{"id":2961,"date":"2012-12-06T20:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2012-12-06T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T01:53:47","slug":"pool-kicks-snapnames-in-the-gonads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/pool-kicks-snapnames-in-the-gonads\/","title":{"rendered":"Pool kicks SnapNames in the gonads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For domains that are scheduled for deletion, <strong>Pool<\/strong> has the upper hand over <strong>SnapNames<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, I&#8217;ve found that if I back-order a domain at both, Pool wins it 100% of the time.<\/p>\n<p>If I use SnapNames only, then I either lose the domain to a private label drop-catcher, or SnapNames catches it.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, SnapNames appears to have lost its value as a pure drop-catching service, and switched over to the auction market.<\/p>\n<p>I used SnapNames a lot in the past, during the era of the infamous <em>halvarez<\/em>, with mixed results. Pool has been consistent though; it even produced the seed for my biggest sale to date.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is, that using both services as a back-up, you&#8217;ll find out that Pool wins the domain and SnapNames sends the somber message below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We attempted to secure the following domain names: [&#8230;] &#8230;as they were released by the registry, but the attempts were unsuccessful. We&#8217;re sorry that we were unable to acquire these domain names. We have thousands of other great names available &#8211; you can click on the domain names above to see similar domains in our inventory.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For domains that are scheduled for deletion, Pool has the upper hand over SnapNames. Time and again, I&#8217;ve found that if I back-order a domain at both, Pool wins it 100% of the time. 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In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,769,193,10,37,68,974,777,975,348],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","tag-acro","tag-acro-blog","tag-acronet","tag-acroplex","tag-acroplex-llc","tag-acroplexcom","tag-domain-catchers","tag-domain-investor","tag-pool","tag-snapnames","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pool kicks SnapNames in the gonads - Acro.net - A Domain Investing Blog by Theo Develegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/pool-kicks-snapnames-in-the-gonads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pool kicks SnapNames in the gonads - Acro.net - A Domain Investing Blog by Theo Develegas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For domains that are scheduled for deletion, Pool has the upper hand over SnapNames. 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