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The good, the bad and the ugly – DropCatch

March 11, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

“The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space.

Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also encouraged.

One of the goals of the column is that company representatives will see how their customers think of them. This can lead to a conversation on fixing problems.

What is not allowed:

  • Personal attacks on individuals at the chosen company
  • Promoting a competitor
  • Posting domains for sale

The company in the spotlight today is DropCatch

Founded: 2014
Image result for dropcatch.com

Filed Under: DropCatch.com, TGTBTU

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. Mark Thorpe says

    March 12, 2017 at 9:14 am

    Good: Easy to use
    Bad: Namejet bidders use it a lot more now
    Ugly: Bids are open to the public, unlike Snapnames

    • Zisy says

      March 14, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      Bad: very few names available compared to all other DN auctions

  2. Francois Carrillo says

    March 12, 2017 at 9:35 am

    Good: Bids are open to the public, no need to waste time to find decent names.
    Bad: Too easy to use so competition should quickly grow.
    Ugly: No Estibot.com/Valuate.com appraisal so difficult to estimate name value.

  3. jose says

    March 12, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    Good: cheap and simple
    Ugly: auctions open to everyone. no sensible reason for this unless maximizing profit for DropCatch

    • Melanie says

      March 15, 2017 at 10:52 am

      what’s wrong with them maximizing profit?

  4. Bruce Breger says

    March 12, 2017 at 3:16 pm

    Good – Strong in catching dropped names.

    Bad – Auctions open to all.

    Ugly – Only open M-F and no ability to call anyone on a Saturday or Sunday.

  5. ThcNames says

    March 12, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    Ummm DropCatch/HugeDomains catch everything… So you have to use them?

  6. Bill Sweetman says

    March 12, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    Good – Owners of this platform have a ton of registrars which gives them serious ‘firepower’ so odds of catching domains are good. Caught domains end up at NameBright which is an excellent registrar with slick UI.

    Bad – Auctions are not private. Makes stealth purchases challenging. :+(

    Ugly – Nothing

  7. hentai says

    March 12, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    Good: catch good names for a cheap price. I love it and I use it.

    Bad: open auction / auction not private (this is very bad in my opinion).

  8. DNReserve.com says

    March 14, 2017 at 2:21 pm

    good – domains end up at NameBright, a good no-nonsense registrar unlike NetSol with NameJet
    – they catch a lot of quality domains
    bad – poor support (appears to be a 1 person shop who takes weekends & Holidays off)
    ugly – frequent web server errors during critical auction end times

  9. Bill says

    March 19, 2017 at 2:43 pm

    They have me officially pissed off.
    3 day auctions, but 72 hours to confirm an account for bidding in them. In what universe does that make sense?
    They might as well be completely private, or have really public auction.
    I accidentally let foxtrottechnologies.com drop. The current high bidder is so arrogant no one else will be able to bid he has already reached out to sell it back to me at $1200.
    Man this is a huge rip-off. I lose my domain due to a failed automatic payment, and someone can swoop in for $59 to make an instant $1141 profit.
    I would have been willing to compete in a far an open auction, but this is just extremely unfair and unjust. I would prefer to spend my money on a lawyer, even if I lose the case than to give in to this extortion.

  10. Mark Thorpe says

    February 26, 2018 at 1:17 am

    Good: Easy to use
    Bad: Open to public
    Ugly: Namejet 2.0


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