Via DNXpert:
ICANN has announced some drastic news resulting from it’s most recent board meeting. The ICANN board passed a resolution to impose the ICANN per-name fee on all new registrations, regardless of the registration period!
What does this mean? Where as in the past domain tasting enabled domainers to taste domains for low value fees, this latest resolution will force everyone to pay the full registration fee for a domain regardless of whether the domain was registered for 4 or 365 days.
Click link above for the full story. More on this from CircleID
What does it mean? For those who don’t know Google lately announced they will eliminate payout to domain tasters. That, as I wrote earlier, made no sense as they were signing those million dollar payouts themselves. When I suggested they were well aware of what was going on a Martin Edic, a blog reader, responded:
I’m not sure I agree about Google’s complicity in this case. They don’t vet the use of Adsense units on an individual basis- any publisher large or small can get the code in minutes. It seems obvious to me that Google can’t police the actions of publishers on a case by case basis. Their decision to not serve ads on domains less than five days old is simply a broad solution to the problem of publisher abuse in one situation.Yes they used to make money from tasters but they have made a business decision to no longer do so- a strategic decision, IMHO.
What really happened? In my opinion Google had an inside information domain tasting/kiting is going to end up very soon and instead of looking bad when that happens, as the one who was cut out, they cut their losses by few days and came across as “good”, “do no evil” kind of company.
How is that for branding? This one is for the history books!
Wait — the ICANN meeting was the 23rd. Wasn’t that even before Google’s announcement?? So Google made its announcement after ICANN made its official. Am I missing something here?
Sahar,
Just a quick note to let you know that it was good to finally meet you in person at DomainFest…and to thank you (and your contributors and commentators) for being willing to provide such an interesting–and truly useful–business/domain resource.
I’m sure that I speak for 100’s (if not 1,000’s) of others when I say that the space wouldn’t be the same w/out you and the Conceptualist.
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Hi Steve and thanks so much for the kind words. Hearing that from you makes my work and time invested worthwhile many times over.
Cheers
Sahar