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Hi All,

I've just made an analysis of caught .com domains for 1 day (about 60 days ago) using expireddomains.net
total domains catched: 8040
total catched by dropcatch.com:3808
total catched by dropcatch.com and 2642

That mean:
dropcatch catch 47% of all caught domains !
hugedomains takes 69% of domains catched by dropcatch !

David.
 
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As we know the quality of domain wins . But Hugedomains.com believes in quantity . IMO
 
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Hi All,

I've just made an analysis of caught .com domains for 1 day (about 60 days ago) using expireddomains.net
total domains catched: 8040
total catched by dropcatch.com:3808
total catched by dropcatch.com and 2642

That mean:
dropcatch catch 47% of all caught domains !
hugedomains takes 69% of domains catched by dropcatch !

David.

and guess who is financing their registrars?
 
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how can i grab good one

you can sign up on a few drop catch sites - but the good one's get bid up to end user prices

might be better to just buy them after market
 
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A good one is a domain with low competition and for which you have a buyer or a way to monetize it.

Low competition sometime means less players in the market, ie. Few businesses would be interested to buy your domain.
 
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They sure do catch allot. I didn't realize how many they caught just to throw on HugeDomains, though. I'd be curious how much they are spending per month in registrations+renewals.
 
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They sure do catch allot. I didn't realize how many they caught just to throw on HugeDomains, though. I'd be curious how much they are spending per month in registrations+renewals.
On Jan 15, 2017, 2,384,129 domains were connected to [email protected].

Today, about 2.5 months later, there are 2,842,111 domains connected to [email protected].

So on average they have been adding around 45,000 domains per week to their portfolio this year. This growth adds an additional $360,000 in renewal fees per week to their annual renewal fees, which currently should be around $22,700,000.

They also own 1252 ICANN-Accredited Registrars which they use for dropcatching, costing them $5,008,000 in yearly accreditation fees.
 
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@Arca that sounds about accurate with those numbers. Although with the number of registrars they have and the amount of business they do I'm guessing they are paying less than $8, at least for registrations. Renewals might be higher.
 
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@Arca that sounds about accurate with those numbers. Although with the number of registrars they have and the amount of business they do I'm guessing they are paying less than $8, at least for registrations. Renewals might be higher.
Verisign or ICANN would have to discount their registration fees in that case, which I believe they don't do for anyone.
 
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Looks like running the registrars is not cheap...$5M / year just for the accreditation fees, when all renewals add up to $23 M / year.
 
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Looks like running the registrars is not cheap...$5M / year just for the accreditation fees, when all renewals add up to $23 M / year.

Where do you get that? $5M is 5 million? There is no fee like that.
 
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Looks like running the registrars is not cheap...$5M / year just for the accreditation fees, when all renewals add up to $23 M / year.

Yup - it's definitely not cheap running that many registrars.
 
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Yup - it's definitely not cheap running that many registrars.

I'm only guessing here, but their other registrar expenses should be limited, because these registrars are not fully fledged.... they just hit Verisign's servers during the drops.
 
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Where do you get that? $5M is 5 million? There is no fee like that.
Where do you get that? Haven't heard about the registrar accreditation fee?

HugeDomains/NameBright/DropCatch (turncommerce) own 1252 registrars, as the link in my post above shows.

Every registrar needs to pay a $4000 yearly accreditation fee to ICANN, as the link to ICANN in my post above shows.

1252 Registrars x $4000 yearly registrar accreditation fee = $5008000 yearly ICANN fee for 1252 registrars
 
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when I search for names I run into buydomains alot more than I do hugedomains
 
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What the heck is dropping/catching? Different than expiring, deleted and just regular ones?
 
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when I search for names I run into buydomains alot more than I do hugedomains
BuyDomains HugeDomains
Both have 50-50 percent share.

Why this website buydomains.com blocked in India..?
 
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They are sucking all market
This shouldn't be allowed

No good names these days..
 
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I think hugedomains.com is dropcatch.com, one in the same. They bid on the same domains you do. Even if we bid to $1000 and they win, hugedomains only pays reg fee.

OP say they won 69% auctions so it's not hard to believe they are bidding the final 31% up to near end-user price too.
 
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Where do you get that? Haven't heard about the registrar accreditation fee?

HugeDomains/NameBright/DropCatch (turncommerce) own 1252 registrars, as the link in my post above shows.

Every registrar needs to pay a $4000 yearly accreditation fee to ICANN, as the link to ICANN in my post above shows.

1252 Registrars x $4000 yearly registrar accreditation fee = $5008000 yearly ICANN fee for 1252 registrars

I think we should get a namepros own registrar as a group purchase, 10 people per registrar. $400 year a each.
 
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Not only Catching Deleted Names, but also Buying in Expired Auctions :xf.cry:
 
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