Catching Scripts

[lazarus]

Hiya. Soon I will be looking to purchase or get a catching script done.

Any suggestions?

 

[Murray]

Any suggestions?

My advice would be if someone messages you offering to sell you one, ask whats been caught on their script the past few months

I'm not sure if domainview are still offering hosted catching that's just pay per catch, but that might be a way to go for now

^ Probably would be best to do something like that to begin with, then over the next month or two you might see certain people catching regularly and you could ask them if they sell their script or if they bought it from someone

 

[lazarus]

Sound advice, Cheers Murray.

 

[RobM]

We do still offer hosted chasing.

 

[deluxedomains]

I can recommend robs system from past usage.

 

[Domaintial]

Another +1 for @RobM and the Domainview catching system.

@lazarus are you a tag holder? "Proper" catching will require DAC access in most cases. With domainview you can pay per catch, or use your own TAG/DAC settings to catch on your own tag. Only system I've seen that works in such a flexible way.

 

[lazarus]

@hamlesh yes I do have a TAG / Membership.

I have mentioned it to a close friend of mine who is a senior python dev, So I will let him loose to have crack at it and see how I get on there. Thanks all that replied.

 

[Skinner]

I'm not sure python would be good for it, @monaghan may have some input, I'm sure he mentioned python in a catching thread not too long ago. It may have been ruby actually, I'm not sure.

It seems C, .NET, PB are the better choices in that order, least from the dozen or so scripts where I know what they were wrote in and observed the catches.

I for one am curious purely from a geeky perspective how Python fares

 

[lazarus]

Hi, yea C would be the one.

This is easy as once it is perfected we just use Cython to convert it to C

 

[monaghan]

I'm not sure python would be good for it, @monaghan may have some input, I'm sure he mentioned python in a catching thread not too long ago. It may have been ruby actually, I'm not sure.

It seems C, .NET, PB are the better choices in that order, least from the dozen or so scripts where I know what they were wrote in and observed the catches.

I for one am curious purely from a geeky perspective how Python fares

Not tried Python myself, anything that compiles before execution rather than interprets should be reasonably good as long as you can keep it looping and not have to re-compile each poll. When you get down to the nitty-gritty, a lot of things probably use the same underlying C libraries to make the socket calls so it's the location and what you are doing between the low level stuff that will make the difference

 

[monaghan]

@lazarus are you a tag holder? "Proper" catching will require DAC access in most cases. With domainview you can pay per catch, or use your own TAG/DAC settings to catch on your own tag. Only system I've seen that works in such a flexible way.

We don't shout about it, but Domain Junky can have a private catch engine configured with a customer's TAG.

Unless you think you can get away with buying Nominet membership for each aunt, uncle and pet cat, then I still think the best chance of getting a name on a drop is to book early and book everywhere