Tasting twist?: Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Do we have another "Form" of Tasting?  Well of course we do!

Yet another method and reason ICANN Bod's decision to
address Tasting does little to actually address the problem...

See:
http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2008/01/31/Drop_Catching_Domains_Big_Business.aspx

 http://www.cadna.org/en/pdf/cadna-white-paper-drop-catching.pdf

News from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse
(CADNA) about a recent study of drop catching a process whereby a
domain that has expired is released into the pool of available names and

is instantly re-registered by another party.' The eleven day study
showed
that 100% of '.com' and '.net' domain names were immediately
registered after they had been released. CADNA has published the
results with their own analysis. Quoting: "The results also show that
87%
of Dot-COM drop-catchers use the domain names for pay-per-click (PPC)
sites. They have no interest in these domain names other than leveraging

them to post PPC ads and turn a profit. Interestingly, only 67% of
Dot-ORG drop catchers use the domains they catch to post these sites
most likely because Dot-ORG names are harder to monetize due to the lack

of type-in traffic and because they tend to be used for more legitimate
purposes.

And so the ICANN saga continues,
Regards,

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