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NameSnag
Get alerted the moment a taken domain becomes available
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Get alerted the moment a taken domain becomes available
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Enter a taken domain and NameSnag keeps re-checking it, then emails you the moment it becomes available - so you stop manually refreshing whois. Free plan watches 1 domain; Pro watches 100. Monitoring and alerts only: NameSnag is not a broker, backorder service, or registrar - it doesn't buy or secure the domain for you, it just tells you the second it's free so you can grab it.
How quickly does the alert usually come through once a domain drops, and does the free plan actually wait until the moment it's available or just notify on status changes?
@kbrabrklr3seGreat question! We poll every ~30 min, so you'll typically get the email within half an hour of the drop — sometimes near-instant if it lands just before a check. And it only fires when the domain is actually available to register again, not on interim WHOIS status changes, so no false alarms. The free plan runs the same check cadence.
How fast do you usually catch the drop after sending the email, and have you seen cases where someone else snags it within seconds anyway?
@berkezpikifvkk Good and fair question. We send the alert, but you register it yourself — so for hotly-contested names, pro drop-catch services (DropCatch/Snapnames et al.) firing at the registry the millisecond it releases will beat a manual grab, and we won't pretend otherwise. Where NameSnag shines is the long tail — the vast majority of drops nobody's actively backordering. There you're usually the only one watching, so the 30-min alert gets you the name comfortably. If you're chasing a premium name with known competition, pair us with a dedicated backorder service.
Setting it up to watch a domain I'd been refreshing for weeks took like 30 seconds, and I genuinely forgot about it until the email dropped. The free tier being just one domain is stingy, but the alert hit my inbox fast enough that I trust it.
@melahatdeekson This made our day 🙌 "Set it and forget it until the email hits" is exactly the feeling we're going for. Fair hit on the 1-domain free tier though — we hear you, and we're weighing bumping it. Thanks for trusting it enough to say so!
Finally freed myself from hammering the refresh button on whois. Got an alert within hours for a domain I'd been stalking for weeks, super straightforward setup and the email arrived the second it dropped.
@buse1351765 Love this, Buse — "hammering the refresh button on whois" is the exact pain we built NameSnag to kill. Glad the alert landed the second it dropped.
how often does it actually re-check the whois, like every few minutes or once an hour, and does the pro plan cap how many alerts you can get per month?
How fast does the alert typically come through once the domain actually drops, and are you catching releases at the registry level or just polling whois records?