Like eBay and PayPal, leading <b>auction sniper</b> firm eSnipe has invested heavily in the “green bar” technology (technical term: extended validation SSL) that uniquely identifies a site for anti-phishing purposes and encrypts all communications between user and site.

1. Contact:
Tom Campbell
eSnipe, Inc.
12819 SE 38th St. PMB 293
Bellevue, WA 98006
Office: (425) 260-5292
Fax: (623) 321-6087
tom@esnipe.com
www.esnipe.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Leading Auction Sniper eSnipe Awarded
Coveted, Secure “Green Bar” Browser
Technology
Auction Sniper Pioneer Moves Industry State of the Art
Forward-Again
Summary: Like eBay and PayPal, leading auction sniper firm eSnipe has invested
heavily in the “green bar” technology (technical term: extended validation SSL) that
uniquely identifies a site for anti-phishing purposes and encrypts all communications
between user and site.
Bellevue, WA, For Immediate Release - Pioneering auction sniper firm eSnipe, Inc. has
been awarded a “green bar” browser address and icon for high-level encryption of data
between the customer’s browser and the eSnipe site, sharply reducing any possibility
of “phishing” attacks and ensuring customers that the site they are using is, in fact,
eSnipe.
The “green bar”, more formally known as Extended Validation Standard Secure
Sockets Layer (or EV SSL) is both a technical standard requiring a high level of
encryption between server and browser, and the fruit of extensive investigation from
the certificate provider that the certificate holder is who they claim to be.
Green Bar Proves Site is Genuine
The browser’s address bar displays the website’s URL in using a distinct color scheme
to indicate that the URL matches profile information unique to the company hosting the
website, and that at time of issue the company’s particulars were verified by human
agents, including but not limited to:
● A minimum number of full-time employees
● Dun & Bradstreet listing information
● Address of service (a physical location for formal lawsuit filings)
In addition to the confirmation of company data EV SSL communication uses the
highest possible level of encryption between browser and server.
Wall Street Journal: “A Boon For Consumers”

2. The Wall Street Journal called the “green bar” “a boon for consumers” in an article
detailing the expense and difficulty of attaining the EV SSL certification. It is expensive
and time-consuming, requiring multiple channels of contact with the certificate holder,
and other third-party recognition through such sources and Dun & Bradstreet.
“No wonder the green bar is so highly coveted”, says eSnipe CEO Tom Campbell,
who actually uses words like “coveted” in everday conversation. “They really do some
serious investigation of your company. It took us a few tries to get all the information
right; we’re run much more informally than your typical enterprise.”
An image of eSnipe’s URL as it appears in the Firefox browser bar can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/auctionsniper/5719198150/in/photostream
About eSnipe, Inc.
eSnipe places bids for eBay users during the last few seconds of the auction, a practice
called "sniping" in online auction parlance. eSnipe launched in 1999 as one of the early
eBay sniper services run on high-speed dedicated servers. eSnipe's multiple servers
placed over $300 million worth of bids on eBay in 2010 alone. eSnipe CEO and former
Microsoft program manager Tom Campbell made eSnipe one of the first pay sites on
the Internet in June, 2001. To keep merchant account charges low he was forced to
devise the first profitable micropayment system on the web. It has been in unbroken
operation since--and profitable longer than Amazon.com. eSnipe has a generous
free trial period in which no payment method or credit card is required at http://
www.esnipe.com/free.
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