.us Pool & .us names...

[domainica]

I recently saw a posting in a different forum regarding Pool.com and their ability (actually, it was their INability) to catch .us names. The poster stated he backordered a thousand .us domains and Pool.com caught for him exactly....ZERO.

Zero for a thousand. That doesn't sound like a good average.

So I decided to test it out myself. First I emailed Pool and asked them this:

I've just heard that Pool rarely, if ever,
bothers with .us names, basically ignoring them to go
after the more lucrative .com names.

Is this true?

Here is their response:

Hello;

Thank you for contacting Pool.com, we are pleased to assist you with your inquiry.

Pool.com will attempt to acquire every domain you submit for backorder through your account, regardless of what kind of domains you have backordered. That said, we also make no guarantees if any backorder you place with us will be successful. Our overall success rate for all types of domains we try to acquire varies usually between 50% and 70%.

Thank you for using Pool.com

Regards,

Okey-dokey. So I started off by backordering 11 .us domains that expired on 07/09/06. These were very good .us names that I'm sure were backordered by many others, which would have resulted in an auction. In fact, I'm pretty sure that some of these names could easily have reached the low 4 figures in the auction process.

So the results of the 07/09/06 drop? Out of 11 backordered .us names, Pool caught...Zero.

Maybe it was just a bad day. So I ordered more for today, and will continue to backorder until my list reaches 100. I will provide a daily tally if anyone's interested.

And if anyone else has experience with Pool and their success rate with .us names, post it here.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[domainica]

That link shows quite the opposite. It shows that galcomm catches names for namewinner.

You're right. Thanks. Geez. I told you I'm new at this .us dropcatching thing. I don't even know how to read a list.

blue razor catches for godaddy only.

Hello. Since blue razor is a "partner" of GoDaddy, does that mean that placing a backorder with blue razor is the same as placing a backorder with GoDaddy?

Also, does placing an order via bluehill the same thing as placing a backorder at 4domains?

Finally, regarding Galcomm, their site has a link near the bottom of their page ("Wanted Domains") for their dropcatching service Namescatch.com. Unfortunately, the link leads to a dead page. Did they go out of business?

 

[Carlton]

Hello. Since blue razor is a "partner" of GoDaddy, does that mean that placing a backorder with blue razor is the same as placing a backorder with GoDaddy?

Yes, they share the same backorder slot.

Also, does placing an order via bluehill the same thing as placing a backorder at 4domains?

Yes

Finally, regarding Galcomm, their site has a link near the bottom of their page ("Wanted Domains") for their dropcatching service Namescatch.com. Unfortunately, the link leads to a dead page. Did they go out of business?

Galcomm have many dead links and non-working functions including their payment interface which is currently resolving to an error page.