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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">ICANN Board Recommends Action on
Domain Tasting</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; font-size: small">Suggested fee change would
effectively eliminate tasting</p>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">29 January 2008</p>
<p> <strong> </strong> <strong>MARINA DEL REY, Calif.:</strong> The Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is looking to effectively end
domain tasting with a proposal to start charging the annual ICANN fee on
registrar domain registrations. </p>
<p>Domain tasting is the use of the Add Grace Period to test the profitability
of a domain name registration. The AGP is a five-day period following the
initial registration of a domain name when the registration may be deleted
and a credit can be issued to a registrar.</p>
<p>"Domain tasting has been an issue for the Internet community and ICANN
is offering this proposal as a way to stop tasting," said Dr Paul Twomey,
ICANN's President and CEO. "Charging the ICANN fee as soon as a domain
name is registered would close the loophole used by tasters to test a domain
name's profitability for free."</p>
<p>AGP was originally introduced by registries so registrars could avoid
costs if a domain name was mistyped or misspelled during the registration
process. It is part of the .com, .net, .org, .info, .name, .pro, and .biz
registry contracts.</p>
<p> Tasting has been a serious challenge for the Internet community and has
grown exponentially since 2004. In January 2007 the top 10 domain tasters
accounted for 95% of all deleted .com and .net domain names - or 45,450,897
domain names out of 47,824,131 total deletes.</p>
<p> The proposal will be part of the ICANN budget process for the fiscal
year starting 1 July 2008. The early draft version of that budget will
be released for and discussed at ICANN's New Delhi meeting later this month.
After public discussions of this proposal and other budget issues, the
proposed budget will be released for addition discussions by 17 May 2008
and be voted on at the board meeting to be held during the ICANN meeting
in Paris in June. ICANN accredited registrars representing two-thirds of
fees collected will be asked to approve the proposal. </p>
<p>"This idea came from the ICANN community and we think it is a viable solution
the Internet community has been seeking," Dr Twomey added. </p>
<p><strong>About ICANN: </strong></p>
<p> ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system
of unique identifiers like domain names (like .org, .museum and country
codes like .uk) and the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols
that help computers reach each other over the Internet. Careful management
of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global
stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's
ongoing security and stability. ICANN is an internationally organized,
public benefit non-profit company. For more information please visit: <a href="http://www.icann.org/";> www.icann.org</a>. </p>
<p><strong>Media Contacts:<br />
</strong> Jason Keenan <strong><br />
</strong>Media Adviser, ICANN <strong><br />
</strong>Ph: +1 310 382 4004 <strong><br />
</strong>E: <a href="mailto:jason.keenan@xxxxxxxxx";>jason.keenan@xxxxxxxxx</a> </p>
<p>International: Andrew Robertson <strong><br />
</strong>Edelman (London) <strong><br />
</strong>Ph: +44 7921 588 770 <strong><br />
</strong>E: <a href="mailto:andrew.robertson@xxxxxxxxxxx";>andrew.robertson@xxxxxxxxxxx</a></p>
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