DotSauce Magazine: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds
David J Castello
· 1 year ago
Hallelujah! Your five changes spelled it out perfectly.
Kimota
· 1 year ago
About time too! The huge drain on the domain industry caused by tasting could finally be at an end. And the biggest winner is the regular internet user, who will not find themselves landing on inappropriate pages of advertising so often any more. This can only improve the quality of the internet experience for everyone.
Vlad
· 1 year ago
It's about time something like this happened. This, however, may not be forced by what NetSol did, but rather because of the controversy that has been created by demands to pass control from US-owned ICANN to UN-owned body. In light of this possible change ICANN will (at least it should) do its best to please customers.
Dave Zan
· 1 year ago
Bare minimum, this can make domain tasting more cost-prohibitive than financially rewarding. Time will tell if it'll help eliminate domain tasting entirely.
Next questions will be how soon ICANN turns this into reality, and how VeriSign will react.
John Motson
· 1 year ago
Actually,
These changes will not have much effect on domain tasting, but rather on domain kiting.
Domain tasting is practiced by people who want to see whether a domain is worth buying... the cost of $7 for tasting a domain is not that bad if it's offset by anything over $7 in earnings.
Domain kiting on the other hand, the practice of chain tasting a domain - registering for 4 days, dropping it, then re-registering it and so on - will be affected since each taste costs $7.
John
SuppSpace
· 1 year ago
Very interesting how this will effect the Industry. I first heard about this from a friend of mine at oversee.net- I believe they just acquired SnapNames recently. Good for them.
C-Squared
· 1 year ago
About time it happened!
Micro Media
· 1 year ago
URL Hijackers must be hurting right about now, ha! This is great news, the cleansing is welcomed.
BS
· 1 year ago
I think this is a good thing!
SeoContest2008
· 1 year ago
seems like a good idea but how do they stop people registering domains and exit without paying when there is a paypal gateway, and come back after few days if the domain sounds good
ASN5
· 1 year ago
Maybe I read the report wrong, but I got the impression that the fee for deletion was only going to be 20 or 30 cents. If that is indeed the case, it is way too little, way too late.
but how do they stop people registering domains and exit without paying when there is a paypal gateway, and come back after few days if the domain sounds good
They virtually can't. The next best thing is to possibly make it more cost-prohibitive.
UK Music Forums
· 1 year ago
Domain tasting is practiced by people who want to see whether a domain is worth buying… the cost of $7 for tasting a domain is not that bad if it’s offset by anything over $7 in earnings.
Tia A.
· 1 year ago
Domain tasting can be used for numerous purposes, including cashing in on the spammers: last year some big-time spammers were heavily link spamming domains before buying them. The company I worked for began setting up numerous honeypots to capture the the names of the unregsitered domains and set up a contexual-ad-based landing pages and cash in on a few days of traffic. Considering they were 'tasting' a few hundred thousand domains per week, it became very profitable.
Scott
· 1 year ago
I just stumbled upon your website and I feel it is an outstanding resource! :)
Continue to post quality material, I plan on continuing to read.
cheers! scott
Brand Name Company Agency Guy
· 1 year ago
I'm absolutely floored by this. Hope it happens - Domain squatters make my life a living hell.
Holly
· 1 year ago
I think this is a good thing, especially since it will slow down companies from stealing WhoIS info. I know I've received several mailings from people whom I've never heard of before and sat there wondering how these people were even getting my info in the first place.
Domains
· 1 year ago
Thank God, What a scam tasting is. I can't stand seeing the sames names showing up over and over in my daily deleted names lists. Power to the little people.
Registry Cleaner Zone
· 1 year ago
I think domain tasting is absurd and I'm glad they've done this. For some reason I just do not like the fact that people buy domains up in the thousands with no intent on using them in a real way. I'm happy to hear the news, but is it too little too late?
Dwayne Charrington
· 1 year ago
Hearing this is like music to my ears. Thank Net Solutions for making this happen and damaging your business reputation in the process of it all.
