If you’re trying to place your pending delete backorders at DropCatch.com right now, you’re probably not able to do so due to an “Unknown Error.” The “Unknown Error – Http failure response for https://client.dropcatch.com/Search: 0 Unknown Error” message is shown at the bottom of the homepage, and the website does not otherwise load.

I posted about this on X this morning, and others are facing the same issue, so it appears to be a global error impacting many – if not all – users:

DropCatch.com has won the sweepstakes to catch Spend.com, a domain name that was fully deleted by its former registrar, Amazon. The domain name will now be sold to the highest bidder when the auction concludes in a little less than 3 days.

Spend.com was previously acquired for $275,000 in 2017 via Sedo. Prior to that, it was acquired for $77,000 in 2007.

With the high bid approaching $60,000, Spend.com could become one of the largest expiry domain name sales recorded at DropCatch.com. According to NameBio, the largest sale was Lian.com, which sold for $220,950 in 2016. Medal.com sold for $185,728 in 2022.

Any guesses about where this auction will end?

Update: Spend.com sold at auction for $802,500.

Samba.com was the most exciting expiry auction I’ve been following for a while. The domain name had once been owned by a company in Saudi Arabia, and it was auctioned on NameJet. Samba is a genre of music and a dance style that originated in Brazil. The descriptive term is used in branding by many companies around the world.

Before the auction, I was planning to bid and had set aside $50-75k in my mind to buy the domain name. I figured there was a somewhat reasonable chance I would be in contention, but I thought that would not likely be enough to win the domain name. I figured I would try and let the market decide if I would take the name home or not.