Auction History Back to 2004 — SnapNames Reinstates

Full auction data now available.

Responding to requests from clients to show complete auction history in order to check for auctions against bidder halvarez, SnapNames has updated the system with complete data. Firm spokesperson Mason Cole wrote:

There has been quite a bit of back-and-forth on your blog and other places regarding 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 notice.

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.

In other words, the bid history has only shown 24 months since the middle of June 2005. A number of people assumed this was a recent change, perhaps since they had never tried to look up data from so long ago.