On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 01:41:17PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
The real way to get rid of tasting would be to persuade Google and Yahoo/Overture to stop paying for clicks on pages with no content other than ads, but that would be far too reasonable.
Another way would be to eliminate all registrar grace periods, which is a significant part of making tasting profitable. But I don't think the registrars would allow such a change.
Or to penalize registrars based upon the number of returns. Many moons ago I worked for a registrar -- at the time a large number of domains were registered using false / stolen credit cards -- this led to a large number of charge-backs. The credit card companies raised the rates that they charged us and threatened to stop servicing us if we didn't fix this -- suddenly a lot more effort was dedicated to confirming registrations, card info, etc. and the number of charge-backs dropped well below the requirements. Somewhere earlier in the thread I saw some statistic that 0.6% of domain deleted during the grace period were legitimate (whatever that means -- I also saw 5% somewhere else...). If a registrar's continued ability to operate was based upon keeping this number low, each registrar could make up their own policies to fix this issue -- they could create a "restocking fee" or non-refundable processing fee or come up with some method to verify the registrant or... If a registrar exceeds whatever the threshold is they would start incurring additional fees (either for all registrations or just for deletions or something) -- under extreme cases their license could be yanked. W
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