dropcatching partnership - my resources / your tehnical expertise - interested?

traffic1 · Feb 25, 2007

not new to uk domains (have 30,000 uk's) but

traffic1 · Feb 25, 2007

im not new to uk domains (have 30,000 uk's) but have never tried expired ones before. looking to move into this area now..

in .com the more firepower/requests you make the better chance of regging names. Is this the same principal in the uk ? or is it very different? what restrictions are there. i.e. certain number of requests by ip address? / by tag ?

is there any advantage to having more servers/tags ? (currently have 600 unique ip servers) (is it correct that you can send as many requests as you want then email the order throughg your main ip/tag ?) ?

i have been registering up to 7,000 domains (all extensions) a month on average but now want to reg uk drops now.

i'm london based. looking for someone with the technical know how, (scripts/implementation) and i will supply the servers/reg funds etc...

you can get a share of the names / we can work out a deal ...

LoneDomainer · Feb 25, 2007

hi traffic,

im pretty handy with PHP pm me your email address & im sure we could talk

grantw · Feb 25, 2007

Firstly you need to read everything here:

http://www.nic.uk/other/dac/

You can have one DAC access subscription per nominet MEMBERSHIP. Taking out extra memberships to get another subcription is against Nominets T&C. Extra TAGS would not help you.

DAC allows 432,000 whois queries per rolling 24 hrs.

Grant

traffic1 · Feb 25, 2007

thanks grantw/lonedomainer

whois quiries aside, how many domain purchase requests/emails are you allowed to send a day ?

grantw · Feb 25, 2007

You can send 1000 reg. requests per rolling 24 hours - that is 1000 requests for domains that are already registered. Basically, you cannot hammer emails at the automaton all day long hoping one lands at the same time the domain drops. This was how it used to be done a couple of years ago....

Grant

traffic1 · Feb 25, 2007

ah ok thanks ... the old way was easier i guess

do you guys know on average - approx how many names drop a day ?

on deleting.co.uk looks around 60-100 are regged a day, and assuming, alot more drop but are not regged ??

is this number accurate?

grantw · Feb 25, 2007

You can see all the drops at deleting too, not just the caught domains:

Yesterdays : http://deleting.co.uk/dailydrops/?year=2007&month=02&day=24

Grant

aquanuke · Feb 25, 2007

I could probs find you 900-1200 per day. Sent you a PM.

LoneDomainer · Feb 26, 2007

pm sent

retired_member27 · Feb 26, 2007

traffic1 said:
on deleting.co.uk looks around 60-100 are regged a day

Yes, but virtually all are crap and totally worthless. I could count on one hand the amount of domains that I would bother regging from the daily drop lists. I'm afraid all the best domains dropped years ago.

developdomains · Feb 26, 2007

I agree with APD, all the best domains have all gone and there is no point in say me spending £xxxx to get signed up to nominet, get a server and a DAC connection to try and register say, england.co.uk.

But at the end of the day who the hell is going to let say england.co.uk drop anyway?

id rather spend my time and cash developing affiliate and 'real' sites, rather than joining a great big long line of dropcatchers, many of who have been doing it for years and know all the tricks, wots the point?

traffic1, if uve got 30,000 .uks (i cant get my mind around the amount those domains have cost you!), then good luck to you on the dropcatching scene. For me, who regs probably 30-40 a month its not worth it.

apd said:
Yes, but virtually all are crap and totally worthless. I could count on one hand the amount of domains that I would bother regging from the daily drop lists. I'm afraid all the best domains dropped years ago.

retired_member11 · Mar 7, 2007

MWTONLINE said:
I agree with APD, all the best domains have all gone and there is no point in say me spending £xxxx to get signed up to nominet, get a server and a DAC connection to try and register say, england.co.uk.

But at the end of the day who the hell is going to let say england.co.uk drop anyway?

id rather spend my time and cash developing affiliate and 'real' sites, rather than joining a great big long line of dropcatchers, many of who have been doing it for years and know all the tricks, wots the point?

traffic1, if uve got 30,000 .uks (i cant get my mind around the amount those domains have cost you!), then good luck to you on the dropcatching scene. For me, who regs probably 30-40 a month its not worth it.

At this stage of the game you are quite right.

It was worth it while pre nom names were dropping because being a little lucky and catching just one of those was probably worth more than the total cost of a drop catching package, but not now. The odd quality name does drop from time to time, but not often enough for a newbie to be able to justify the cost of entering the fray.

Better to use the services of a good DAC provider and pay a monthly fee.

Other than that buying names seems the only way to make progress.