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<blockquote data-quote="jmcc" data-source="post: 2348182" data-attributes="member: 80388"><p>It was the lack of awareness that was the problem. What happened in the mid-2000s was that large-scale Domain Tasting created a very real shortage of good dropping domain names. Some gTLDs had the entire day's drop tasted. That created a false demand. So rather than focusing on the gTLDs, people began to focus on their local ccTLDs which had been relatively ignored until then. </p><p></p><p>ICANN was shamed into taking action on tasting. After some of the main players had been hit with legal action things changed. By 2009, the demand for new gTLDs was gone because large-scale Domain Tasting in the gTLDs had ceased due the abused Add Grace Period having a cost. Registrars didn't have to pay anything for domain names deleted in the five day AGP but the solution was to implement a kind of restocking fee for AGP deletions over a percentage (10% I think) of the new registrations in a month. Google also stated that it would not provide PPC feeds for AGP domain names so that killed most of the monetisation of tasted domain names. The figures for tasting were quite horrific. Over 1,000,000,000 .COM domain names were registered and deleted over the Domain Tasting period.</p><p></p><p></p><p>After 2009, it was mainly the registries, registrars and ICANN that were pushing the whole new gTLDs idea.There were some valid arguments for a few geo gTLDs. The public had largely moved on and the domain name industry had changed. The disconnect between the world of ICANN and that of reality was visible with ICANN's "projections" for the number of new gTLD domain names that it thought would be registered in the first year. It initially projected 15 million. The problem was that the demand for many of these new gTLDs had disappeared in 2009 because of the artificial shortage created by Domain Tasting and ICANN's lack of action on tackling that problem.</p><p></p><p>Regards...jmcc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmcc, post: 2348182, member: 80388"] It was the lack of awareness that was the problem. What happened in the mid-2000s was that large-scale Domain Tasting created a very real shortage of good dropping domain names. Some gTLDs had the entire day's drop tasted. That created a false demand. So rather than focusing on the gTLDs, people began to focus on their local ccTLDs which had been relatively ignored until then. ICANN was shamed into taking action on tasting. After some of the main players had been hit with legal action things changed. By 2009, the demand for new gTLDs was gone because large-scale Domain Tasting in the gTLDs had ceased due the abused Add Grace Period having a cost. Registrars didn't have to pay anything for domain names deleted in the five day AGP but the solution was to implement a kind of restocking fee for AGP deletions over a percentage (10% I think) of the new registrations in a month. Google also stated that it would not provide PPC feeds for AGP domain names so that killed most of the monetisation of tasted domain names. The figures for tasting were quite horrific. Over 1,000,000,000 .COM domain names were registered and deleted over the Domain Tasting period. After 2009, it was mainly the registries, registrars and ICANN that were pushing the whole new gTLDs idea.There were some valid arguments for a few geo gTLDs. The public had largely moved on and the domain name industry had changed. The disconnect between the world of ICANN and that of reality was visible with ICANN's "projections" for the number of new gTLD domain names that it thought would be registered in the first year. It initially projected 15 million. The problem was that the demand for many of these new gTLDs had disappeared in 2009 because of the artificial shortage created by Domain Tasting and ICANN's lack of action on tackling that problem. Regards...jmcc [/QUOTE]
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