ICANN to end Domain Tasting. Level playing field for domainers??

ICANN has announced an end to domain tasting.

Now whether you register domain names for five or 365 days you have to
pay the full registration fees.

Google also has plans to stop serving ads on domains registered less than
five days.

Lot of Blogs have carried this news.

Here is one of them

Let's share your opinions on domain tasting and whether google did the
right thing and claim a holier than thou position?

 

ICANN news is a lot more important than what Google is planning to do. This should be interesting.

 

This has been on the cards for a while now, quite a few people I think are expecting a change in this regard sooner or later.

To be honest I think it's a good thing stopping the likes of the large registrars abusing this system, registering tens of thousands of domain names at a time, but for the small wo/man on the street they should keep the practice going. Perhaps a maximum of 50-100 names or so per day might work on any individual account.

 

Magawr, it's a reasonable idea but not practical. That can be abused also (dupe accounts).


This is freakin' huge news. I'm surprised there are barely any comments! Not a lot of crazy domain investors on here, huh? Just 2-3 domain collectors?

 

You said it bro ! Well does it also mean now that you have a good chance
of picking some good domain names, I mean other than those that are
snapped by backorder firms?

So little domainers have a good chance of regging some nice domains.

 

Well great news for all domainers. This will even things out.

 

Yep and not before time too.

 

I agree, it should benefit individuals like most domainers on this forum.

 

Absolutely great news, it's about time.

 

I doubt it will really help us. Eventually nearly all the domains held by tasters are let go, which means they are then available to reg. The good stuff will be grabbed the instant it hits the drop. Milliseconds no doubt. We still will never see it. Tasters reg large piles of domains for a few days to put ads on them, skim a few off that have good traffic (very few) and then dump.

As I read the ICANN notice, they now will not be refunding the 20 cent fee when a domain is returned before 5 days - that is enough to make most tasting unprofitable, but still allow errors and buyer's remorse to be refunded. A good plan, but it sure took them a long time.

 

Yeah,
It’s a great step,though bit late.
But what about front running for generic names ?

 

Icann is composed of the big domain sellers which allow themselves to do so. People protested against that, I guess they have found some better other way to make money we don't know what yet

 

Good news, but it's long overdue.

 

This is great news from ICANN. Normally they sit back, in power, and let things ride. Hopefully they will see conflicts such as this sooner in the future!