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immediately spotted a major
policy change that should stop the controversial
practice. Fausett wrote on his widely respected Lextext
blog that "the ICANN Board passed a new
resolution that will impose ICANN's per name fee on
all new registrations, regardless of whether they
are deleted in five days. This ought to stop domain
kiting dead in its tracks. Why? It changes
the economics of tasting. Four-day names now come with
the same ICANN fee as 365-day names. The resolution does
not say when it will take effect, but you can imagine it
will be soon."
I am personally happy to
see ICANN take this action (the vote was unanimous) as I
believe domain tasting is an unintended wholesale abuse
of the five-day grace period that has given the entire
domain industry a black eye. While no |
Attorney
Brett
Fausett
reported ICANN"s plan to end domain
tasting on his Lextext
blog today |
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implementation
date is set, Fausett said the latest date it
would begin is with the next budget cycle, starting on
July 1, 2008.
(Posted
Jan. 29, 2008) |
