Dropcatch.com stole my backordered domain !?!

I've read their ToS and did read the post above.
Just wanted to remind it's ongoing thing.
And more importanly, that it's not the Partner these domains went to but to the same company, so they caught that for themself. People that don't know DropCatch/HugeDomains was the same company would think giving it to "partner" company would be fine. I think DropCatch should be more clear on this topic.
And not when questions are asked in here but inside DropCatch itself.
If it was clearly shown and stated you wouldn't get questions like urlulr was asking above, if huge domains owns drop catch.
Just my opinion.

Make a test during a few days with your shortlist to catch. 50 domains should be enough.
Count domains that goes to hd.

Then, order with dc during a few days your shortlist.
If there is a big difference between count of domains that goes to hd that mean they stole your work.

unmark said:

I've read their ToS and did read the post above.
Just wanted to remind it's ongoing thing.
And more importanly, that it's not the Partner these domains went to but to the same company, so they caught that for themself. People that don't know DropCatch/HugeDomains was the same company would think giving it to "partner" company would be fine. I think DropCatch should be more clear on this topic.
And not when questions are asked in here but inside DropCatch itself.
If it was clearly shown and stated you wouldn't get questions like urlulr was asking above, if huge domains owns drop catch.
Just my opinion.

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In the first paragraph of DropCatch Support post. Say's all you need to know about how they operate, and they have never stated this is up for review. So that's how it is. Get used to it, and use full priced backorders, which specifically excludes Huge Domains from participation in those dropcatches or subsequent auctions.

DropCatch Support said:

Backorders placed through DropCatch are set up to prioritize our customers, which is why regular priced backorder always take priority over discount club and partner backorders, however the discount club backorders have last priority. This means that any regular or partner backorders are honored first. Additionally, all partner backorders are subject to the same cut off time as all standard and discount club backorders, and partners are not eligible to participate in auctions.

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Discount Club backorders have the lowest priority of all DropCatch backorders. Says all you really need to know.

A simple browser search would probably show they are owned by the same company in under a minute. In fact I entered the search term "who owns dropcatch.com and hugedomains.com". The third item in the results was a blog from TheDomains.com. The first paragraph stated this...

TheDomains.com said:

According to a press release out today, TurnCommerce Inc., operators of NameBright.com (an ICANN accredited domain name registrar), HugeDomains.com (a domain name aftermarket), and DropCatch.com (a domain back-order service) announced the launch of Expire.com, a Dutch-style auction service that will sell between 15 and 30 premium domain names per day on a first-come first-served basis.

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. This took less than 10 seconds to look up.

You mean Huge(r)Domains. They are now at 2.7 million domain names under management.

Till a month back, if a discount backorder is placed on a domain and if it is caught by DC just for you, it would appear immediately in your cart after it was caught.

Nowadays, it appears not before 2 hours(apx).

Small difference in their approach, but reduces customers trust in them. Imo..

Charley said:

Why don't you have bitcoin as payment?

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It is not a method of payment DropCatch accepts as a result of a business decision made for the platform.

DropCatch Support said:

It is not a method of payment DropCatch accepts as a result of a business decision made for the platform.

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Well, it could add revenue to the company if available.

Yup. hard to trust with the 2 hour delay. specially with most of the domain gets "pulled" by the partner.
http://prntscr.com/fdas8i. I've stopped using discount to backorder and i suggest others reading this to do the same. It's pointless, you're just getting dropcatch looking at your domain and thinking "hmm.. do i want to keep this domain"... and 9/10 times .....they do.

Mark4domain said:

Yup. hard to trust with the 2 hour delay. specially with most of the domain gets "pulled" by the partner.
http://prntscr.com/fdas8i. I've stopped using discount to backorder and i suggest others reading this to do the same. It's pointless, you're just getting dropcatch looking at your domain and thinking "hmm.. do i want to keep this domain"... and 9/10 times .....they do.

