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question Caught by DropCatch, NameBright name servers, listed in HugeDomains!!!

1 & 2. HugeDomains, which is owned by TurnCommerce. They say that the three sites are different entities, but it's obvious they're all under the same parent company. Andrew Reberry seems to be involved, but I've talked to other people there who were obviously not him. 3. Day-of, as close to...
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- Post #15
- Feb 16, 2015
- Section: Domain Expiration and Domain Drop Catching
DropCatch.com Backorder System

That's the other thing about the teired model: discount backorders (less than $59) lose to them every time if they're on HugeDomains' chase list; I've spoken to some of their engineers (great guys), and while they're fairly hush-hush about the details of how they get their lists, it sounds like...
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- Post #34
- Feb 3, 2016
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
DropCatch.com Backorder System

HugeDomains doesn't compete, not like that anyway; the way the teiring model works is that if you pay for a standard $59 backorder, you have priority over HugeDomains. Also, HugeDomains doesn't participate in auctions (from what I've seen; you'd know as soon as they won a domain, since it'd go...
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- Post #31
- Feb 3, 2016
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
What happened to Pheenix ?

The problem with not using DropCatch is that they have HugeDomains more than willing to take the good names if no users feel like backordering them. You can not-backorder the top couple thousand per day and they'll still go after then; the difference is that you won't have the chance to get it...
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- Post #51
- Mar 6, 2015
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
What happened to Pheenix ?

It would certainly be amusing to watch the industry cope with 3 (instead of 1) of the major catching services operating on a public auction model; from what I've seen, there are people on here who may need a doctor to help deal with the outrage-induced-stroke that'll bring on. As for their...
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- Post #48
- Mar 6, 2015
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
DropCatch.com Backorder System

Adam27, this is probably because ORG is run by PIR and COM/NET are both run by Verisign; signing up with PIR would mean more partner agreements and building out the system to play in a drop with potentially different rules and parameters. Zombies, not much has changed, IMHO, except the now ~450...
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- Post #25
- Feb 25, 2015
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
What happened to Pheenix ?

Do you have a reference for this?
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- Post #52
- Mar 6, 2015
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
I'm done with Dropcatch.com

Zombies, it looks like you can still go to the auction page for at least a couple of days after it ends if you weren't a participant. After that, I think you have to have been in an auction to see it.
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- Post #47
- Feb 25, 2015
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
DropCatch.com Backorder System

Is there more info on this, like pricing? Is this the same system other people have been using through Namebright?
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- Post #6
- Mar 11, 2014
- Section: Drop Catchers and Expired Domain Services
GoDaddy sold me domains that are already registered

The means of checking aren't proprietary; anyone can apply for access to the Zone File, which all registrars get access to, de-facto, and any domain more than 5 days old in the Zone is going to be unavailable (at least through the day). Past that, registrars can do availability checks with...
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- Post #11
- Mar 11, 2014
- Section: Domain Registrar Reviews
Thoughts on NameBright?

Rader - You searched for expiring names and were upset when they came back as being unavailable? If I had to hazard a guess, I would probably say that the difference is that GoDaddy is willing to take a backorder on an expiring domain, while NameBright gives the actual availability (which, being...
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- Post #89
- Nov 26, 2013
- Section: Domain Registrar Reviews