Just Received This From Dynadot - Add Grace Periods Limits Policy

[sashas]

Just got this from Dynadot:

Starting on April 1, 2009, our Grace Deletion Policy will change due to ICANN's Add Grace Period Limits Policy announcement back in December 17, 2008. You can read ICANN's announcement here:

Advisory: Add Grace Period Limits Policy
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17dec08-en.htm

Only generic TLDs are affected by this policy:

- COM, NET, ORG, INFO, and NAME will start enforcing ICANN's AGP Limits Policy on April 1.
- ASIA and MOBI have delayed their adoption of ICANN's AGP Limits Policy until May 1, 2009.
- BIZ will not be changing their current grace deletion policy since they have already implemented ICANN's AGP Limits Policy last year.
- TEL will be enforcing ICANN's AGP Limits Policy on March 24, 2009 (General Availability).

Each TLD affected by this policy will be restricted to the following:
- The deletion rate will be limited to 10% of all new domain registrations for that TLD. (The 10% limit applies to our whole system.) Therefore, we cannot always guarantee a grace deletion.

- The deletion fee will be increased from $0.20 to $1.00.

Please note that we may opt to increase the deletion fee further depending on demand.

This is pretty much the end of domain tasting, I believe.

 

[austinandrew]

Just got this from Dynadot:




This is pretty much the end of domain tasting, I believe.

For the little guy, yes.

 

[Wot]

None too soon -they need to make it even tougher- stop it altogether.

 

[TechMan]

I think even though it is only 10% of new registration for a particular TLD, in reality it will be always more than that. For e.g. if 100 domains are registered on April 1 then say after 5 days only 10 domains can be deleted. But then by that time number of registration would have also increased for e.g. to 500 which means now after 5 days instead of 10, 50 domains (10% of 500) can be deleted. New registrations will always be greater than deletions. May be somebody in mathematics/statistics can show a better picture using sales analysis, probability e.t.c.