ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting 137
jehnx writes "Following Google's crackdown on 'domain tasters', ICANN has voted unanimously to eliminate the free period that many domain buyers have been taking advantage of. At the same meeting they also discussed Network Solutions' front running but took no action on it."
Is this really about domain tasting (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Where's the tag? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Is this really about domain tasting (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Network Solutions (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Network Solutions (Score:4, Informative)
Some ISPs compile a database of DNS requests for non-existant domains and sell these to the people who put up those obnoxious advertising sites. Your lookup may trigger one of these companies to buy the domain.
Re:good move (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Overall a great decision, but . . . (Score:2, Informative)
Re:KISS (Score:2, Informative)
It is the spammers, phishers and other malware makers that abuse the "tasting" of the domains. They take the domain and then spam, phish and other junk at you then when you finally have can check and have law enforcement to go after them then they disappear with the "tasted" domain. Also the "tasted" domain is also on every blacklist in the world so when someone tries to use that domain "tasted" you can't do anything with it since it is blacklisted.
Like anything the in the world, some people abuse something and then the "ban" it so that other people can't use it. It is a pity was have come to this point in our existence.