Is Dyna’s Drop catch / backorder service any good?

[Molly]

Hi guys. I’ve heard of a couple Dropcatch services, and discovered that Dynadot also offers it. However, of the several domains I’ve tried to catch using Dyna (eg 4L, one word, etc) have failed. Is that because Dynadot’s service sucks, or is it just really hard for any service to pull off?

Have you successfully used Dynadot’s backorder service, and at what success rate? Thanks.

 

[ran_doank]

I try several 4L. 0% success rate

 

[Hypersot]

Allow me to share my experience:

This is not just for the common gtlds. I normally place backorders on *a lot* of different extensions.

However, I have to add that this is for a period of more than 5-6 years, that is, it also includes some backorders that happened when Dynadot was really really weak.
Still, you get the idea.

 

[Zsolt Bikadi]

Of course, there are technical factors but by far the main factor of the dropcatch success rate is related to how many ICANN accreditation a dropcatching registrar has. So if a registrar has 1 accreditation but another registrar 100 accreditation, than it is a 1% chance to catch a domain having the same technology.

Turning the theory to practice: Dynadot has cc 15 accreditation and Dropcatch has cc 1500 accreditation, it is exactly 1 against 100. Also Netsol network with other 500+ and Chinese registrars with another hundreds, Sav another hundred, etc.

So not the "service sucks" but it is not an even playing field. Dropcatching is more the game of lawyers and accountans (because all accreditation requires a company) than the coders.

This is true for com, net. There are TLDs where the rules are different and the number of accreditations don't have that much influence.

 

[Rich]

Won 1 mediocre .info domain

 

[NameGroove]

Of course, there are technical factors but by far the main factor of the dropcatch success rate is related to how many ICANN accreditation a dropcatching registrar has. So if a registrar has 1 accreditation but another registrar 100 accreditation, than it is a 1% chance to catch a domain having the same technology.

Turning the theory to practice: Dynadot has cc 15 accreditation and Dropcatch has cc 1500 accreditation, it is exactly 1 against 100. Also Netsol network with other 500+ and Chinese registrars with another hundreds, Sav another hundred, etc.

So not the "service sucks" but it is not an even playing field. Dropcatching is more the game of lawyers and accountans (because all accreditation requires a company) than the coders.

This is true for com, net. There are TLDs where the rules are different and the number of accreditations don't have that much influence.

How can Dynadot increase it's "accreditation" rating? @Caleb Tweed

Also - does the $24,99 drop catch fee at Dyna include the 1 year renewal - or is that in addition?

 

[Molly]

How can Dynadot increase it's "accreditation" rating? @Caleb Tweed

Also - does the $24,99 drop catch fee at Dyna include the 1 year renewal - or is that in addition?

Hi @NameGroove. In my experience, the $24.99 does include the registration fee, so, not bad. But maybe not the most effective service.

 

[Caleb Tweed]

How can Dynadot increase it's "accreditation" rating? @Caleb Tweed

In short, Accreditations are paid for on a yearly basis. We're slowly working on adding more, but it's quite expensive to add a significant amount.

Also - does the $24,99 drop catch fee at Dyna include the 1 year renewal - or is that in addition?

It does include the Reg fee!

 

[Hashim]

In short, Accreditations are paid for on a yearly basis. We're slowly working on adding more, but it's quite expensive to add a significant amount.

It does include the Reg fee!

What exactly do these "accreditations" look like and why would acquiring more make it better at dropcatching? Is it referring to accredited registrars, so the more ICANN-accredited registrars Dynadot acquires/creates the more servers it has doing the catching? Would love to know any details you have on how this works, just out of curiosity, and what the latest number is and how that stacks up to the big dropcatchers.

 

[NameGroove]

What exactly do these "accreditations" look like and why would acquiring more make it better at dropcatching? Is it referring to accredited registrars, so the more ICANN-accredited registrars Dynadot acquires/creates the more servers it has doing the catching? Would love to know any details you have on how this works, just out of curiosity, and what the latest number is and how that stacks up to the big dropcatchers.

Here's an example

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dr...s-to-buy-five-hundred-more-registrars.987538/

 

[Aboutdomains]

With Dynadot's backorder service, when I backorder a domain, I won't know how many other people are backordering that domain if Dynadot successfully backorders it. I recently backordered a domain, and it was put up for auction. From what I see in my account, I'm the only one, but when I chatted with Dynadot customer support, they said someone else was also backordering the domain, and they wouldn't give me the list of those backorderers for security reasons.