Dropcatching times of day

[untagged]

Hi all,

I was wondering, when a domain name drops, does it drop at a random time throughout the day its due to drop on or does it drop at the same time it was registered 2 years + 92 days ago?

Regards

 

[Systreg]

They drop randomly from midnight to midnight of the drop day.

 

[untagged]

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Thats a pain, if it was the same time the name was registered, dropcatchers could plan their polling a bit better
Regards

 

[Systreg]

if it was the same time the name was registered, dropcatchers could plan their polling a bit better

The catcher wouldn't know what time of day the domain had been registered at, so they wouldn't be able to poll faster for it at a certain time.

 

[untagged]

True, but I wouldnt of thought many domain names were registered between 02:00 and 06:00 so you could use the extra DAC querys from then and use them later on in the day.

 

[monaghan]

Domains do drop early morning and late night though, so slowing down the poll frequency during these times may not be beneficial.

 

[foz]

I've seen a LLL drop in the last minute of the day.

 

[namestrands]

True, but I wouldnt of thought many domain names were registered between 02:00 and 06:00 so you could use the extra DAC querys from then and use them later on in the day.

A lot of UK names are owned by people in the US/Australia/New Zealand to name a few.. so technically speaking they could be registered at Any time

 

[monaghan]

I've seen a LLL drop in the last minute of the day.

lnc dropped at 01:41, so reducing poll frequency outside office hours would not have helped in this case.

 

[untagged]

Hi Namestrands, thats a good point,
and hi to Monaghan, also a good point

So I can see that over 24 hours, the name drops are completely random to the fraction of the second.

Many thanks