For Sale Dotster's NameWinner Drop Catching Service Calls It Quits!!

[Digital Address]

www.namewinner.com

They've been catching for SnapNames since last year; now it's official! And it now looks like all of Dotster's own drops are going to migrate into the SnapNames system.

 

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And it now looks like all of Dotster's own drops are going to migrate into the SnapNames system.

Not quite:

clickbike.com
clickboat.com

Both registered and expired on the same day and both were supposed to drop on the same day; Dotster decided to keep the one with the higher traffic (bike) for itself! So now they're screwing SnapNames just like Register!

 

[forward]

does anyone know where i can find a droplist like the one that was on the front page of namewinner? i read that damn thing every morning with my coffee

 

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http://www.odditysoftware.com/page-dailydomains.htm

Not exactly like namewinner--or dnlists.com for that matter!--but still useful.

 

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They've been catching for SnapNames since last year...

And they have SECRETLY added their own nameservers in addition to the default nameservers in order to test for any possible traffic:

NS1.FABULOUS.COM
NS2.FABULOUS.COM
NS3.NAMERESOLVE.COM
NS4.NAMERESOLVE.COM

 

[QuantumBeam]

SECRETLY added their own nameservers

wha the
:spy:

 

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If you do a whois check at Network Solutions, FreeWho, or Dotster itself on a domain grabbed for you by Dotster through SnapNames, you will not see the NS3 or the NS4 (or NS5 or NS6). Yet it will be there on every single domain ever grabbed by Dotster. If you go into your Dotster account (or else try whois.domaintools.com) and look up the nameservers on any domain, there they will be. And if you try to update the nameservers in your account with ONLY the nameservers you want, it won't let you do it!

 

[ThisDot]

Now that is SNEAKY!!!