A drop-catch console you run yourself. It sends registration requests at your own interval to 16 registrars at once. Race a list by hand, schedule the window, or watch the registry and register the moment a name is released. Price alerts and a drop-date checker are built in.
Runs on your own desktop or VPS, with your own registrar API keys
16
Registrars
5
Tools
Catch · Watch · Price
24/7
Unattended
Desktop or VPS
This is the interface you install. Race a list across every registrar, then switch screens to open the schedule, the registry watcher, price alerts and the drop-date checker. On a wide screen, the theme and accent controls at the foot of the sidebar work too.
Live demo · click around — every screen of the console is here, running on example data
Three ways to register a dropping name, and two ways to know what's coming before you spend anything.
You are at the keyboard for the drop. Paste the list, set the interval, hit start.
Schedule the window once and go to bed. It opens, fires and closes without you.
Don't know the exact drop time? Watch the registry and register the moment it says free.
Watch what a name costs on the aftermarket and get mailed when the number moves.
Look a name up at the registry and see when it is likely to drop.
Give a domain its drop date, a start and end time, a request interval and a registrar. The catch server arms itself, fires at the exact second and stops when the window closes — with this screen open or not.
Dynadot
Spaceship
Gandi
GoDaddy
Namecheap
Real Time Registrar
NameSiloLive demo · windows open and close on the real UTC clock — try the master switch, or schedule a domain
The registry drops on UTC, so every date and time you type is UTC. A window can't drift because of your laptop's time zone.
Currently Processing shows each live window: attempts so far, the rate, time left and the registrar's last answer.
Schedules are jobs stored in Redis. Reboot the box and every window is still there and still fires.
Auto DropCatch races a known window. Auto-Register is the slow, patient counterpart: it checks each expired domain's registry record every few minutes, and registers only once the registry gives a clear "no such domain".
SpaceshipDynadotGoDaddyNamecheapGandiNameSilo
OpenProviderGoDaddyLive demo · checks tick down on their own — press REGISTER NOW on the notify-only name
Lookups go straight to the registry over RDAP, falling back to WHOIS on port 43 for TLDs with no RDAP service.
A failed lookup is recorded as an error and retried, never treated as available. Five rejected attempts mark a name lost.
Register the instant it frees up, or get an email and confirm with one click.
Two tools that tell you what's coming before you spend anything. Price Alerts tracks aftermarket and registration prices. The Availability Checker reads a name's registry record and forecasts when it will drop.
Live demo · open a listing's chart, or check another domain
Sedo asking prices, GoDaddy Auctions and Namecheap Market bids, and GoDaddy and Spaceship registration prices — each labelled for what it is.
Every price change goes to your inbox with the old price, the new one and the percentage. Your threshold decides which ones count as an alert.
The forecast is measured from what the registry reports, and its confidence says so: HIGH when pending delete has started, PROJECTED when the name hasn't even expired.
Hold accounts at several, and the same domain can be chased from all of them at once — each with its own key, its own tab and its own place in the race pool.
DynadotREST · api3.jsonSpaceshipREST · v1GoDaddyREST · v1NamecheapXML · apiNameSiloREST · api
Name.comREST · v4
GNAMESigned form · MD5
EnomFasterGandiREST · v5OpenProviderREST · v1beta
ConnectResellerREST · ESHOP
Joker.comDMAPI · sessionReal Time RegistrarEPP · :700
Above.comXML · query.html
Alibaba CloudRPC · ACS3-HMAC-SHA256You bring the accounts and the API credentials — a caught domain lands directly in your own registrar account.
Everything in the console is there to make one window of time count, and to tell you exactly what happened inside it.
The All Registrars tab sends the same list to every registrar in the race pool on each tick. Leave any of them out with one click.
Set the gap between requests in milliseconds. The console shows the requests per second it adds up to, and each tab shows that registrar's published rate limit.
Timestamp, status, error code and response code for every attempt, with filters and CSV export. A failed catch tells you why it failed.
Any SMTP server or a Gmail app password. Get mailed when a scheduled window catches its domain, when a watched name frees up, or when a price moves.
