Reglikedomain industry desk

DropCatch adds 300 more registrars, now has 752: Wow

Firm increases stable of registrars going following dropping domains.

The firm behind expired domain name catching service DropCatch.com has adding 300 more accredited registrars to its arsenal, and now has a whopping 752 registrars. This is as stated by ICANN’s public list of accredited registrars.

DropCatch.com, which is owned by the same people behind HugeDomains and NameBright, is a traditional expired domain service that goes following domain names when they fully delete following pending delete. Winning expiring domain names this way depends on good timing and, frankly, the “fire power” of multiple registrars to ping the registry.

I can only imagine that DropCatch ran the numbers and determined that creating 300 more registrar accreditations would give it a substantial leg up in the expired domain name business.

DropCatch’s standard backorder rate is $59, subject to an auction if there’s more than one person who backorders the domain. It offers discounted dropcatching as low as $15 per name.

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