Domain hijacking in 2018?

Question

Domain name market

Are people still intercepting clean water? Those. hammer requests to a couple of dozens of registrars? Does it make sense to do it now? Or "freed domains" with their auctions have already closed this shop?

Answer 1

The bold domain will still be taken away by the registrar a couple of seconds earlier :)

Answer 2

Registrars have made a service for a long time and all clients as white people can pre-order such domains. If the domain is not of interest to this huge number of people, then it is quite possible to “intercept” it by submitting applications to registrars every 1-2 minutes. That is to collect slag. The API will improve this spacing a bit, but you need to have $$$ on each registrar.
On .RU and .RF, there are rates for 300 rubles and more, so it makes no sense to take for 250 and without a guarantee.

Answer 3

to hammer requests will not work. Rate-limit and all that. registrars and registrars are quite actively fighting against home dropcatchers.

Answer 4

free advice - call the owner before the domain is free and negotiate with him to transfer the rights to you if the owner no longer needs the domain. It is useless to hammer the registrar, personally verified.