I can WHOIS again without the fear of my secretive domain being taken :)
Hasn't slowed Net Sol down. Just checked and they are still doing it
Paul
· 1 year ago
This is great news. It seems like lately search engines have been full of ppc ads that lead to parked pages. I saw a ppc ad the other day for "Mitt Romney's Underwear" which lead to a parked domain that had those keywords in it.
Matthew Peters
· 1 year ago
I didn't know about domain tasting for the longest time, but now that I know about it, I am glad that it is being taken care of. Now I'd like to see what's going to be happening with all this parked domain stuff.
Warning !! Domain Registration
· 1 year ago
Well the domainers will anyways don't have to worry abt their privacy related issues and individuals or companies stealing their whois data, as long as they have privacy protection cover with whatever domain names they register
Damnit
· 1 year ago
I did not know a thing about any of this until today. I was shopping around different registrars to check their prices and I happened upon Network Solutions. Now my domain has been snapped up and I'd be willing to bet that it will be sold off to a taster.
I'm pissed and this happened today (2/22/09) - I don't think ICANN has or really will do anything about this.
Mike
· 1 year ago
ICANN stopped Nothing Network Solutions has still been registering domains looked up in their Whois as of today February 25th 2008!
byeol
· 1 year ago
they are still kidnapping the domains looked up as of March 2, 2008. ICANN stopped NOTHING. I am pissed of that nothing and nobody can do about this? even if they claimed that we could contact the 1-800 number to get quick release of the hold, that just doesn't make sense, should any non-resident of the country make an international call for requesting a release for such kidnapping of the domain name? the NS really stands for Non-Sense.
Danny
· 1 year ago
Yes, this is a huge relief.. especaially network solutions were makinga lot of visitors who used their search option angry.. good choice
G-Man
· 1 year ago
As of March 12, 2008, Network Solutions is still doing it.
This happened to me as well! I was about to register ouratelier.com last february (was just waiting for my paypal funds) when i found out that they suddenly registered it! im soo mad
Lemuel Chua
· 1 year ago
I've just whois a domain in network solutions and it says the domain is available. after an hour or two i decided to have it registered to godaddy.com and look what i found. networksolutions had it registered on the very moment i queried that domain.
Jason
· 1 year ago
This is great news! It drives me mad that people swoop up soooo many domains without any real intention of using them. I've come across quite a few taken domains, then realized they were never going to be used in the first place.
Jason
· 1 year ago
Isn't Network Solutions still doing this?
Jason
· 1 year ago
"Domainers will not have to worry about companies stealing WHOIS search data."
This really hits home with me! I had a terrible expeience with this in the past.
faisal khalid
· 1 year ago
may 29, 2008 , NS are still doing it, i searched a domain name on NS, and instantly it was hijacked by NS. I tried to register on namecheap.com within 1 or 2 minutes, but it showed as 'taken'. I searched on NS and it was 'available'. I did a whois on it, and it was registered by network solutions.
Supreme
· 1 year ago
Well, so much for ICANN putting a stop to Network Solutions thievery. This article was posted on 1/29/2008 and NS is still hijacking domain names. Its just plain despicable!
speaker
· 1 year ago
Network solutions is a scam, I stoped using it a while now. It is really not cool, what they do with the domains. The best way to go is pre-owned domains, at least in my oppinion.
Shashi Bellamkonda
· 1 year ago
I work at Network Solutions. I'm not sure I agree with the term scandalous, and I think the issue is a lot more complicated than this, including domain tasting policies and corresponding abuse.
We know how important this issue is for everyone, and not only did we listen to you and your commenters, we're acting. Next week ICANN can vote on an important issue to resolve to resolve front running for once and for all. Network Solutions is advocating that ICANN acts now, and we have published an official statement on our web site to that end. Please excuse this URL, but given the seriousness of this issue, it was appropriate to provide a link: http://tinyurl.com/63yaox
Shashi
Derek
· 1 year ago
it seems like a good idea, but my concern is similar as to SeoContest2008. How do they stop people registering domains and exit without paying.
