SnapNames Bid History Is Now Transparent

Posted on November 8th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Another followup to the SnapNames shill bidding revelation – SnapNames have succumbed to pressure and have made their entire bid history since 2004 available to their customers.

They wrote to Andrew over at DomainNameWire with the following note citing that hiding of bid histories wasn’t some knee jerk reaction as a result of the shill bidding but rather an architectural change in their software that happened a while back.

There has been quite a bit of back-and-forth on your blog and other places about access to SnapNames bidding and order history. The truncated system, which limits view to the 24 months prior to whatever date the lookup is being performed, has been in place for the past four years, since June 2005. This was not changed recently or in response to the recent announcement.

That aside, to make sure no one thinks there’s an attempt to shield data, SnapNames technical staff has adjusted the existing system so order and bid histories are available back to August 2004, when auctioning began on the SnapNames system

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