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Buy a tag and become a registrar[1] with your target TLDs. Try to colocate your servers with the registry you are targeting. This gives you root level access to
by Finbarr 8y ago
Buy a tag and become a registrar[1] with your target TLDs. Try to colocate your servers with the registry you are targeting. This gives you root level access to the registry and you'll have lower latency than a lot of the dropcatchers. It used to cost about $100k a year to get a .com tag, but I'm not sure nowadays. The fees vary by registry. Every time you setup a dropcatch or use a registrar, you are adding an extra service between yourself and the registry where the domains are actually registered.
[1] https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/become-a-registrar/verisign-domain-registrar/index.xhtml https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/become-a-re...
- howard941 8y agoThis sounds like the best answer. Becoming a registrar allows you to do other cool (questionable) things like domain tasting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
- gcb0 8y agoAnd from yesterdays frontpage article, all the cool kids are doing it! > As messages pointing to one particular web site would quickly get blocked by spam filters, RX Limited would open up new sites. Initially the new domains were purchased individually from domain sellers such as GoDaddy, until RX Limited set up its own domain seller, ABSystems, allowing RX Limited to spawn new domains on a much larger scale. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux#RX_Limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux#RX_Limited