If I want a domain really bad....

[fischermx]

So, I backordered it at:
Snapnames,
Pool and
Namejet

What else do I need to consider?
It is a two words ".com", with few to none traffic.

[hugegrowth]

Contact the owner and make them an offer? Unless it is in drop mode.

[stock_post]

If you contact them once, you can forget about drop catch!

Deal with the owner and get the name.

[fischermx]

Contact the owner and make them an offer? Unless it is in drop mode.

Of course it is on the delete state!!
That's why I'm asking in the drop catchers sections.

I'm asking what others drop catchers besides Snap, Pool and Enom exists!

If you contact them once, you can forget about drop catch!

Deal with the owner and get the name.

I can't.... it is already pending delete, that's WHY I'm asking in the drop catchers section......

[NostraDomainus]

I'm in the same boat trying to capture a domain in pending-delete.

I'm @ Pool and NameJet, but can't understand if SnapNames still catches names :S

Maybe it's me, but I don't see the explicit language I'm looking for to confirm SnapNames catches names like Pool does. I've used SnapNames years ago, but can't understand them now. Other dicussions mentioned SnapNames will push your name to Public auction anyway - so I don't want that.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but is SnapNames worth using to catch a name you want (and if I am the only catcher, NOT have it go to auction - I want the name!)??

(...and I read GoDaddy ain't worth the time.)

Cheers!

[brianluedke]

To my understanding, the below still holds true in 2010, and pretty well sums up the situation.

I'm in the same boat trying to capture a domain in pending-delete.

I'm @ Pool and NameJet, but can't understand if SnapNames still catches names :S

Maybe it's me, but I don't see the explicit language I'm looking for to confirm SnapNames catches names like Pool does. I've used SnapNames years ago, but can't understand them now. Other dicussions mentioned SnapNames will push your name to Public auction anyway - so I don't want that.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but is SnapNames worth using to catch a name you want (and if I am the only catcher, NOT have it go to auction - I want the name!)??

(...and I read GoDaddy ain't worth the time.)

Cheers!

[stewie]

if you want it bad, go through them all... if someone else backorders it too...at least you'd be in an auction , ...

*I think he is asking for a list of all the companies that catch names...or at least the top ones...

Does anyone have a list of top name catchers???

[steveatvillas]

If I'm after a name, I go for SnapNames, NameJet (eNom), Pool and TDNAM (for GoDaddy drops). Between the first three, you've pretty much got it covered. Since GoDaddy controls 30 million names, if you pick it up at TDNAM you avoid the drop catchers.

SnapNames is king. NJ a close second. Pool? Well, they are trying. The only negative is that the drop catchers have so many alliances with so many dinky, completely unprofessional Registrars that you may run into problems with domain management. Still, at the end of the day, the name is yours.

So just put up with the bullshit until the 60 days have expired and then transfer your name the hell out of the Third World and into your preferred registrar, with whom you have a professional relationship. If you are getting jerked around by the shit-heeled amateur registrars, you do have to get nasty...but, if you go through the aggregator, they take care of the problems.

As to customer service, I've found all three (Snap, NJ and Pool) to be very good. I've never had a problem; and as long as you've paid for the name, and you've set your account defaults to lock the domains correctly, you'll not have a problem.

This is my experience, anyway...and I've never lost a snag that I really want. Although, if it goes to auction, sometimes I have to pay more than I want.

Steve