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SnapNames.com is down~ 1:30 am until 9:30 pm PST July 4th

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Posted by: Jamie Zoch -

If you were planning on bidding on any auctions at SnapNames.com on this 4th of July, you are out of luck!

The SnapNames® site will be unavailable on July 4, 2008 from 1:30AM until 9:30PM PST.

What will SnapNames do with all the domains that would of ended at auction today? We will have to wait and see!

As I expected as well, SnapNames stopped grabbing it’s massive amount of domains on the pending delete drop with the new ICANN fee, but this could also be to problems they are having, so I will have to look into it. Snap normally grabs in the range of 20,000 to 40,000 domains per day and runs them through their "in auction" section. If the domain does not sell, they simply drop it on the 4th day and get their money back! I have seen this number up to 75,000 domains!

On Wednesday, they only grabbed 128 domain names. On Thursday, they only grabbed 94 domain names.

Story developing….

5 comments for “SnapNames.com is down~ 1:30 am until 9:30 pm PST July 4th”

Jason

Maybe related, but I grabbed a 1st tier drop of an uber premium LLLL.net (BDMM,net) on Thursday which Snap usually always gets. I was very surprised…

**Jamie Says**
I think you will see a lot more of this!!! I really wish it wasn’t the holiday and I could do some work! Off to another party, but I’d rather be working.

July 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

bulent

snap still down, and good to know that
**Jamie Says**
I just noticed they are still down (7-5-2008) but they changed the error message that auctions ending July 4, would end on July 5.

July 5th, 2008 at 6:50 am

Tony Lam, DMD

Looks like they will have to postpone everything another day again. Down as of 1:36PM EST

July 5th, 2008 at 11:27 am

bulent

i guess enom has big budget to make icann rich
many domains i watch taken by enom
i might check today how many taken by enom todays drop

July 5th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Tony Lam, DMD

The names enom is picking up will they be auctioned off on Namejet or warehoused?

**Jamie Says**
Enom does drop many that they pick up, but they also keep a large group as well. They will not run them through NameJet that I have ever seen.

July 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pm