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 issue by notifying various gateway vendors of the breech.

It’s sad that such a big company doesn’t take the precautions required to gain the confidence it’s domaining customers require. Not to mention the super high pricing

I was able to catch these drops over the weekend:

Wealthier.us & Messaging.ws

I was also chasing: ReMake.us – but someone grabbed this name on a godaddy backorder. I am sure wealthier.us also had a backorder, but I was able to secure it into my Dynadot account for $6.99.

Well I know I wrote to you guys about my drop catching watch list for .com drops. However last minute I had a change of heart (again). This domain drop business is funky. You need to stay on top of things.

After evaluating a short list of the drops I selected: RubyTechnology.com, UnitedStripes.com & PepperBowl.com – I see that 2 are still available for hand reg. In my opinion.. Ruby Technology is a huge thing in web development & hosting atmospheres. PepperBowl I guess would be remembered easily since USA Football is categorized like SugarBowl & RoseBowl etc. It just caught my eye & I decided to watch it.

Last minute what happened was that I was watching: explore.us & simplest.us. I felt like these were the best drops to catch. I quickly put away the other drop catching lists & I went after these two only.

Here’s how it broke down: I started off by loading only: explore.us & simplest.us into various drop catchers. Mostly targeting Dynadot.com. About 16 minutes into the drop I got a rash of emails from Dynadot. Yes!! 2 emails said that my order was pending for explore.us. 2 of my Dynadot accounts had caught this domain? I thought for sure I had it! But upon checking the details it said: “Processing” under each Dynadot account’s – transaction status detail.

Simplest.us is mine, but Explore.us ended up going to snapnames. I really don’t care as it was all a toss up. But I nearly got away with it & had Dynadot been a split second faster, you would be thrilled at the drop catch. It’s not common for a domain to be processing in your Dynadot account. Maybe the backorder systems don’t get it 100% when it comes to .us drops. I am sure loving it tho

Better luck tomorrow. I noticed more .us drops & .org drops expiring soon.

I need to get back to programming new tools over the weekend. I will update the blog once those are completed. It’s mostly for cctld drop lists. I will also continue to report my drop catching reports.

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
DOWNLOADALLEY.COM
SKILLJOCKEY.COM
JENNYCHONG.COM
SPYWAREPORTAL.COM
PEOPLESCONTRACT.COM
TRAVELTOOLKITS.COM
LIPGUIDE.COM
UNITEDSTRIPES.COM
JOURNEYHUNTER.COM
HAPPYGRIN.COM
SIRWEALTH.COM
BOLDSERVICES.COM
SEAPOTTERY.COM
DIRTLOAD.COM
MYSCRIPTER.COM
PATENTINCOME.COM
SHELTERSHUTTLE.COM
PEPPERBOWL.COM

I still need to eye ball the remaining 25% of tomorrow’s dnmeter list, but getting there. It will be interesting to see what drops, remains available for hand reg or gets scooped up on a backorder. See you at the drops!

I just grabbed 3 PR4 domains. These domains are always sold before I catch them. But today was special. It indicated more pagerank drops are on the way.

While I can’t share how I got these drops – here’s the list. Note – I have to add in extra spaces so “G” doesn’t crawl this & the pr is jeoperdized.

anthony | arendt  |  photography    |    dot   |     com
my |   poor |  generation  |    dot       |  com
tcgy  |   this one   is net

All valid pr PR4..

Not bad, I also caught 6 valid PR3 domains & I compiled a database of 20+ PR2 / med-small traffic domains that are available for hand reg right now. I usually sell this list to a couple different consistent buyers.

Various registrars play better roles for different domains. I was able to secure one of these domains at godaddy.com & the other 2 were captured by Onlinenic via their reseller API.

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 to let time take it’s course & I will track it.

Here’s the current whois details:

Domain Name: DOMAINKITING.COM
Registrar: TURNCOMMERCE, INC. DBA NAMEBRIGHT.COM
Whois Server: whois.namebright.com
Referral URL: http://www.namebright.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Status: ok
Updated Date: 30-jul-2009
Creation Date: 30-jul-2009
Expiration Date: 30-jul-2010

I try to go with my gut feeling – Here’s my views on the domain now that it’s taken.

