The UK ROR 'WHO GOT WHAT?' thread

redrum · Jul 1, 2019

3gmedia said:
BEWARE:

Don't attempt to buy free to register .uk names from godaddy, they automatically go into auction.

They're still taking pre-orders for domains that they have already registered. That's not even the definition of "pre-registering" according to their own website: "Pre-registering means you put in a request to register the domain ahead of when it becomes available".

I've just made a complaint to GoDaddy about this and will be making a complaint to Nominet if they don't resolve it.

redrum · Jul 1, 2019

In case anyone's wondering, GoDaddy registered my uninteresting domain within the first 5-10 minutes so they appear to have completed registrations for more popular domains quite quickly today or are very poor at prioritisation.

Nigel · Jul 1, 2019

I registered what I am sure was a free to reg domain at GoDaddy. Nice domain and worth the reg fee - expected to see it appear in my account soon after. Hasn't appeared in either my GoDaddy account nor in my nominet account. Won't be doing that again!

*Update - confirmation email now received and domain allocated to me

3gmedia · Jul 1, 2019

I checked with other registrars that aren't running .uk auctionswhich are first come, first served and they seem to work fine.

Transcom ISP · Jul 1, 2019

Had some customer results in using our software

20 premiums caugt out or 60
15 premiums caught of out 200

Best settings seem to be :
DAC1 on each instance (max 4)
hours left set to 0.6 (0ms) on each

The DAC wont block because the EPP gets throttled before that happens
Most choose the T drop character so they can start the script seconds before the release.

Good results so far.

Murray · Jul 1, 2019

Transcom ISP said:
Had some customer results in using our software

20 premiums caugt out or 60
15 premiums caught of out 200

Can you share the names?

Transcom ISP · Jul 1, 2019

Murray said:
Can you share the names?

Ill ask them if thats ok

philiporchard · Jul 1, 2019

I'm sure I backordered some ROR domains with Godady, but can;t find the link on my account to see them.

Anyone know where they will be listed? Thanks

redrum · Jul 1, 2019

redrum said:
In case anyone's wondering, GoDaddy registered my uninteresting domain within the first 5-10 minutes so they appear to have completed registrations for more popular domains quite quickly today or are very poor at prioritisation.

About 7 hours later they have finally sent me a "Domain Registration Confirmation" email and the domain is registered to me.

Their website is still accepting pre-orders for it.

redrum · Jul 1, 2019

philiporchard said:
I'm sure I backordered some ROR domains with Godady, but can;t find the link on my account to see them.

Anyone know where they will be listed? Thanks

It's on the newer looking domain manager interface's "Domains" menu:
https://dcc.godaddy.com/dcc50/default.aspx?activeview=preregistration&refresh=true

Lovekraft · Jul 1, 2019

Did 123-Reg manage to catch anything? I had some ordered with them and haven't seen their tag crop up in any checks for domain I was and wasn't chasing.

Nigel · Jul 1, 2019

just got an email from godaddy saying I have been allocated the domain that was free to reg. Also got one other domain that I preregistered and I have one that has gone to auction. These weren't premium domains and the best of the three is the one that has gone to Godaddy auction.

3gmedia · Jul 1, 2019

Lovekraft said:
Did 123-Reg manage to catch anything? I had some ordered with them and haven't seen their tag crop up in any checks for domain I was and wasn't chasing.

Theres a couple

aged.uk,Y,N,2019-07-01,2020-07-01,123-REG
amin.uk,Y,N,2019-07-01,2020-07-01,123-REG

3gmedia · Jul 1, 2019

Yes, just been on the phone to godaddy and they have just resolved the issue.

Got the 3 names that were free to register

davedevelopment · Jul 1, 2019

Transcom ISP said:
Had some customer results in using our software

20 premiums caugt out or 60
15 premiums caught of out 200

Best settings seem to be :
DAC1 on each instance (max 4)
hours left set to 0.6 (0ms) on each

The DAC wont block because the EPP gets throttled before that happens
Most choose the T drop character so they can start the script seconds before the release.

Good results so far.

Impressive! I'm not even using the DAC in any real capacity, just a quick check before getting ready to fire...

Transcom ISP · Jul 1, 2019

same for most of the customers I think, they set for 0ms between, but the dac loop is however used to clear the main list of thosed already renewed but not caught, so that if the list is looped, ones that renewed arnt pushed back into the queue and waste epp hits, same for those caught, pushed into a different list.

Murray · Jul 1, 2019

Lovekraft said:
Did 123-Reg manage to catch anything? I had some ordered with them and haven't seen their tag crop up in any checks for domain I was and wasn't chasing.

Of the 300 or so I had loaded they got

bishop.uk
bmf.uk
bgh.uk
bpe.uk
aot.uk
bka.uk

medit · Jul 1, 2019

Transcom ISP said:
same for most of the customers I think, they set for 0ms between, but the dac loop is however used to clear the main list of thosed already renewed but not caught, so that if the list is looped, ones that renewed arnt pushed back into the queue and waste epp hits, same for those caught, pushed into a different list.

Check your PM