blog.domaintools.com — A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is a time period when registrars can delete a domain at no cost, but in this time frame a registrant could...
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dofkexJan 25, 2008
but it's funny now
Closed AccountJan 25, 2008
umm tasting?????
elliuotatarJan 25, 2008
This doesn't make sense. Every damn domain I search for, no matter how obscure, seems to be taken. If domain tasters were buying and cancelling domains constantly, they would shortly run out of names to grab. Sure they could re-grab the same name, but a domain registrar would have to be pretty dumb to allow someone to reregister thousands of domains every week and then cancel them. So they must be making money at it, which means that the ad placers must be keeping the domains.
Closed AccountJan 26, 2008
Web.com (formerly Interland) has been doing this practice for years.
seosmartyJan 26, 2008
Good move for Google and its reputation...
coolaborationsJan 27, 2008
I totally agree: and I'd also wager that this "rumor" may very well be one BIG reason why Google's share price dropped 10% the other morning!:)
coolaborationsJan 27, 2008
oops! this was supposed to be a response to "hyped" (below) -- sorry about that, chief! ;D
ryosenJan 27, 2008
Last week's major market correction might have had something to do with it, too.
rogerblack12Oct 19, 2009
They had this all planned out now they bought in adsense in the pitcture. But I fell that the parked pages w'ont give the visitors a better experience as the pages from parked, whypark and skenzo.com