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Biggest domain tasting day ever
August 12th, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
Today was the largest Domain Tasting day ever. We recorded over 8 Million Transactions today. This is a new high. We have never seen 8 Million transactions on one day before. That would be either an add or delete. Over 99 percent of these transactions are completely free and use the 5 day grace period to test domain names for traffic before they are purchase for a long term buy. Sometimes organizations will taste a domain name for multiple 5 day windows. They can tie up a domain for a long time and test it longer.
Domain Tasting seems to be getting worse, the number of transactions continues to grow. I can see a day when more domain names exist in the 5 day grace period then exist as real registrations.
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August 12th, 2007 at 12:29 am
I agree some of the stuff which large companies do is crazy
August 12th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
My ppc traffic and revenue are way down because of the dog day’s of August.
Why would they domain taste now? The results would be flawed.
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August 13th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Wherefore art thou ICANN? Why keep a blind eye to this practice? There’s NO REASON to allow for a FULL REFUND on domains. It basically eliminates risk if you have enough money…may as well be saying “Those of you who are rich indivuduals and/or companies, have at it. The rest of you, bug off!” You wonder if ICANN gets a fat check from somewhere that’s buying them to not close this free refund policy.
August 13th, 2007 at 10:35 am
In the last four days my Domain Tools Mark Alert reports have been off the wall. ALL of the traffic is from exactly one Registrar UltraRPM, Inc. and its front organization MetaPredict which is just another name for UltraRPM. What UltraRPM is doing is not even Domain Squatting, it is Domain Extortion!
When is ICANN going to pull the plug on UltraRPM? Only a licensed Registrar could pull this off.
Below is UltraRPM extortion notice, which translates to “nice trademark you have here too bad if something bad happens to it”.
Mike
**** UltraRPM Extortion Notice ****
UltraRPM, Inc. (”UltraRPM”) respects the intellectual property rights of others. UltraRPM does not intentionally register or use any domain name that is identical to or confusingly similar to any person’s trademark or trademarks. While UltraRPM employs extensive technological means to avoid the registration of any such mark, the possibility nevertheless exists for an unintended occurrence. Accordingly, if you believe UltraRPM has registered a domain name that incorporates your name or trademark, or a variation thereof, please notify us immediately at domain@ultrarpm.com with the following information:
Domain Name(s) in question
Trademark Number, or evidence of use of the common law trademark in question
Your Contact Information, including your first and last name, your e-mail address, your mailing address, and your phone number.
We will respond to your inquiry within 5 business days.
Kind Regards,
UltraRPM, Inc.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:25 am
UltraRPM / Metapredict is out of control. They are stealing domain names from people right after they are typed into browsers and then kiting them. I have a few posts about the company on my blog. I found a clue that possibly links them in some way with onlinenic.com, but I’m not sure yet if they are connected.
August 17th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
What’s ironic is that while this practice remains free, ICANN is raising prices on domain registrations — so people who actually pay money to register domains seem to be subsidizing free 5 day registrations.
Seems to me it would be more reasonable to lower the prices on domain renewals versus initial registrations. The difference could be treated as an “administrative charge” and would therefore be non-refundable. So if the price of a standard registration in $6, then an initial registration might cost $7 (i.e., including the $1 non-refundable administrative cost).
My guess this problem would immediately go away (or at least it would be drastically reduced to a tolerable minnimum) if a solution like that were implemented — and I guess everybody would be happy about it, too. But perhaps such a straightforward solution might just be too simple (or something like that).
;D nmw