For Sale The Drop Script Project

[spietreser]

A forum for the Drop Script Project has just been set up at http://www.dnking.com/script

Read more about the Drop Script Project here: http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?postid=238893#post238893

It is basically an effort to join the excellent programming skills and all other much needed skills and resources in order to develop the ultimate drop script that has the potential to beat the big drop services out there. Of course all drop services are also welcome, in the end we will have a much better product than currently available. One of the most popular forums, phpBB, was also created through a project of this kind, where many people contributed their bit.

Everyone who can help is appreciated, just post your application and say what you can do to help. DNForum members have the possibilites, but we just need to join forces

This is not (yet) another domain forum, but this one is dedicated to the Drop Script Project.

Best regards,

spietreser

 

[Luc]

i hate to break this to you, and i don't like to bring down
people's ideas but here is what i think. my comments are
rather hostile, but please don't get offended.

the only reason snapnames, namewinner and the other 4-5
services succeeded for such a long time and with such a
high success rate is because they developed a powerful
system, and they didn't share their knowledge or tricks with
anyone (and they didn't make their scripts open source)!

the domain business is (or at least was) an information
business. those who know the ins and outs win, those
who don't try to learn, and finally a small percentage
of those who try to learn, actually succeed. most give up
in the process due to lack of funding or time.

i'd like to compare this idea to Yahoo/Dmoz domains back in the
day. people hunted them down and there were only about
4 services that provided those rare lists (clickmojo, namesniper
and a few others). then, some idiot decided that he would
try to sell the yahoo/dmoz (yamoz) script on eBay for next
to nothing. well, he sold it, and then thousands of people sold it
again and again because it was THE SCRIPT, or THE SOURCE
CODE. now the yahoo/dmoz domain business is destroyed and
if you're trying to find a yahoo/dmoz domain, good luck. why?
because anyone can either purchase or steal a copy of this
script, change it to fit their needs and use it forever, for free. true
they won't get much with it, since there are thousands of other
people using the same garbage script, but hey, it's free and
it's out there available to the public.

finally, the guys in here that really know their stuff (when it comes
to the drop business), and there are less than a dozen of them,
will never share what they know with anyone. it would put
them out of business and they'd get nothing out of it.

sorry to say this to you, but if "free" and "open source" is your
thing then you need to get out of this business. making scripts open
source, especially drop scripts, will destroy the domain
business completely.

best of luck with your idea.
luc l.

 

[DomainGoon]

Originally posted by DomainRetriever

the domain business is (or at least was) an information
business. those who know the ins and outs win, those
who don't try to learn, and finally a small percentage
of those who try to learn, actually succeed. most give up
in the process due to lack of funding or time.

You might say that the more domain people that have some specific knowledge, the less valuable that knowledge becomes.

 

[micro]

I agree with domainretriever. Anyways such drop scripts are useless as long as u dont have one or a few registrars running them on *their* server.

 

[Cartoonz]

Well, this IS amusing.

and, yes, that IS all I am going to say!

 

[buddy]

You might want to change your title over at your Drop Script Forum. Right now it says: "Drop Scrip Project". The T IS missing

 

[spietreser]

Originally posted by kvinsencius
You might want to change your title over at your Drop Script Forum. Right now it says: "Drop Scrip Project". The T IS missing

LOL, it was late (fast typing, needing sleep etc) :embarrass

Anyway, seeing the fact that there is so much enthusiasm for this, the forum will be taken down a few days from now. Thanks for your comments.

On to the next thing on my to-do list now...

 

[ToastyX]

What you were proposing makes no sense. You can't just create some ultimate drop script to beat everyone else. You need the resources, such as access to VeriSign's batch pool. Creating a script wouldn't be very difficult, but without the resources, creating a script wouldn't do any good.

 

[.com.net.org]

Totally agree with ToastyX. We should start funding project to become a registrar.

 

[Luc]

We should start funding project to become a registrar.

That would never work either. People would always fight about who gets access to the resources.

 

[stuff]

Originally posted by DomainRetriever


That would never work either. People would always fight about who gets access to the resources.

Yes thats also true!

 

[_Yakov_]

As eNom pointed out, there are, currently, 63 different registrars "hunting" for domains. Having a dropscript without a registry connection isn't going to work, not to mention that one registry connection doesn't make much sense any longer.

 

[NameTower]

its the resources not the scripting
just a though

 

[spietreser]

I never said this is all about programming

Of course I know that you need a connection to the registry, some members might be able to arrange that.

Some people here do sound a little affraid

 

[Steen]

I would like to help but there needs to be organization.

I believe 1 registry connectio is enough to catch the odd fairly good domain.

A few more and it could become better.

What if we invest thousands on this, who is the financial organizer, what if he/she runs off with the money?

Who gets to decide who gets each name (DONT DO IT LIKE ENOM).

And I think this would be alot harder than you make it to be.

I would like to help though, if you guys are serious about this...

(I CANT PROGRAM)

 

[beatz]

I agree with Domain-Retriever a 100%.

The reason for agreeing btw is the same reason for why i find it to be absolutely stupid that some people STILL post dropping names before droptime here or elsewhere.

I mean, are these guys masochists or what - why posting those names before droptime so you make sure your competition stays up to date ?!?!

Because the info "is there" and it's free ?

Uh i know i ranted about that a few times already

 

[Luc]

Uh i know i ranted about that a few times already

Whatever it takes to get your word out on the street beatz. fact
of the matter is, this crap needs to be drilled to newbies
otherwise everyone in the domain business will suffer
because of a few dumba** wanna-be entrepreneurs.

don't get offended spietreser, my comments aren't directed at you,
i just get pissed off anytime i see the word "free" in the same
sentence with "domain".

best regards.
luc l.

 

[_Yakov_]

Originally posted by beatz
I agree with Domain-Retriever a 100%.

The reason for agreeing btw is the same reason for why i find it to be absolutely stupid that some people STILL post dropping names before droptime here or elsewhere.

I mean, are these guys masochists or what - why posting those names before droptime so you make sure your competition stays up to date ?!?!

Because the info "is there" and it's free ?

Uh i know i ranted about that a few times already

Democracy promotes competition. What's the exact point you wanna make ?

 

[Luc]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

yakov, competition is one thing, destroying the entire
domain drop business by giving away vital information for
free is another.

come on man, even you can see that this is not competition.

 

[beatz]

Yakov the answer is simple:

To post those names might be democratic - that doesn't mean doing so isn't stupid.