Use your tag and become a dropcatcher

[RobM]

Interesting - they were set but the servers have changed them. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[RobM]

Just fyi one of the catchers has made nearly 1k on caught domains. As some have found it's also a handy way of using their tag for other people's catches on days when they aren't chasing themselves as you can reserve domains.

 

[Systreg]

Just fyi one of the catchers has made nearly 1k on caught domains

Broke through the £1k barrier now That's from 30 catches so far, 29 at £35 and one at £40, wish there were a few more with higher bids but quite happy with a good few at £35.

There's an LLL dropping today that currently only has a £50 bid on my site at CatchDomains.co.uk and £45 for the .uk, get bidding as it hasn't dropped yet

 

[meslam123]

Can anyone help, I've just signed up for a tag to make use of this service, I need to answer the following to become a self managed tag registrar

We require you to confirm how you comply with the requirements of our .uk Registrar Agreement

just fill them with answer "For my own personal domain portfolio management" or "For my own personal use"

 

[RobM]

The problem with being self-managed is you can only have 5% of your total domains registered in someone elses name. This is not really suitable for public dropcatching as you would need people to tag change immediately after catch and you could end up missing domains because you cannot register anymore for anyone else. As people catch in their own name you won't have any transfer fees anyway when they change tag so I don't see what the benefit is over being a channel partner. Perhaps some of the newer tagholders can tell me as I got mine over a decade ago and am a channel partner (not self managed).

 

[meslam123]

i think CatchIt had this problem couple of days ago, just provide new customers with channel partner application answers and all will be fine

 

[meslam123]

yes, as you will stuck with 5% or 50 total domains registered in someone elses name and may get suspended, so a Channel Partner Tag better suit public dropcatching.

 

[RobM]

As far as I know you can always reclassify later. The advantage self managed has is it can change registrant details without a charge. However as people already catch with their own registrant details you don't need to change them.

 

[meslam123]

As far as I know you can always reclassify later. The advantage self managed has is it can change registrant details without a charge. However as people already catch with their own registrant details you don't need to change them.

i think you can fix this by letting every public catcher use his or her registrant details and then change tag/registrant after payment received but this will need code changes which not worth it.

 

[meslam123]

OK what do you mean by this?

I was talking to Rob, i mean
if you chose Self Managed you can easily answer "for own personal use"
if you chose Channel Partner Tag you need to provide answers for each question.

 

[Systreg]

I'm on a self managed tag and have not had any problems yet, a couple of people left domains on my tag but I emailed them and asked them to move them to a different registrar, which they did straight away.

I was under the impression that you can have up to 5 connected names, and as long as it's below that, no problem.

 

[RobM]

Just going by nominet's blurb they said 50 or 5% (whichever is lower) and I know one of the public catchers had registrations refused because he would have gone over the limit.

 

[Skinner]

I believe you can complete the channel partner tag information, on a self managed tag and the 50 or 5% whichever the fewer seems a lot more flexible.

If you have 100 domains your 5% is 5 domains, you need 1,000 domains to get the full 50 domains.

I currently only have about 300 domains and I've had over 50 while been doing some house keeping and had no problems (I have completed the channel partner element on my SMT).

 

[RobM]

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