API credentials are entered once under Registrar Accounts and stored on your own server. A catch lands in your account, not someone else's.
Drop windows, registry watches and price checks are all jobs stored in Redis. A reboot pauses them, and they carry on by themselves afterwards.
A UTC clock sits in the middle of every screen, and every time you enter is read in UTC — the same clock the registry drops on.
The first run asks you to create the admin account. Locked out? Reset it from the server with one command.
Light or dark, five accent colours, and registrar tabs you can drag into whatever order you work in.
No account to sign up for, no queue shared with other buyers, no seat to pay for. The console runs on your machine and only uses your API keys.
What you need
Install the console
Put it on your PC or your VPS and start it. The first run asks you to create the admin login.
Add your API keys
Under Registrar Accounts, paste the credentials for any of the sixteen registrars you hold accounts with.
Point it at your inbox
Under Settings, add an SMTP server or a Gmail app password, plus Sedo keys if you want Sedo prices.
Queue the drop
Race the list by hand, schedule the window, or watch the registry and let it register on its own.
The console is yours to install. Nothing goes through someone else's catcher, and your queue isn't shared with anyone else bidding on the same names.
Windows, macOS or Linux. Start it, open the console in your browser on localhost, and close it when you're done.
Run it on a server that never sleeps. Drop windows at 3am, registry checks and price checks keep going while your laptop is closed.
Sixteen: Dynadot, Spaceship, GoDaddy, Namecheap, NameSilo, Name.com, GNAME, Enom, Gandi, OpenProvider, ConnectReseller, Joker.com, Real Time Registrar, Above.com, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Route 53. Each one gets its own tab, its own API credentials and its own place in the race pool.
Yes. The console registers through your API keys, so a caught domain lands directly in your own registrar account and is paid from your own funds. There is no middleman account and nothing to transfer afterwards.
Auto DropCatch is for when you know the drop window: it fires rapid registration requests from the start time to the end time. Auto-Register is for when you don't: it checks the domain's registry record every few minutes and only sends a registration once the registry says the name is free.
As fast as the interval you set, in milliseconds. On the All Registrars tab every registrar in the pool gets the whole list on every tick. The real limit is each registrar's rate limit, which is shown on its tab, and the connection between your machine and their API. A VPS near the registry can sustain a shorter interval than a home connection.
The Availability Checker looks the name up at the registry and estimates the drop date from the lifecycle stage the registry reports. It labels how confident that estimate is: HIGH once pending delete has started, lower while the owner can still renew or restore the name.
From each marketplace's own API: Sedo's asking prices, the current bids on GoDaddy Auctions and Namecheap Market, and the registration prices at GoDaddy and Spaceship. There is no scraping. Every change is emailed to you, and your threshold decides which changes are flagged as an alert.
You run it. It's a standalone console you install on your own desktop or VPS, next to Node.js and Redis, behind an admin login you create on the first run. There is no subscription dashboard between you and the registrar.
No, and nothing can. Many catchers compete for a dropping domain at the same time, and the registry decides who gets it. What the console gives you is your own attempts, at your own interval, across up to sixteen registrars at the same moment.
DropCatch is sold as a standalone console. You install it once on your own machine, connect it to your accounts at any of the 16 registrars, and run it for every drop after that.
Tell us which registrars you hold accounts with and we'll take it from there.
Request a demo
Send the form below with the registrars you use and where you plan to run it.
Receive the script
You get the console with setup instructions for your desktop or your VPS.
Catch your first drop
Add your API keys, queue a domain, and the next window is yours.
Send us a line about the drops you chase and we'll walk you through the console on a live screen: a race across your registrars, a scheduled window firing end to end, and a watched name being registered.
DropCatch is standalone software you install and run yourself, using registrar and marketplace API credentials you supply. It is not a registrar or a backorder service, and it is not affiliated with the registrars or marketplaces named on this page; their names identify the APIs it supports. Many catchers compete for a dropping domain and the registry decides who gets it, so no tool can promise a catch. Interfaces shown here are illustrations of the software, drawn with example data.