eNom Club Drop - My Trial

[Scooter]

This is a review of my recent adventures with eNom's Club Drop.

I signed up with Club Drop for this month to cover another base for a few domains that I want. I recently missed out on a domain I had placed a snapback on and SnapNames advised looking at more than one drop program.

The names chosen for this test were a combination of interesting, regional and those with snapbacks. Please remember that I am not listing the domains for review my selection technique, simply to provide others with information on Club Drop. I believe the quality of some names helped reveal a worrying feature, you will understand.

Thanks go to a few DNF'ers & SnapNames for help.


Summary of exercise:
Attempted domains: 50
Caught: 19 (2 with SnapBacks)
Left available: 2


Key Legend:
CAUGHT = Caught by my account.
LEFT_AVAILABLE = Left available by Club Drop and manually registered later.
MISSED = Missed by me, plus the successful catch program/registrar.
SN = Someone had a SnapBack in place.


12-May-2003 (0 out of 11)
teacherpassport.com LEFT_AVAILABLE (manual reg at eNom)
locater.com MISSED (to Club Drop)
citymotel.com SN MISSED (to omnis.com/BuyDomains)
cricketbooks.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)
crimpingtool.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)
massmailer.com SN MISSED (to domainzoo.com/BuyDomains)
mymailserver.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)
poprock.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)
securitygroup.com SN MISSED (to sitename.com)
thisgroup.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)
wrinkles.com SN MISSED (to newdentity.com)

13-May 2003 (0 out of 5)
pleasedontspamme.com LEFT_AVAILABLE (manual reg at eNom)
sydneyschild.com MISSED (to dotster.com)
quiznow.com MISSED (to registrationtek.com/BuyDomains)
tvbuff.com MISSED (to galcomm.com/BuyDomains)
zonemaster.com MISSED (to newdentity.com)

14-May-2003 (6 out of 8)
auslinks.com CAUGHT
auspix.com CAUGHT
domainlinker.com CAUGHT
getcity.com CAUGHT
milperra.net CAUGHT
teamblog.com CAUGHT
edfun.com SN MISSED (to omnis.com/BuyDomains)
conflicts.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)

15-May-2003 (0 out of 1)
fades.com SN MISSED (to namesdirect.com)

16-May-2003 (4 out of 5)
3ai.com CAUGHT
ofoz.com CAUGHT
movieclubs.com SN CAUGHT
mycitycouncil.com CAUGHT
localtowing.com MISSED (to dotster.com)

17-May-2003 (2 out of 5)
club969.com CAUGHT
keyadmin.com CAUGHT
linuxschool.com SN MISSED (to newdentity.com)
wecater.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)
wisemonkey.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)

18-May-2003 (3 out of 5)
buzztalk.com CAUGHT
dnsmate.com CAUGHT
hotcook.com CAUGHT
localbuilders.com SN MISSED (to 123registration.com/BuyDomains)
mrwheels.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)

19-May-2003 (2 out of 5)
domainspan.com CAUGHT
domainstartup.com CAUGHT
insidetheweb.com SN MISSED (to SnapNames)
newzone.com SN MISSED (to 123registration.com/BuyDomains)
whoispro.com SN MISSED (to godaddy.com)

20-May-2003 (0 out of 2)
afp.net SN MISSED (to dotster.com)
plan.net SN MISSED (to SnapNames)

21-May-2003 (2 out of 3)
domaintalking.com SN CAUGHT
lotsofdomains.com CAUGHT
eso.net SN MISSED (to omnis.com/BuyDomains)


eNom Support:
- Generally good, available around the clock via email within a minutes and up to a few hours.
- After a little confusion in the beginning. We worked out that I had the right timezone but the program just wasn't successful for my list.
- The "next day's drop" highlight is wrong at time, so you need to work out the schedule of events in your timezone. The response was that it will be fixed.
- At times, I received an "Update failed. You cannot update you list during the drop". This was 5 hours before the closing time. The response was that it will be reported.
- There were two domains left available and not caught by anyone. The response was that they must have missed them.

If you want to add some information about a domain, maybe you caught it, PM me and I will edit it in.

Be kind.




Edit: Added information provided by SnapNames, a few last minute Snaps and the names caught. Thanks.

 

[actnow]

Scooter,
Very interesting data.

Having this "snapshot" of grabs for 10 days is good. But, it wil be more revealing over a longer period of time.

We have seen where NW, Snaps or Drop Clubs become better or worse at a particular time for grabbing.

Also, the next variable you would need to analyze will be the potential international interest in the domain name. (ie., auslinks.com)

I wonder if any other DNF members has been keeping track of their "winners and losers"?

Great analysis.

 

[Scooter]

For interest/pity.

For one of the names listed, I also had a SnapBack on. I didn't get it through either program.

:sad: