Backordering and Registrar Placement

[olaajimd]

Quick Question, after a successful backordered expired name, is it possible to specify the registrar you want the name at?
Example: I win a name off Namejet and want the name to be placed at GoDaddy rather than NetSol etc
Thanks!

 

[Arca]

No, you can't, they will deliver the domain at a registrar of their choosing. If you win a domain at NameJet you will most likely receive the domain at Network Solutions or eNomCentral. You then have to wait 60 days at NetworkSolutions or 42-60 days at eNom before you can transfer the domain to GoDaddy. 42 days if the domain was already at eNom prior to delivery, 60 days if it was transferred in to eNom for the purpose of delivering the domain to you there.

 

[olaajimd]

Thanks! It's a complete waste of time and money to then transfer the names out from undesirable registrars

 

[golan]

It's a complete waste of time and money to then transfer the names out from undesirable registrars

Right, but it depends on the name. If it's really great, it might be worth to wait another 60 days and then transfer the domain wherever you want.

 

[Kate]

Thanks! It's a complete waste of time and money to then transfer the names out from undesirable registrars

For prerelease domains: you don't have a choice really since they are already registered at one particular registrar.
For deleted domains: you don't have a choice either because the dropcatchers have a lot of registrars working for them - either their own and/or partners - and they cannot predict which one will catch the domain.
So indeed you have to cope with bad registrars in the beginning.

 

[Arca]

For prerelease domains: you don't have a choice really since they are already registered at one particular registrar.

NameJet and SnapNames seem to have moved towards centralizing domain delivery at either NetSol and eNom central for the former, and NetSol for the latter. These two registrars function as "hubs" for domain delivery for domains that were at a number of different registrars prior to auction end.

You used to get won domains at all sorts of obscure registrars, hosting companies, and iffy resellers, especially for names won at SnapNames. That's no longer the case. So the particular registrar where the domain is "originally" registered now has much less impact on where the domain is delivered. Domains in pre-release can be at any obscure registrar, but after you win it, they will usually transfer it to NetSol or eNomCentral and deliver it to you there instead.

It certainly makes it easier to keep track of the domains you win, compared with to having domain wins spread out across more than a dozen obscure no name registrars. But unfortunately the registrars they chose for this purpose, NetSol and eNomCentral, are terrible registrars in most aspects, and some the no name registrars they have replaced were actually better than these two...

 

[Kate]

Bigrock too. Like you say, they work like 'hubs'. The actual registrar is obscured and management is thus simplified through an integrated UI. But this kind of setup is easier to achieve when the dropcatchers owns the registrars. Partners would have some make some sort of API available or expose their EPP interface.
The dropcatchers' priority is to have a large pool of registrars to catch domains, the convenience of domain owners is more of an afterthought.