The Domain Afterlife - Drop Catching & Domain Sales » drops

Noticing Better Quality In Pending Delete Domains!

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:20:49 +0000

I haven’t blogged about expiring domains in a while because there hasn’t been much that’s caught my eye. I have been scanning the drop lists, but nothing’s really popped out at me. Or the quantity of quality domains I spotted seemed to vary between 0-2 a day. It must be my screening methods, but tonight after scanning the drop list for the upcoming days, I’m noticing more quality surface up.

It’s been years since I’ve blogged about my chase lists, so I hope to do it more often. The problem is that if I post semi-good domains, others will chase them too. I’ll figure out a way to split my lists in the future so I can blog about dropping domains that I won’t be chasing and are up for grabs, then blog in the future about domains I chased and captured on the drop & didn’t blog about.

For tomorrow, I really like these domains:

spincoater.com – tld’s, wayback, product price, cpc
careerfashion.com – longer domains fit criteria, cpc
discountmower.com – longer domains fit criteria, cpc
jonga.com – tld’s wayback, popular
cyberperks.com – wayback
yulemarble.com – wayback

I have godaddy & bluerazor backorders added. I will also try with dynadot’s API – but I know that the quality of these drops will probably have snapnames & namejet backorders. Yulemarble & discountmower are iffy about having a hit put out (Backorder), but the rest probably will. If not, they will be fetched by other registrars for sure.

I will blog more lists in the future & try to break off the lists into what I think snap will chase, medium grade lists that are iffy & lists that I feel the api drop catchers can compete against.

Here’s a quick reference to the notes above:

cpc – the domain shows some kind of +1 value for an advertiser cost to advertise on the domain.

wayback – the domain shows some kind of wayback value for age or number of stored wayback pages.

product price – the domain specifically matches a product of significant value.

longer domains fit criteria – other domains exist that are longer & include this domain inside the longer domain.

popular – the domain shows up as a result of nested search engine keyword combination results.

I’ll try to keep the lists rolling in daily. Your feedback is appreciated as always.

Drop Catching Report For Today.

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:06:01 +0000

I was able to secure these domains on the drop today:

berrettas.com
pewits.com
sarsens.com
gleets.com

Probably not the best selection, but for reg fee @ Dynadot.com, I’ll keep them & see what happens. The quality in the drops just seems to get better by the day

Have fun drop catching!

I am chasing a small handfull of drops tomorrow

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:33:27 +0000

Well, I managed to narrow down my list of drop catching to a feasible amount. I originally had collected a lot of domains to chase, but filtered out all the garbage to this list:

mixeurs.com
minuscula.com
vittoni.com
transferred.us

Nothing special & I’m not particular about: transferred.us as the US extension has been stinking in my opinion lately. Also Mixeurs.com, the chance of making it big would require a lot of non-usa traffic & the small traffic from the US, probably won’t help someone with a “mixer” of some sort.

Just sharing my list, I won’t get mad if you manage to hand reg some, but at least give me some credit. I always go into drop catching thinking I ain’t gonna get Jack. A lot of the time, I do catch stuff, store it & then a buyer comes along.

It’s a beautiful feeling to connect with the right end user & supply what their online business thrives – which is usually the right domain. For what they’re trying to do & you helped them out.

My Drop Catching Wish List for Today

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:32:18 +0000

I am going to chase 3 domain names today. It’s pretty stupid for me to chase these as I know for a fact they have been backordered. The domains I will be going after are 3 Letter .US drops. I’ve made my list & will shortly be going after these domains:

gmv.us
qub.us
wrt.us

All 3 are in pending delete & will be dropping in around 35 minutes.

Wish me luck, but I really doubt that I will be able to catch any of these drops. If I do manage to even catch one, I will be a happy camper & it will make my weekend!

However, the sun is bound to shine on