I received an email from NameJet about a webinar covering dropping domain names. The free webinar is co-sponsored by NameJet and SnapNames. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 8th at 2pm (Eastern time). You’ll need to sign up in advance to participate in this webinar.
Here’s the email, which includes information about what will be covered during the webinar:
I received a press release from SnapNames this afternoon that may be of interest to people who buy and sell .cc and .TV domain names. SnapNames has added more drop catching resources for these two ccTLD domain extensions. Both of these extensions are operated by Verisign.
I am almost entirely a .com domain name buyer, so this SnapNames news won’t really impact me. Hopefully by adding these resources for .cc and .TV, the SnapNames / NameJet duo is not taking away resources from .com drop catching!
I am unsure if this is related to today’s announcement, but if you look at “The Drop” heading on NameJet’s home page right now, 9 of the 15 domain names listed are .cc domain names.
Here is a copy of the SnapNames press release I received:
Earlier today, SnapNames announced that the price of backorders would be increasing from $69 to $79. Because of the company’s partnership with NameJet (and the fact that both have relationships with Web.com), I wondered if NameJet would also be increasing pricing in line with SnapNames’ price increase.
Unfortunately for those of us who bid on NameJet, the answer is yes on pending delete auctions. In a comment posted in the SnapNames article, here’s what NameJet Marketing Director Scott Pruitt said:
SnapNames just announced that the price of backorders will increase to $79 from $69 (around 14%) on Tuesday July 19th. The company references advances in technology, improvement in security, and other domain services as reasons for this price increase.
The price increase will impact both expiry and deleting inventory. Because SnapNames and NameJet partner up on deleting domain names, I reached out to NameJet General Manager Jonathan Tenenbaum to see if NameJet also has plans to increase its backorder pricing.
Here is the email sent to customers:
Web.com published a job opening on LinkedIn to fill the role of Director of Business Development at SnapNames. I would assume someone in a bizdev role at the company might need to have extensive domain industry connections, so perhaps this job opening would be of interest to some readers.
According to the listing, here is the summary of the job opportunity:
The Director, Business Development SnapNames will develop and manage strategic partnerships and alliances, implement partnerships and applications within the SnapNames Group.
In addition to business-related qualifications,
Radix is working with SnapNames to auction off some of their reserved .Website domain names. According to a press release shared with me this morning, “Radix will be placing a substantial amount of inventory up for auction exclusively through SnapNames, starting with .website domains.”
I took a quick peek at the .Website auctions that are now live on SnapNames, and I see 8 pages of auctions with 500 domain names on each page. Among the thousands of .Website domain names are short numeric domains, one and two word domain names, and a wide variety of other types of domain names.
Some of the .Website auctions up for sale in this auction include the following names that were mentioned in the press release:
