Since ICANN put in the new rules on domain name tasting it has been pretty interesting to watch things change in the Pending Delete domain name drop process. A very short time ago the average joe domainer couldn’t dream of even touching a crap domain name during the PD drop. 100% of .com & .net [...]

This seems like it’s taken Forever to be fully put in place and take effect, but today is ICANN’s deadline for registrars to put the policy into full effect. What does this mean for you? In the past, if you made a typo when registering a domain name, you could have the registrar delete the [...]

Reported on the ICANN web site on Feb 27th, NeuStar and Afilias submitted separate but similar requests through the Registry Services Evaluation Process to modify the AGP in their respective TLDs in order “to address the excessive delete problem” (i.e. domain tasting) in .BIZ and .INFO on Feb 5th 2008. Currently there are no limitations [...]