My review of Name.com (excellent) suscription catching service

[Namworld]

I'm a bit reluctant to shout about it because it's a suscription based services, but it is really great.

Name.com Domain Nabber

They charge a low fee (30-50$ depending on extension) for a SUBSCRIPTION based services.

• - First to order get the exclusive backorder. You ordered it first, no one else can from now on.
• - No auction (you WANT that). If the domain is worth 1 million, you still get it for the low fee. Just know what you order!
• - Good catch ratio (I've been getting around 1/3rd of domains I backorder)
• - Fast reimbursement of domains not catched*

* You make a deposit for the domains backordered. That's the bad part about it... But hey! It's refunded to your credit card as soon as a catch fails!

Of course they don't get all the exclusive drops others backorder services get from select registrars, but they have an excellent tool to find the pending delete domains you'd like:

You have all the needed options to search with these extensions available:
.com/.net/.org/.info/.us/.biz/.cc/.tv/.tel/.mobi/.me

Integrity, clean interface and professionalism seems to be their main focus. For as long as they keep at it, my business stay with them. All my domains are there or transferred there.

Just felt like doing them a free advertisement. Because I do encourage top-notch services when I happen to find some, because it's damn hard to find anyway.

http://www.name.com/deleting-domains/

Edits:

@Erdinc: You CAN use paypal. And I was reimbursed throught Paypal and it's actually Paypal who then refunded my card. :P

I think they may be able to change that to a name.com account credit by default if you request it (and plan backordering regularly)

@Makis.tv\Erdinc: And yes, Snapnames works with AUCTIONS for multiple bidders. The 9.05$ difference and the fact there's no auction is a major difference. You're the sole backorderer of the domain and the sole winner if it's one of Name.com's child registrars who manage to catch your domain. It's WORTH backordering there. They do catch a good amount of domains. If you want a domain badly, backordering there is a must. You should usually backorder everywhere for good domains.

As for support, well I'd say it is excellent, never had any problems with the service.

 

[Erdy]

You make a deposit for the domains backordered. That's the bad part about it... But hey! It's refunded to your credit card as soon as a catch fails!

1. This is unacceptable for me. There should be an option to refund to account balance. My credit card would get blocked soon by the bank. These are high risk overseas transactions. I had my card already blocked once for similar reasons. The credit card providers consider multiple refunds as possible fraudulent activity.

They should either charge me if they get the domain or they should let me add funds to my account and use funds instead credit card.

2. I don't think you can use paypal either.

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Integrity, clean interface and professionalism seems to be their main focus.

I also disagree with that. During the last few months I send them 5 emails about their exclusive expired domains and there was no good communication whatsoever. All their responses were useless.

 

[Makis.TV]

I like their backorder model, first come first serve.
ALL backorder services should work that way.

 

[twomoon]

I have only good experience talking with their support, mailing them and backordering with them.
You can use PayPal at Name.com

Love name.com

 

[Erdy]

You can use PayPal at Name.com

Can you use paypal for backordering pending delete or expiring name.com domains on their site? Has anybody tried this?

Regarding communication, I wanted to add their domains to my site and received some weird responses from them. I'm not impressed.

 

[twomoon]

Can you use paypal for backordering pending delete or expiring name.com domains on their site? Has anybody tried this?

Regarding communication, I wanted to add their domains to my site and received some weird responses from them. I'm not impressed.

I used to backorder only pending delete .tv names there - and every time I used PayPal for it.

 

[Erdy]

It looks like you can use paypal as well for backorders. I might give them a try.

However the the difference between snapnames' $59.00 and name.com's $49.95 is only $9.05. I think name.com's price should be much cheaper like $29.95.

 

[twomoon]

It looks like you can use paypal as well for backorders. I might give them a try.

However the the difference between snapnames' $59.00 and name.com's $49.95 is only $9.05. I think name.com's price should be much cheaper like $29.95.

Never tried to backorder not .tv names there, so don't know are they successful in it or not. For .com's and other stuff prefer other dropcatchers

 

[Makis.TV]

It looks like you can use paypal as well for backorders. I might give them a try.

