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Domain Tasting Down By 99.7% Says ICANN

Posted on August 13th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

ICANN set up a bunch of rules a while back to finally put an end to excesive abuse of the domain registration Add Grace Period (AGP) – domain tasting.

It appears these moves are finally reaping reward as ICANN has released a report announcing that AGP abuse has been decreased by a massive 99.7% from June 2008 to April 2009!

As per the report, the following example demonstrates the cost to registrars of excessive AGP deletes prior to the latest rule change, during the rule change, and after the rule change.

If a registrar registered 1,000 names in a given month and deleted 300 names during the AGP, the registrar would have 700 net new registrations. Because the Provision and the Policy entitle the registrar to 70 AGP deletes, 230 of the 300 AGP deletes would cost the registrar as follows:
• Prior to the Provision, there was no cost associated with excess AGP deletes.
• During the Provision, each excess delete was assessed a US$0.20 penalty and thus the cost for 230 deletes was US$46.00.
• Under the Policy, each excess delete is assessed a US$6.75 (e.g., current cost of a .ORG domain) or more depending on the registration price at the TLD, and thus the cost for 230 deletes is US$1,552.50.

Definitely good to see things improving on this front.

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