Dynadot.com has a powerful API system in place. It is currently in Beta mode – but to me, it’s in production mode. I have been using their API for over three years now. It’s the most forgiving API in my opinion – meaning you can run it 24×7 & they don’t care.

To those of you that are new drop catching, A registrar API system is made so you can send domain reistration attempts via a script or program you write. I write a few different versions of API software for Dynadot. Basically this software serves to let me carry on about my day without having to sit in front of the computer.

If you spend over $500 a year at Dynadot, you get a free API key. If you spend more than $500 across multiple accounts, then each has an API key. Dynadot allows you to create multiple accounts without any penalty whatsoever.

The Dynadot API is very simple. It uses HTTP POST or GET methods & can even run from your browser to catch drops. If you have white listed your IP – copy & paste the following to your web browser, you’ll see what I mean:

https://api.dynadot.com/api.html?version=1.0&key=##API KEY##&command=register&domain=mydomain.com&duration=1

Whitelist your IP address & Replace ##API KEY## with your API key.

Hit enter & the Dynadot API will attempt to instantly grab the domain: “mydomain.com” & register it for 1 year. Feel free to change the variables around.

Dynadot’s API is basically a gateway to Verisign’s internal commands. Verisign is the official handler of all .com & .net domains (other extensions too). Drop catchers like Snapnames, Namejet, Pool & ALL partner & preferred registars use the same type of “Live” connection to Verisign.com.

So can you beat snapnames & pool with Dynadot’s API? Not likely. However, there have been a couple times that I have succeeded with a grab.

In this post at the forum NamePros Dynadot’s API & my software secured the domain: bamn.net. It was later revealed that a backorder for the same name was put in at GoDaddy & Snapnames.

More recent examples include: Wealthier.us & Suffixes.net. Which both had backorders put in at various registrars & Dynadot’s API caught the name with my software.

Cool,

I got news today that Dynadot is an official registrar for the popular domain extension: .IN & .CO.IN.

The prices are incredible as well! Only $3.99 for bulk pricing & $4.99 for regular pricing.

This is a good move for Dynadot & Kudos to the success the domain registrations will bring not to mention long term custy’s (customers).

I have been drop catching .in’s for a number of years & understand that the drop window only lasts a few minutes. It will be intriguing how popular registries like: Whiz.in, name.com & Enom.com take the plunge to the impact.

This is how I became an expiring domains drop catcher:

I got into domaining around 3-4 years ago. I admit it was mostly allowing myself to become naive & simply buy domains for the heck of it. Things that sounded good. I was a n00b who was buying domains @ yahoo domains & 1&1. Whatever steered the best bargains I guess are the focal point of your journey when you start domaining.

One night, I was feeling lucky & I This was back in 2003 or so and real estate was booming! I was asked to develop and at that time I developed websites & scripts.

Everything was honky dory! Yee haa! I was making hundreds a month through a do it yourself parking script, some proper keywords, usefule content & luck.

Here’s a screenshot of my adsense:

From Zero..

I picked “all time” on the report & although I owned the domain name for less than 1 year, here’s my stats:

Totals Impressions: 11,984 Clicks: 3,184 Payout: $919.25

This domain never made chump change. Then all of a sudden Google grabbed it & placed it at top. I was into one month I made $80 out of the blue in adsense. The next month $150 Month after that over $400 in adsense revenue.. Things were trucking along then.. opps wait a second.

The credit card I used to register: topushomes.com over at: AITDomains.com.. Had been torn up. In an effort to avoid credit card bills, I tore up the credit card that was the vehicle to bringing me my adsense money. AIT Domains tried to contact me & renew my domains. The old CC info was declined 3 times. My email was: support@topushomes.com – which got it’s DNS changed to the AIT Domains holder – who let it drop to the next drop catcher.

Had I kept the CC & domain, I’d be sitting pretty right about now. Something that I’ve acknowledged is that google adsense takes care if it’s peeps in the long run for the trust.

In my story here, The adsense converted me to try & drop catch my own drop. Once in pending delete, I felt helpless, useless & *true story* I started to chase the drop from 7pm – 3am the next day thinking it would “drop” & it had dropped already – or was dropping tomorrow.

