A detailed look at the whois history of domains won by SnapNames VP of Engineering Nelson Brady shows that he pointed at least one domain to SnapNames DNS servers by mistake, and let a good domain expire.

Sometime in 2008 between June and September, whois records indicate that Brady transferred one of his ill-gotten domains, simsextremos.com, from registrar TuvaluDomains to his preferred registrar, eNom. According to DomainTools, when the domain turned up at eNom it was sporting the OregonNames.com DNS servers that SnapNames traditionally used to park deleting domains.

It is unclear how this mistake was made, but it is possible that Brady had set his default DNS servers incorrectly at eNom. While this mistake alone would not have alerted the SnapNames management to the scam, it is the type of mistake that domain investors on the message boards might have used to prove that halvarez possibly worked for SnapNames.

Brady’s second mistake was letting a five-digit domain expire, 90523.com. He acquired it in April of 2008 for $51, and failed to renew it the following year. What’s interesting about this deal was that it was not a pre-release auction, but one of the $9 post-drop auctions.