Comments on: Google to kill domain tasting? http://www.dmueller.com/2008/01/25/domain-names-domains/google-to-kill-domain-tasting/ Dominik's blog about finance, investing and economics. Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:15:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Emil.king.net http://www.dmueller.com/2008/01/25/domain-names-domains/google-to-kill-domain-tasting/comment-page-1/#comment-3222 Emil.king.net Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:13:55 +0000 http://www.dmueller.com/2008/01/25/domain-names-domains/google-to-kill-domain-tasting/#comment-3222 Yes domain tasting is a good profit but bottom line it is bad for domain industry. Great step by google. IMHO, emil **ANSWER** I think one has to differentiate between domain tasting and the 5-day grace period. Banning the 5-day grace period altogether would be the wrong decision, in my opinion. The grace period is reasonable, because it allows you to delete a domain that you have mistakenly registered. Therefore, ICANN should introduce a policy that charges those registrants a higher fee who want to delete more than five domains at a time, for example. This way abusive domain tasting can also be stopped, because it would no longer be profitable to taste thousands or even hundreds of domain names. Yes domain tasting is a good profit but bottom line it is bad for domain industry.

Great step by google.

IMHO,
emil

**ANSWER**

I think one has to differentiate between domain tasting and the 5-day grace period. Banning the 5-day grace period altogether would be the wrong decision, in my opinion. The grace period is reasonable, because it allows you to delete a domain that you have mistakenly registered. Therefore, ICANN should introduce a policy that charges those registrants a higher fee who want to delete more than five domains at a time, for example. This way abusive domain tasting can also be stopped, because it would no longer be profitable to taste thousands or even hundreds of domain names.

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]]> By: Francois http://www.dmueller.com/2008/01/25/domain-names-domains/google-to-kill-domain-tasting/comment-page-1/#comment-3218 Francois Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:49:49 +0000 http://www.dmueller.com/2008/01/25/domain-names-domains/google-to-kill-domain-tasting/#comment-3218 It was funny to read how Jay taken advantage of this story to broadcast the news about Oversee.net being is a domain tasting champion. Is not Oversee.net an ICA funding member that is supposed to defend domainers, showing to the world the good practices of our industry? **ANSWER** Yes, I noticed that, too. Oversee.net is a platinum sponsor of the Internet Commerce Association, which has been campaigning against abusive domain tasting. Personally, I don't how big Oversee.net's role in domain tasting really is, but you're right that their involvement in abusive domain tasting stands in opposition to their ICA membership. Internet REIT, another ICA founding member, has left the ICA already because of several trademark lawsuits filed against them, most prominently the Verizon lawsuit. It was funny to read how Jay taken advantage of this story to broadcast the news about Oversee.net being is a domain tasting champion.
Is not Oversee.net an ICA funding member that is supposed to defend domainers, showing to the world the good practices of our industry?

**ANSWER**

Yes, I noticed that, too. Oversee.net is a platinum sponsor of the Internet Commerce Association, which has been campaigning against abusive domain tasting. Personally, I don’t how big Oversee.net’s role in domain tasting really is, but you’re right that their involvement in abusive domain tasting stands in opposition to their ICA membership. Internet REIT, another ICA founding member, has left the ICA already because of several trademark lawsuits filed against them, most prominently the Verizon lawsuit.

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