There’s an all out war for dropping domain names

[deez007]

…and it’s expensive.

It costs expired domain drop catchers $8.03 for every .com domain name they catch for you. So why are they charging customers so much money?

A good place to start is by looking at how much they pay to amass the firepower necessary to be successful drop catchers.

When a domain name deletes, all of the expired domain name services interested in the domain name start pinging Verisign’s servers to try to register the domain name. Many factors go into success rates, but a lot of it has to do with how many registrars they have to ping Verisign for the massive amount of domains they’re trying to snag each day. Think of each registrar as a phone line that goes directly to Verisign. The more lines, the more domains you can catch.

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http://domainnamewire.com/2016/11/15/theres-war-dropping-domain-names/

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

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[Kuffy]

There is some drop catching software available. I keep thinking I should install it on a server, and have a go at a few names. I think I read that I'd be lucky if I grabbed 1 in a thousand, but it might be fun to try.

 

[Hypersot]

There is some drop catching software available. I keep thinking I should install it on a server, and have a go at a few names. I think I read that I'd be lucky if I grabbed 1 in a thousand, but it might be fun to try.

The chances are less than 1 in a thousand, it's zero. You just can't compete with those dropcatching services.
What you can compete with by using such a software is people that use a similar type of software or people that buy via the webpage.

I have stopped using drop catching software since a long time now. It's not worth the trouble for quality names imo.

 

[Kuffy]

I think that is true for some of the better names, but there are a few that seem to be ignored by the major name harvesters. I was thinking that if one just went for secondary names, then there could be a slim chance of success.

It must put a load on the registrar though, so I wonder how many will allow smaller clients to use drop catching software.

 

[internext]

Interesting article, Thanks for posting. How do you know when a name is close to (within 5 days of) dropping?

 

[Hypersot]

Interesting article, Thanks for posting. How do you know when a name is close to (within 5 days of) dropping?

easiest thing to do is use an expired list from sites like domcop.com, expireddomains.net etc.
...or you can browse the dropcatching service's list.

Most services provide pending deletes lists along with the exact date of dropping.

 

[Jebaited]

They charge so much not because of the server costs but because they OWN the domains they catched. Think about it like they are selling the domains for wholesale prices. They could sell 100 domains for 1000$ each or 10000 for 59$ each, it's just a matter of business strategy.

 

[frank-germany]

easiest thing to do is use an expired list from sites like domcop.com, expireddomains.net etc.
...or you can browse the dropcatching service's list.

Most services provide pending deletes lists along with the exact date of dropping.

http://F1lter.com supplies the dropping domains daily and lets your sort them easily

 

[internext]

@frank-germany wow I like that site. Thanks

 

[Doughmange]

There was been a war for some time now, drop catchers looking to edge out the competition.

Some have teamed up, some have failed, and one remains dominant for catching dropped domains.

What is interesting is that if you look at some of the most valuable drops, there only ever appears to be 200 - 300 people with eyes on the prize. With billions of people on the planet, there is still a great deal of room for profit to be made for almost any acquisition.

 

[TDM]

I would guess that with such highly developed drop-catch providers (competition) it is not about being milliseconds earlier than the other.

It´s about latency, microseconds and co-location

datacenterknowledge com/archives/2007/12/03/proximity-hosting-when-microseconds-matter/
2007! So maybe something like 40 years in real life