This is a good resource. Will be looking forward for more quality post like this.
Micro
· 1 year ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I absolutely hated when this happened. No more trying domain typos first? Ugh.
kpk
· 1 year ago
This, however, may not be forced by what NetSol did, but rather because of the controversy that has been created by demands to pass control from US-owned ICANN to UN-owned body.
Jayce
· 1 year ago
I think many domainers will hurt their feelings when the ICANN surely do this.. :D
Rishabh Sood
· 1 year ago
Of course many domainers will get hurt when ICANN do this. But according to me its a great news :D
Mike K
· 1 year ago
I still don't understand the difference between domain tasting and domain kiting tho. What are the benefits of one over the other?
technologytricks
· 1 year ago
its a great things that domain registration is minimum 1 year. This will reduce the domain after market sales.
Joel Drapper
· 1 year ago
Great news!
Registry Cleaners
· 1 year ago
Yeah I'm also glad this is happening. It's about time! It would drive me nuts when big companies would just snatch up as many domains as they possible could...
Sandy T
· 11 months ago
I think most domains are already snatched away now anyway. You have to really creative nowaways to get a domain you need, maybe even change your corporate identity to match a domain you CAN get.
Jamerio
· 11 months ago
I think its disgusting if its true and I also think people who do this in general are complete, opportunistic, shitty people.
There should be some law that governs certain website names that are obviously reserved for business people. I am trying to buy a few domain names at the moment and all of the decent, appropriate ones are gone in my field and most of them are not even online, yet the whois says they have been reserved for years.
While I would never give someone the satisfaction of paying their ransom, I really think that the process for name registration should be a lot more complex, you should need to pass an assessment of somekind because you're potentially destroying other peoples business or damaging it for your own selfish gains.
It really is a cringeworthy worthy existence some scumbags choose to live by.
manifestmoneytalks
· 3 months ago
Hallelujah! Your five changes spelled it out perfectly.
All Comments
Next questions will be how soon ICANN turns this into reality, and how VeriSign will react.
These changes will not have much effect on domain tasting, but rather on domain kiting.
Domain tasting is practiced by people who want to see whether a domain is worth buying... the cost of $7 for tasting a domain is not that bad if it's offset by anything over $7 in earnings.
Domain kiting on the other hand, the practice of chain tasting a domain - registering for 4 days, dropping it, then re-registering it and so on - will be affected since each taste costs $7.
John
but how do they stop people registering domains and exit without paying when there is a paypal gateway, and come back after few days if the domain sounds good
See http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23ja...
They virtually can't. The next best thing is to possibly make it more cost-prohibitive.
Continue to post quality material, I plan on continuing to read.
cheers!
scott
I can WHOIS again without the fear of my secretive domain being taken :)
- Dwayne Charrington.
http://www.dwaynecharrington.com
I'm pissed and this happened today (2/22/09) - I don't think ICANN has or really will do anything about this.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement...
This really hits home with me! I had a terrible expeience with this in the past.
We know how important this issue is for everyone, and not only did we listen to you and your commenters, we're acting.
Next week ICANN can vote on an important issue to resolve to resolve front running for once and for all. Network Solutions is advocating that ICANN acts now, and we have published an official statement on our web site to that end.
Please excuse this URL, but given the seriousness of this issue, it was appropriate to provide a link: http://tinyurl.com/63yaox
Shashi
This is a good resource. Will be looking forward for more quality post like this.
match a domain you CAN get.
There should be some law that governs certain website names that are obviously reserved for business people.
I am trying to buy a few domain names at the moment and all of the decent, appropriate ones are gone in my field and most of them are not even online, yet the whois says they have been reserved for years.
While I would never give someone the satisfaction of paying their ransom, I really think that the process for name registration should be a lot more complex, you should need to pass an assessment of somekind because you're potentially destroying other peoples business or damaging it for your own selfish gains.
It really is a cringeworthy worthy existence some scumbags choose to live by.