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ICANN Board Recommends Ending Domain Tasting
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:44:22 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fantastic news. Via ICANN.org. [snip] 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, ICANNs 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 names 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. [snip] More: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29jan08.htm - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHn+SDq1pz9mNUZTMRAjw9AJ9Figho7oBU94mJ7BOlo83s97GAWACeJFRk WToI094ELbBiNQr1Pjq5Rs8= =a+UL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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