Also called pending delete list · deleting domains list
Drop list, explained
For .com and .net, a name enters pendingDelete about five days before it is purged, so lists typically show each day's deletions several days ahead, with filters for length, extension, keywords, age, backlinks and how many other extensions the same string is registered in. Tools such as ExpiredDomains.net, which lists expired, pending-delete and deleted names, are common starting points. Names that reach the list are ones nobody renewed, restored or bought in a registrar's expiry auction.
On a list does not mean available. A name with obvious value draws backorders at several catch services, and when more than one person has backordered it at the service that catches it, an auction among them usually follows, often far above the registration fee. Filter hard, then check each survivor for trademarks and past use before backordering. AI models can score long daily lists for meaning, pronounceability and commercial intent, which makes a useful first pass; a model's enthusiasm is not a valuation, so the final cut stays a human decision.
Example. An investor filters one day's drop list to two-word .com names with clean histories, backorders six, and catches one uncontested at the service's standard backorder price.
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