Fwd: [ttcs] Google May Knee Cap Domain Tasting
FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dev Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:33:08 -0400 Subject: [ttcs] Google May Knee Cap Domain Tasting To: lac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Cc: ttcs@yahoogroups.com Google is said to be considering banning newly registered domain names from participating in the Google for Domain Names program, severely hampering the practice of domain tasting. According to Jay Westerdal at Domain Tools, Google would block all domains if they are less then five days old. In Jay's words, "This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks." Read rest of article at http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/24/google-may-knee-cap-domain-tasting/ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com
Google cutting off the ad revenue from tasting won't change anything because few people taste domains for the revenue. You taste a domain name to see if it has traffic. If it has enough traffic to justify a $6.50 registration, you register it. If you're uncertain, you taste it again and again to get a larger sample size. If it doesn't have traffic, you let it drop. Domainers may monetize their temporary registrations as a way to get some extra revenue, but that extra revenue is just a nice bonus; it's not the primary reason anyone tastes a name. -- Bret
According to Jay Westerdal at Domain Tools, Google would block all domains if they are less then five days old. In Jay's words, "This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks."
If Google won't let their Google Ads go on a page less than 5 days old, that's great news. It will stop the revenue machne in its tracks. What is disheartening are the comments below the article, some of which take the tone of "ICANN, you blew it." At 11:41 AM -0400 1/25/08, Jacqueline Morris recently said:
Read rest of article at http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/24/google-may-knee-cap-domain-tasting/
If Google won't let their Google Ads go on a page less than 5 days old, that's great news. It will stop the revenue machne in its tracks.
Bret points out on his blog that this is easy to circumvent. Tasting is about traffic, so you put something else on your tasted domains, then if there's enough traffic to be worth keeping, you Googleize it after five days. http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/25/3485986.html R's, John
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