RE: [ga] Tasting twist?: Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business

["Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

especially, the second link points to a valuable document collecting
credible comparisons and evaluation of tasting effects on .com, .net,
and .org domains in overall means. The document also seems to correspond
to my findings gathered during my personal research, namely the fact
that all .com and .net domains are immediately registered after
releasing back to the pool, and that eNom is one of the most active
participant on the practice.

However, the document is still lacking mentioning some other aspects
and/or findings that are of similar importance

a) Many (if not most of) domains being tasted are simultaneously placed
on virtual auctions, such as Sedo, BuyDomains, etc. This can be quite
easily verified by searching the tasted names at the auction company
sites, quite a boring stuff though.

b) The document does not seem to identify the three mentioned tasting
registrars BelgiumDomains, DomainDoorman, and CapitolDomains as
belonging to the same company, most likely driven by CapitolDomains LLC.
This fact can be easily recognized by comparing the registrars' IP
addresses.
On the other hand, very nice identification of Wan-Fu China (and similar
phantom registrants covering up the above mentioned registrar
activities) as a well-known alias of "Unasi", a famous drop catcher.

c) The analysis does not address at all the new trends and dangers of
'public domain tasting', a new phenomenon I elaborated on in my previous
mail.

We could perhaps be expecting an upgrade of the analysis in the near
future.

A nice study to look into anyway.

Dominik
 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeffrey A. Williams
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 1:45 PM
To: Ga; ICANN Domain name tasting
Cc: GNSO-Liason; Peter Dengate Thrush
Subject: [ga] Tasting twist?: Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business

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/Dr
op_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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