Re: In Bad Taste: John Levine on 'Domain Tasting'

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

Kernel Levine, still at large ;-)

On 5/2/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> John Levibe does an excellent job of summing up the problems
> introduced by ICANN's "Add Grace Period (AGP) of five days
> (during which a registrant can delete a newly registered
> domain and get a full refund)" -- this has led to major abuses.
>
> Great article, John.
>
> Via CircleID.
>
> [snip]
>
> So-called domain tasting is one of the more unpleasant developments in the domain business in the past year. Domain 
> speculators are registering millions of domains without paying for them, in a business model not unlike running a 
> condiment business by visiting every fast food restaurant in town and scooping up all of the ketchup packets.
>
> Since 2003, the contract between ICANN and each unsponsored TLD registry (.biz, .com, .info, .net, .org, and .pro) has 
> added an Add Grace Period (AGP) of five days during which a registrant can delete a newly registered domain and get a 
> full refund. Although this provision was clearly intended to allow registrars to correct the occasional typo and 
> spelling error in registrations, speculators realized that this allows them to try out any domain for five days for 
> free.
>
> As soon as the speculators (who call themselves "domainers") figured this out, they started using automated software to 
> register domains like crazy. They put up web pages full of pay-per-click ads, keep the few that make money during the five days, 
> and refund the rest. Many of the speculative domains are expiring ones, since those might already be indexed in Google and have 
> some traffic, others are slightly misspelled versions of existing domains to catch traffic from people who make typing errors.
>
> [snip]
>
> More here at CircleID:
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_in_bad_taste/
>
> Or on John Levine's blog:
> http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/tasting.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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>
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