Thursday, January 10, 2008

Name Tasing

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (a/k/a ICANN) issued a report that recommends for further study the possibile ways to stop domain name tasting, a practice where somebody registers a lot of names and returns some to all of them in a few days after some test marketing with the names.

Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. Tying up domain names is no more than real estate speculation and the reasons why you would want to prevent it already have laws against it (e.g., trademark violations). Furthermore, it's going to take forever for ICANN to act on this report, if ever.

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