Drop cycle

[RobM]

Nothing so far from today or yesterday. Oh and the DAC is now far far slower. Yep seems like everything is normal in Nominet's world.

*Edit - yesterdays domains starting to drop like a normal drop - ie not all dumped at once. No sign of any of 'todays' domains dropping yet though.

 

[Hay]

I thought everything was going back to normal today so no need to bring drop lists forward as that might confuse things further or has there been another bombshell?

 

[Hay]

Yes that is correct, i believe the day we lost is when they downed everything on Tuesday.. now the drop dates should be normal... but DAC times are wild at the min.

 

[Hay]

Edit: They seem to have gone back to normal now.

 

[dropped.uk]

I've added something to today's delete queue. Let's see if it drops today.

It dropped 10 minutes before midnight, so the system was running yesterday, proving the domains scheduled to drop were deliberately held.

 

[Hay]

It dropped 10 minutes before midnight, so the system was running yesterday, proving the domains scheduled to drop were deliberately held.

Most of yesterdays domains didn't drop though.. and they have now started to drop today so domains dated 11th will drop on the 12th like normal so basically people need to be looking at droplists from the 11th otherwise they are a day in front?

 

[Hay]

Here is one from the 11th that has dropped today (12th)

Domain name:
proflex.co.uk

Registrar:
Monaghan Consultants Ltd [Tag = ALEXM]

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 12-Dec-2019
Expiry date: 12-Dec-2020
Last updated: 12-Dec-2019

 

[dropped.uk]

Most of yesterdays domains didn't drop though.. and they have now started to drop today so domains dated 11th will drop on the 12th like normal so basically people need to be looking at droplists from the 11th otherwise they are a day in front?

None of yesterday’s domains dropped.

The test was to prove if the domains were deliberately stopped from dropping, and as the software dropped a manually scheduled domain, they were held.

 

[Hay]

Here are three random domains that i believe have dropped today which had an drop date of 11/12/2019 and those that have a drop date of 12/12/2019 are showing none have dropped.

> proflex.co.uk
> facingbrexit.co.uk
> mancatcorp.co.uk

So i believe today is dropping domains which expired 11/09/2019 with a drop date of 11/12/2019

 

[super-whois]

This is a permanent change where deletion dates changed from 91 to 90 days (post expiry) silently on 10th September maintenance.

I've picked through and pulled together details on all domains that have been suspended/dropped on my TAGs and it's not going to revert, as I can see the dates for domains scheduled to drop in January still at 90 days post expiry.

We're now running at 90 days and not 91, hence why yesterday I updated all drop lists, backorders and put the message up on the account dashboard advising of the change.

Shall I eat my hat!?

 

[stitchbob]

My prediction: You can now renew at any point until the domain drops. The domain can drop at any time after 90 days. Drop catching will change completely, with chasers potentially being tied up for weeks or months on a single domain. Nominet will retain the stance that there has been no rule change and it has always been this way.

This will continue for a couple of months to show us how much Nominet can really mess things up if they put their mind to it, and to allow them to collate a healthy number of complaints about the uncertain timings of drops. Then they'll announce their proposals for pre-published drop times "in response to positive feedback from the community"

 

[dropped.uk]

Shall I eat my hat!?

Shall we see what happens tomorrow?

The second point to consider is that Nominet have emailed Registrars since 10th September with the deletion date being at 91 days not 92. So they can't recall all those emails. I doubt they'll reissue them. Is it a mistake on their part? Is it deliberate? Are they just changing drop days this week to throw us off?

 

[stitchbob]

Looks like there were some drops yesterday - findagadget.co.uk for one

 

[dropped.uk]

Looks like there were some drops yesterday - findagadget.co.uk for one

I'll collate a list.

 

[Hay]

They could well be implementing some Christmas surprises for the end of the month due to all the domains that are going to drop from those registrars that have to release all the free .uk domains they registered "Without permission but Obviously in good faith in case the given client wanted the .uk" kind of like a 2nd RoR

 

[stitchbob]

Wouldn't surprise me at all, I've got quite a few for January which I expect will get messed up by this shambles.

 

[dropped.uk]

Looks like there were some drops yesterday - findagadget.co.uk for one

This was scheduled to drop 2019-12-10.

Domains that dropped yesterday;

• abirk co.uk
• dormabedding uk
• fattoushkingston co.uk
• lgcandnlgn-laa co.uk
• one-click co.uk
• phonecredit uk
• pizzahut org.uk
• primalsalad co.uk
• racmagazine co.uk
• thehutpriorybay co.uk
• travargo uk
• travelaxe co.uk
• workinglocations co.uk

There is a chance some of these dropped within the first few moments after midnight, particularly as it's weighted towards the latter end of the alphabet.

However, phonecredit uk has a registration date of yesterday so it did drop yesterday, or was deleted before the drop day.

 

[Hay]

Do you know whats dropped today what was scheduled for 2019-12-12?

 

[RobM]

All of those except pizzahut dropped at 1 second past midnight as far as I saw. I was monitoring the whole list from 5 to midnight seeing if there was going to be a deluge of domains dumped just before midnight. I assumed pizzahut was a deletion or something being a tm. So far everything is dropping today that would have dropped today 'normally'. Nothing from tomorrows list has dropped. So unless anything changes we are back to how it was before the two days of early drops and one day of nothing.

 

[dropped.uk]

Do you know whats dropped today what was scheduled for 2019-12-12?

Currently, these domains are ftr;

• cryptocrammer ltd.uk
• currycottagecatford co.uk
• firstplusfinancialgroup plc.uk
• gigitgeek co.uk
• jasminegarden-takeaway co.uk
• logistician co.uk
• queenshouse-doncaster co.uk
• quicktechsolutions co.uk

However, not clear if these were manually deleted before the drop date. I'm running some further checks.