Danny and all, Yes, I received these reports recently. What is more concerning is that Domain Name Tasting is overall still on the increase. This however should not be surprising as the solution the ICANN board seems to be attempting to implement is not working and cannot work as it does not actually address the fact of Tasting, only addresses the after the fact and even at that still does not end the practice and will never do so. Danny Younger wrote:
You may recall that Dell and Alienware Corp. filed a federal complaint against BelgiumDomains, CapitolDomains, DomainDoorman, and others on October 7, 2007... so you may be wondering if this filing managed to impact domain tasting...
The results are in.
The November .com registry report shows a massive drop in tasting activities -- down from 56,195,866 in October to 30,454,736 in November.
In the October report, the belgium/capitol/doorman group accounted for 41,605,036 deletes... that dropped to 13,415,139 in the November report.
Those tracking these matters may also wish to keep their eyes on UltraRPS dba metapredict whose deletes are rapidly escalating on a month-by-month basis.
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