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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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