question DropCatch.com Question

[Name Trader]

I backordered a domain at DropCatch which dropped yesterday, and which was won by DropCatch but I am neither in the bidding for this domain nor did I win the domain outright. The DC Control Panel says I missed this domain. Something fishy going on here?

 

[ninjadomain]

Perhaps one of their partners?

Please note that Discount Club backorders will always be trumped by $59 backorders. Discount Club backorders will also be trumped by corporate partners who are also interested in domain names. In other words, Standard-rate, $59, backorders will have the highest priority withinDropCatch.com and will beat out all other classes of backorder; if no standard-rate backorders exist, but a backorder exists from one of our corporate partners (such as HugeDomains), the corporate partner will be the winner of the domain; finally, if no competing backorders exist at higher priorities, the domain finally goes to the Discount Club and will be made available to the person with the highest Discount Club backorder price.

 

[Name Trader]

Mine was a regular backorder, which is supposed to trump everything else, IIRC.

 

[Joseph Green]

@Rebies might be able to explain.

 

[ninjadomain]

Yeah, perhaps email support, good luck!

 

[Name Trader]

I reached out to @Rebies and he explained about some kind of malfunction which caused this to happen on a few domains. I am now in the auction, at least.

 

[NameFit]

Hugedomains owns DropCatch, if the domain was capture by DropCatch, then it must show up in system. Keep in mind, their autions are public, even you did not backorder, you can still bid in the auction.

 

[Name Trader]

The problem was the domain was not up for auction. But now it is