Moniker under fire as honest buyers got ‘tea-bagged’ by flawed credit system
Moniker is under fire once again, after a domain that changed ownership several times in recent months, was deemed as “stolen” and was reclaimed. In a sticky – and stinky, for Moniker – situation unfolding over at top domain forum, DNForum.com, the domain HKE.net was sold to domain investor James Booth, brother of popular domainer […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainers rave over incredible SnapNames customer service improvement
SnapNames, plagued by problems in recent months, has made an impressive about-face in customer service satisfaction which has been met with positive skepticism by some domainers. “I had a login issue with my SnapNames account and opened a ticket which was answered in 7 minutes, that can’t be happening,” said Kim Paris from Sacramento, California. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.No, Oversee does not own Moniker and SnapNames – hello?
In a thread over at DNForum where members are venting their frustration over extended downtime or other recurring issues with Moniker, one comment stuck out: […] what exactly is going on at Moniker ?… As I understand Oversee.net owns both SnapNames and Moniker, but why are the Moniker people MIA ? This simply fuels the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Did ‘Anonymous’ threaten Moniker, SnapNames over MrsJello LLC domains?
Mike Berkens over at TheDomains announced today that in the past several days, domains owned by MrsJello LLC – the company outfit of the late domain entrepreneur, Igal Lichtman – were being auctioned off on SnapNames and NameJet. While some of us would have preferred to see the matter resolved with the Lichtman family prior […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.All is forgiven: Moniker and SnapNames back in business
Moniker and SnapNames are back in business, after an extended outage earlier today. The latest message issued by the combined registrar and drop-catcher was as follows: “We want to express our deepest apology for the service outage experienced on September 14, 2012. We understand that this failure impacted you and your business – we take […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Moniker experiences extended outage
Moniker and SnapNames are currently out of reach, after an unspecified issue took their network offline. The downtime has been experienced since as early as 7:00am Eastern today. Moniker made this statement earlier this morning: “Our apologies for the disruption of services currently being experienced by Moniker and SnapNames customers. We are working to correct […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Moniker support still points to Oversee!
Ah, gotta love Fridays. Francois of Domaining.com pointed out that in order to address an issue with domains at Moniker, one clicks on the “Support” button. The problem, however, is that the link takes you to Oversee, where the FAQ and ticket system is still active. The same happens with SnapNames. It seems that Key […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Finally SnapNames and Moniker announce their acquisition by KeyDrive
An email announcing the sale of SnapNames and Moniker to KeyDrive finally arrived: Moniker and SnapNames are Now Part of the KeyDrive Family! Dear Valued Customer, We are pleased to announce that on January 31, 2012, KeyDrive S.A. purchased Moniker® and SnapNames®, the leading providers of products and services for all stages of the domain […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Did Hank Alvarez sell out to new SnapNames owners?
We haven’t heard from Hank Alvarez for a while – the notorious shill bidder that created the “halvarez” scandal as a former VP at SnapNames. Hank Alvarez – or “Hanky” as he’s often known – declared his repentance on multiple occasions, stating that he’s a changed man and an honest domain auction entrepreneur. Something is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.How much money lies around in Moniker accounts?
It seems that Moniker has changed the manner in which domain accounts are funded. Up until recently, one could fund their account in $50 and $100 increments. The new system, however is scaled as follows: $50 $500 $1000 $1500 $2000 Which means that if one needs to add $300 to their account, they need to […]
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