"I use it myself and would honestly prefer that no one else hear about it (as is usually the case when one finds something that gives them an edge in zeroing in on the names they want to go after)."

-- Ron Jackson, Editor, Domain Name Journal (http://www.dnjournal.com)

DropShark is the result of over a year of research into the dropping domain market. Every day, roughly 20,000 domains are made available again due to their deletion for non-payment. Many of those names are valuable, both in terms of their name as well as the existing traffic and search-engine positions that they enjoy. The competition for these names is fierce, with many Internet registrars offering services to attempt to acquire these names. Those who participate in this market often download large lists of domain names and sort through them, either by hand, or with the aid of the search functionality built in to word processors. DropShark provides a single interface to help drop-catchers select the names they wish to submit to drop-catching services.

DropShark loads up to five days of upcoming dropping domain names and then provides advanced search functionality based on length, top-level domain, keyword, content, dictionary-word, numeric exclusion, dash exclusion, regular expression parsing, and more. DropShark can process a dictionary-word search across 100,000 domains in under 5 seconds. And compound-word searches in less than 10 seconds (tested on Athlon 1800+ with 256M of RAM). Unlike many other tools that require you to have your own source of data, a DropShark license includes access to the dropping-domain data, loaded automatically via an internal Web Service. Best of all, DropShark is not a subscription service!

DropShark has been developed by Christopher Ambler, a leader in the Internet field, and an acknowledged expert in the acquisition of dropped domain names.

Download a fully-functional version of DropShark 2.5 at http://www.dropshark.com/Download25 and then see http://www.dropshark.com/Purchase.aspx for purchase information.

DropShark version 2.6 is currently in feature-complete status and will be entering final testing shortly. All licensed users of any previous version will be upgraded to version 2.6 at no additional cost!