Here's a review of my experience so far.
Nice site, easy to use. Most pr domains are coming up as "invalid pr" when using CheckPagerank.net . But i'm not sure how valid checkpagerank is, so i'm not complaining. It's nice being able to check tommorrow's drops.
If you don't seem to be getting alot of customers, i'd lower the monthly fee, especially for your top level Gold which i think most domainers would opt for. Don't put alot of adsense on it, domainers IMO don't click on them and they ugly-up a site.... Better to go with paid advertisers i'd think.
Good luck and hope biz increases.
Hi picassoface,
Great, thanks for signing-up.
Comments and suggestions are very welcome, Our intention is to do whatever we can to provide the best service possible at a competitive price.
I looked at CheckPagerank.net, and I think they are making some questionable assumptions about validity. They seem to think that if you search for domain.com, and domain.com isn't the first result then it's fake.... It may or may not be true for live domains but often isn't for expired domains.
This is particularly true recently, because Google have been complicating things. A couple of months ago google stopped reporting any PR for expired domains, after a couple of weeks they started reporting PR again but stopped reporting backlinks, curently google reports 0 backlinks for most expired domains, although of course the links are still there. Over the last few days I've noticed a marked reduction in the number of pages reported via a site: command. I think these actions are probably part of their current war against paid links.....
If you do a info:domain.com and it shows a different domain, then the page has been redirected and the PR is fake, if it shows the correct domain it isn't fake, but if it shows no data there's no way you can definitively tell. So, you can look at the wayback pages to see if they seem reasonable for that domain, and also see if any reported backlinks are actually there, if it does have a good number of links then it probably isn't fake... but as google isn't reporting backlings correctly you have to look at those in yahoo instead...
I think you're right about adsense, We may at some point put up some adds for registrars, hosting companies or parking services, but only if we use them ourselves and can recommend them.
We are looking at adding more features, perhaps a backlink search to check for validity, perhaps some form of OVT score... And we may decide to package and sell dropcatch scripts or domain management software. We develop all our own software and scripts in-house, so we can quickly react when the SE's change something.
