Introducing Drop.com.au - Domain Catch Specialists
A new and exciting internet brand has launched today in Australia. drop.com.au is a new domain business by Dark Blue Sea (most commonly known for their Fabulous.com and FabulousDomains.com brands) and is set to shake up the Australian Domain Industry with it’s domain catch platform.
This exciting new brand offers a domain catching service, allowing participants to re-register expired domain names the instant they are deleted and purged from the registry.
The service runs on technology previously used by the successful registrar Domain8, to catch deleted .au Domain Names, and operates on week-days when the registry releases the expired domains and makes them available for registration.
Catching is the process of re-registering a domain after it deleted and made available again for registration. The drop.com.au system monitors the registry for the randomised purge, and continuously attempts to register the name until it has been caught. The registration process is completed literally within milliseconds of becoming available.
Interested parties are required to bid on the name they would like to register on the morning of the day when the “drops” occurs (a “drop” is the process of a domain name being deleted & purged from the registry) and as in all auctions, the highest bidder at auction close wins the “right to catch”.
Over the past 6 months, drop-catch services such as this have yielded some very valuable domain assets including printing.com.au (which was picked up for a meager $A 9221.00) and many other high value domain names going for as low as a single dollar (plus registration costs).
The drop.com.au service does not guarantee 100% success, but sources at DBS indicate that drop.com.au should perform with 85% success-rate and higher, which is a good result considering other players have also been taking part, officially or otherwise, for the past 2 years or so.
In addition to the Drop-Catch platform, drop.com.au also plans to introduce many new services aimed at the domain investment market. Hopefully a new after-market service is one of these services, because it is certainly lacking in the industry. Aftermarket services for the uninitiated, allow people to buy and sell .AU domains.
Domain trading is a relatively new concept in Australia, with the regulator of .AU domain names only laxing it’s policy on transfers between registrants (the ability to trade a name) in June 2008. There are only a few players in this space, including the rather expensive NetFleet.
Given FabulousDomains.com’s experience in the International Domain Space with it’s Domain Distribution Network (listing over 600,000 international domains for trade), it is a certainty that Dark Blue Sea is capable of providing a superior offering in the Australian Domain After-Market, and Search News will be watching in anticipation of their growth and success, and many of the other innovative tools they promise to bring to the domain name industry.
Visit the newly launched website today: www.drop.com.au
