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Best host for my script?
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Luck and strategy are two of the biggest factors imho. I have hosted very close to nom, been on goscombe, mythic beasts and others and had so so joy. I hosted on a crappy server in my mates garage on his adsl and caught LLL co uks and some vgood names so figure that one out.
The proof is in the pudding. HAve you caught any competitive names where you are? You know what names are going to be competitive so if you get one of them your doing ok.
The proof is in the pudding. HAve you caught any competitive names where you are? You know what names are going to be competitive so if you get one of them your doing ok.
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Thanks for the info Stender.
I think I caught a semi-competitive one once, no LLL sadly even though I keep trying
My logs show that I always try for them but they never seem to end up with my tag, even after I've trimmed all the fat off the reg string.
oh well, I'll try a little longer then I'm going to focus on things that make me more money.
I think I caught a semi-competitive one once, no LLL sadly even though I keep trying
My logs show that I always try for them but they never seem to end up with my tag, even after I've trimmed all the fat off the reg string.oh well, I'll try a little longer then I'm going to focus on things that make me more money.
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Luck and strategy certainly seem to be big factors. Find it amazing when I beat some of the other catchers on the sought after names (every now and then it happens - I think!) but then realise I probably just got my tactics right and had a lot of luck that day!
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To be honest most catchers will have similar scripts and probably done the same things on their scripts and all probably using the same handful of hosts. Theres a few things you can do to improve your chances but the fact that theres a fair spread of catchers on any premium domains shows that some luck is involved.
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The alternative of course is to get everyone with a tag to catch for you and take half the profits.....oh wait 
Anyway just so you know I'm getting less than 2ms from nominet and I suspect people have got even better than that. The real trick is getting your purchasing request to run as fast as possible. 1ms doesn't matter if your script can issue a buy command 2ms before anyone else.
Anyway just so you know I'm getting less than 2ms from nominet and I suspect people have got even better than that. The real trick is getting your purchasing request to run as fast as possible. 1ms doesn't matter if your script can issue a buy command 2ms before anyone else.- Status
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