Alltså ju mer jag söker så blir varningslamporna bara fler och fler. Företaget finns inte, har ingen företagsinformation på sin hemsida, inga kontaktvägar, inga spår på Google mer än WN och SEO-forum - helt enkelt ingen information av värde eller historik att komma med. Tittar man dessutom på deras "snappade" domäner så ser man att registranten verkar vara en person eller möjligtvis en enskild firma med en persons namn. Exempel här.

Kollar man upp adressen som är angiven till nic.se så går den till en lägenhet, telefonnumren finns inte (kan vara hemliga men sifferserien är suspekt).

As mentioned several times I sometimes get the sense when reading swedish texts, sometimes I don´t - I ´m sorry this time I didn´t get the meaning of what you wrote?

As far as I can see you posted a link to a personal handle at nic.se of mine? But I am sorry I didn´t get the sense additional to that or why you did so? Since I understand the word "suspekt" I guess you are some kinda suspicious?
In case I am right about that I can offer you, since you know my personal name anway, you might wanna do a google search on me as a person to see how long I´m into that business and wether there exist complaints about me (which I doubt)...
Alternatively you might ask any german speaking domainer you know wether he/she could give you a review of me as a person, I guess chances shouldn´t be too bad he/she would know me and I guess/hope there shouldn´t be anything he/she would complain about.

But besides of that I guess you interprete catch.info the wrong way (if I got that correctly?): It´s not one of my personal projects or a company of mine but rather more a cooperation of several companies, where one of my companies is a part of while my job in that cooperation is mostly to promote/get in contact with native domainers.

Finally luckily there do already exist some swedish domainers which are already customers of us or testing us, so I hope there will be soon some reviews in here, which are more trustable than my words - a person you don´t know yet. :)

Here is the promised update on wether we will be able to continue our service: I´m happy to announce that I´ve been informed that we are allowed to continue our service.

So I am not totally sure what exactly snapback did do, but it seems as it wouldn´t only have been the backorder service (which btw are other companies as e.g. binero doing as well without problems as far as I know)...

best regards, al :)

There's nothing wrong with providing snapback for released .se domain names. The thing that was wrong with snapback.se was the unfair cooperation of several registrars/ombud. .SE registrars/ombud are free to provide snapback, granted that they don't warehouse the domain names (register them for themselves, their employees or friends/relatives).

Dont see the point in writing in english really. The service the site claims to provide is 100% targeted to Sweden and people who read and speak swedish unless it's supposed to service a very small amount of customers (hardly). So in short, no information at all about the company behind the web site, the ToS since has no legal counterpart, no contact information at all and the domains provided as reference(?) are registered to you. That, to me, is suspicious and sets of all my alarms. I'm not debating, I'm stating facts.

You've been allowed? From whom? Your boss, parents, nic.se ....

I am afraid you are not stating facts, but are rather interpreting things (wrongly)...

1) In fact the majority of our customers so far are non-swedish. It´s an illusion to assume international domainers would not be interested in .se market. Of course one reason for our customerbase being mostly international is that most of our business contacts are international, still the other is simply international demand/interest...

2) The ToS are Terms of Service nothing more or less. Here is the link to the information you were seeking I guess (legal counterpart):
http://www.catch.info/contact.php

3) About registering firsthand on a handle of ours: That´s based on simple technical/speed issues. We encourage even all of our customers - as you could have/can read in our ToS - to transfer the domains they won to the registrar of their choice.
So in case that makes you suspicous, may I ask you a question: Do you know anyone of our customers who ever said anything like we would not transfer the domains to the winning bidder or that there ever has been any problem with doing so or wether we even did the slightest action that made them believe we would not hand on the domains our customers won?
I guess not.

But to bring it down to a point: Almost everything you say here is mainly a matter of trust. So I can see your point in being reserved on a service you don´t know yet, that´s ok. We don´t exspect everyone to become our customers all of a sudden. I guess it´s simply a matter of time - after some customers/people testing us - as e.g. posse can/will give some independant reviews as announced, you will probably see that there is nothing to be suspicous about us.
If you want to know faster feel free to give my proposal a try and check up on me - as one of the persons involved in catch.info and since you know my name already - by google or by asking any german speaking domainer you know - as mentioned the chances should be good I will be known by your german speaking domainer contacts...

I hope my answer could clearify a few things. :)

best regards, al

sorry, bad wording I guess ;) :)
To put it in other words - I checked back with the guy in charge of nic - matters who told me there had been a conversation beforehand with nic.se that didn´t see a problem in us catching domains.

best regards, al :)

;)

I would like to see some written proof of that; but I guess you will not be able to provide that ....

.... since registrars are not allowed to be involved in domain speculation in any way.

Well you don´t exspect me to publicate privately written conversations, do you?
You might ask nic.se yourself wether what we do is allowed or not, if that´s that important to you, but I am afraid we are not the people to publicate original quotes of private emails or even screenshots or scans, if that is what you are searching for - or in other words we are trustworthy, even though some of you don´t believe so... ;)
So what you are asking is not a matter of ability but a matter of being trustworthy or not...

But what difference would it make to you, anyway? If I would be lying about that, which you seem to mean to imply(?), nic.se would have us stop anyway (together with all other snapservice providers)...

I might quote JonathanS on that question as a representant of binero as it seems, which is providing among other services a similar service as us for a longer time (and therefor should probably be more trustable to the one or other in here):
On that regard, thanks for the public declaration, JonathanS :)


best regards, al :)

Well you are comparing yourselfs to Binero and other services of backorder for Swedish domains, but they do it for a fixed price, while you have an auction of the domains and there is the difference that is relevant to nic.se as I have understood.

Also the answer given by JonathanS is not in you favour, since the service you provide is a cooparation of several registrars ... so I think your interpretation of his answer is skewed.