Years & knowledge helped.. lol But long story short, that’s how I became an expired domains drop catcher.

Thanks to everyone.

I am really pleased to announce that drop catching software sales have been sky rocketing. I really owe it to word of mouth & in part to this blog.

From my point of view, it’s really cool that I can develop tools that you find useful & make you money. While snapnames may be an army of their own, us private drop catchers are the Delta Force in pending delete drop catching.

It’s cool to interact with drop catchers from all around the world through the software I developed & keep making it better for a proactive party of drop catchers.

Sorry folks,

As some of you may have noticed, I had to disable some of my domaining websites. The favorites to go down were:

DNMeter.com & AntiqueDrops.com

The time & effort to develop these tools became exhaustive. The last somewhat “nice remark” I received about DNMeter was: that it was 30 minutes “off” – I do believe I added a disclaimer & others reinforced it by admitting that sometimes Verisign takes a break or delays even speeds up the drop order pointer for pending deletes becoming available for hand reg.

Perhaps there will be a better service in the works that combines the above.

Wow, I am just amazed at how this blog of mine keeps reminding me.. Hey Dan, you have to update me.. lol.

Hey, but you can’t say I didn’t warn ya Things have been busy at my fulltime job. They require a domainer to step back from domaining & give them undivided attention. The payback is great. You get the job done, things work & everyone is happy.

I would never domain at work & have to wake up hours before my real job & setup my drop catching scripts.

Then during my lunch, I have to resist looking up what I did or didn’t catch. It’s always a good ride home from work nonetheless.. Even if I didn’t catch squat.

Now that things have leveled off at work, I will be back to my regular drop catching. I am about to take a dive into 57,271 drops dropping in 12 hrs approx. Good thing I can filter the gems.

Good luck in your drop catching!

I didn’t notice any drops that caught my eye for tomorrow.

I guess better days are coming soon!

Hope your drop catching is doing better than mine.

Hey everyone,

I apologize for not being active on my own blog. I have been super busy & working close with Rob Monster from Epik.com to migrate & merge technologies.

Rob found me through this blog & I am sure happy he did. His ideas & my ability to create new & driven technology is a great mix.

What do we expect? Basically to match markets. Weather it be B2B (domainer to domainer), Portfolio holder to end user buyer, or a spontaneous educated match to find a domain a new home, the sky is the limit!

It’s a great example of a previous post I made about motivating yourself to get up & “do the work”! Noone else is gonna make it easy for you & you just have to try. And try harder over & over again until you succeed at what you do best.

Filling voids is not easy, but needed. I hope you take the initiative to do the same. I’ll be here to back you up & continue to share my drop lists. I will also build on to this blog as time permits to make it a tool you can treasure for your own drop catching.

This is my drop catching wish list for today:

wreckages.net
submortgage.net
hitch.us
westernsprings.com

I hope I can grab at least 50% of my wish list

See you at the drops!

I was able to catch 1 domain today for sure & I went after a couple others that I got DENIED! On!

First off, I was able to catch.. Boosters.us. We all know what Boosters do! The term cheers us up naturally!

On the other level of the scale, I got cheated. Here is an example of what I mean:

[ email correspondence - from Dynadot's API script ]

Domain Name: ESP.US:

From: Dynadot Orders dynadot.com>
Subject: Order Received (order 879041) (account expron)
To: wwwexpron@xxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 2:03 PM

Dear Dan Ramirez,

Thank you for placing an order with Dynadot! We have received your order and will process it as soon as possible. In the meantime, you can contact us at anytime regarding your order at orders < a t > dynadot.com.

Best Regards,
Dynadot Staff
(order 879041) (account expron)

ORDER INFORMATION
status: Shopping
date created: 2009/08/17
order number: 879041
ITEMS
esp.us – domain registration
1 year ($6.99)
$6.99
PAYMENT
total cost: $0.00
payment type: None

ACCOUNT INFORMATION

] email corespondance [

[ Next email correspondance: ]

ORDER INFORMATION
status: Completed
date created: 2009/08/17
order number: 879041
ITEMS
esp.us – domain registration
1 year ($6.99)
$6.99
Result: Not Available
PAYMENT
total cost: $0.00
payment type: None

Major upset, but at least I’m still doing alright.