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It might be that I’m just a bonehead, but I can’t get my head around the Snapnames user interface. Every time I visit the site I get discouraged because either I can’t find what I’m looking for, or I can’t find a way to download the lists I need. Snapnames.com is the legendary site for expired domain auctions and most domainers use it, so they must have done something right and it must be that I’m just a bit thick. To me, finding domains at Snapnames is not a ’snap’. Plus, I always have some trouble with their search feature. I always seem to be doing something wrong.

I mean, finding single domain names, sure, that’s a snap. But for a serious domainer, that’s not good enough. What you need is large scale search features and fully customizable download lists. For instance, I noticed that Newfound Names are trimming their portfolio and selling 3,000 geo names through Snapnames private auctions. I would have loved to peruse their list, but Snapnames doesn’t give a ‘download search results’ option, but gives at most 100 results per page. Am I going to click through the 30+ pages and copy-paste everything into Estibot domain extractor? Nope, too time consuming. I want a downloadable list of all those names that I can feed to the Estibot keyword tools. If they had an option to view all 3,000 names on a single page, then sure, I could copy-paste it to the Estibot bulk tools, but as I said they only display 100 results per page.

It’s a turn-off for me. I built my tools specifically for eliminating the need for manual browsing of domain lists. I need large-scale bulk stuff, man. Maybe the guys at Newfound Names might consider setting up a downloadable list of those names on their site, or email me their list. If they do, I’ll reward them by promoting their names on Estibot: I’ll run the whole list through my keyword and valuation tools and set it up for everyone to see. Estibot gets almost a million hits per month, so it should get some eyeballs.

As some of you may know, I publish daily Snapnames lists on Estibot – pre-analyzed with overture, appraisal and other data. Just go to the Expiring Domains Lists page (if you’re a member). What you get is daily pending delete plus premium Snapnames auctions and Namejet prerelease auction lists, pre-analyzed complete with appraisal plus keyword statistics, all a few days in advance so you have plenty of time to place those bids.