Domain Already Registered at Caught.co.uk Etc.. What next?

[Prof]

Hi.

This is a bit of a new world to me and I never expected to uncover the complexities of securing a domain name you wanted! Ha.

I'm after a .co.uk domain and after a bit of reading around on here visited caught.co.uk, DomainMonster plus a few others and on these first-come-first-served sites the domain is already reserved to be caught for somebody else! Agh!

I managed to register a backorder with DomainRecover and DACr, but I'm skeptical of success now in light of what I previously discovered.

It's not due to drop for a couple of months still and is just sitting suspended right now. But am I already out of luck and likely to be defeated, or is there some miracle service that might save my day?

Any help much appreciated! Thanks.

 

[DarrenDarren is verified member.]

I would also book the domain name at Dropsystem.co.uk

Thanks, Darren.

 

[Prof]

I would also book the domain name at Dropsystem.co.uk

Thanks, Darren.

Forgot to mention, they've beat me to that one as well

 

[retired_member12]

You realise too that it might not be the same person, you'll find these days that there are maybe, i dunno, upwards of 50-100 very capable people/companies who regularly succeed when chasing the popular domains. Good luck, but I wouldn't bet your shirt on getting it!

 

[Prof]

Very true that.

I've been reading people's posts about private drop systems. How does one go about venturing into perhaps enlisting their services and are they any more likely to have success than the public ones such as caught.co.uk ?

 

[doodlebug]

For what I've gathered private do better than public but only if they have their own scripts

 

[JDubya]

If you search here for "slots" you will find a few posts from people advertising availability and standard fees for domain catching.

 

[HariSeldon]

It's not due to drop for a couple of months still ... or is there some miracle service that might save my day?

There's no miracle service, there's a fair amount of luck in drop catching which makes it a numbers game, the more catchers you can book with the more you increase your chances of getting lucky.

If you search here for "slots" you will find a few posts from people advertising availability and standard fees for domain catching.

Normally I'd agree but I doubt many private catchers will offer slots a couple of months in the future and if it's so popular that it's booked everywhere else then most will probably try to catch it for themselves anyway.

 

[Prof]

If you search here for "slots" you will find a few posts from people advertising availability and standard fees for domain catching.

I must admit I did see that earlier. But as someone else has pointed out - the question remains then what is to stop them just taking it then looking to charge you an arm and a leg for it?

But I suppose the same might be said for the commercial services in a way also, albeit it more unlikely.