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Domain Tasters Can Now Eat Dirt

arstechnica.com — Domain tasting might sound like a leisurely Sunday afternoon activity, but ICANN isn't amused, and it has just proposed a crackdown plan that could make "tasting" and "front running" of domains an unprofitable activity.

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  • shrkscn, on 01/31/2008, -0/+36Something to trouble the domain flippers
    • fokov, on 01/31/2008, -6/+1Is it the end of the Domain bubble? rofl (bad I know)
    • GamerX, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7mmmmmmmm, domaaaaains! *drool*
    • simpleid, on 01/31/2008, -4/+2it should be expected of profit seeking entities to maximize on the potential of all their avenues for advertising, selling, producing, etc. why people can't predict these things when initially designing systems is the only thing to really address. maybe if system designers thought about the potential to exploit anything being given as 'free' from any view point they'd catch this ahead of time.

      if you really care about 'fairness' it should be a part of your mentality when someone tests the design for quality assurance. not wait for something to be exploited to the point you discover you can make a profit off of it yourself then all of a sudden, "oh uhm, that's wrong! yea bad! yea we want money now for it."

      i know for a fact a person can predict these things because i do in my work, so why can't you. either these people are lazy, or just don't really care until something provokes them to. *that is the real problem, not caring until you have to.

      i'm annoyed that articles like this have to exist at all, "oh we overlooked this obvious flaw in our model that corporations were obviously going to exploit and now i'm going to waste time, space and existence acting like i'm saving the world by covering this 'loophole' that's so obscure and smart. lolz lolz" - screw you icann, get some intuition.

      people are utterly insane, and i wish i lived on mars. or maybe the problem is i do live on mars (...).

      people who create problems then solve their own problems, shouldn't feel that proud. just satisfied, and don't use the context of those who exploit your problems as doing bad, you gave them the ability, accept it and don't blame.
    • davidkeithjones, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1Well, Haitians already eat dirt http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,2204 ... but I guess nobody cares about real problems anymore.
  • LegalSatire, on 01/31/2008, -1/+211Finally! I've been hoping for something like this for years. Even a small fee (twenty cents or so) would be devastating to a company that goes through 45 million domains. Of course, to you or me (normal users who only pick up a few domains, ever) a 20 cent fee isn't a big deal.

    I honestly can't believe it's taken them this long.
    • edwartica, on 01/31/2008, -38/+2But they never specified what the "small fee" is going to be. I have the feeling if it was only 20 cents, it wouldn't deter domain tasting. If it were like five bucks, then maybe it would. But then again, five bucks is a bit high IMO.
      No, I am happy to leave things as they are I think.
      • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -2/+42"No, I am happy to leave things as they are I think."

        Then you must be a moron or a domain name flipper.
        • edwartica, on 01/31/2008, -7/+2Hi, I just did some reading up on this a little more I can see the problem that, admittedly, I didn't quite realize existed. I have registered a total of four domains in my life, so really haven't run into it before.
          And I WISH I was a flipper so I COULD make the cash they make, lol.
        • loneBoat, on 01/31/2008, -1/+11"Then you must be a moron or a domain name flipper."

          Are they mutually exclusive?
        • SirTezzy, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1ewartica: Do you just NOT get it? We _DONT_ like those scammers.
      • rayraym0fucka, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8I think even at 20 cents, these people are regging hundreds and hundreds of domains. That 20 cents will add up to a lot.
        • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -3/+7Or just get rid of "tasting" all together.
          • Rahodeb, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10that's kind of the point
          • edwartica, on 01/31/2008, -1/+3I could actually see this as a viable option. I wonder if shortening it to one day would do any good too - that way if you made a typo....well.
          • Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5This whole thing for accounting for mistyped domains should never have been implemented in the first place. If you're too stupid not to check the spelling of your domain before you register it, you deserve what you get.

