Free eNom drop catcher program

Great giving away! Tried rep but I couldn't...

Freaking awesome! Thanks!

What about . . .

I thougth Enom's Drop Catcher service had been taken over by NameJet.

homebuyer said:

I thougth Enom's Drop Catcher service had been taken over by NameJet.

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what the software does, is checking the availability of domain names using enom API, then if the domain drop it will register it the instant it drops using enom API. The software using 3 enom function calls :

1. "parsedomain" - to split domain into sld and tld
2. "check" - to check domain availability
3. "purchase" - to regged the domain name.

the software is not intended to catch daily drop, because you will not be able to compete with snapnames, pool, or enom club drop(namejet) itself. use the software to catch tasters drop only, tasters drop is when the domain gets deleted within 5 days grace period.

This is a similar software like dnware domain grabber (Priced $129.95).

http://dnware.com/products/grabber/enom.php

great, i tried it and i works properly for me.

regards and rep will be added

if i were u (to coder

u might add a function that it grabs domain for ur name
so let s say 20 people use this software u get 20 times lucky to grab a domain u want....

Anyway to make this work with Dynadot API? Been asking support forums forever! Thanks for this, rep added. Not sure if I can use it ahh!

sent you a PM

Having problems. Asked it to grab *********.com and kept getting a domain too short error message

Update - My bad (I think). I use SocksCap to redirect traffic out through a machine authorised to do registrations and I don't think its working. Will keep playing about and seeing if I can get it to work.

hi,

if you know your socks proxy IP address, you have to add that ip address by contacting enom support first, to access their API
any unauthorized IP address accessing enom's API will be denied


EDIT: fixed the misinformed error message. Now, everytime you're using it without adding your ip address first to enom system, it would show "Invalid client IP : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

gazoakley said:

Having problems. Asked it to grab h********.com and kept getting a domain too short error message

Update - My bad (I think). I use SocksCap to redirect traffic out through a machine authorised to do registrations and I don't think its working. Will keep playing about and seeing if I can get it to work.

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wikes82 said:

if you know your socks proxy IP address, you have to add that ip address by contacting enom support first, to access their API
any unauthorized IP address accessing enom's API will be denied

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Did that - think Sockscap doesnt seem to work this time (it doesnt always). I've actually built my own text based drop catcher in Python. Shame it didnt grab it this time

Is it necessary to call Check first? Purchase will return an error if a domain is not available - and might be quicker.

interesting idea... I'll modify the software to give option to use purchase method only

gazoakley said:

Is it necessary to call Check first? Purchase will return an error if a domain is not available - and might be quicker.

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I'm going all multithreaded too now

My system was firing requests and waiting for at least 1 second or until the request returned. Unfortunately Enom doesnt always return in under a second, so hopefully launching a thread for each request will allow more requests an hour.

Maybe we can bounce ideas off each other Anyone interested in a drop catcher that works on Linux?

gazoakley said:

I'm going all multithreaded too now

My system was firing requests and waiting for at least 1 second or until the request returned. Unfortunately Enom doesnt always return in under a second, so hopefully launching a thread for each request will allow more requests an hour.

Maybe we can bounce ideas off each other Anyone interested in a drop catcher that works on Linux?

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I wrote a CLI PHP script to run it on my linux servers too, and I run it using 'screen' for every domain name. Using 'screen -A -m -d -S' to make it multithreading

Would love if this worked with Dynadot API

wikes82 said:

I wrote a CLI PHP script to run it on my linux servers too, and I run it using 'screen' for every domain name. Using 'screen -A -m -d -S' to make it multithreading

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I'm using screen too - don't you just love it?

Doesnt that go past the semi-unwritten 1 request per second rule though? I thought that was the maximum you're supposed to do? Or can you get away with more without being banned?

Hmmm - have you found Enom gets upset if you try and have multiple simultaneous requests for the same domain? I set my script up to do neat multithreading and it seems to be have been worthless

gazoakley said:

Hmmm - have you found Enom gets upset if you try and have multiple simultaneous requests for the same domain? I set my script up to do neat multithreading and it seems to be have been worthless

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I dunno for sure about that, but sometime I'm getting socket time out, if I do multithread. Not sure, if that's because flooding their server with requests.
To enhance your success rate in grabbing the domain name, set the timeout (for connecting to enom server) as minimal as possible (like 5 seconds).

wikes82 said:

I dunno for sure about that, but sometime I'm getting socket time out, if I do multithread. Not sure, if that's because flooding their server with requests.
To enhance your success rate in grabbing the domain name, set the timeout (for connecting to enom server) as minimal as possible (like 5 seconds).

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OK - I'm gonna try running multiple copies of my basic script with different domains. That will create multiple simultaneous connections to Enom - but there wont ever be more than one connection for the same domain. If that works and Enom doesnt flip out it suggests only 1 connection per domain name. It sounds like you're not getting blocked for doing it anyway

I suspect Enom probably have an overall number of simultaneous connections per account as well too. I've sent them a ticket to ask them what is and isn't allowed. I'll post back here with my results when they reply.

If I can create multiple connections but only one per domain I'll set the threading up that way to deal with it.

Think the next stage will be adding multiple registrars - fire off requests to different ones for the same domain to decrease the mean time between registration requests. Hence me asking for cheap API accessible registrars earlier Currently begging for API access at Moniker.

On that note - if anyone here can get me an account at Dynadot with API access without the bulk pricing requirement I'd be happy to write/test/give out a Python script that can do drop catching there too.

Is there some software which can grab expired domains from other registrar like namecheap/moniker.

Moniker does have an API - but no one at Moniker seems to want to let me have API access so I can't build anything that would work there. If anyone from Moniker is lurking around and could give me API access please PM me!

As for NameCheap I've heard they have an API but can't find any details of it.