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Recent Development In Domain Tasting
By Jason Drohn
There is an interesting article at Australianit that paints a pretty distasteful picture of domainers, and their apparent ‘unethical practices’ as cybersquatters and typosquatters. I generally look past most of those issues because I don’t condone, suggest, or register trademarked domains myself, but there are those people out there that do.
I was more interested in this statement:
“…domain tasting in conjunction with more sophisticated typosquatting, where people use character generators to register millions of new domain names with all conceivable variants of a legitimate domain name in the hope of capturing misspelt entries.
They typically point them to a landing page populated with click-through advertising links or pay-per-click advertisements in a bid to generate sales.
During the five-day grace period on new domain name registrations, they test the level of traffic each name attracts and then relinquish those that have not reached a threshold of revenue generation and either abandon them or register them again to give them more time for testing. In July, 35 million domain names were registered, and 33 million of them were abandoned within the five-day grace period.
Domain tasting is creating a huge load on the system…”
Only two million legitimate domain name registrations? To me, that figure is amazing.
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