You can still go a long way with public catchers

[Edwin]

This is something of a follow-up to a thread I posted a couple of months back...

It's interesting to see how much the public catchers collectively can manage to get as long as you book the slots early enough. In September 2010, I went after 141 names in total across the various drop-catch partners I work with.

Of those 141 names, 47 were renewed at the last minute. Out of the remaining 94 domains, I picked up 65. That's a 69% success rate!

 

[foz]

You assume your picks are contested, circulate the drop list intelligence and I'm sure that success rate would drop significantly.

 

[Edwin]

You assume your picks are contested, circulate the drop list intelligence and I'm sure that success rate would drop significantly.

Not sure what you mean by "circulate the drop list intelligence"?

Of course some of my picks are better than others! But I'm happy with what I got, including names such as airconditioninginstallation/couk, cctvsecuritysystem/couk, fretlessbass/couk, hotelamenities/couk, jewellerydesigner/couk, odometer/couk, scientificjournals/couk and socialnetworking/couk...

 

[foz]

Most of the effort in drop catching is researching lists and making picks.

If your particular drop lists were known to others, I'm sure that success rate would drop.

It's a contentious issue of what people view as a valuable domain, so the 30? or so drop catchers have a great deal of variation on what gets loaded and caught each day.