However the the difference between snapnames' $59.00 and name.com's $49.95 is only $9.05. I think name.com's price should be much cheaper like $29.95.

Snapnames works with first come first server model?
I thought they didnt.

 

[Erdy]

No they don't but they have a better success rate. Let's say there is a good quality pending delete domain that you want. What are you going to do?

Of course you are going to backorder at snapnames because they have a high chance of catching it. I would say snapnames has 50% chance of catching any pending delete domain no matter how many other dropcatcher are trying to get the same domain. I would also give namejet 35% chance and all the other dropcatchers the remaining 15%.

If you don't use snapnames, then somebody else might and the domain will still go to snapnames auction and you will miss out.

I would backorder less important domains at name.com. This makes more sense because only one person can backorder a domain and if a popular domain reaches pending delete chances are I'm not going to be the first person to backorder at name.com.

I see name.com as a good alternative to godaddy backorder however godaddy backorder is $16 with coupon codes. Snapnames is $59. Name.com should be somewhere in between these two and closer to godaddy than snapnames.

The first come first served basis is fine however I think their price is too high. There are domains that I want but are not worth that too much money.

 

[Namworld]

eh, yeah. Name.com had low catch % in the beginning of their service. But it's been improving.

And not all backorders are 49.95$

.info / .biz / .us are 29.99$ when there's one of interest

You should always backorder at all major drop catching services when you really want a domain, yes. But name.com is getting good and shouldn't be disregarded. I think they're getting a much higher % than you think.

What I mean is you can't regret backordering with them. If you get the name you want for 30 or 50$, it's great.

As for names not worth 50$ backorder, if they're worth less, I wouldn't backorder such a low value domain. Probably not even reg fee it.

Had seen Namecatch.com the other day. Real great.

 

[donnied79]

I can only say good things about Name.com.
Maybe they are not the best in dropcatching .com domains but their service is very good and the customer support is fantastic.

 

[Makis.TV]

@Erdinc Snapnames cant be compared with Name.com service, first one is domain auction and the second one is domain backordering.

 

[Namworld]

Can't be compared but they are indeed related for catching domains. They both attempt to catch the same domains after all. How they treat it when they catch it is the difference. The cost can be different after an auction, but if you just NEED the domain, you got to compare them. And using all the services at the same time would be best.

 

[Erdy]

Makis.TV,

There is no auction at snapnames if you are the only person to backorder a pending delete domain.

@Erdinc Snapnames cant be compared with Name.com service, first one is domain auction and the second one is domain backordering.

 

[Makis.TV]

Lets say I backorder a domain at Snapnames early in time, doesn't this make domain visible to all queries that fetch domains with bids or snapnames doesnt allow such thing?

 

[Erdy]

You are right about that. Therefore I don't backorder any domain too early if there aren't already any bids. I think the only reason name.com has first come first served is because their system isn't ready for auctions. I think they will do the exact same like namejet and snapnames in the future.

 

[Makis.TV]

You are right about that. Therefore I don't backorder any domain too early if there aren't already any bids.

I couldn't be any wrong since I 've read all related details found on your website :D

I have the same thought about name.com not being ready for an auction platform but I m hoping verisign will eventually kick those auctions out of the domain market.

 

[Erdy]

I m hoping verisign will eventually kick those auctions out of the domain market.

I don't think so. Verisign is making $7 profit of each com registration while the registrars make $0.5 or less. Therefore Verisign is trying to keep registrars happy with some additional features. For instance they provide every registrar with traffic data of pending delete domains. This actually means Verisign is encouraging registrars to dropcatch pending deletes and make money out of these. I bet most domainers didn't know about that.

 

[dr manos]

Can you use paypal for backordering pending delete or expiring name.com domains on their site? Has anybody tried this?

Regarding communication, I wanted to add their domains to my site and received some weird responses from them. I'm not impressed.

Tried all 3 methods for backordering there, account balance, paypal, cc, all work.
Not so sure for their support, i do not like it so much, at weekends especially