Most people who want a specific domain name have no way to know when a real opportunity to acquire it appears. Notify.domains monitors WHOIS, RDAP, auctions, marketplaces, website signals, and more, checking each domain 20+ times per day across all IANA TLDs. When something changes, you get a plain-English notification with exact next steps, not raw data. $24/year, 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
Your reply to Bob about the registrar's auction partner listing it first is the part most people learn the expensive way. Flipping it around though: I run a business on about a dozen small sending domains, and the failure I actually worry about is one of MINE quietly lapsing or having its DNS changed under me. Does Notify watch domains you already own for that, or is it aimed purely at names you're trying to acquire?
Notify.domains is not aimed only at domain names you are trying to acquire. Add the domain names you already own and the system works just as well.
If one of your owned domain names is listed for sale on a marketplace, you get an alert. Same if it is listed in an auction without your permission, or if the site goes dark and stops responding.
For security reasons, we also watch DNS. If the name servers change, an A record is modified, or the MX records change and email is directed to a new location, we notify you.
Those are exactly the events you want to know about for the domain names you own that are valuable and you want another level of assurance on. All of that information is publicly accessed and monitored without providing access to your registrar accounts.
the harder problem here feels like the race, not the detection. if a domain is desirable enough that you're watching it, other domainers and sniping services are probably watching the same signals too. once notify.domains fires the alert, is there still a real window to act, or does it come down to who has the fastest registrar API hooked up at that point?
@galdayan You're right that the drop itself is a race. If a valuable .com hits pending delete, drop-catchers with registrar connections win in the first second. We don't bid, backorder, or hook a registrar API. We tell you the phase changed and where to place the backorder.
Most opportunities aren't that race. A marketplace listing, a price drop, a registrar auction opening, grace, redemption, a nameserver change, a parked page coming down. Those windows are hours to days. Plenty of time to act if you actually see them.
And many times people don't even know that a domain is in auction, and that the dropcatching website is reputable and that you should bid there. So that's part of the solution we're providing too... making evident what is invisible to most.
The people who lose the name they wanted usually never got the first signal. That's the gap we close.
Thanks for checking it out. I appreciate your support.
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lost a .com like this exact way a few years back, watched it expire and had zero idea drop-catchers already had it lined up before I even noticed the page went down. wish this existed back then honestly
Your reply to Bob about the registrar's auction partner listing it first is the part most people learn the expensive way. Flipping it around though: I run a business on about a dozen small sending domains, and the failure I actually worry about is one of MINE quietly lapsing or having its DNS changed under me. Does Notify watch domains you already own for that, or is it aimed purely at names you're trying to acquire?
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@podcastbud Christopher, thank you.
Notify.domains is not aimed only at domain names you are trying to acquire. Add the domain names you already own and the system works just as well.
If one of your owned domain names is listed for sale on a marketplace, you get an alert. Same if it is listed in an auction without your permission, or if the site goes dark and stops responding.
For security reasons, we also watch DNS. If the name servers change, an A record is modified, or the MX records change and email is directed to a new location, we notify you.
Those are exactly the events you want to know about for the domain names you own that are valuable and you want another level of assurance on. All of that information is publicly accessed and monitored without providing access to your registrar accounts.
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the harder problem here feels like the race, not the detection. if a domain is desirable enough that you're watching it, other domainers and sniping services are probably watching the same signals too. once notify.domains fires the alert, is there still a real window to act, or does it come down to who has the fastest registrar API hooked up at that point?
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@galdayan You're right that the drop itself is a race. If a valuable .com hits pending delete, drop-catchers with registrar connections win in the first second. We don't bid, backorder, or hook a registrar API. We tell you the phase changed and where to place the backorder. Most opportunities aren't that race. A marketplace listing, a price drop, a registrar auction opening, grace, redemption, a nameserver change, a parked page coming down. Those windows are hours to days. Plenty of time to act if you actually see them.
And many times people don't even know that a domain is in auction, and that the dropcatching website is reputable and that you should bid there. So that's part of the solution we're providing too... making evident what is invisible to most.
The people who lose the name they wanted usually never got the first signal. That's the gap we close.
Thanks for checking it out. I appreciate your support.
lost a .com like this exact way a few years back, watched it expire and had zero idea drop-catchers already had it lined up before I even noticed the page went down. wish this existed back then honestly
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@wwenioaguiar That’s why we’re here and happy to help next time you need an extra hand. 🫡