This month I trialed a public .uk domain backorder service with 10 beta testers, the booking side of the system is all automated, my only actual involvement is with the creation of invoices (which could be made automated!). I had a relatively slow month catching in september so decided to give it ago. I was quite busy developing sites for a client so thought instead of spending a couple of hours a day looking at lists I’d taking bookings from others.
Overall I feel it went quite well, The system caught a fair few names however looking at the “bad” month catching I had in September I made more money selling one of the names I caught that I got from the total revenue that the public back order system used. I’ll probably be going back to catching for myself from the 1st November.
Which means I’ve got a near on fully automated public booking system complete with custom coded drop script sitting around doing nothing, everything has a price!