Thanks to SnapNames' greedy handling of auctions and backorders, combined with their leading position which makes the most powerful of few options to catch an expired domain, beaker took the name from me. SnapNames stole my backorder, and put it up to resell for more.

http://www.politinks.com/backorder.html

why do people think normal commercial realities should be suspended just because it is a domain name - ie something going to the person who will pay the most money for it?

The author obviously hadn't bothered to read any of the FAQs or similar information on SnapNames before he got started.

It must be due to the (for lack of a better word) Internet Culture.

On the web, you can get everything for free. People want to be able to access content and read articles for free. They don't think about how much time it may have cost to write an article, how much money it cost to make a video. Quite the contrary, if there are ads on a website to monetize the content people will complain about it. It's on the web, so it must be free.

Perhaps they think the same thing of domain names. They're just words and they're on the Internet, why should I pay for them?

I honestly cannot come up with any other explanation. It's just too irrational.

Originally posted by atlas
The author obviously hadn't bothered to read any of the FAQs or similar information on SnapNames before he got started.

The author is more than obviously a bit of a twit.

To save the rest of you the trouble of having to read through the whole thing, here's a recap:

Waaaah!

The author seems to have the rather self-centered notion that only *he* can backorder a domain.

He said, " ... beaker took the name from me." However, nobody "took" anything from him. HE decided to stop bidding. He ALLOWED beaker to get the domain. Moreover, he never owned the domain, and no one can take from us that which we do not own.

Waaaah is right.

The free market, supply and demand, works just fine in an auction format.

Some of these comment are hilarious. It's like almost a spoof.

Take a read:

"Why should snapnames or anyone else have first crack at expired domain names? Why not just throw it back in the system and let the first person to grab it get it.

As for tasting...how is that fair? It lets some insider grab the names and try to profit from them for 5 days...if it's unprofitable then they dump it with no penatly.

This system appears to give an advantage to a select few which is unfair. Can someone enlighten me as to why this is going on?"

? Am I on drugs?

Why not just throw it back in the system and let the first person to grab it get it.

yeah, because people weren't complaining back when it worked like that. They just don't get it that people who spend the time and effort to improve their chance, urm, have a better chance. likewise people who have greater resources or who can justify a higher value based on the return to them.

but then again, there'll never be any shortage of people wanting to buy ten dollar bills for five claiming they just want it to make paper swans.