Why to hire Pool.com to backorder a domain?

Pool.com is a tried-and-true pioneer in the domain-drop process. This Canadian outfit has a solid track record and a good network of servers to submit registration requests (handy if your domain drops late in the process and VeriSign gets annoyed with duplicate registration requests from a single IP address). You can back order dropping domains for free at Pool.com, but it preauthorizes your credit card for a minimum $60 purchase when you do. If Pool.com secures the domain, it puts you into an auction system so that you get the chance to buy the domain. Even if you're the only bidder (and you'll never know!), you still enter the auction and have to enter a bid. Auction faint-hearts will agonize over how to bid; too low, and you lose the domain; too high, and you overpay. If you bid within 30 percent of the top bid, you enter a second-tier auction. Either way, you're bidding in the dark. Yah!