"Domain Tasting" deprecated at USAWebhost
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2007-01-11 05:09.
We don't offer "domain tasting", which is a term for repurposing the Create Grace Period, a 5 day period, to create pages with many advertising links and evaluate which domains to keep based on the number of clicks and the economic value to be derived from such clicks.
First, because the purpose of the Grace Period is to prevent registries from deducting from the current accounts of registrars (that us, our money on account with Verisign) for names which the registrars (that's us again) are unable to collect, for any number of reasons, including bad-faith and honest mistake by the attempting registrants. We worked hard to get that reform through the ICANN process, akin to spreading frozen peanut butter with a paper knife.
Second, because "domain tasting" is abusive of the registries, which have to service non-terminating sequences of "tastings" in very large sets.
Third, because "domain kiting" is abusive of registrants who, in turn, abuse the WHOIS and UDRP "features" (or bugs) of the ICANN market, to defend names which are near-spelled.
Finally, of course, because its simply too clever by half, and even though an entire industry has sprung up around tasting, fueled by the growth in online advertising revolutionized by Google and Yahoo’s pay-per-click advertising models, we've seen online advertising crash before, and the last one took out almost all the wise guys in that little speculative niche.

