Domain tasters apparently "taste" well over 300,000,000 domains per yeas (1,000,000 per day). The $0.22 per domain name dropped would cost them over $60,000,000 - perhaps enough to make domain tasting less attractive. Perhaps it is not enough, and it would need to be higher. It is hard to project the exact impact, but there is general agreement that it would have a major positive impact. Regarding dropping the AGP altogether, that has been proposed. Registrars (include those normally thought to be "good guys") point out that there are legitimate uses of the AGP that they would not like to see go away unless it was addressed by some other measure. Such uses include fraud (credit card fraud in particular), live software testing (for interacting with registries) and even refunds for registrants who make mistakes and then call to ask for help. The first two are not the reasons it was implemented, but the world does change. All of us are opposed to price increases, but to the best of my knowledge, no one has proposed such a price increase during the present discussion. Alan At 08/07/2007 07:10 AM, RJGlass | America@Large wrote:

The kiting/tasting issue can be resolved by getting rid of the AGP, this was a bad idea from the beginning. The handful of people who made it knew this would happen and did it anyway.

For the record, I am opposed to the increasing price of domains. Not opposed to ICANN charging the fee for the deletions during the AGP.

So, what ICANN is saying is that a 22cent domain will stop kiting and tasting?? That is ridiculous.

This action needs to be adequately discussed.

Randy Glass A@L

On 7/7/07, John L <<mailto:johnl@iecc.com>johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

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As a registrant, when someone charges me more fees, that someone should be accountable and have some reason for doing such.

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"The ALAC requests that ICANN consider charging registrars part or all of the $0.22 fee for names deleted during the AGP."

This is to get rid of domain kiting/tasting.

I happen to agree that it's a good idea, but I also agree that it hasn't been sufficiently debated to be presented as ALAC's position.

R's, John

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