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Interesting, is there consistently a 2 hour delay for discount backorders these days? Because dropcatch take 95% of my caught discount backorders for themselves I haven't really had the chance to spot a pattern. But full price backorders still appear in cart instantly after being caught. And I do remember recently I paid for a successful full price backorder (that was put in my cart instantly), only to be notified hours later that I also had a successful discount backorder (put in my cart hours after the drop).

VaibhavA said:

Till a month back, if a discount backorder is placed on a domain and if it is caught by DC just for you, it would appear immediately in your cart after it was caught.

Nowadays, it appears not before 2 hours(apx).

Small difference in their approach, but reduces customers trust in them. Imo..

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This is something we have identified and are working to resolve. While occasionally the drop lasting longer than expected may cause our processes to slow down we aim to deliver your domains captured to your account as soon as possible. If you ever have questions about backorders before they appear in your cart but after the drop, feel free to contact DropCatch support. We are happy to resolve any questions or concerns in the moment!

DropCatch Support said:

We are happy to resolve any questions or concerns in the moment!

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I am concerned about the number of re-auctions on your platform. I get these messages way too often:

Due to complications involving potentially fraudulent activity, one or more auctions you had participated in are being restarted. All participants of the original auction are being included automatically with their initial bid placed automatically. Please visit the Auctions page to view all currently active auctions and participate in these re-auctions.

Who knows how many times these "fraudulent bidders" have driven up prices for legit bidders, before they accidentally come out winning an auction (and get banned, leading to a re-auction) or get discovered by other means. There are far more re-auctions on dropcatch than on any other platform. Please address how you are dealing with this issue.

Say if you discover a fraudulent bidder, do you go back an refund the winning bidder in all the prior auctions where the fraudulent bidder was the second highest bidder? That fraudulent bidder may have driven up the price in a number of different auctions before getting discovered/banned, is this something you address in retrospect? Why are there so many re-auctions on your platform and what are you doing in scenarios such as the one I described?

If you owned huge domains and DropCatch..... why would you let a customer snatch up a good domain name?

If they did that they would be a disservice to huge domains...... think smart ppl!

ctmixing said:

If you owned huge domains and DropCatch..... why would you let a customer snatch up a good domain name?

If they did that they would be a disservice to huge domains...... think smart ppl!

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Exactly if they own the company which is same as other customers, they will favor the company

That's insane, I've been using Dropcatch discount club service for long time, and I was very happy, and this improve my business. Nowadays, It's rare when I get a name. In the past, I was able to get decent of names, and now 3 or 4 domains per month.

I personally don't like how Dropcatch treat us as customers, Huge domains kill our business, and i'm very surprised why they do that.

If really huge domains smell our names, and try to catch them, Dropcatch should shutdown their discount club forever. Dropcatch favor the company, and if Huge domains is a partner, I would like to be a partner too.

That's because of the money Huge domains offer to them.

Dropcatch was my favorite service, and now, it's the time to move on.

I personally would like to know how much Huge Domains pay to catch a name on Dropcatch?

I just used DC to catch a domain today. Maybe they didn't want my domain that bad to keep it for themselves They have almost 4 million other domains to worry about.

Acroplex said:

You mean Huge(r)Domains. They are now at 2.7 million domain names under management.

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Not even a year later: HugeDomains crossed the 4 million domains under management threshold.

I won a few domains in the last 7 days via Discount backorder on DC!

i just google'd 'Hugedomains'... not even on the first page of google, LMFAO

if they have 4 million names - why do they have only 350k listed?


Search Results for ‘Enter Keyword or’

Over 350,000 total domains containing the words "Enter", "Keyword" or "or".

urlurl said:

i just google'd 'Hugedomains'... not even on the first page of google, LMFAO

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Third place in Google for me. Are you located in the US?

Obviously, their number is outdated, and not everything is for sale. PPC pays well when you own your own domain registrar.

canada

i stopped after the 2nd page, lol

It's the 3rd result for me, on page 1.

you would think with all that traffic they would have ranked better... guess not


Well, at least they are keep the inventory down which = higher prices overall