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 [...]

Today I was doing a little surfing around and came across Pool.com’s (C&R) Catch and Release. In other words Domain Tasting with a fancy name! To me, this is a clear slap in the face to ICANN, with Pool stating, “look what we can do with this loophole”. Clearly they are offering a service to [...]