ICANN Announces Plan to Curb Domain Tasting


	ICANN Announces Plan to Curb Domain Tasting

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2-4-2008 12:40 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f149e671-ca0c-45c4-b9a8-dad96b17ca5b/72CBCBFF-E735-452E-96E6-E60B5EB8D73F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2008/01/31/icann-announces-plan-to-curb-domain-tasting/?camp=newsletter&src=mv&type=textlink" href="http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2008/01/31/icann-announces-plan-to-curb-domain-tasting/?camp=newsletter&src=mv&type=textlink" style="font-size: 11px;">www.marketingvox.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2008/01/31/icann-announces-plan-to-curb-domain-tasting/?camp=newsletter&src=mv&type=textlink"><H1>ICANN Announces Plan to Curb Domain Tasting</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2008/01/31/icann-announces-plan-to-curb-domain-tasting/?camp=newsletter&src=mv&type=textlink"><P>Ostensibly to curb domain tasting, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" target="_blank">ICANN</A> is considering keeping its $0.20 annual fee per URL, even if domains are forfeited during the five-day Add Grace Period.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2008/01/31/icann-announces-plan-to-curb-domain-tasting/?camp=newsletter&src=mv&type=textlink"><P>The Add Grace Period enables people to return domain names purchased with misspellings, for example. Domain tasting occurs when profiteers purchase multiple URLs, load them with ads, and return unprofitable performers before the Add Grace Period elapses.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2008/01/31/icann-announces-plan-to-curb-domain-tasting/?camp=newsletter&src=mv&type=textlink"><P>In January 2005, ICANN <A href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29jan08.htm" target="_blank">found</A> 1.7 million .com and .net domains were registered — and 700,000, or 41 percent of them, were deleted during the grace period.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2008/01/31/icann-announces-plan-to-curb-domain-tasting/?camp=newsletter&src=mv&type=textlink"><P>Fast-forward to January 2007, when 51 million were registered but an alarming 48 million — 94 percent — were deleted.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/72CBCBFF-E735-452E-96E6-E60B5EB8D73F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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