Recent content by namestrands

Anthony, I don't think it really comes down to simplistic drop catching days being gone, this is more of a case of who controls those domains and who controls the UK namespace. Giving registrars this sort of Nectar could potentially cause all sorts of issues for registrants, not only that it...

It is unlikely that another body will arise to auction off domains, again this puts Nominets effectiveness into question. The UK market should not be wanting to grow up to become that of the TLDs, the UK should be setting the standards for the rest of the world to follow. Simply hanging on to...

I would suggest you all read the draft document and respond to [email protected] and do so before the 20th of this month. Do not leave it to others, this is a hugely important issue that needs more investigation and discussion going forward. Its going to hurt drop catchers when the domain...

What will end up happening is that the registrars will effectively start tasting once the domain expires and will then scrape the cream of the bunch and allow the rest to drop. Knowing a registrar whom is involved in this sort of practice it would be unlikely that a drop catcher would go after...

I have already responded.. pointing out the anti-competitive nature of it all and how it effectively removes a nominet process and therefore control.

123REG, 1and1, Heart, Monster

According to the new Draft Recommendations and framework for expiry from the issue group on Domain Expiry policy, registrars like 123-REG and others will effectively be able to take control of expired domain names preventing them from dropping, change ownership and auction off or monetise...

Dropcatching is less than 5% of our revenue, but it truly is a waste not to waste dac quota on domains that are not dropping.

I think the support staff are as much in the dark at times as we are, they can only rely on the information from the IT department who update them on issues. I know that I could be using my DAC quota for list cleaning or speculation so a heads up would always be useful.

Spoke to Nominet Support and they said domains scheduled to drop today will now drop tomorrow. However she would not state that with absolute, but had iterated this was the message coming from IT department memo.

oops sorry me again.. no not this time. ;-)

Well lets hope that is the case but when nominet called us this afternoon it was clear that there was an issue. We are still cleaning things up here so its clear that Nominet still are dealing with an extensive queue themselves. Once things stop coming in here I will assume that the queue is...

Sorry Guys I think the problems today were caused in part due to one of our catch servers not capturing an EPP response correctly on a domain that was associated with the Conficker Worm. For nominets security I wont go into details as to what happened but suffice to say we are still cleaning up...

A lot of UK names are owned by people in the US/Australia/New Zealand to name a few.. so technically speaking they could be registered at Any time

Not sure Grant as no other names we are after have dropped today yet. Will try another manual reg and let u know