            A better system would be to allow minor spelling changes (maybe two characters) within 5 days. Get rid of the whole refund crap altogether.
    • 4j4x, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6The ICANN fee is about 22 cents per year. Even if ICANN were to charge the minimum 1 year fee for all registrants, then leave it up to the registrars to decide if they want to offer the grace period to their customers, then change will happen.
    • ligyron, on 01/31/2008, -5/+1Wouldn't charging a refundable fee if the user decides to keep the domain work as well?
    • 0011002, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2took em long enough. Now see if Network Solutions wouldn't have publicly tried to stop this ICANN would have never stepped up. Google on the other hand I'm not sure of. They are hurting their business but I'm not sure if they had this in the works before Network Solutions upper management made their move.
      • Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3They probably didn't. However, it's more than any other company would do.
    • Kanidia, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Finnaly! icann mispel domans in piece.
    • microchp, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Agreed. This is at least a step in the right direction. While I have been able to drop about 98% of all spam using postfix alone, it would be nice to further reduce it knowing that they have less "legit" domains to throw away. Now if it were just harder for people to get portable/public address space, I would be quite happy. Either way, this is a good thing. Yay us.
  • fartbuttes, on 01/31/2008, -5/+19nooo they be stealin my domains
  • MrViklund, on 01/31/2008, -23/+6Very very good. And Google should make so you can't runt ad words on the domain if it's not older then xx weeks or something.
    • Puttzy, on 01/31/2008, -3/+38if you read the article you would . . . never mind, why do I even bother
      • JigoroKano, on 01/31/2008, -11/+3What's sad is when comments like that get dugg up.
        • Puttzy, on 01/31/2008, -3/+7Do you feel justice that yours is being dugg down?
          • JigoroKano, on 01/31/2008, -5/+2Just the opposite. I was talking about MrViklund's comment. Sometimes comments oblivious to the article are dugg way up. And I find that sad.
  • xb00t, on 01/31/2008, -5/+191Google is about to loose quite a large sum just to please the end user and get rid of obnoxious websites? How is Google not nominated for an Awesome Award?
    • Dokument, on 01/31/2008, -1/+91I nominate Google for the Awesome Award
    • pianomahnn, on 01/31/2008, -3/+35I second such nomination. Therefor, based upon the by-laws of the intarwebz, it is so declared on this day that Google be nominated for an Awesome Award.

      Let voting on ratification of such nominations commence.
    • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -3/+7If by loose a large sum you mean "Please users and advertisers who are getting sick of being screwed" then yes you're right.
    • Firehed, on 01/31/2008, -0/+23Those typo-domains filled with ads and no content have always been against the TOS for AdSense, as the bring no value to anyone. Yes, in the short term, the AdWords customer still pays Google for the clicks/views. But long-term, they see a lower ROI and may be persuaded to use a different advertiser.

      Don't get me wrong - this is completely awesome and Google may lose some money in the short-term as a result. But it's to everyone's benefit in the long run (well, everyone but the domain tasters anyways).
    • thailand1972, on 01/31/2008, -10/+3Another Google-Can-Do-No-Wrong post that spins a too-little-too-late move from Google into some incredible altruistic act. Google KNOWS about millions of MFA (Made For Adsense) sites and they sit on their hands because they make Google a lot of money. This gesture is only a gesture - preventing domains from signing up to Adsense that are less than 4 days old. It should be about a month after a domain is purchased.
      • mistafreeze, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5are you serious? a month? in internet times, thats akin to a decade.

      • crazyhorse13, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1You apparently missed the part about the 5 day grace period for domain refunds.
  • maxpower2911, on 01/31/2008, -0/+41It's about time. Tasters are the equivalent of trademarking all everyday terms and then making someone pay to say them. It really grinds my gears.
    • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -2/+28maxpower2911.com
      maxpower2911.net
      maxpower2911.org
      maxpower2911.biz
      maxpower2911.us
      maxpower2911.mobi
      maxpower2911.bz
      maxpower2911.eu
      maxpower2911.info
      maxpower2911.tv
      maxpower2911.us.com


