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SnapNames Down Again

SnapNames Down Again

Expired domain and domain auction platform hit by outage.

Domain name auction site SnapNames is unavailable again, marking at least the 4th major outage this summer. A notice on the firm’s web site for at least the past hour reads “The SnapNames site is temporarily unavailable. We’re sorry for this brief inconvenience. Please try again in a few minutes”.

The first time I noticed the outage was shortly following the scheduled conclusion of the Search Engine Strategies silent auction this afternoon. It is unclear if the silent auction concluded successfully ahead of the site went down. [Update: Moniker tells me that all SES auctions completed successfully ahead of the site problems.]

Earlier this month the site was down for a couple days. SnapNames also experienced a prolonged outage over the Fourth of July weekend. SnapNames has since blamed a third party service provider for the problems.

Prior to this summer, SnapNames had not experienced major interruptions like these.

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