DomainKiting.com in my opinion would be:

1.) Hard to remember

2.) Typo since it is 12 letters long

3.) Doesn’t make sense now that tasting is no longer free

It does however hold value to:

1.) Domainers that understand the meaning of the term

2.) Domain niche related veterans. In this case a kiting expert.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings. Going through tomorrow’s list for the best drops, but my eyes are getting bouncy.

Hello everyone,

I decided against drop catching today. I work fulltime so we are a bit busy today. Regradless of work, I really didn’t see many drops that caught my eye. I found a few, but my gut feeling just didn’t feel right.

Here’s the list of 3 drops I eye scanned that I was going to chase today:

healthytype.com
bugress.com
domainkiting.com

However, after careful consideration – I will go enjoy lunch today instead of chasing these drops. I also noticed some juicy drops coming up here folks (In the upcoming days) ! So I figure I will save my cash & energy for those juicy drops coming up soon instead.

I would also like to scan the lists 1-2 days ahead of time. For example today’s & yesterday’s lists were added last minute before the drops happen. I will try to post my picks list for tomorrow’s drops tonight. This will then give you a better idea & timing of how the drops work & what is acheivable or not.

Well I can’t complain too much. I went after 3 domains & I captured 2. These two domains I feel are mediocre and should have some fair resell value. The 2 domains I grabbed today were:

skews.net & insulting.us.

The domain I didn’t get was: weedkillers.net – No biggie as I really didn’t want the domain. I felt it has some potential, but it is limited potential. Maybe for lawn and garden, green lawn & fertilizing compaines.

I have to admit that it felt pretty good today, catching these drops. I am sure others also went for the same domains & failed since I grabbed the two drops above.

On a lighter note, I am also glad that BuyDomains.com grabbed weedkillers.net. It goes to show that I must be doing something right!

Here’s the new whois:

Domain Name: WEEDKILLERS.NET

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
RareNames, WebReg
738 Main Street, #389
Waltham, MA 02451
US
(781)839-7993
(781)839-2801 [fax]
brokerage@buydomains.com

Domain created on 29-Jul-2009
Domain expires on 29-Jul-2010
Last updated on 29-Jul-2009

Domain servers in listed order:

NS.BUYDOMAINS.COM
THIS-DOMAIN-FOR-SALE.COM

I will catch everyone a little later. It’s time for me to flip my catches into a nice chunk of change.

I am going after these drops today:

insulting.us
skews.net
weedkillers.net

Nothing special today. Just a short list of drops I am after. I hope I can grab at least one today! From what I can tell, these domains will be dropping at these times CST time:

insulting.us 1:04 pm
skews.net 1:46 pm
weedkillers.net 2:41 pm

So insulting.us should be in my account already j/k I will need to check after this post to see if I grabbed it or not.

By the way, I have a friend who is going hard after the same drops, so we will have to see what he grabs, or what I can grab.. or what Snapnames grabs.

Any domain I catch today, I will be flipping pretty fast. I have a new system I built last night to align me with a direct way to offer my drop catches directly to end users.

Happy drop catching!

Ok, Fine,, you guys made me do it!!

Here’s a nice pick of expired, soon expiring & iffy .IN drops:

seacoast.in
siberia.in
spree.in
sprouts.in
stash.in
wade.in
wellington.in
dock.in
dwell.in
fresco.in
gander.in
hedonism.in
howdy.in
mulberry.in
norton.in
pledge.in
preservation.in
renovate.in
reputation.in
respirator.in
adviser.in
alfresco.in
aviate.in
bleed.in
brooke.in
cameron.in – expired & grabbed (sneak peek)
carob.in
combine.in
descartes.in

The list is very limited.. but I can now compile .IN drop lists even months ahead of the future. I will be starting a service soon for catching .IN drops & securing these awesome names!  Most drop catchers have no idea how to compile the lists!

I will try to introduce a new drop list.. hopefully daily.. On the to – do list are: .WS drops & .JP. Along with .CO.UK & .IT all which are all done domain expiring extensions – easy work!. When I get up to .de it will probably be a blood bath.

For now, keep enoying the drop lists!