ICANN Ends Domain Tasting?
According to a post on Bret Fausett’s blog, ICANN has passed a resolution that will end Domain Tasting. It has taken ICANN a long time to deal with the problem. Domain Tasting exploits the Add Grace Period. The AGP is a five day grace period during which a domain could be cancelled without the registrar having to pay for it. This move is long over-due and ICANN has been criticised for not acting promptly to fix the problem.
The AGP was intended to protect the registrars from various fraudulent registrations and obvious customer mistakes. However it was used by unscrupulous operators to sift through millions of domains each day for domains that would monetise well and justify the registration cost. Other operations were registering typos of trademarks on an industrial scale and the Dell Vs Belgium Domains et al is perhaps the first example of a major case being taken against such operations.
ICANN’s move against Domain Tasting was long over-due. The move by Google against monetising domains less than five days old was, perhaps, the trigger that kicked ICANN into bothering to take action.
Tags: Irishblogs,Cybersquatting, Domain Tasting, Domains, cybersquatters, Internet Statistics, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on January 29th, 2008 with
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