NameBuyer.com]

It may depend on the original registrar. Snapnames has agreements with several registrars:

SnapNames continues to add members of this elite registrar group to its Priority Partner program, which now includes Network Solutions, Dotster, Register.com, DotRegistrar, DomainPeople, Moniker, DirectNIC and others. These partners offer their expired domains through SnapNames before they are available anywhere else in the public market, giving SnapNames customers exclusive access to some of the highest value--and best priced--domain names on the market.

I think domains transferred from these registrars would show the original registration since they didn't truly go through the typical expiration/drop cycle. If the domain is aquired after it expires from any other registrar it should show a new date in the whois record since the domain was momentarily not registered by anyone.

 

[DotWeekly]

What would cause a WHOIS record for a domain won through a Snapnames auction to show the creation date as the same day I took control of it?

Back ordering a Pending Delete domain, and you were the only one to back order.

It's the only way!