ICANN Board Recommends Ending Domain Tasting

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Fantastic news.

Via ICANN.org.

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is looking to
effectively end domain tasting with a proposal to start charging the annual
ICANN fee on registrar domain registrations.

Domain tasting is the use of the Add Grace Period to test the profitability
of a domain name registration. The AGP is a five-day period following the
initial registration of a domain name when the registration may be deleted
and a credit can be issued to a registrar.

"Domain tasting has been an issue for the Internet community and ICANN is
offering this proposal as a way to stop tasting," said Dr Paul Twomey,
ICANN’s President and CEO. "Charging the ICANN fee as soon as a domain
name is registered would close the loophole used by tasters to test a
domain name’s profitability for free."

AGP was originally introduced by registries so registrars could avoid costs
if a domain name was mistyped or misspelled during the registration
process. It is part of the .com, .net, .org, .info, .name, .pro, and .biz
registry contracts.

Tasting has been a serious challenge for the Internet community and has
grown exponentially since 2004. In January 2007 the top 10 domain tasters
accounted for 95% of all deleted .com and .net domain names — or
45,450,897 domain names out of 47,824,131 total deletes.

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More:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29jan08.htm

- - ferg

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