Game of Registrars...
summary
The paper measures post-expiration reuse and finds that 10% of .com domains are re-registered on deletion day and that for some zones over 50% of re-registrations happen within the first 30 seconds. Drop-catch services operate thousands of registrar accreditations, controlling >75% of accredited registrars while generating >80% of creation attempts but at most ~9.5% of successful creations, sending massive parallel registration bursts to beat timing, and registrars also sell expired names pre-release via auctions before public availability.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 0:20What Internet Domain Names Are
- 5:17Drop Catch
- 6:05How Domains Change Owners
- 6:48The Auto Renew Grace Period
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