Domain Name Tasting:boon or Bane?
Dont confuse this with wine tasting.Domain tasting has become quite a boon for the domainers because it gives domainers a risk-free way to option to test their domains before actually paying for them. This helps the domain industry because the influx of new domainers tasting the market has increase and this helps the industry grow.
The prupose of domain tasting is to ‘test’ if a domain name receives any type-in traffic. If it doesnt, that traffic can be quickly and easily monetized through PPC ads or better used to launch a product. If these ppc ads generate at least twice as much money over the course of a year than the domain registration fee of 7$, the domain is a winner and the domainer will certainly renew it for another year.
The practice of domain tasting is perfectly legal, and it lets registrars profit from the complex money trail of pay-per-click advertising. Exploiting a regulatory loophole, “tasters” grab up Internet domains for a 3 day grace period at no cost and park them on pages full of Pay Per Click (CPC) advertisements from popular search engines like Google and Yahoo!.
In the last few months there have been several people who have opposed this practice and icann has implented several new rules to deter domainers from tasting domains.
A proposal by the overseer of the Internet’s addressing system could stop the practice of “domain tasting” and make it easier for people to register the domain names they want for their Web sites.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is planning to keep the annual fee it charges for a registered domain name, even if the domain name is deleted during the five-day Grace Period. ICANN currently charges 20 cents per domain per year.
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