at the exact hour of 17:30 (GMT) (here in Israel it's 19:30)
i sat down, opened the browser and started clicking.
4 tabs, reload after reload:
- whois by domaintools X 3 (one for each domain)
- search multiple domains by domain.com, searching for these 3 domains.
and of course after almost two and a half hours of reloads, i realized domain after domain, that someone was faster. by the registration and update dates in the whois i understood that someone else bought the domains, it was so fast that even the screen on domain.com search engine never displayed the word AVAILABLE.
Now, after 3 hours, i started asking myself, is this the way to do that?
how do you catch a domain? did i have any chance with these kind of desired domains?
JMCA was caught by snapnames. They are a huge auction house that catches names and trys to auction them off. Pretty much impossible to beat them to the punch.
The way I understand it, those names never even became publicly available, so you had a zero % chance of ever catching one. You will likely NEVER catch a LLLL.com or dictionaryword.com unless you start your own registrar or backorder it somewhere, so don't bother trying. The big drop catchers will always beat you, because they have access to them before they become publicly available. (and even if they did become available it would be for a mere fraction of a second)
OK thanks.
so actually the only way to own this kind of domains is by backorder it at the right place (i did on POOL).
do you think it's better backorder on some places at once?
no, he just backordered it what means he signed up in a marketplace auction such as snapnames, and where there are thousands of dropping names
he chose some from the list and added to his list; if he is the only one who had backordered the domain he owns it and pay the minimu fee which is different from one marketplace to another but if two or more people backorder it there will be a 3-day auction where,o f course, the highest bidder wins the name
