coderamblings

I’m currently working on a few projects at the moment.  One of which is my most challenging yet.  The Nominet Domain Grabber.
Nominet Domain Grabber

This project I am working on with my fellow software developer Dave Parr.  The software come about due to a vast amount of money being made in quality domain sells that were being caught the split second they dropped.  The reason these domains drop can be a number of reasons but as long as theres profit to be made from buying a domain for £6 and selling it for more, then thats a worthy cause.

We first approached this by creating a .NET command line application that started a thread that constantly performed a DAC requests.  Once a domain drops we start another thread to perform an EPP request that will grab the domain, hopefully getting there before any other developers software.  While the epp request is happening, we ensure the DAC requests keep performing, because after all, we will often have more than one domain at a time.

We hit a brick wall with the above piece of software and set up.  Windows servers have some network latency, and so does .NET… minimal I know but with over 2000 other registrars doing the same thing, nanoseconds count.  So we’re moving to Linux and closer to Nominet.  AND we are moving to C++.  This is possibly the best software developer challenge in the UK!