Monthly Archive for July, 2008

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Grace Deletions – Good Or Bad?

With ICANN imposing a fee of 20 cents per registration to the registrar, and the registrar imposing a compulsory fee on the registrant, things arent looking up for the big time tasters. As the obvious first reaction was that of condemning the move, there now seem to be mixed reactions from the communities.

For the Move

  • More domains would be available for the smaller investors.
  • Useless names would stop appearing and re-appearing from the deleted lists.
  • Bigger players would need to manually sift through the domains, giving the smaller investors equal grounds for competing.
  • Auction houses would have a more refined inventory for sale.

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    ICANN imposes fee on grace deletions

    Recently ICANN changed the rules for grace deletions of new domains. For every domain registered, Registrar needs to pay a $0.20 fee to ICANN. Domains registered July 4 or earlier can still be grace deleted for free.

    This marks the end of domain tasting.
    Here is the GNSO council report to ICANN regarding domain tasting – http://gnso.icann.org/issues/domain-…il-25apr08.pdf
    It applies to COM, NET, INFO, ORG, MOBI, ASIA, NAME TLDS

    Some letters received by members of Moniker & Dynadot announcing a new fee and removal of grace deletions:

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    Success Story – tldrental @ DNForum

    With all the confusion and low sales around, I thought the domaining noobs like me needed a little positivity from some of the “normal” people like us doing well. I found a post at DNForum which is a recent success story and re-enforces my belief in domaining backed by development.

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    Future of “Vanity” Extensions – ICANN

    How will the Custom Extensions do next year when ICANN makes them available? Would they oust .com and lower its demand? How will .net and .org survive the absolute carnage caused by all the hype with “Buy Your Own Extension”? Do we need to boycott and vow to never trade in these extensions when they are released? These are the hot topics of discussion at NamePros and DnForum at the respective links.

    With all the discussion going on @ the forums about the release of custom extensions by ICANN, I found a  post @ FragerFactor, which describes what the future holds for the vanity extensions :D

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