Changes at Snapnames?

http://domainnames.blogster.com/snapnames_price_increase.html

We buy a lot of low dollar names at Snap with the justification that we are simply trading paper..  That could slow down if this is true..  funny thing is we often get into unexpected bidding contests on large swaths of those names justifying that we're dollar cost averaging. We don't know which names we will run-up on till we get contested.. With higher prices in the offing we'll probably start holding back on the bulk.

This potential bidder vacuum could actually make for interesting opportunities if you're a small guy trying to score a good name relactively cheaply between the raindrops at Snap.

Quote: "I am surprised that no one has mentioned this yet. (unless I missed it)..."

***FS*** I've been soo sleepy post moving  ;)

Comments

[Michael Zielinski]

I checked with snapnames support and they confirmed. Their priority partners can now set reserve prices. The prices indicated on the other post reflect the minimum bids set by those registrars.

I also used to grab numerous low value domains per day, but looks like not any more.

[brian]

It looks like they are readying some functionality to give more information on the domain names they auction such as traffic data.

I noticed on their download file "snptopauctions" is has 3 traffic columns. While this is interesting, it's just going to result in higher prices which are sometimes not justified. If you know that a name had traffic in the last 30 days, thats fine, but it says absolutely nothing of the quality of that traffic. It is usually very short-lived traffic.

I'd love to see data publicly displayed such as the quality of the traffic (referred vs. direct). That would really level the playing field in my opinion.