Largest Domain Tasting Day Ever

[Theo]

It seems to me that you guys don't check out the WHOIS of "kited" domains. They are cycled through a series of registrars, using different registrant identities. There is no way to prove that they all belong to the same person or company, other than the fact these domains consistently get cycled every 4 days.
They do it in bulk because it's free. They don't even have to worry about DNS propagating, as most of the time it remains the same. But if there was a $0.25 restocking fee for .com and .net domains just like the .org ones, then registering 4,000 names would cost a grand, thus eliminating the incentive of registering domains for parking tasting as there would be no warrantee of such a ROI.

 

[whitebark]

5 day grace period for individual registrants - yes. Same for registrars - hell no.

It's pretty clear they are abusing the system for their own gain.

 

[DomainBELL]

August 12th, 2007 by

Jay Westerdal

August 12, 2007 was the largest Domain Tasting day ever Domain Tools reported. They recorded over 8 Million Transactions today..

an AMAZINGLY high number....

as far as the actual issue of "domain tasting" - I'll keep my opinions on that to myself for now... I do see the abuse of it though...

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

 

[bwhhisc]

Imposing a "restocking" fee of .25 per name sounds like a logical next step.

 

[RatherGood]

What happens when REALLY big companies that don't mind tying up HUNDREDS of millions of dollars see what's happening with tasting and get involved. Continually tie up almost every reasonable quality name left until people registering new names are either forced to register crap like zqwxoqopwiqop.com or buy a name on the aftermarket for thousands of dollars?

Let me get this straight, you think domain testing is bad because it will force end users to resort to the secondary market to buy domains off of domainers? What are you doing posting here then?

 

[randomo]

Yes, it's a despicable practice ...

... but please don't end it until somebody buys my domain NameTasters.com!

 

[JuniperPark]

How is tasting any different from people registering potentially useful domains and then sell them later for millions.

Morally speaking, all people selling domains on this forum should not be talking about tatsing being a bad practice.

I personally feel that if people are allowed to grab domains and sell them for huge profits, then there is no problem with tasting.

Both the kind of people are doing the same thing.

That analogy is about as good as comparing a bank customer to a bank robber. They're NOT the same.

Domainers PAY for their domain names.

Tasters DO NOT pay for their domain names.

 

[Theo]

A more accurate analogy would be that tasters pay at BestBuy for an Xbox360, then one day before the grace period they return it for an instant refund, after they played with it. Then the buy a PS3 and repeat the process. Kiters play all day at BestBuy and they never pay a fee

 

[damitssam]

It's not an ICANN problem, it's the Registries. PIR (of .ORG) imposes a restocking fee (I think it's $0.25).

its 5 cents

 

[Theo]

Perhaps the registry should be done with tasters by imposing a password that has to be entered manually for each domain upon cancellation, like a captcha. This way automated systems that register thousands of domains would fail and only legitimate, small scale cancellations would be practical.

 

[jberryhill]

Perhaps the registry should be done with tasters by imposing a password that has to be entered manually

What makes you think that the Verisign .com registry wants to eliminate tasting?

The notion that people are running these systems in order to keep single domain names on a "float" for months is incorrect, and I'd be willing to bet that nobody can identify a single domain name that has been maintained this way.

Generally, the tasters are taking an alpha input feed, testing for four days, and then keeping anything on the basis of whether the four day test indicates the domain name will clear $6.25 in annual revenue.

The "keep rate" of the tasters buying fully paid-up domains probably exceeds the rate of one-off domain name registrations by other registrants. In other words, domain tasting is likely the largest source of registry revenue. Verisign has been asked, but will not reveal, the actual numbers, but they do have sole unilateral power to shut it off at any time. The fact that they do not do so indicates they know precisely how much of a portion that tasting accounts for retention of fully-paid-up domain registrations.

 

[glw]

The notion that this is for the protection of someone that regged a name incorrectly is just silly. If you can't check your typing when you register and you are out 8.00 (or less) fee for being stupid, welcome to the world of consequences.

 

[PalmBeach]

Will the profitable PPC Domain names eventually get all fished out?

 

[stuff]

Will the profitable PPC Domain names eventually get all fished out?

there will be always new ones coming. New products etc..
if I would have the recourses, soft, registrar etc.. I would do it also

 

[PalmBeach]

Pool.com has a tasting program thats cheep $00.10


Try a domain on for $ize.

 

[Theo]

How about 1 cent per domain??

http://tasting.dotcomgenie.com

Happy tasting!

More like 3 cents, unless you want to cough up $50 G's
http://tasting.dotcomgenie.com/domain_tasting-faq.aspx

 

[Rubber Duck]

Will the profitable PPC Domain names eventually get all fished out?

I think there is every likelihood that we are pretty much there already!

Of course they could start all over again, once browser support for IDN kicks in, at least in languages that are supported by Adwords.