Dropcatching.co.uk

[mobillica]

Seen a few ads on here. Been looking to get into dropcatching for few years....may bite the bullet!

Any reviews or recommendations? Has anyone used dropcatching.co.uk?

Any good?

 

[iCoder]

Probably the worst time in history to get into it, and unless you can code your own software or pay someone to do it for you, you're not gonna be very competitive.

Hi Ben.

I was also looking at this service.

Please could you expand on

1. why you think this is the worst time to get into it?

2. if one isn’t able to code or pay for making the software, isn’t a service like dropcatching the next best thing?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Murray]

There are just less good domains dropping in general and because of the change in Nominets release process now everyone can chase every drop, whereas it used to be a domain could drop anytime over 24 hours you had to gamble your DAC quota over a few hours and guess at the drop order

In the past I think you were almost guaranteed to make a good profit drop catching, now you can put in a lot time and money and not catch anything, but with a little bit of luck you could catch one of a handful of domains every month that would pay for years of hosting thus making any fees/time put in look fairly insignificant; I think in that respect it feels more like gambling now

But there are still public catchers you can book domains and if youre a registrar and have a tag you might as well try out dropcatching or hostedchasing or any other systems you think are worth trying and see how it goes, just have to see it as a bit of a gamble

 

[ukbackorder]

As Murray said there are a lot less 'good' domains dropping at the moment. However there are quite a few excellent ones that may enter the drop cycle this year so it is always worth being in a position to chase them.

 

[mobillica]

thanks for those replies folks.

I'm always studying droplists and domain metrics for SEO value, booking slots with all the usual drop catching services.

Thought may as well do it myself or if there's a decent service out there get on that.

 

[Helmuts]

I believe @Paullas is still in dropcatching, maybe you could ask him (super knowledgeable).