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

  • To: Ga <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ICANN Domain name tasting <domain-tasting-2008@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [ga] Tasting twist?: Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business
  • From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:44:37 -0800

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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