On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:38:48PM -0500, Al Iverson wrote:
I'm curious: What valid, legitimate, or likely to be used non-criminal reasons are there for domain tasting?
From my point of view, it's too bad that the registries have to carry
Making money on the basis of the published policies of a registry? If this were some sort of "Web 2.0" application, everybody would be impressed with the "mash up" the "domainers" had managed to spot: you take a bit of capital, a grace period without any clear rules for its application, and another application on the web (Google, in this case), and in one go you produce revenue out of some domains and none out of others. By learning which ones are poor earners, you learn things about which kinds of names are (at least currently) likely to attract web traffic. You therefore learn which pool of names _do_ attract traffic, and which will therefore be profitable. It isn't plain to me that all this speculation is even bad. When people do it with land or stocks, we don't seem to mind too much. the cost without getting any benefit from it. Some registries have introduced methods to try to recover some of their costs when dealing with this sort of behaviour. But I don't believe that there's anything criminal, or even "invalid" or "illegitimate" (whatever those would mean in respect of domain names) going on. A -- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Afilias Canada Toronto, Ontario Canada <andrew@ca.afilias.info> M2P 2A8 jabber: ajsaf@jabber.org +1 416 646 3304 x4110