The End of Domain Tasting
In this wild jungle that is the Web, good things happen from time to time anyway.
Domain tasting is a practice of spam that takes advantage of the period of 5 days (Add grace period) given to registrars to renounce to the acquisition of a domain name.
The facility designed to avoid charges in case of errors, was hijacked by profiteers who could at no cost register domain name, lead them on websites showing ads and leave them after 5 days, and again to the infinity, without having to buy anything.
An operation that is profitable when it is done en masse.
For registries, they were unnecessary management costs and this applies to quantities of operations as seen in the statistics.
So for one year, ICANN decided to take $ 0.20 for each termination above a certain percentage. Then in July 2009, fees were set at 6.75 dollars. Result: total disappearance of domain tasting ...
- 17 668 750 cancellations in June 2008.
- 2 785 605 in July 2008.
- 58 218 in July 2009.
The remaining number corresponds to corrections of errors from registrars.
We dream of a similar measure about spam in emails. Yahoo has launched in this for this purpose the Centmail project: a tax of 1 cent would be paid for every email sent.