All the data Francois “Morron” is mentioning are already in the xls list of domains downloadable at the Moniker’s site.

Snapnames system is better for bulk bidders, I can take big list to bid and bid one minute before 5 minutes start ticking so no copycats, cockroaches and leaches can steal my research in bulk like it was happening at Moniker’s.

Also the closing time is at same time so I do not need to sit 4 hours and waiting till my picks comes up.

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D,

Everybody does not have the time nor the tools, nor the knowledge to sort himself these thousands “great names”.
Anything that can be done to help potential buyers find the type of names they are looking for is positive and involves more sales.

In my case I became a gourmet, so I like to quickly locate premium domains (gastronomy) and ignore low quality names (fastfood) without having to check name by name.
I can understand that Andrew (who is not a morron) can be interested by domains of a specific category and does not have the time to check thousands domains.

I would like to see and can search on the reserves, search popularity, term frequency, traffic, type-in, … all these metrics that potentially outline the quality of domains for investors.

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Monte, glad to hear about improvement to come.

also, the concept of backorders due show up on many of the names in the auction. this is both a good and bad thing we discovered. Bad because it makes it initially appear that there is interest at the reserve levels when there is not…that is flushed out through the system anyway….good because all previously interested parties in the name are then notified that the domain is now available for bid at auction…which has actually resulted in several sales above reserve. I would say the later out ways the bad part of this. Again being improved in the near future.

either way, there are great names in the extended auction so go get em!

I’d be amazed if Snapnames’ auction system actually elicits many/any bids from the apocryphal ‘end users’. It’s hard enough to get a grip on what’s going on there when you’re in the domain game.

Just my observation, but its format looks typical of what happens when programmers also assume the role of system designers. In my experience, a mess.

Snapnames should have an experienced auction designer giving the programmers instructions on what the system should look like and achieve.

If they keep the format I’ll probably switch to a different provider for my next auction.