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Well time is looming, so heres an update on whats going to change.
In basic terms, Nominet will now publish the drop date and time for 65 days after the expiry date grace period of 30 days, ie, t(otal 95 days), then it will drop at that precise moment, this stamp is available through the EPP Domain:check lookup, and also on the new RDAP server (not available yet).
For catchers, the important part is the pending delete grace period, the last 5 days, where the domain cant be renewed, and will therefore inevitably drop without fail.
This now means that the entire drop catching comminuty will be hitting the DAC and EPP servers at the exact same time, (can the pipe take this ?) and for a single tag / dac holder this is 1000 lookups within a one minute period. (so those with multiple tags still have an advantage)
Our Software
What does this mean for our current software, nothing at all, it will still function as it does now, but the user source of drop information is direct from Nominet, with all the dates and times, but we will add a burst parameter to enable max hits if required.
Backorders
Some nice changes here, as well as the current event stamp, an RDAP drop stamp will also be shown when a user enters a domain to catch, and the database will be polled continuosly to place dropping domains in the queue at the precise moment for execution by the dropcatch servers.
Hope this helps
Bill
In basic terms, Nominet will now publish the drop date and time for 65 days after the expiry date grace period of 30 days, ie, t(otal 95 days), then it will drop at that precise moment, this stamp is available through the EPP Domain:check lookup, and also on the new RDAP server (not available yet).
For catchers, the important part is the pending delete grace period, the last 5 days, where the domain cant be renewed, and will therefore inevitably drop without fail.
This now means that the entire drop catching comminuty will be hitting the DAC and EPP servers at the exact same time, (can the pipe take this ?) and for a single tag / dac holder this is 1000 lookups within a one minute period. (so those with multiple tags still have an advantage)
Our Software
What does this mean for our current software, nothing at all, it will still function as it does now, but the user source of drop information is direct from Nominet, with all the dates and times, but we will add a burst parameter to enable max hits if required.
Backorders
Some nice changes here, as well as the current event stamp, an RDAP drop stamp will also be shown when a user enters a domain to catch, and the database will be polled continuosly to place dropping domains in the queue at the precise moment for execution by the dropcatch servers.
Hope this helps
Bill