      oooops wrong window! :P
    • GhostyBoy, on 01/31/2008, -4/+2That's hot!
    • Harbinger67, on 01/31/2008, -5/+22You know what really grinds my gears? This Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan with all those little outfits, jumping around there on stage, half-naked with your little outfits. Ya know? You're a... You're out there jumping around and I'm just sitting here with my beer. So, what am I supposed to do? What you want? You know, are we gonna go out? Is that what you're trying to - why why are you leaping around there, throwing those things all up in my, over there in my face? What do you want, Lindsay? Tell me what you want? Well, I'll tell you what you want, you want nothing. You want nothing. All right? Because we all know that no woman anywhere wants to have sex with anyone, and to titillate us with any thoughts otherwise is - is just bogus.
      • goldenratiophi, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5Wow, I didn't understand what domain tasting was for, but your post totally cleared it up for me. Thanks!
    • Insomnya3AM, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I have registered the term "grinds my gears" and would like to receive compensation for its use from both maxpower2911 and Harbinger67. Please forward the total balance of $211.11 to NetworkSolutions@paypal.com to rectify this situation. Thanks for your time.
    • sickanimations, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1You know what really grinds my gears? You, America. ***** you!
  • SuperWinner, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10When will they do something about Domain Slammers like DROC?
    http://www.tbayit.com/blog.asp?show=33
  • j0hneb0y81, on 01/31/2008, -4/+96eating dirt, mud cookies.. whats up with all the geophagia on digg today!?
    • dreadroberts, on 01/31/2008, -2/+122...and so concludes j0hneb0y81's long and arduous trek to fit the word "geophagia" into a conversation.
      • j0hneb0y81, on 01/31/2008, -1/+31talking about it is the only thing that makes me feel normal :(
      • kaelyiesta, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2And fit it in he did. I'd digg him up twice for pulling that off if I could.
      • th3B3n, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Thank you word-a-day calendar!
  • TheTaoOfBill, on 01/31/2008, -1/+61This is awesome! I run a cafepress t-shirt store called Obese Bumble Bee T-shirts and I used to own ObeseBumblebee.com but I was short on money when I had to pay the bill so I let it expire thinking what harm would a couple of weeks be for an expired website. But one of these tasters snatched it right out from under me and now they are using it to link to other t-shirt sites. ***** douchebags. I hope they enjoy their giant 50 visitors a day...
    • edwartica, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11Yeah, I had a domain name and I let it expire, and then I kept getting calls about some immoral activity being done with it!
    • munkyxtc, on 01/31/2008, -1/+16In all fairness letting a domain expire and someone else buying it is different then domain tasting; still sucks you lost your domain, but it's worth noting they aren't the same.
      • TheTaoOfBill, on 01/31/2008, -6/+2It's the same basic concept.
        • MikeSD34, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3The result is the same, sites with nothing but ads on them, but tasters get to do it for FREE. If they don't like the results, they don't lose any money.
    • Mike89, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Same here, didn't even know the domain was about to expire, just goes to some spam site now. It might have been domain jacked too though, since I can't login to my account with the registrar anymore. Eh, whatever.
  • StatiK69, on 01/31/2008, -0/+22I believe I can speak for many web designers when I say good riddance!
  • smoger, on 01/31/2008, -1/+14ship the domain tasters to Haiti!
  • martinherrera, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11anyone else try to go to ilovespaminacan.com?
    • hypnotoad32, on 01/31/2008, -0/+12I think I might set it up for a few days to see if it gets any hits.
    • masoncon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I would have snagged it but its already taken!
  • m1ss1ontomars, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Well, they got what they asked for. They can now go outside with their shovels and scoop up some dirt to eat.
  • itspuddingtime, on 01/31/2008, -2/+30I came here looking for Tasers and I leave severely disappointed...
  • evanfrey, on 01/31/2008, -15/+4dupe Haitians Are so Poor They Resort to Eating 'Mud Cookies' ( http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcJ474CjaJGOUzn ... )
  • PxCxG, on 01/31/2008, -2/+4Dugg for the interesting article and also the belligerent title
  • edwartica, on 01/31/2008, -4/+3Hmm, is a fee really the way to go? I mean, maybe a free transfer would be better. It would eliminate domain tasters getting their money back.
    I guess one thing that concerns me is that when they say a small fee, they don't say what that fee might be. twenty cents? Five dollars? 20 dollars? Fifty dollars? Small is a relative term.
    • aladrin, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3Didn't really pay attention, huh? It's the same fee required to register a site. The same fee every registrar gets charged if someone keeps the domain more than 5 days currently. In other words, the registrar -could- still give back all but that fee to the customer, but at least its not totally free now.
    • Sabarok, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1someone above said that it's 22 cents a year
  • platypibri, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1Dang, I was just going to regeister teh-flicker.com and make BANK!.
  • scronline, on 01/31/2008, -3/+20Good, I'm getting tired of the squatting B.S. There once was a time when you had to be a company to get .com a network/ISP to get .net and organization to get a .org. When they stopped worrying about doing that all hell started breaking loose. Personally don't believe there should be ANY grace period or fee. Domains aren't that expensive and legit people can deal with "I made a mistake, oops. Cost me $15". It's their mistake and they should be able to accept the fact that it will cost them to reg that domain for a year. I know I wouldn't have a problem with that.

