Backorder domain scripts

[papaformigas]

Hi,

We are making a web site to provide backorder of some country tlds but dnt realy know how can we achive this goal..

Is there currently a script made to automatically snap domains as they expire from diverse country TLDs and interact in a website?

I would appreciate some help and advice on this.

 

[Kate]

Unless you are a registrar, you'll need to find one that has an API available.
Then you code your script around the API.
For some ccTLDs you'll have competition too, from registrars... it's going hard to compete for those.

 

[Michael R.]

Which ccTLD are you interested to caught?

 

[papaformigas]

at the moment i cant say that but a few ccTLDs. There are few services giving backorder service for those ccTLD but cant figure out how they achive that..

 

[RegFee]

https://www.dynadot.com/domain/api2.html
Dynadot registers the following cctlds: https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/cctlds-country-domain-extensions
I don't know if the API will register all of those, but I don't see why not.
You'll need to do some research as to when each cctld releases their drops.

 

[dordomai]

a very basic dropcatching script is really easy to set-up as long as you have a good API such as dynadot.

You can do this in 15 minutes.

what is the hard part is:

Figuring out when exactly the domains drop and which domains drop. Keeping track of the expiration cycles of different extensions and domains itself is not easy.

Competing against many others. (Nearly impossible if you don't have registrar access and are able to run many multithreaded queries)

 

[koskov]

Competing against many others. (Nearly impossible if you don't have registrar access and are able to run many multithreaded queries)

I would say registrar access is the most major thing. I tried to catch names with multithreaded queries through Dynadot and Namesilo, but it's completely impossible. Dynadot has limits on how many queries you can send per second and Namesilo simply cannot cope with a high rate of queries (they simply start responding with 5xx errors).