Who to backorder with?

[rawkinrich]

Hi all,

If you wanted the best possible odds of catching a co.uk, which companies/sites would you back order with?

Cheers

 

[j13]

The public catchers are:
Caught.co.uk
Dropsystem.co.uk
Dacr.co.uk
domainrecover.net
detagged.co.uk

Id try and get some private catchers aswell if you want the best chance possible

 

[rawkinrich]

The public catchers are:
Caught.co.uk
Dropsystem.co.uk
Dacr.co.uk
domainrecover.net
detagged.co.uk

Id try and get some private catchers aswell if you want the best chance possible

Thanks for your reply. What are the main differences between public and private catchers?

 

[Skinner]

Public Catchers will have dozens of names booked reducing their overall performance, a Private Catcher will have 1-5 names and be multiple times faster.

 

[rawkinrich]

Public Catchers will have dozens of names booked reducing their overall performance, a Private Catcher will have 1-5 names and be multiple times faster.

This doesn't fill me with confidence with public catchers then

Is there a general post with private catchers?

 

[GreyWing]

Pribate catchers can be multiple times more expensive aswell, depends what you are after.

 

[Skinner]

Private catchers often don't catch for the general public, they catch for themselves and virtually never catch big value names for others, unless you put down big money.

Public Catchers still do very well

 

[rawkinrich]

Thanks for the replies.

 

[Skinner]

If your willing to pay more than £1,000 for a catch, you would be better off investing in a nom tag and a months rental of a catch solution, and go for that 1 name alone

 

[wb]

Add DomainMonster.com to your list too, another public catcher which has caught me a few.

Definitely recommend Caught and DropSystem

 

[Skinner]

I've caught names with all those mentioned here, Caught, Dom Mon, Drop Sys I've caught names that was booked with a private catcher, I should have mentioned that earlier

 

[suzi]

I suppose the difference here is that (as far as I know) all catchers only charge if they're successful. This would be an outlay with no guarantee of success.

 

[Skinner]

I guess so, but a rig aiming for a sole name, has many multiples of better odds than a public catcher (which would be booked anyway) and a private catcher is likely to want the name for themselves anyway, if your willing to pay that for it

 

[DC3000]

Drop catching services -a waste of time for premium domains?

I guess so, but a rig aiming for a sole name, has many multiples of better odds than a public catcher (which would be booked anyway) and a private catcher is likely to want the name for themselves anyway, if your willing to pay that for it

This is what bugs me about the whole drop catching scenario: What's to stop private or public drop catchers that you've employed just reging it for themselves via proxy or private Whois? Has any one ever had a company or individual catch a domain that is a premium .co.uk (worth 5K or so)? If so which ones?

It just doesn't make sense - no win no $40 fee - yet they would pass up the chance to reg a $5K domain themselves just because someone put an order in?

Many of these companies also sell domains too so I'm struggling to see how these conflicting interests are reconciled.

If anyone is able to offer me some reassurance or further insights I'd be very much obliged.

Thanks

 

[Skinner]

Most public catchers don't really stand a chance of such names, Most private catchers would be catching it for themselves so its really a moot point.

However Devaid caught idtheft.co.uk for a member and instantly had high XXX offers on it, Dom Monster caught a name which went for x,xxx to a reseller, and dropsys caught an LLL, so it does happen.

edit: mixed details up

 

[Systreg]

However Monaghan caught idtheft.co.uk for a member and instantly had X,XXX offers on it

@ Skinner, it was Dave Hogan who caught that for me, I didn't get an £x,xxx offer for it, highest was £750.

 

[DC3000]

So are you saying that to stand a decent chance (consistently) we need our own tag and rig? Otherwise we're doomed to the scraps no one's really that bothered about catching?

 

[bensd]

Most public catchers don't really stand a chance of such names, Most private catchers would be catching it for themselves so its really a moot point.

However Monaghan caught idtheft.co.uk for a member and instantly had X,XXX offers on it, Dom Monster caught a name which went for x,xxx to a reseller, and dropsys caught an LLL, so it does happen.

Alex (Monaghan) has caught a couple of (imo) £x,xxx names for me in the past

 

[Skinner]

Sorry systreg, poor memory, I thought you had a higher offer, I couldn't find the thread then I searched for it. I don't seem to be having much luck with the search tool on acorn lately.

 

[bensd]

@ Skinner, it was Dave Hogan who caught that for me, I didn't get an £x,xxx offer for it, highest was £750.

Wouldn't be surprised if you got four figures for it though mate