Catch me if you can – Most domains don’t get deleted.
If you made it to the Cabana Networking session at TRAFFIC, kudos to you!
It means that our Domain Name Jargon course is paying off and your confidence as a domainer is about to hit new, stratospheric highs.
By following this instructional course, you are witnessing history in the making, as we get one step closer to our mission: (re)define domaining!
Drop Catching (a domain name) : Were you ever told that expired domains go through a 45 day process, at the end of which they drop and become available for everyone to register?
You were lied to – by ICANN, no less.
Expired domains of even questionable quality don’t drop these days; they become digital food in the claws of various drop catching services, such as SnapNames, Pool, GoDaddy and others.
Some drop catching services even send out a barrage of spam emails before a domain drops, in order to reel in potential victims for a “no holds barred” domain auction.
If you receive such emails for domains that you’re interested in, do not reply; most likely the domain will be allowed to be deleted due to lack of interest.
Drop catching is a lucrative business that allows domain registrars to recycle junk, mediocre and otherwise useless domain names at prices higher than the original Network Solutions registration fees.
Example: “I’m thinking about putting a bid to drop catch TightUnderwear.com when its owner gives up hope of selling it after 13 years of non-use!”
