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More expired domain changes: Pheenix jacks up prices

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Drop catching service is increasing prices significantly this week.

A lot seems to be going on with drop catching expired .com domain names. Verisign is definitely up to something that is going to change how services capture domains.

Now comes news that Pheenix, the least expensive of the big three drop catchers, is significantly increasing prices on .com/.net backorders.

Starting July 15 it will charge $59.99 for .com and .net backorders. That’s up significantly from today’s $38.99 price and puts it in line with DropCatch.com’s $59.00. SnapNames/NameJet charge $79.00.

Of course, the starting price doesn’t matter much if it’s a popular domain because it will go to auction.

Pheenix will still offer its discounted backorders that are usurped by any standard price backorders.

Expired domain names w/ Tan Tran DNW Podcast #125

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Understand the current state of the dropcatching market.

dnw-podcastTan Tran runs one of the three biggest pending delete drop catching services, Pheenix, as well as expired domain discovery service FreshDrop (enter coupon ‘pheenix’ to get FreshDrop for $8/month). On today’s program, he explains the domain backordering process and why the cost of catching expired domains is increasing. Also: Poor grandma, a two letter domain sale and more.

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Pheenix increases expired domain backorder prices

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Price will go up another $10 this month.

As the arms race for catching dropping domain names escalates, expired domain catcher Pheenix is raising its prices.

The company announced that the price of “gold” .com backorders will increase to $38.99 on January 15. That’s up from $28.99 right now and $21.99 about six months ago. “Super saver” backorders, which are usurped by any gold backorders, will now cost $20.99.

The new prices are still significantly less than Pheenix’s competitors. NameJet and SnapNames, which have combined efforts to chase deleting domains, charge $79. DropCatch, which recently added another 300 registrars to its coffers, charges $59 for standard backorders.

There’s an all out war for dropping domain names

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…and it’s expensive.

It costs expired domain drop catchers $8.03 for every .com domain name they catch for you. So why are they charging customers so much money?

A good place to start is by looking at how much they pay to amass the firepower necessary to be successful drop catchers.

When a domain name deletes, all of the expired domain name services interested in the domain name start pinging Verisign’s servers to try to register the domain name. Many factors go into success rates, but a lot of it has to do with how many registrars they have to ping Verisign for the massive amount of domains they’re trying to snag each day. Think of each registrar as a phone line that goes directly to Verisign. The more lines, the more domains you can catch.

I recently analyzed a list of all new domain name accreditations from February 2012 to September 2016, and the numbers are a bit shocking. Roughly 1,250 new registrars were added, and most of these are solely for drop catching purposes.

DropCatch.com has been the most aggressive. It added 300 more registrars in October 2015, bringing its total to over 750. Click here to continue reading…

Pheenix raises backorder prices, adds .xyz

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Prices are still much cheaper than competing services.

Expired domain drop catching service Pheenix announced it is increasing prices “Due to price increases by both ICANN and registries.”

The move comes days after SnapNames and NameJet both announced price increases.

Pheenix will now charge $24.99 (up from $21.99) for regular backorders, which is still much less than the new $79.00 pricing at SnapNames and NameJet.

The company will also increase the price of its Super Saver backorders by $1.00 to $14.99. These backorders are usurped by full-price backorders.

The new prices go into effect August 1.

Pheenix also announced .xyz drop catching capabilities for just $4.99.

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