Auction Fulfillment is Worth the Price — Automated Domain

Domains at Moniker can be transferred quickly with direct and automatic fulfillment.

I often hear grumblings regarding how Moniker requires you to have domains registered with them in order to submit them to auction. (It’s not a requirement for the big auctions, but there is an added charge if you don’t and the domain sells.) Many people think this is just a way for Moniker to get you to transfer domains to them, but that’s ancillary to the real reason: it allows domain transactions to be finished fast.

The prior week I picked up SoftwareCareers.com in Moniker’s monthly SnapNames auction. Within hours my credit card was charged and the domain name was in my Moniker account.

When I won domains at the last TRAFFIC silent auction, the two domains that were with Moniker were charged and in my account within an hour or two. The two that were with different registrars took regarding a week to complete.

Compare this to how it worked a couple years ago, when there was a lot of paper pushing and it took weeks to get the domain into your account. Automated fulfillment makes sense, and domains must be a Moniker to make it work.