Calculating drop times / drop order

[Col South]

I have seen some services calculating the order that domains will drop during the drop period each day. How is this calculated?

Do they drop alphabetically or something? Can the order be determined by looking at domain's WHOIS?

Does anyone know?

 

[Zombies]

bump .
I've heard/read all kinds of conflicting things. would also love to hear a definitive answer

 

[Hybrid Names]

I have seen some services calculating the order that domains will drop during the drop period each day. How is this calculated?

Do they drop alphabetically or something? Can the order be determined by looking at domain's WHOIS?

Does anyone know?

good question

 

[Blake]

A fellow member here on the forum runs a service that advertises to show you the drop time of names.....I have never used the service and can't comment but perhaps the owner will stumble on the thread:

http://www.dnmeter.com/

Once again I have never used the service so I don't know much about it.

 

[DomainVP]

I have seen some services calculating the order that domains will drop during the drop period each day. How is this calculated?

Do they drop alphabetically or something? Can the order be determined by looking at domain's WHOIS?

Does anyone know?

Registrars are given a full list of drop times. It's meant for internal purposes but some obscure registrar owners have services that offer these lists, or 3rd parties that are privy to the list make them available.

I subscribed to one of theses lists before and it was +-10 minutes accurate to the actual drop time.

The best way to catch names is still through a dropcatch service.

You could know the drop time down to the millisecond... and you won't get the name because hundreds of registrars are firing off thousands of registration requests through their API.

 

[Zombies]

A bit off topic, but is there any 1 click registrars anymore?

Also, DomainVP, did you see any patterns on the list of why the domains dropped in the order they did?

 

[DomainVP]

Also, DomainVP, did you see any patterns on the list of why the domains dropped in the order they did?

I don't know the criteria on how they decide what drops when, but I had a custom script set to check whois on dropping names according to the list of times, and the times were accurate +-5 to 10 minutes.

The domains were in no specific order other than by drop time.