A large part of my business is domain name research and consulting. The days of going to a registrar and finding a great domain are over. There are now services where you can either buy a domain from someone else, generally at a relatively higher price than the normal $15.00 per year that you can expect to pay in a registrar, or you can check out the various sites that monitor upcomming deletions and either wait until the domain comes up available and try and nab it up, or you can go to your favorite registrar and Backorder the domain.
I recently stumbled over the domain gourmetcoffee.com in one of my online domain services. It is about to become available, provided that the current owner doesn't wake up and check his e-mail and see the myriad notifications that he has been sent and hustles on over to the registrar and renew the thing. Barring that, there are some domain backordering services on the net that stand in line for you. I really wanted this gourmetcoffee.com so I went to various registrars to backorder it, but I was unable to. I wrote one of them asking why I was unable to even backorder the domain. They wrote back and said that a registrar will only backorder a domain for one person. So the domain has evidently been backordered in every back order system that I can find. So I wrote again and I asked if I could perhpas beat the system by manually trying daily to register the domain in an effort to beat the automated backordering systems. This is what they wrote back:
So I guess the message is, even when backordering domains you gotta be quick!
I recently stumbled over the domain gourmetcoffee.com in one of my online domain services. It is about to become available, provided that the current owner doesn't wake up and check his e-mail and see the myriad notifications that he has been sent and hustles on over to the registrar and renew the thing. Barring that, there are some domain backordering services on the net that stand in line for you. I really wanted this gourmetcoffee.com so I went to various registrars to backorder it, but I was unable to. I wrote one of them asking why I was unable to even backorder the domain. They wrote back and said that a registrar will only backorder a domain for one person. So the domain has evidently been backordered in every back order system that I can find. So I wrote again and I asked if I could perhpas beat the system by manually trying daily to register the domain in an effort to beat the automated backordering systems. This is what they wrote back:
Thank you for contacting customer support. The domain backorder system basically bombards the registry in an attempt to capture the domain upon its release from redemption. I doubt you would be able to overcome the backorder system manually, but feel free to try. You may purchase a domain backorder through another registrar if you wish. I can not recommend any, but I'm sure a google search will bring up some results. Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.
So I guess the message is, even when backordering domains you gotta be quick!
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