What just changed? I can't hand-catch ANY drops.

[randomo]

Since January, I have been hand-catching drops almost every morning at Moniker. I typically have a list of 10-15 that I'm trying to catch, and by repeatedly querying between 9:00 and 9:10 a.m., I usually catch _most_ of them. (Nothing premium - LLLL.com's, 2-word .net's, etc.)

In the past 4 days, I've tried to catch a total of 37, and I've gotten ZERO. Normally, I would expect to have gotten 25-30, so something weird is going on.

Some of the ones I tried to catch were actually reg'd at about 3:00 a.m. by Enom. I don't recall running into this problem before.

Does anyone know what has just changed? I'm a math teacher, so I know this is far too statistically improbable to be a random occurrence. Have I overlooked some big announcement about the drop system?

Thanks ....

-Dave

 

[actnow]

Since January, I have been hand-catching drops almost every morning at Moniker. I typically have a list of 10-15 that I'm trying to catch, and by repeatedly querying between 9:00 and 9:10 a.m., I usually catch _most_ of them. (Nothing premium - LLLL.com's, 2-word .net's, etc.)

In the past 4 days, I've tried to catch a total of 37, and I've gotten ZERO. Normally, I would expect to have gotten 25-30, so something weird is going on.

Some of the ones I tried to catch were actually reg'd at about 3:00 a.m. by Enom. I don't recall running into this problem before.

Does anyone know what has just changed? I'm a math teacher, so I know this is far too statistically improbable to be a random occurrence. Have I overlooked some big announcement about the drop system?

Thanks ....

-Dave

Dave,

Are you located in Delaware? If so, .com's drop at 2 pm eastern.

Where you catching domains that the tasters were dropping?

 

[-NC-]

Have I overlooked some big announcement about the drop system?

perhaps namejet is hoovering up _everything_ to auction off?

 

[randomo]

Dave,

Are you located in Delaware? If so, .com's drop at 2 pm eastern.

Where you catching domains that the tasters were dropping?

Yes, I'm in DE. And I don't claim to be an expert on the drop system ... all I know is that every morning, for many months now, dropping domains (which I culled from SnapNames lists) would suddenly become available [at Moniker] between 9:00 and 9:10 a.m.

The change came about four days ago. In a day or two, I'll check and see whether some of those domains are now available, meaning that somebody was taking all of them for tasting.