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com.dotsweep/dotsweep · Verify this server

Register a watch on a domain that is currently taken, and be emailed once — and only once — when the registry confirms it has become registrable. Use when someone wants a name that is already owned, or asks to be told when one expires or drops. It answers immediately and creates nothing when the name turns out to be free already, so it is safe to call on a domain whose status has not been established. It requires an email address the person supplied in the conversation. A confirmation mail is sent first and the watch stays inactive until its link is clicked, which is worth passing on in the reply. The address is stored against this one domain, is never used for anything else, and is used only for that notification. The notification fires only on a confirmed registry answer, never on an estimate: if a registry is unreachable the watch waits rather than reporting the name free.