Nearly half of dropped .com's are caught daily

[easypeasy]

I just noticed that nearly half of all dropped .com's are caught on a daily basis

That's way more than I thought...

Most of these names are crap ...

why are they getting caught? Anyone already do this research?

 

[phaethon]

I doubt half of all dropped .coms are caught daily. 90% don't make sense at all or are too long. The correct figure should be 1% even less..

 

[alop]

They wasn't caught by me I'll tell you dat

 

[easypeasy]

I doubt half of all dropped .coms are caught daily. 90% don't make sense at all or are too long. The correct figure should be 1% even less..

You're right I see how I screwed that up now... looks like its more in the neighborhood of 2.5-3%...

How do I delete the thread? lol

Still, around 7k caught .com's daily seems like alot when most are crap

 

[DomainNature]

End user love buying crap domains from Godaddy!

 

[sonofmarzipan]

The best "click bait" post in a while!
When I read the title I thought... WHAT!?!?! Then why hasn't anyone picked up on mine.
I feel much better, now knowing I'm amongst the 97%

 

[Chris CPD]

It's actually more like in a region between 7-8%. You can check the links below on expireddomains.net:

Today:
91,337 Expired Domains
7,348 Caught Domains
8% Taken

Yesterday:
91,695 Expired Domains
6,988 Caught Domains
7.6% Taken

This is an incredibly high number. I wish I could sell off that percentage of my domains wholesale every day!

Especially like mentioned, half of them are 3 or 4 random words strung together.

And bare in mind, the ones placed in the Caught Domains category on expiredomains.net are those that were instantly registered within seconds after the drop. The numbers are actually even higher when you consider a lot of people will manually reg expired domains instead of using services.

 

[easypeasy]

It's actually more like in a region between 7-8%. You can check the links below on expireddomains.net:



This is an incredibly high number. I wish I could sell off that percentage of my domains wholesale every day!

Especially like mentioned, half of them are 3 or 4 random words strung together.

And bare in mind, the ones placed in the Caught Domains category on expiredomains .net are those that were instantly registered within seconds after the drop. The numbers are actually even higher when you consider a lot of people will manually reg expired domains instead of using services.

So why are they all getting caught then? I really don't think its the end user catching all this crap...

 

[Chris CPD]

So why are they all getting caught then? I really don't think its the end user catching all this crap...

Good question, I really can't see the expired domain market being that popular or lucrative enough to be seeing these kind of numbers.

 

[biggie]

So why are they all getting caught then? I really don't think its the end user catching all this crap...

I really can't see the expired domain market being that popular or lucrative enough to be seeing these kind of numbers.

Hi

when you consider all the silly metrics, that you're being told to use when measuring a domains value....
then, that alone could explain a lot of it.

and the list keeps growing every time a new, "i get data for you site" pops up.

you also have to consider all the registrars and scripts being used on backends to catch drops and backorders.

and... who knows, somebody might be doing some "tasting" too.

imo...

 

[AEProgram]

that is still very high. Wonder how many will be dropped again in 5 days. I know there are people including SN that grabs names, sends it to 19 dollar auction and if they dont sell, they drop within grace period. This is what I remember them doing a while back.

 

[biggie]

sends it to 19 dollar auction

Hi

i caught a few nice domains in those $19 auctions,
but they got rid of it.

imo....

 

[Bob Hawkes]

It's actually more like in a region between 7-8%. You can check the links below on expireddomains.net:

Today:
91,337 Expired Domains
7,348 Caught Domains
8% Taken

Yesterday:
91,695 Expired Domains
6,988 Caught Domains
7.6% Taken

Thanks so much for the links an numbers, @Chris CPD . I am dumbfounded. I never really thought about it, but I am amazed that 7 to 8% are being caught/registered. It seems to me that the percentage that warrant being caught is not that high. Checking your filter, that is just for .com. Would be interesting to look at stats for other TLDs at some point. Thanks again for the data.
-Bob

PS Does anyone happen to know how the rate of .com caught has varied over the years?

PPS @Bravo Mod Team is it possible to have the title of this discussion changed so that it is not in error, since nowhere near half are caught.

 

[Future Sensors]

I just noticed that nearly half of all dropped .com's are caught on a daily basis

Where did you see this?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

How do I delete the thread? lol

I am not sure the edit window for this discussion, but is the title of your first post open to edit? If so I would suggest changing "Nearly half" to "More than 5%" or something like that so it does not have a misleading title.
-Bob

 

[Bob Hawkes]

and... who knows, somebody might be doing some "tasting" too.

I had thought that the ICANN changes had all but eliminated domain name tasting well over a decade ago. Do you think it is still happening? I don't know many registrars that allow return even within the 5 day window. Clearly when you could return domain names up to a month without penalty, and parking was a significant revenue generator, tasting had a big place.

ICANN Aug 2009:
The End of Domain Tasting | AGP Deletes Decrease 99.7%

-Bob

 

[likemike]

It's quite amazing easypeasy, especially when it's not really easypeasy to sell good domains fast these days!
I don't think it's tasting domains Bob. I think it's more like dreaming of domain riches!

 

[AEProgram]

I had thought that the ICANN changes had all but eliminated domain name tasting well over a decade ago. Do you think it is still happening? I don't know many registrars that allow return even within the 5 day window. Clearly when you could return domain names up to a month without penalty, and parking was a significant revenue generator, tasting had a big place.

ICANN Aug 2009:
The End of Domain Tasting | AGP Deletes Decrease 99.7%

-Bob

still happens.

The business model is based on the fact that every day, people wait for a domain to drop so they can manually register it, or a name they had a low rate drop catcher try to catch and they didn't get. The people that bulk register names daily from the drop, with the goal to delete within a few days, put up a quick buy now hoping the person sees it and buys it at a low price. If you have the ability to register 500 names a day and delete them within the grace period, and you know how to choose them, you can automate much of it and possibly make money with very little risk.

SN was doing this on a very big scale a while ago and I don't know if they still do.

 

[Zsolt Bikadi]

Registrars can get a refund for max. 10% of the registrations, this is how domain tasting was stopped technically. So this is the max any registrar can do on its own or offer to customers. Grace delete stats are shown on domainstate, it happens and there are some registrars that are active in it like NetSol but it is not the main business model behind the majority of these registrations.

Anyhow, the number is decreasing, it was almost 20k/day couple years ago. Also, there is a strong shift from "Western registrations" to "Eastern registrations", now Chinese registrations dominates the drop, which was not the case earlier.

 

[pb]

Registrars can get a refund for max. 10% of the registrations, this is how domain tasting was stopped technically. So this is the max any registrar can do on its own or offer to customers. Grace delete stats are shown on domainstate, it happens and there are some registrars that are active in it like NetSol but it is not the main business model behind the majority of these registrations.

It's worth to note that it's 10% per registry, and for a big registrar it's still quite a lot. If they have some side business, or a deal with some acquainted domainer(s), they can still go through a lot of domains this way. At dynadot it's quite transparent, but also quite costly (for .com anyway): https://www.dynadot.com/domain/grace-deletion - what's interesting is that you can see the current percentage for TLDs, as well as which TLDs allow it and in what capacity.