Whats the deal with PremiumDrops?

[thevirtual]

Does anyone know what the deal is with Premiumdrops?

I think they are well known as one of the best Domain resources, but there service is FULL of bugs, and very unreliable.

They have promised to partner with a registrar to offer a certain domain service, which is going two months with no progress. Anyone else tired of seeing the same error page when they try to taste a domain?

Also it is another day with no drop list

Maybe I can get a response from someone over at Premiumdrops or someone who has contact with them.

 

[andrejc]

Hm, I've just managed to reg few domains for tasting, so I tought they finally got that partnership.. But now I'm getting that error again :undecided:

Ooops! Seems like we maxed out our $10k account at eNom.

Domains auto-delete every minute (exactly 96 hours after their initial registration) so you may want to try again in a bit.

We are in the process of teaming up with a registrar to offer each of our users the ability to taste up to 1,000 domains, 100% free. This partnership should be completed sometime MID-LATE June (sorry for the delay).

Sorry for the inconvenience and try back soon since domains delete every few minutes.

 

[RegFee]

DNF member Luc is the creator of PD:
http://www.dnforum.com/member.php?u=679

Try contacting him with your concerns. I know he is aware of everyone's anticipation, and he isn't the kind of guy to let people down. Just hang in there. Free domain tasting is going to be great!

 

[thevirtual]

Another day with no domain drops

I won't bother contacting them regarding this as they must already be aware of these issues with the site.

 

[thevirtual]

There hasn't been any domain drops since Sunday??????

You can't search deleted domains, or access any domain drops..

I am thinking maybe Premiumdrops is phasing out???

 

[andrejc]

Luc hasn't been online for 10 days.. I still haven't received affiliate payment for May from DRT.. No replays to my tickets.. At PD they haven't got that partnershit yet, athough they said it will be completed MID-LATE June and now is mid July..

 

[thevirtual]

So far there hasn't been any domain drop lists available for the last week?

 

[Thomas Nash]

Maybe Luc has been on holiday or something of the like?

 

[tekz999]

luc still hasnt replied to my email which was sent about 1 month ago.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

So is it working properly?

 

[RegFee]

Here's the most recent news. Luc hasn't responded to any of my emails either, but it looks like he's still updating the site.

2007-07-24 18:23:32 - Repairs Completed

All lists should now generate a lot more domains.

The only thing left to fix is the the invalid numbers on the adult/pagerank reports from the "precompiled" section.

Let me know if you guys find any other problems or things which may require my attention. If you don't communicate problems they will never get fixed, so please tell me!

Thanks!
Luc L.

2007-07-23 11:07:51 - Repairs in Progress

I'm fixing up some things, main problem with the lists being so small recently is because Google PR checking no longer works, and when the lists get moved from one database to the other, the domains with unknown PR didn't get moved, this is being fixed.

Also, the local PremiumDrops database is over 200GB now and the server keeps on running out of space. Need to cleanup the database files and with a DB of this size it tends to take a while to run even the most basic operation.

Tasting with our partner is still on pause, but tasting with our eNom account still works (though I understand there is a lot of people using it so it tends to always say "Maxed out").

Just wanted to update you guys, by tomorrow (Tuesday) the lists should be much bigger and things run faster. I'm also getting a few new servers for PD and putting them up at a colocated L3 facility so that things run better, that won't happen for at least a week or two.

Thanks for sticking around and using the service, good things are in the works!