Letting a domain lapse

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:30:19 GMT, |-|erc <gotch.TakeThisOut@beauty.com> wrote:

 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.Pool.com" target="_blank">www.Pool.com</a> will get it 80% of the time for free.

I just recently tried pool.com and damned if I didn't get that other 20%
BuyDomains.com got it instead. I'd be interested to know pool.com's
success rating overall when BuyDomains.com is hunting as well since they
don't go after all of them, of course.

Those are the kinds of stats you never see...

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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:30:19 GMT, |-|erc wrote:

 > "elyob" <newsprofile.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in
  >> Getting really peaved with a registrar in Australia that are holding domains
  >> to ransom. So, we're looking at letting a couple of them lapse, and then
  >> pick them up again when re-available. Anybody know of a decently priced
  >> (i.e. low cost!) service that can monitor and email us when it becomes
  >> re-available.
 >
 > these 2 are not for com.au just the main TLDs
 >
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.Pool.com" target="_blank">www.Pool.com</a> will get it 80% of the time for free. You need a credit card to sign up now,
 > and $60 if successful, goes to auction if there's more than 1 person after it.
 >
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.Snapnames.com" target="_blank">www.Snapnames.com</a> also just changed to free service and auction system.
 >
 > They register it for you about 0.07 seconds after its available.

If you have 10 companies whose business model is like snapnames.com, who's
going to get it first? I expect the first one in line. How do you know
which one?




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"GreyWyvern" <spam.DeleteThis@greywyvern.com> wrote in
 > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:30:19 GMT, |-|erc <gotch.DeleteThis@beauty.com> wrote:
 >
  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.Pool.com" target="_blank">www.Pool.com</a> will get it 80% of the time for free.
 >
 > I just recently tried pool.com and damned if I didn't get that other 20%

ok not 80% more like 90%
Spill. What name?


 > BuyDomains.com got it instead. I'd be interested to know pool.com's
 > success rating overall when BuyDomains.com is hunting as well since they
 > don't go after all of them, of course.

Apparently BuyDomains has a small staff working full time scanning expired names,
they will often outbid everyone at the Pool auction too. But Pool has about 30
registrars all polling for the names, kind of swamped Snapnames who've dropped
from 80% success rate only 2 years ago to about 5% now.

Pool gets around half the 3 letter coms even with the extra competition..


 >
 > Those are the kinds of stats you never see...

send buydomains a greeting card with a trojan

Herc


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elyob wrote:
 > Getting really peaved with a registrar in Australia that are holding
 > domains to ransom. So, we're looking at letting a couple of them
 > lapse, and then pick them up again when re-available. Anybody know of
 > a decently priced (i.e. low cost!) service that can monitor and email
 > us when it becomes re-available.
 >
 > Thanks

Try no tto let them drop. You have a 50/.50 chance youll never get them when
they drop. Theres a guy in China that grabs domains as they drop and puts a
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elyob wrote:

 > Getting really peaved with a registrar in Australia that are holding
 > domains to ransom. So, we're looking at letting a couple of them lapse,
 > and then pick them up again when re-available. Anybody know of a decently
 > priced (i.e. low cost!) service that can monitor and email us when it
 > becomes re-available.
 >
 > Thanks

Just about all registrars allow transfers to new registrars,
including .com.au and .com .

I recommend paying up for the minimum period, then transferring to a new
registrar. Some registrars give incentives for transfers, including
extending the registration.

My favourites are:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.namescout.com" target="_blank">www.namescout.com</a> for .com.au
(though melbourneit has reasonable phone support, they are expensive)
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.1and1.com" target="_blank">www.1and1.com</a> for .com (they allow you to use their name servers for
external domains, have phone support, & are a listed company)


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"Gregory Toomey" <nospam.RemoveThis@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:2nrqsjF3v1psU1@uni-berlin.de...
 > elyob wrote:
 >
  >> Getting really peaved with a registrar in Australia that are holding
  >> domains to ransom. So, we're looking at letting a couple of them lapse,
  >> and then pick them up again when re-available. Anybody know of a decently
  >> priced (i.e. low cost!) service that can monitor and email us when it
  >> becomes re-available.
  >>
  >> Thanks
 >
 > Just about all registrars allow transfers to new registrars,
 > including .com.au and .com .
 >
 > I recommend paying up for the minimum period, then transferring to a new
 > registrar. Some registrars give incentives for transfers, including
 > extending the registration.
 >
 > My favourites are:
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.namescout.com" target="_blank">www.namescout.com</a> for .com.au
 > (though melbourneit has reasonable phone support, they are expensive)
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.1and1.com" target="_blank">www.1and1.com</a> for .com (they allow you to use their name servers for
 > external domains, have phone support, & are a listed company)
 >
 >

Not totalnic unfortunately. They ask for documents to be sent to them and
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