Dac

simonsez · Nov 2, 2005

well im slowly learning about all this. And now im wanting to findout of how to get hold of DAC or a DAC..... its still new to me... but im wanting to TRY as im now learning to get hold of domains.... all helpfull advise is welcome... Im just trying tto work out if theres a better way that the hit and hope of pool.com, snapnames.com etc

Thankyou

aquanuke · Nov 2, 2005

All info regarding the DAC can be found here

http://www.nominet.org.uk/TagHolder...ckerdac/AboutTheDomainAvailabilityCheckerdac/

simonsez · Nov 3, 2005

"The Domain Availability Checker (DAC) is available to Nominet tag holders who are also members"

so i have to find one of these... next question then. where?? any one about here??

rob · Nov 3, 2005

http://www.nominet.org.uk/Members/BenefitsOfMembership/ < have a nose there.

If Jay Daley is about... can he setup an affiliate scheme for nom

jonno · Nov 3, 2005

i was going to start another topic but i'll post here instead.

the allowance for DAC is 500 requests/min, however work that out for a 24 hour period and that equates to 720000 a considerable about more than the 216,000 rolling 24hr limit.

as i understand it, names drop at anytime of day, so is it just a case of checking less often, (for example, 150 a minute for 24 hours) or is there something i've missed?

rob · Nov 3, 2005

nope, nail on the head there.

FC Domains · Nov 3, 2005

jonno said:
or is there something i've missed?

Yepp! You need some l33t skillz

aquanuke · Nov 3, 2005

Its upto you, you can space it out evenly over the rolling 24 hours or try and guess certain busy times..

I dont think much drops between 2-6am.

jonno · Nov 3, 2005

ahh got you... i was under the impression name deletion were just set by nominet on a random cron job as such where deleted any time within the 24 hour period.

maybe this is not the case then as like you say i've never heard of anything drop past midnight...

aquanuke · Nov 4, 2005

ASFAIK some updates or system stuff happens in the early hours.. but I could be wrong.

bb99 · Nov 4, 2005

The earliest one I've got is timed at 1.53am

bb99 · Nov 4, 2005

bb99 said:
The earliest one I've got is timed at 1.53am

I tell a lie, I've just found one at 1.05am

Jay Daley · Nov 7, 2005

Drops are indeed truly random. In fact it is designed in such a way that not even the developers or sysadmins can tell when something is going to drop.

The burst rate of 500/min is because the DAC has a variety of uses, not just drop catching. Some of those others uses require bursting.

retired_member26 · Nov 7, 2005

what are the some of the other uses of DAC?

bb99 · Nov 7, 2005

turnic said:
what are the some of the other uses of DAC?

If you sell domain names, you might want to have a search function on your site whereby you can put in "cheese" and it checks:

cheese.co.uk and .org.uk and .me.uk

and also creates its own alternatives such as:

cheeses.co.uk (and so on), ukcheese.co.uk (and so on)

The DAC is useful for this as you can query quickly and get back to the potential customer/registrant.