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Comment on SnapNames Reinstates Auction History Back to 2004 by Acro

Acro — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:51:44 +0000

This is outright false and conveniently so. The data was available in 2006 and 2007 and perhaps as late as in 2008. But that’s irrelevant right now. Oversee succumbed to pressure from domainers via blogs, emails, forums and tweets. It’s a small but definite move towards transparency in this mess.

Comment on Domain Auctions: Chill Out, But Let’s Re-examine by Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:39:45 +0000

Craig Snyder is a hero?

http://dotsnews.com/domain-name-news/611

Craig, tell us the truth otherwise these questions are going to float around forever and Snap will never recover.

The next move is up to Craig Snyder and Oversee.

Comment on Domain Auctions: Chill Out, But Let’s Re-examine by Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:32:55 +0000

“So the people who were buying from him may not have had any idea.”

Nelson Brady is pretty well known as a senior executive at Snapnames and domain buyers know the owner/seller of a domain. Right? You are not going to send paypal to someone@privacyprotect.org. Right?

So, if someone bought a domain from Nelson Brady, and knew he was the VP of Snapnames and chose to look the other way, I think there is a problem there.

Now, the next question is, was Brady working for someone at iReit or other strong buyers?

Interesting that Craig Snyder came from iReit. No?

iReit can’t buy lots of domains from Nelson Brady and not know what’s going on. So, if iReit bought lots of domains from Nelson and didn’t think anything of it then they are either stupid or part of the conspiracy.

So, Craig goes from iReit to Snap and didn’t know what was going on at iReit?

Look, I am not a big conspiracy theorist but if iReit was buying domains from Nelson Brady, they had to know, or should have known that something was not right.

If Craig Snyder worked at iReit and didn’t know iReit was buying domains from Nelson Brady then he’s a pretty stupid guy or he’s in on it.

So, either Craig Snyder is stupid or he is one of the conspirators?

Fair question?

Answer?

Either way a resignation might be appropriate.

This story has a LONG LONG way to go.

Comment on Arrington: Apologies Shouldn’t be Conditional by Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:13:56 +0000

acro - the data is now available back to 2004.

Comment on Arrington: Apologies Shouldn’t be Conditional by Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:08:42 +0000

Acro – they’re working on it, according to the forum post.

Comment on Domain Auctions: Chill Out, But Let’s Re-examine by Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:08:11 +0000

Rob – I don’t know how many domains he sold. But we know he sold some to iREIT, and they were buying big portfolios. However, he did transactions with parking companies using the name Henry Alvarez, and perhaps he sold domains at Alvarez, too. So the people who were buying from him may not have had any idea.

Comment on Arrington: Apologies Shouldn’t be Conditional by Acro

Acro — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:09:12 +0000

I started the campaign on forums and through my blog for Oversee/Snapnames to re-instate the auction history. It seems that under the uproar caused by this “glitch” they are working on it. Hopefully all data will be there, vs. part of it. To fully trust Oversee – buyer of Snapnames – one needs to see 101% transparency from them.