I’ve had a history of difficulty with SnapNames wins at various registrars. Thankfully, it looks like many of these domains will automatically be transferred to Moniker in the future.

I agree that my original allegation could be determined “obviously fraudulent”, but I still think that not automatically updating the whois registration to match the new Snapnames buyer of a domain from IYD is extremely suspicious, and even more damaging because it prevents potential buyers from contacting the rightful owner of almost a year, unless the domain buyer is manually following up on the registrar to make sure their whois is updated. All of us who purchased domains on auction at Snapnames knows how much of a time-killer that would be, and we put our trust in Snapnames and their feeders (registrars) to follow the standard rules.

Great article and followup, Andrew. Thx.

I think never changing the whois, although bad, doesn’t show intentional malice like changing the whois before deletion.

It certainly sounds like IYD has some customer service problems, and it’s definitely not good that they didn’t change the whois details.

Thanks for the conversation on this. I’ve done some additional research and analysis of IYD and Andrew’s posting of IYD’s support team response, but it still smells like camel mud because IYD is admitting they NEVER changed the whois, as REQUIRED by Snapnames, to the Snapnames buyer’s info.

IYD’s response to this is a quick quip to try to fix a bloody lip. If IYD never changed the whois upon my purchase a year ago, then how did they know where to send out RENEWAL emails to the “registrant”, ME?

More information about my answer regarding IYD is on my blog: http://www.successclick.com

Thanks Andrew.

P.S. My response was slow because of sloshing through the 100 spam responses. I have to get a spam code login set up on my blog. Sorry for the delay.

Ha! That’s funny because he recently said on his blog that some of the big domainers like having their own blog so they can control any negative comments.

He also said that he would not do such censorship.

From his blog:

“Many of the biggest domainers have their own blogs and rarely suffer negative comments from people reading their posts. That could be because the blog owner has the ability to delete unflattering comments. So you really never know how many readers are disagreeing with the blog owner. I can’t name names of popular blogsters who delete derogatory comments, but I can tell you that I don’t do that. Bring it. I will jump into the sh*t with my boots on.”

If I understand this correctly, when Stephen originally won those domains the Who Is never reflected his ownership from day one.

Then when he checked the domain a few weeks before expiration and saw the Who Is wasn’t him, he assumed ItsYourDomain had recently made the changes.

Have you let him know this?

I know he posted that ItsYourDomain is changing Who Is on NamePros and probably elsewhere.

Patrick