Archive for the ‘General Information’ Category

Moniker API Program And How To Get “In”.

Moniker.com has been one of the funkiest domain registars I have ever dealt with. First off, from day one – I faced like a 5-6 day response window for my support tickets. Back in those days, Monte used to hangout at the forums & an instant PM got him on the horn or got my [...]

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The Importance Of Hosting Redundancy & Backups

I was recently hacked (about 48 hrs ago) – I cannot begin to explain how important backups & server redundancy can help! It seems like someone had it out for me & they decided to hack some of main sites. These included (but not limited to) This blog, DNKO.com & TasteDrop.com. I guess I have [...]

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The Future Of: TasteDrop.com? Who Knows

I am bouncing around various ideas regarding what I should do next with Tastedrop.com. As many of you fellow domainers know, TasteDrop which I will call TD was sold almost a year ago. The buyer and I developed the best domaining tools available & it was a really cool suite of drop catching tools & [...]

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My Favorite Registrar Is Dynadot.com

I always preach to fellow drop catchers to use Dynadot.com for securing expiring domain names. I like Dynadot because it tailors to a wide variety of domain extensions. This makes it very easy to catch expiring domain names on the drop. Dynadot has a beta API system that allows domainers to write programs to catch [...]

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Making A Dotster.com Drop Catcher Program

I would like your input regarding a Dotster.com drop catcher. I see dotster working like a slave for snapnames.com & catching quality drops! I am considering writing my own drop catcher program for Dotster. It seems like there is a need for such drop catcher & it can save you a bunch of money! Let’s [...]

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Some Expiring .WS Domains

These .ws domains will be dropping soon. I hope you enjoy these drop lists! subs.ws livestock.ws songwriters.ws satelites.ws lesson.ws forecasts.ws farmland.ws passwords.ws stadium.ws equine.ws arrive.ws console.ws bunk.ws brewer.ws Good luck trying to catch these .ws domains that will be available for hand registration. Currently, there are no .WS domain drop catchers – so these lists [...]

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Expiring CCTld list for .IN Domains Coming Up

These .IN domains will be dropping soon: advocacy.in beanstalks.in cognitive.in ethnography.in euphony.in grove.in hurl.in luscious.in magnificent.in mastermind.in modesty.in orbital.in settling.in yankee.in Enjoy your drop catching CCTLD’s

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Network Solutions Gets Hacked. Over 600,000 Accounts compromised.

Watching today’s news on FOX.. Network solutions was hacked & over 600,000 accounts have been compromised. It seems like the breech occured via the Verisign payment gateway across various vendors. The breech allowed the hackers to compromise & gain full access to full details of over 600,000 domainer’s accounts. NS is working to resolve the [...]

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July 31st ’09 Pending Delete Drop Watch

These are some of the drops I will be going after and watching. I haven’t finalized my list as to what I chase, but the quality is getting better. Here’s my short list of domains to watch: SECONDLIST.COM THERMOSKINS.COM FRENCHBARREL.COM INDIEOUTFIT.COM POKERLADYS.COM MIXTRADE.COM MASTERTOLL.COM LINEWARRIOR.COM DRAGONJOURNEY.COM DRAMABUDDY.COM RAGSERVER.COM BONGOSPORT.COM KEYISP.COM VIRTUALFACE.COM RUBYTECHNOLOGY.COM DREAMHONORS.COM TRADINGPOSTMARKETS.COM TUNEGENERATOR.COM [...]

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Darn! DomainKiting.com got picked up today.

Note to self while reading my blog.. I am just your average drop catcher. Those names I picked sounded good. 2 are still sitting there free for hand reg. DomainKiting.com was picked up and now I regret not picking it up. It may or not have been a backorder. With no nameservers I will need [...]

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