Danny and all my friends, Yes indeed, this is Drop-Catching which is yet another form of Domain Name Tasting that is aptly named. It needs to stop immediately and registrars are the best suited to stop this errant miscreant practice. Registries would be the second line of correction by deleting these Domains and letting them go to the pool for open registration. Of course this would require oversight at both the Registrar level and Registry level by ICANN or DOC/NTIA directly. Danny Younger wrote:
A concern highlighted in yesterday's post was "that companies pooling scores of drop registrars for additional registry connections will stand at the expiring domain spigot conducting domain tasting without paying, and then warehouse those which meet traffic criteria while denying the broader community a fair opportunity to compete for those expiring names."
This particular concern has been analyzed in the "Drop Catching" study written by FairWinds Partners on behalf of the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse.
Their recently published study is here: http://www.cadna.org/en/pdf/cadna-white-paper-drop-catching.pdf
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