    But then, I'm also a firm believer in materials should be in the right place. tv stations should be on .tv porn should be on .xxx and so forth. That way you can filter much easier at any level you want. For example as an ISP I would be able to setup "parental filters" that block out all adult material by simply disallowing .xxx to be sent to those customers. Simple, eh? Then you don't have to worry about your 13 year old son or daughter racking up charges on or seeing material you don't want them to see. Don't want them watching TV? block .tv and so forth.

    What ticks me off is I've been wanting to get a domain for a couple of years and it's been a squatter sitting on it doing nothing and they expect $10k for it.... they're smoking something.
    • jwolcott, on 01/31/2008, -2/+1"I'm also a firm believer in materials should be in the right place. tv stations should be on .tv porn should be on .xxx and so forth. That way you can filter much easier at any level you want."

      .mobi for mobile sites? It already exists: http://mtld.mobi
      • munkyxtc, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5you'd think .m would be sufficient; if there is one thing I don't want to do on my cell phone keyboard is type more.
    • mangaskahn, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5Good point, but you're wrong on 1 thing. the .tv domain is the TLD for a country called Tuvalu. Some networks and others have chosen to go through the process of applying for those domains, but it wasn't through ICANN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv
    • SilentBobSC, on 01/31/2008, -0/+9Tasting != Squatting, unfortunately this new ruling by ICANN deals with the grace-period tasting and not the "Brokering" that many squatters practice. Unfortunately, that will probably remain around for quite a bit.

      As a side note, any ISP filtering websites at their level would be a terrible idea (IMHO), instead shift the filtering off to a simple client-side software program or just point *.xxx in the hosts file to localhost or something. You also have the problem of enforcement, you'd still have plenty of .com pornographers spread throughout many countries which the US has no legal control over, so it's kind of a moot point. I do, however, think that the .xxx domain was a great idea it's just too bad a bunch of clueless religious zealots decided it would only encourage pornography to spread across the internet (as if it wasn't there already). Oh well...
    • dood, on 01/31/2008, -0/+14There are multiple problems with .xxx . The problem with the "porn filter" idea is that you'd have to get everyone involved in porn to a) buy up lots of .xxx domains at whatever the price would be and b) shut down their highly profitable .com (.net, etc) domains. There's no way a law could enforce this because the Internet is international -- as an ISP you'd need to block .xxx and all domains from any "non-complying" country. And what do you do when someone posts something that's "borderline pornography" on a .com, set up an "Internet decency court" to figure that out?
      As SilentBobSC says, client-side software is the way to go. I'd take it one step further: parents should implement whitelisting, rather than blacklisting, if they can't trust their children.
    • wzeallor, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1That's a terrible idea. Who's going to make those decisions? When it comes to money and business, no one is fair and partial. It's much better to keep the market free.
    • HolyChimp, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1I agree that the .xxx domains were a good idea, but where would stuff like tubgirl and goatse go? It's not exactly porn, but i doubt you want your nine year old seeing it.
  • UMDWei, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2I think the majority of the tasters are the large companies like Network Solutions or other entities that have the ability to buy and release within 5 days. If that's the case, why not just drop this ability from the game and call it a day? Let's just move forward with a huge first step and see what else needs to be cleaned up...

