Registrars now blocking registration of dropped domains

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Wow -- is it over? I'm seeing domains available again.

WHAT?! YEAH!!!

ME TOO

Nope - I spoke too soon. Bunch of domains showed as available -- then I searched again and they're all "not available".

same here

I posted this on Twitter to try and show @GoDaddyHelp what is going on:

https://twitter.com/BodhiNat/status/587326513567109121

could this be a situation where the initial search for availability actually puts the domain "on hold" for a while?

cdboard said:

could this be a situation where the initial search for availability actually puts the domain "on hold" for a while?

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hmmm... all dropped domains are on "hold" until exactly 8:00:00 PM UTC.... This was not the case a few days ago...

I had this happen today. I chatted with GD support and they were useless without an actual domain to look at. I explained that i already regged it elsewhere etc. But they just didn't get it.

cocaseco said:

I had this happen today. I chatted with GD support and they were useless without an actual domain to look at. I explained that i already regged it elsewhere etc. But they just didn't get it.

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Or they're using that classic bad customer support tactic: if you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. And If you can confuse 'em, just play dumb.

All this (And a few dick moves they took with their API a few days ago) are motivated and aimed through making people use their backordering service more and more.

What t hey don't know unfortunately (Or choose to ignore) that their Backordering service simply good for nothing. They just assume that by simply having a poorly coded backordering platform will beat those of dyna, pheenix or heck, even snap/namejet as they are the biggeest and powerful registrar. It will take a long time to those dumb ears to realize things don't translate like this in the real world.

this might reduce the amount of domains "hand snapped" by domainers using 99cent codes.

those would be money-losers for G.

webm said:

All this (And a few dick moves they took with their API a few days ago) are motivated and aimed through making people use their backordering service more and more.

What t hey don't know unfortunately (Or choose to ignore) that their Backordering service simply good for nothing. They just assume that by simply having a poorly coded backordering platform will beat those of dyna, pheenix or heck, even snap/namejet as they are the biggeest and powerful registrar. It will take a long time to those dumb ears to realize things don't translate like this in the real world.

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GoDaddy Backorders cannot even beat a hand-reg at Godaddy. That's how bad they are. I once back-ordered a domain at GoDaddy and was beaten by a Godaddy hand-reg. Who do you think ordered the domain first, me or the hand-regger? Something seriously wrong with their backorder service, right there.

WTF!!???






It seems that ALL registrars are blocking now dropped domains during the drop-time...

Domaineus said:

WTF!!???

It seems that ALL registrars are blocking now dropped domains during the drop-time...

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strange however i just checked a domain that dropped today and it shows as available on namesilo.

I dunno... Now it is 12:03 PM PT and I can check and register fresh drops with name silo

Domaineus said:

I dunno... Now it is 12:03 PM PT and I can check and register fresh drops with name silo

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I don't normally use namesilo but I'd be curious to know why they are doing that.

I fear all registrars will block the drops during the drop-catch time

Yep, happened again today. this time i grabbed some ridiculous long name that nobody would want and contacted support. After being rejected yesterday for not having an example, I had the misguided enthusiasm that lead me to believe I would here of a policy change or some official word. The CS rep knew nothing, opened a help ticket and said thanks. I know that when the ticket gets looked at, the tech will try the domain in and it will work fine because enough time has passed.

I ended up having to register somewhere else so it was a direct loss to GD. people like me who register something nearly every day, will add up to a lot of lost revenue for GD as we move elsewhere.

Domaineus said:

I fear all registrars will block the drops during the drop-catch time

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I bet NameBright/DropCatch are not blocking these domains dropping domains. If every other registrar is blocking them, then it leaves DropCatch an open field without any competition. (Although I know that by the time it gets to hand-regging a domain by us mere mortals, DropCatch have finished already for the day).

Domaineus said:

I fear all registrars will block the drops during the drop-catch time

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unless it becomes icann policy there is no benefit for any registrar without a backorder service to do this.

I haven't reg'd a domain in a while and tried to hand reg a dropped name and GD said unavailable although whois showed available. Rushed to NP, of course, to find out wtf is going on. Then reg'd the name with NameSilo Anyway, strange indeed.

It looks like they are all going in on it together: seems anti-competitive to me, like price-fixing.

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It looks like they are all going in on it together: seems anti-competitive to me, like price-fixing.

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Does this include NameBright? I'd be surprised, if it does.