Numbers of Enom's Pre-Release Names suddenly deceased sharply. Why?

[HcDomains]

Hi,

I used make carefully search of Enom's "Pre-Release Names" list everyday and pick some nice names here. There are normally 3000-5000 names in the list everyday.

I didn't not access internet in last 5 days since of traveling. When I back to office and access to internet again today, I found there are 919 Domains in the list only

Enom's Pre-Release Names list contains a 3 days listing, so 919 divided by 3 means only 300+ domians per day, which is less than 10% of normally drop number a day.

Anyone knows what happened in past 5 days?

 

[maroulis]

apart from the partnership with SnapNames?

 

[HcDomains]

apart from the partnership with SnapNames?

No.. I don't think they are partner with SnapNames on this.

Enom's Pre-release names are the expiring Domains registered with Enom, which are in their early expiring days (under RGP period, before deleting. Domains in Deleting period would go to ClubDrop list)

 

[Name Trader]

What partnership with SnapNames?

 

[tripleputt]

eNom was recently acquired by Demand Media, a domaining power player. Maybe Demand Media is keeping the better domains for themselves, and only pre-releasing the lower quality ones?

 

[The Stealthy One]

Perhaps something changed within 5 days within the market. Maybe eNom hasn't done anything at all.

To end the speculation....have you tried contacting eNom directly?

 

[AdoptableDomains]

It could be that many in the past were registerfly resold domains that are now being held since it's unknown if many were voluntarily or involuntarily allowed to expire.

 

[HcDomains]

To tripleputt,
The acquiring of Enom is about half year already, so should not be the reason. And in my experience, there are only 10+ names are qualified from 3000 - 4000 pre-release list, so also no meaning for Demand Media to keep those nonsense names.

The Stealthy One
I have opened a ticket for this but don't get answer yet. Still waiting.

To AdoptableDomains,
I don't think that Registerfly was contribute 90% of Enom business, so that could not be the main reason

The point here is tht IF Enom does nothing for this, just because of there don't have so many expiring domains each day as past, it maybe a good signal for all domainers: Qualify Domains become more valuable. (But I don't think the number of expiring would drop from 4000 to 300+ suddenly...)

Still guessing

 

[HcDomains]

I got the result.. It is not good news

 

[Name Trader]

eNom was recently acquired by Demand Media, a domaining power player. Maybe Demand Media is keeping the better domains for themselves, and only pre-releasing the lower quality ones?

I think they were doing that already, at least since Demand Media took over, maybe even before that.