Ran a "domain drop" test today and placed 6 domains (all from a vein that I'm still mining) into the following drop services to see which service is most effective:
Drop Services:
+Pool: $60 paid only if caught, if multiple people bid, if goes to 3 day auction
+GoDaddy: $15, but only 1 backorder per domain, paid in advance, and get credit if not captured
+NameWinner: $30-$50 bids, extended auctions
+SnapNames: $60 paid only if caught, if multiple people bid, if goes to 3 day auction
+Enom's Club Drop: $30-$50 bids, but if multiple people bid, if goes to 3 day auction
fortunately I was able to get exclusive backorder at godaddy for all 6, so this was an almost perfect test.
Drop Scores:
+Pool: 0/6. never seen that before. glad though cause it's $60 a piece. SHOCKED.
+GoDaddy: 1/6. SHOCKED
+NameWinner: 1/6. for $30. suprised.
+SnapNames: 0/6. not suprised.
+Enom: 4/6. 1 is mine @ $30, 3 in auction. now I wish Pool got them for $60.
Glean what you want from my test. I learn something new everday. While it pays to backorder everywhere, I would not have used Snapnames if they didn't change their business model this morning. At least now, you only pay if they catch the name. I may reveal the names later, only after auctions are over. but these names were not the best drops from today. so they weren't really a factor because there's less than 3 people bidding against me in each enom auction.
Ok. for those that want to test the waters of the DOMAIN DROP game...
tomorrow some good domains are dropping. one of the best is a 3 letter .com, which happens more often then you'd believe.
PRD.com
Now some of the haters will flame me, but I want to give you all a taste of how seductive, successful, addictive and frustrating this game can be...
so, go open accounts at:
SnapNames.com
Enom.com (join club drop)
Pool.com (sign up for your own affiliate code before adding domains)
NameWinner.com
some of the services may run a credit check of $60 to verify who you are, I'm not sure cause it's been ages since I joined.
But if you want to see how the game is played, you need to add PRD.com to your watch list at each service. You must do it before Noon (EST) tomorrow to be safe. And between 2-4 est you'll find out which service, if any of them captured the domain, and you can watch the price rise, probably far above $12,000. What's the point? It's a great way to learn the ropes without risking much if any money because none of us are getting it for $60 tomorrow
but we'll all have a chance to watch the same domain, a premium one, see which service catches it and discuss the auction in progress. Goodluck to all of you. Perhaps someone here may actually buy it in the end.
why PRD?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=prd
could stand for so much.
p= people,pet,porn,private,privacy, public, photo(grapher/phy),publishers,payment,preview etc...
r= review, restaurant, real estate, rent(al(s)), reply, resource, religion, etc...
d= digital,division,dept,database,domain,dealer etc...
Product Review Database
Porn Review Database
Parks Recreation Department
Press Release D...
Public Relations D...
perhaps some celebrity, CEO, or corporations initials that would pay handsomely for it.
quick flip, potential lawsuits/wipo, but perhaps plenty of ways around it because it stands for whatever you want. if I was still buying, this would be on my "must have" list. but I already spent too much this year on 3chars.
if you want to discuss it further, we've been discussing domains for days at this very focused and infopacked thread w/ over 5 pages:
investing in domains ...
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...postid=4999765
I only posted a new thread because some people play drops, some buy outright from auction sites/owners. two different strategies.