On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, William Herrin wrote:

Chris,

Suggestion B in ICANN's information request was:

"making the ICANN annual transaction fee (currently 0.20 USD per year) apply to names deleted during the [5-day Add Grace Period],"

Wouldn't this essentially end the bad-behavior domain tasting without hurting grandma-jones with her typo?

This would incur a 20 cent/domain fee for return of the domain inside the grace period, yes? that would add a slow drain to the taster's pocketbooks, is that slow-drain enough to make tasting less profitable? or 'not profitable'? If so, then yes probably it'd slow tasting or end it. I don't think that a 'processing fee' is abnormal on returned items so that might even sit well enough with grandma-jones (in my example).

And if it was still profitable to taste domain names, wouldn't it pump so much money into ICANN that they could lower the annual fees for the rest of us?

hey lookie, a nice side effect :)