Hi All, Happy New Year!
Marc is right. I have some experience with namewinner too; see DomBot.com or directly at: http://www.identities.com/dombot/page515636.htm The best thing to do is EVERYTHING!.... In my experience, Snapnames is a great service and they seem to do better than Namewinner. However, if you really, really want a domain use every available resource; Snapnames, Namewinner, and others (see the WLS service debates for mention of several other fee-for-acquisition services... Does someone have a resource list? George?). Finally, as Marc suggested, use a real-time registrar and click, click, click like a mad monkey (OK. Write a mad-monkey script!). You too can beat Snapnames sometimes! I have. But when? Well, there used to be a drop routine -- 6 days after deletion from whois so you would have to check almost daily for deletions. What's going on these days? Do we not have the promised 30-day recovery period now? Anyone? Off list, if desired. No one will accuse Verisign of being consistant with their drop dates! Never have. Never will. Especially now that they have Gingerbread dreams of their WLSanta coming to town! Yet, you can be sure these domains will drop LIKE FLIES once Verisign gets paid to steal them away from the public! Best Regards, Loren Marc Schneiders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, at 13:44 [=GMT-0500], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Snapnames are useless, > A good alternativ as previously discussed seems to be namewinner.com. > But I do not have any experience with them up to now. I do. They once or twice got me a not too valuable name at a bid of 30 or 50. Recently I bid the minimum (now 8.75 IIRC) for a name, but also put a script at work myself. They did not get it for me. My script did. The domain went at an unusual time, not the drop time but a few hours before. It was with Dotregistrar before.
