After looking at two weeks days worth of dropcatching data we decided to see who were the currently active catchers, and if there is anything worth catching in .uk . A representative data sample was used and straightforwardly placed into a graph displaying the percentages:
The 29 other tags each registered under 1% of domains.
The BOWLER tag is associated with the Caught.co.uk domain dropcatching service, and thus they cannot be seen as ‘personal’ registrations. FASTHOSTS and 123-REG are both public facing domain providers, so it would be fair to say that these names are ‘manually’ dropcaught ie. by domainers without DAC access or the like.
It was a struggle to find ‘top’ registrations in the data sample but the following caught the eye :
fad.co.uk
entitlement.co.uk
den.co.uk
hoops.co.uk
tgm.co.uk
With the average reseller price of decent three letter .co.uks being £750 upwards it seems there is still a healthy profit from pure catching. Likewise there were quite a few double word descriptive names that would be excellent investments, or instant resale oppertunities. One other did stand out ‘SickBastard.co.uk’ , which makes us wonder if there was a particular reason for that catch.
Our data is not comprehensive as it is near impossible to have full lists of what is dropping and who got what. Opinions on what is ‘worth catching’ is our own, and as usual one persons junk can be anothers prime domain. This is not meant to be a scientific study, just indicative of what is going on at the coal face of .uk catching.
We hope to have more indepth information in the coming weeks.
