Drop catch services

foz · 26-07-2011, 10:56:57 PM

Does domainwatchlist_co_uk catch for themselves?

aZooZa · 26-07-2011, 11:01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by foz

Does xxx (redacted) catch for themselves?

This is a good point. If you're in the catching business you CANNOT run with the hare and hounds. Public catchers should be trusted not to take your booking and grab it. Black and white.

newguy · 26-07-2011, 11:05:13 PM

dacr.co.uk are pretty good too!

aZooZa · 26-07-2011, 11:15:06 PM

I don't think the debate about a 'good' catcher will ever be resolved here. A good script will have maybe three years of substantiated catches.

bens · 27-07-2011, 08:38:06 AM

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Originally Posted by foz

Does domainwatchlist_co_uk catch for themselves?

No. We have only done public catching since domainwatchlist was set up.

monaghan · 27-07-2011, 09:57:45 AM

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Originally Posted by aZooZa

This is a good point. If you're in the catching business you CANNOT run with the hare and hounds. Public catchers should be trusted not to take your booking and grab it. Black and white.

I'd question this, why should a catcher NOT go for a catch on their own system as long as the booking system rules are followed? I don't catch many for myself these days, but the few I do go for are put in the system in exactly the same way as any other customer and I share the frustration of seeing a "this is already booked" response when someone has already booked the latest "killer" name I've just discovered on my drop lists.

cmrule · 27-07-2011, 12:13:42 PM

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Originally Posted by monaghan

I'd question this, why should a catcher NOT go for a catch on their own system as long as the booking system rules are followed? I don't catch many for myself these days, but the few I do go for are put in the system in exactly the same way as any other customer and I share the frustration of seeing a "this is already booked" response when someone has already booked the latest "killer" name I've just discovered on my drop lists.

I guess the risk is someone thinking that they have 'stolen' their idea and they only booked it because they were alerted to the fact it was dropping by a customer. For example if I check if a domain is available to book and dont book it immediately is this recorded somewhere for the site owner to review and then book themselves?
I guess it would be silly not to book it immediately

I have manged to book through one of the sites suggested so thanks for that. All others appear to be booked up already. I'm too slow again! Grr

wb · 27-07-2011, 12:14:22 PM

This thread has reminded me to start booking some domains in...

Alex, on the topic of catching, does your new website check availability live or are bookings manually submitted to you once entered?

Doesn't really make much difference either way, just curious.

cmrule · 27-07-2011, 12:30:12 PM

How do you register on domainjunky then?

monaghan · 27-07-2011, 01:02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by cmrule

I guess the risk is someone thinking that they have 'stolen' their idea and they only booked it because they were alerted to the fact it was dropping by a customer. For example if I check if a domain is available to book and dont book it immediately is this recorded somewhere for the site owner to review and then book themselves?
I guess it would be silly not to book it immediately

I'd not even thought of the idea of recording non-booked names to see if there is anything of interest

My updated system simply drops names into a queue (immediately rejecting already booked or queued) and then processes the queue in a batch to see what is suspended and to calculate the drop date. I'd designed it that way so it could be "hands off", but I guess it gives it integrity as it removes "me" from the process.

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