    It's really sad it took Google to come in and interject for them to start cleaning this mess up.
    • 0011002, on 01/31/2008, -5/+1You realize that Network Solutions did it to stop the frontrunners right? Yes I am an Network Solutions Employee, no we didn't register domains in that time frame before December, yes we did it to help people. Now that the company I work for got Google and ICANNs attention we can call it a day and hopefully upper management can remove that policy now. I am only tech support here at Network Solutions and front my desk our Upper management did to do this to help. That grace period was suppose to be for misspellings the domain by mistake or technical issues not tasting.
      • UMDWei, on 01/31/2008, -1/+4It would appear you guys ARE the front runners. Also, by December, do you mean December of 2004? To my understanding, you guys have been doing this for a LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNG time.
        • 0011002, on 01/31/2008, -3/+1no December 07 and no WE have not but we KNOW that people seem to be monitoring any searches or domain lookups we started our registration policy in December 07 to HELP customer weather you believe us or not. It was meant to help our customer not people who leeched off our domain search and then went to godaddy to register them later.
  • shooper, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2I was unaware of the 5-day grace period, but am glad ICANN is moving to get rid of it. Never have liked the domain tasting and, even more so, front running.
  • peaceninja, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2kudos to Google for taking this action even though its resulting in a "huge" loss for them. this is a major step in the right direction. now how about addressing the domain scalpers? any bright ideas, ICANN or Google?
  • Supernova36, on 01/31/2008, -2/+3So Domain tasters are all Haitians then, yes?
  • SilentBobSC, on 01/31/2008, -3/+19BURN IN HELL NETWORK SOLUTIONS!
  • rslaven, on 01/31/2008, -0/+23The first time I ran into this was actually yesterday when I was registering a new domain for the first time in a few years. Like most people I went to netsol to to a whois, and then registered with godaddy, only to be charged and then told the domain was unavailable because netsol locked it seconds earlier.

    Very dirty practice. I had to then call netsol and have them unlock the domain, wait about 30 minutes, and call godaddy, have them refund me, and then re-register the domain under my account. As a consumer it really ***** me off.
  • mediaploy, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2tasteless humor
  • mavrick24, on 01/31/2008, -1/+0Good! Its about damn time they did something.
  • Georgy, on 01/31/2008, -5/+4***** somebody already posted a similar post
    digg me up anyway...
  • altgeeky1, on 01/31/2008, -2/+3You had me with you up until you said:
    "But then, I'm also a firm believer in materials should be in the right place. tv stations should be on .tv porn should be on .xxx and so forth. That way you can filter much easier at any level you want. "

    You obviously have a very narrow and simplistic view of the world, that other people may disagree with what qualifies as porn etc.

    What's considered 'porn' by one person is not by another, and "Well I know it when I see it!" isn't very specific. If you don't consider say Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition to be porn... try bringing your copy to Saudi Arabia and let the morality police catch you with it...

    You don't need to resort to promoting herd-think to get what you supposedly really want: You can ALREADY filter web content using free or cheap tools. Unless your TV is 20+ years old, it also has a "V Chip" in it. So why aren't you?

