Technology just keeps making things smaller and smaller.

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If you have an idea for a comic strip please post in comments or submit via contact form. The comic strip can be anything related to the online world. If your idea is used you will be awarded with a $10 GoDaddy or Amazon gift card, your choice.

Seth from FreshDrop.net just informed me of a new FREE software his team has created for sniping GoDaddy domain auctions. The new software is fittingly called uSniper. I did a quick Google search and could not find any comparable products. I did come across a domainer forum that was looking for a tool like this. Hmmm, maybe Seth read the forum and decided to create the solution.

What is auction sniping?
Auction sniping is the process of watching a timed online auction (such as on eBay), and placing a winning bid at the last possible moment (often seconds before the end of the auction), giving the other bidders no time to outbid the sniper. Some bidders do this manually, and others use software designed for the purpose.

How does it work?
Download the software from uSniper.com and install. The current version only works on Windows based computers and for GoDaddy auctions.

Once the program is installed, you simply open the software, log in and set the desired snipe bid time (i.e. 5 seconds remaining or 2 minutes and 5 seconds remaining). Simply add each domain name you want into USniper along with your desired high bid. Bids can be edited or canceled at any point before the auction ends.

The number one reason why I like this software is that you set your bid and walk away. For someone like myself who hates losing will continue bidding and bidding until I win. This software takes the emotion out of the auction process. With this I can set my educated bid and forget about it.

***UPDAT 3/12/09***

Software/GoDaddy compatibility issues have caused this program to be buggy and not work properly. It has been weeks now and these issues still have not been resloved. I have removed the links to uSniper.com, download at your own risk. My personal opinion, don’t use it. I really dislike when a company launches something and it is not ready!!!

This one is hilarious. I know a bunch of domainers that are holding out for the “BIG” offer.

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If you have an idea for a comic strip please post in comments or submit via contact form. The comic strip can be anything related to the online world. If your idea is used you will be awarded with a $10 GoDaddy or Amazon gift card, your choice.

Sorry it has been a few weeks since adding a comic strip. Between the holidays, site changes and the recent contest it completely slipped my mind.

This weeks comic is extremely funny and very true.

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I’d like to thank Mark Fulton for the idea. An email will be sent shortly with his prize options.

Everyone else, if you have an idea for a comic strip please post it in comments. The comic strip can be anything related to the online world. I am no longer limiting the strip to only domaining. If your idea is used you will be awarded with either a $10 GoDaddy or Amazon gift card, your choice.

Is anyone looking out for the domainers? After reading the following blog the clear answer is yes. Reece Berg who is already known for his blog LLLL.com has done it again with DomainNameScams.com. Get this, the blog has only been online for 10 days and has 16 must read articles. Seriously, DomainNameScams.com was launched November 24th and has 16 useful articles. I am personally taken back by this because I know first hand how hard it is to continually put out quality articles. Most domainer blogs could only hope to put out that many articles in a one or two months time frame.

One of the articles Reece wrote was about security and how thieves are hacking into peoples PayPal accounts to steal their money. Instead of just stating the obvious he pointed out a simple and effective tip, get a security key ($5). The key creates random security codes to use along with your regular user name and password. I don’t know about you but I ordered mine right after reading the article, thank you Reece.

Go check out DomainNameScams.com, I would even say check it out every day because of the rate Reece is putting out articles.