[DNS] How the drop lists work

From: Larry Bloch <Larry.Bloch§netregistry.com.au> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:45:34 +0000 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:11 UTC

You need to check out the Domain Expiry auctions at

www.drop.com.au
www.netfleet.com.au

Netfleet (which my company half  owns) tends to get between 75 and 95% of the names it tries to catch.

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> From: dns-bounces+larry.bloch=netregistry.com.au&#167;dotau.org [mailto:dns-
> bounces+larry.bloch=netregistry.com.au&#167;dotau.org] On Behalf Of Doug Robb
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 6:25 PM
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> Subject: [DNS] How the drop lists work
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been looking over the auDA drop lists and particularly the domains due for
> deleting and for the life of me haven't see any of the domains actually become
> available again. So is this due to people snapping them up or is there something
> about the purge I need to know?  The problem as I see it is the online drop lists
> (domains ready for deletion) only run back a day and it looks like by the time they
> are purged at some random time in the future they are no longer listed so I'd need
> to make my own copy of the drop list for each day which seems rather absurd?
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
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