  • kahsoon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0wow they took so long to take action at last...this problem exist for many years.
  • bliz, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I hope they eat more than dirt though!
  • CrackaPleeze, on 01/31/2008, -3/+1man... this story seems so petty compared to this:
    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcJ474CjaJGOUzn ...
  • 0011002, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4FINALLY now maybe my upper management here at Network Solutions will drop our policy so people will stop whining about not being able to use our search anymore!
    • Kanidia, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2They should have kept it, then we can use the digg effect to search millions of domains, forcing them to pay the ICANN fee for all of them.
      • 0011002, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Nah I like getting payed =) so my 2yr old has supper every night thanks for the support tho.
  • doomeyes, on 01/31/2008, -1/+0GoDaddy has already been charging the $0.20 fee for a long time now.
  • sodatticus, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2"Domain Tasters Can Now Eat Dirt"

    So do Haitians apparently
  • Yareking, on 01/31/2008, -2/+1if google is willing to lose millon in ad revenue they must be *****!!!!
  • fsweep, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Now if only they would require proof of business registration and/or a bit of a significant fee to register a .com---- and run all the crazy speculators out of dodge. Otherwise company names will be dumber and dumber made up and misspelled words. Everything usable is already parked. I'd say $1000 annually would put a quick end to that.
    • DrDolotts, on 02/01/2008, -1/+0I agree, the problem with this whole thing is that domains are just too cheap to register in the first place. If they made it at least $500 to register a domain, then we wouldn't have all these good names end up parked. I mean registering a .com for $5 is just a farce.
  • spanner, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Google said somewhere that they are doing this to free up domains for real websites.
    Now the exact same situation happens with Parked domains where they use google to get an income.
    How long till google ban them as well? That would make a HUGE impact on the web.

    • HolyChimp, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Then hopefully they'd go after the millions of price comparison sites out there after that. Those things annoy the hell out of me every time I'm googling some king of new gadget...
  • madeingermany, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2Are Haitians Domain Tasters?
  • insomniac8400, on 01/31/2008, -0/+920cents seems way to low. They should charge at least 5 bucks.
    • Atomic1fire, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1of course you want something cheap for mom and pop website owners who just want to make a website
      but expensive for companies intentionally buying up a large number of domains with which to make money off of
    • Jobo50, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0Dude, it said that the top domain tasters used 45 million domains...

      20 U.S. cents x 45 million = 9 million U.S. dollars!

      That's a LOT of money.
      • insomniac8400, on 02/02/2008, -0/+1Smart algorithms could be used to more intelligently select domains. And 20 cents doesn't stop them from pre-registering a domain you search for. Five bucks is nothing for us, but would completely stop any type of pre-registering or auto registering of domains.
  • burtflaxton, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0Domain tasters move to Haiti?
  • coolshit, on 01/31/2008, -1/+0today is hell for tasters, why? they must return every domain today :) or they get billed for the end of the month. hell ...
  • Kanidia, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Finnaly, icann mispel domans in piece.
  • canthraxp, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1Never knew that there was a 5 day with total refunded back-out.

    I wonder if the guy that made the page "pen-island" ever checked the name of his url. (www.penisland.net)
  • ZenElements, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I am glad to see that this action is being raised against domain tasters. Too often have I searched for a domain for a side project only to find it buried in useless advertisement and no more.
    I am further pleased to see Google recognize this is as a problem on the www too and I would gladly nominate Google for the previously mentioned ‘Awesome Award’ for their sacrifice to help cleanse the net.
  • gamename14, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1A while back Penn Jillette was saying that If they did something similar to this for emails (for example, if every email you sent charged a single penny to the recipient - so that if they responded it would even out) then email spam would start to disappear.
    • cryptoki, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1this move will hurt spam bigtime anyways.... how many spammers use this technique to hide in the shadows???

      this is a good move to end spam as well. GO ICANN
    • cheeseron, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1if this happened then my grandma would own me MILLIONS
  • diggm0nkey, on 01/31/2008, -2/+1Finally. Perhaps now there will be less poorly spelled web 2.0 domain names such as digg.com and flickr.com.
  • blofeld9999, on 01/31/2008, -1/+3Don't Taste Me, Bro
  • jdh358, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1why the hell it took this long is dumbfounding
  • stutimandal, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Let's wait and see which common-name domains become available now ...
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