On hold domains

pool.com has worked well for me several times.
They also send you a daily list of expiring domain names.

Hi all, just joined. My expertise lies in Domain names/development. I thought I would try my hand at the gaming industry and found this site which at first glance, looks to be terrific. Thought I’d answer some of the questions in the thread.

Originally posted by remco
I use “Onsnap” to find “on hold domains” that will soon be deleted but can anyone recommend a program to “snap” those domains as soon as they get deleted?

Any advice would be highly appreciated.

There are many public drop catching services. These are some of the better ones in the order of best success rate:

Pool.com Clearly the leader for high quality/traffic/linkpop deleting names. Free to backorder. You pay $60 if they catch it and you are the only backorder holder. Otherwise the name then goes to a 3 day auction between all the B.O. holders on that name. Can get very expensive.

Snapnames.com one of the few remaing services that has not gone to the auction model. &69 to backorder a name. You are the exclusive backorderholder. If the name drops and Snapnames don’t catch it you can exchange your snap unlimited times for up to one year. Very competitive. If a name has any value, it has probably been reserved long befor it even goes on hold.

NameWinner.com Auction model, howevr in this case you do your bidding before the name deletes, hoping NW will catch it.. Lots of snipers in the last minutes before the name is scheduled to drop. Again can get expensive.

All rest of the services are a needle in the haystack, unless the name has little $value.

Originally posted by remco

Oh, and don’t use registerfly or theyre exprefish.com service i signed up 6 days ago and im still unable to logon to my account and theyre support absolutely sux.

Very good advice on both counts. Expirefish is the worst dropcatching service and registerfly may be the worst registrar in terms of service.

Originally posted by remco
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Is there anyway to measure the existing traffic on these domains?

Alexa.com is a good guidline, but #’s are suspect sometimes.

Linkpop at http://www.marketleap.com

Wayback can show you the domains content/pagerank history
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Here is the best free site to look at OnHold/Redemption period/Pending delete names. breaks it down into many usefull catagories. http://www.snapcheck.com/

And of course Overture for search engine keyword pop http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Cheers,

Sharpy