For Sale why doesnt anybody do like pool.com?

[frankodns]

Hi everybody! Im new to this forum and have been buying expired domains at pool,snapnames and others to get the feel of this business.
I noticed that pool.com's catches were almost always from namescout.com and also read that each registrar has only a 250k bandwith alloted to snatch names so I wondered how pool.com could do it with just namescout.com.
I know they have deals with other resgistrars but still most catches are from namescout.com.
Anybody have any idea how they could accomplish that with just one registrar?

 

[seeker]

namescout works as a drop catcher for pool exclusively.
But then again, there are others that do that as well.

It is definately not the case that most of their catches are through namescout, unless of course, you are referring to .infos, which I admit, is pools most successful .info catcher, but still not the only one.

 

[frankodns]

well if you look at http://www.internic.net/origin.html in canada youll find a lot of ghost registrars that seemed to be owned by namescout and use diffferent domains but are all redirected to namescout. And pool.com is owned by canadians so what that tells me is pool.com started namescout and to have more leverage in snatching those names they opened like 20 more registrars (maybe by using the same deposit they did for the 1st one) wich all point to namescout.com.
What I'm getting to is this: why cant we do the same and start one registrar and use it to start 20 other bogus registrars used only to get more bandwith at snatching those names?

 

[actnow]

If you want to see a current list of registrars working with Pool and others.

Visit Whois-search's site.

http://www.whois-search.com/deleting/who.php

Snapnames - 43
Namewinner - 22
Pool - 107
Enom - 49

It also becomes a question of quantity or quality of the registrar(s).

 

[mike031]

all those registrars use the namescout interface

 

[actnow]

No.

I was just listing a reference site for all of the drop catching registrars.
And, which registrars work with Pool.

 

[frankodns]

well i did a whois on a few of those registrars that all use the namescout interface and they seem to be owned all by the same people. So I figure instead of having a bunch of us people forking a lot of $ for domains we could get for 10$,why dont we get our ressources together, open 1 registrar and then open other ones that all point to the 1st ones to get that same leverage pool.com has.
Were all biding againts each other and who wins? pool.com

 

[seeker]

anyhow...
I was saying....
it isnt that simple.
as far as namescout is concerned, I dont care what pool says, they are 'heavily' involved together.

 

[frankodns]

Of course they are heavily together cause namescout was started by pool wich also started some other 20 some registrars all pointing to namescout to get more leverage. Now the point Im trying to get across is why do we have to pay 3000$ for a domain to pool when we can put that $ into setting up our own registrars and bypassing their auction system?
I know it sounds simple like that but if a few of us would each put in around 15k we could compete with pool if we play it like them partly.

 

[andyat11]

frank awsome explaination

 

[Luc]

Of course they are heavily together cause namescout was started by pool wich also started some other 20 some registrars all pointing to namescout to get more leverage. Now the point Im trying to get across is why do we have to pay 3000$ for a domain to pool when we can put that $ into setting up our own registrars and bypassing their auction system?
I know it sounds simple like that but if a few of us would each put in around 15k we could compete with pool if we play it like them partly.

if a few of us put in $15k we might be able to start ONE registrar. if you want to compete with pool you'll have to have a bunch, and even that doesn't remotely guarantee that you'll catch anything. you'd then have to spend a few months creating and tweaking the software.

your plan would never work because we're all competing for the same names. there would always be fights about who gets what and where and we'd still only catch maybe 20/100 names.

it works for pool because they're a business. it would never work for a bunch of random people who want to "catch" domains.

interesting idea, and it was discussed before.
just my 2 cents.

 

[Steen]

Luc is right.

 

[lilian]

Of course they are heavily together cause namescout was started by pool wich also started some other 20 some registrars all pointing to namescout to get more leverage. Now the point Im trying to get across is why do we have to pay 3000$ for a domain to pool when we can put that $ into setting up our own registrars and bypassing their auction system?
I know it sounds simple like that but if a few of us would each put in around 15k we could compete with pool if we play it like them partly.

seems reasonable