For Sale What service is grabing these?

[cambler]

Never trust what you read on a Wiki. I'm just a hack

 

[katherine]

sdsinc,

All drops are temporarily registered. PERIOD.

For how many minutes ? If it is as you said there should be no leftovers at all. Obviously I am a noob and you know a lot more than I do :shy:

They are checked for traffic over 1 to 5 days. closer to 5 days.

Then, you might be lucky enough to grab it.

However, the other traffic checking registrars might grab the name.

I occasionally see names float between 15 to 20 days.

sdsinc,
Just in case you don't you know, calling the guy in charge of one of the top 3
catching services wrong. Sure doesn't makes you look more knowledgeable
about drops.

I know that a *significant* number of drops are caught then released. I do not know the stats. But 100% it beats me
Perhaps I can take a sample of today's drop and check back one day later.
Should be interesting to see the moves on a larger scale.

 

[mppedersen]

I must say that I have seen some drops that make me say why would anybody registrar that in the first place, let alone pick it up on a drop.

ie: 330000000000000000000000.com

however a quick search of whois.sc shows that these are registered:

00000000000000000000.com
000000000000000000000.com
0000000000000000000000.com
00000000000000000000000.com
000000000000000000000000.com
0000000000000000000000000.com

So who knows, one thing I've figured out is no matter what the domain name is, the right person with the right skills can make it a million dollar property.

PS Chris nice hack job :cheeky:

 

[cambler]

With the five-day grace period, most registrars who play in the "get everything and check the traffic" will do so for four days or so. Some will only check them for a day or two, not wanting to risk missing the five-day cutoff and being stuck with the name.

And some, for some reason that I can't tell, will let them go the same day. Personally, I don't see a few hours as enough time to get an idea of whether the name has traffic or not, so I'm thinking they might be doing something else.

 

[stuff]

And some, for some reason that I can't tell, will let them go the same day. Personally, I don't see a few hours as enough time to get an idea of whether the name has traffic or not, so I'm thinking they might be doing something else.

But what?

 

[cambler]

If my guess is right, I don't believe I'm at liberty to say (it would give away some of the "special sauce" of Club Drop).

 

[mppedersen]

I have to say Club drop and been kicking butt lately, I think they are picking up about 75% of the drops I chose, so what ever special sauce they are using its working for me.

Am I right in assuming the 5 day period is only for ICANN accredited registrars?

 

[Chaiki]

Ambler's right - 100% of the names do get reg'd on any drop day. He works with enom and they are one of the co's doing it. Most of the good stuff gets held back before the drop and goes through transfer fulfillment auction. Austions still way more lucrative than holding the best names back.

The stuff that does drop uncontested is mostly link-pop garbage that falls back after a while. The sustainable type-in stuff almost all gets auctioned at some point because thats where the money is.

 

[pelican]

the dropping environment is soo agressive.
2 years ago, i always go through pending delete list 1-2 days later after it drop and manage to hand reg reasonable nice little traffic domains.

 

[Togoodhlth]

the dropping environment is soo agressive.
2 years ago, i always go through pending delete list 1-2 days later after it drop and manage to hand reg reasonable nice little traffic domains.

Yeah the good ol days are gone!

 

[katherine]

I should also add that just a few weeks ago I was still able to register dropped names as they dropped by 14:00 EST.
Some were taken of course but not all.

It's been rough since and it looks like the "vacuum cleaner" registrars are really getting aggressive and registering drops en masse.
I've not seen many available names lately.
Still many are eventually cancelled a few days later, some of them are rather decent even if they do not draw huge traffic.
Well at least we get a second chance to grab some interesting names
Tough game :-O %+|

 

[Dave Zan]

Tough game :-O %+|

I won't be surprised if it'll get even tougher.

 

[stevesko]

Proof that you are wrong... recycled-traffic.com .. as I understand it, these are names that dropped, with traffic or PR (or both) and are available. I have used this and picked up sites.

Steve

 

[cambler]

Proof that you are wrong... recycled-traffic.com .. as I understand it, these are names that dropped, with traffic or PR (or both) and are available. I have used this and picked up sites.

Steve

Not quite. Those are named that dropped, had traffic, were picked-up by the large players, and then released again within the 5-day grace period.

If you pick up sites from them, you're either getting them after the grace period, or using an existing drop-catcher (or, on rare occasion, getting very lucky to get one during the drop, but again, that's rare).

Saying "proof that you are wrong," when talking to someone who does this for a living is... um... questionable.

 

[Fearless]

Someone should write a script to give traffic for 4 days to the worst possible dropped names. That will slow down the catch and release registrars.

 

[cambler]

Someone should write a script to give traffic for 4 days to the worst possible dropped names. That will slow down the catch and release registrars.

You'd be wasting your time, I would think - you'd need it to hit from a large number of IPs, and that would require some kind of (illegal) botnet. Even if done with you and your 100 closest friends, though, the aggregators would quickly see the pattern and mask it.

 

[QuantumBeam]

the dropping environment is soo agressive.
2 years ago, i always go through pending delete list 1-2 days later after it drop and manage to hand reg reasonable nice little traffic domains.

it is STILL possible, did it a few weeks ago.
arty:

 

[stevesko]

Not quite. Those are named that dropped, had traffic, were picked-up by the large players, and then released again within the 5-day grace period.

If you pick up sites from them, you're either getting them after the grace period, or using an existing drop-catcher (or, on rare occasion, getting very lucky to get one during the drop, but again, that's rare).

Saying "proof that you are wrong," when talking to someone who does this for a living is... um... questionable.

Well.. Sorry. I guess "proof" WAS a little strong. I just ment to say that I have used recycled-traffic to accomplish MY goals at the time. (PR sites)

Steve

 

[stevesko]

with all the names we all try to grab, why dont we become our own registrar and grab them ourselves. Does anyone know what it takes to partisipate in the drop? When I looked into becoming a registrar it looked like about 50-70K. Is there anything else you need to do to partisipate?

Steve

 

[dvdrip]

Build the software to catch the domains that is bound to fail against the big boys.