drops

[acheeva]

I tried with a single domain of my choice & 3-4 PC's over a 3-day period. Result NIL

 

[cherrytron]

Isnt there someway that I could try register it myself at 2pm? Or do drop and netfleet have some agreement with auda that allows only them to reigester it at that time?

Theoretically possible, but highly unlikely, they smash ausregistry within milliseconds.

Hot tip though if you do try, you should use a non-affiliated registrar, ie. if you use Drop/Netfleet their ports are busy smashing the drops so retail purchases will be queued until after the drop zone - you'll notice this if you go to make a DNS change on one of your domains during the drop, sometimes if fails because the connection to ausregistry is offline. Netfleet are partnered with Netregistry etc, so any of their affiliated brands will have busy connections.

 

[neddy]

I remember back in 2010 sometime there was some sort of glitch on the drop platforms on one particular day.

Anyway, cutting a long story short, a friend and I went on to non-affiliated registrars and were able to hand register a couple of the dropping domains.

I also remember phoning Soj urgently and telling him the situation (there was one I knew he was after), and he was able to hand reg it. That reminds me -
I'm still waiting for my case of ................. ha ha!

That's the only time in my knowledge where the dropcatchers have been beaten.

 

[Oz.]

When going to check the whois of a dropped domain (with bids) to see who caught it, I'd be refreshing the whois at drop time and occasionally I would see "No Data Found" - meaning the domain is available to register. Then I would refresh it again and it would be caught/displaying the new registrant's details (mine hopefully ).

Of course this is quite different to trying to snipe the domain myself, but still the chances of seeing the domain as available in whois is very slim.