In a report on Jay Westerdal’s blog, Google may stop serving ads on all domains, less than five days old.
Therefore someone who registers a domain will not get any revenue information and would not know which names to keep and which to throw back within the 5 day grace period
Readers to our blog know our position on domain tasting.
We are against it.
We do not do it
We have never done it.
It is an abusive practice which leads to wholesale registrations of highly trademark infringing terms.
Although the practice make money for those who register names in this fashion, the registrars and of course networksolutions.com, long term we believe it to be the greatest threat to the domain industry. We do not want this to be stopped by governmental regulation.
As previously reported here, ICANN is currently considering future regulation of this problem including limiting or eliminating the current grace period.
This should help all other legitimate domain channel traffic.
We applaud this move. And hope it is instituted ASAP.
We hope that Yahoo.com quickly follows suit.
That’s the best idea I’ve seen from goog in a long time…yes, I’m sure yahoo will follow…goes to show though good idea or bad, goog can shut you down in a new york minute, so dont rely on google ads as your main business.
True Tim. It also shows that the internet has the ability to manage itself albeit Google has huge industry sway.