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I predicted this would happen, and now I have proof:
Certain registrars are using the 5 day 'domain tasting window' to completely avoid paying ANY registration fees, yet keep ownership of the domain and keep the PPC income it generates.
Here's how it works: They register the name, and drop it at a very odd time just before the 5 day limit is up, then the same company re-registers it a few seconds later. Just before the next 5 days, they repeat the process, permanently keeping the name without having to pay for it.
I've been watching 1 domain name go through several cycles now with the same company, "DNGLOBE LLC". Another domain bounces between another company with 2 slightly different "Inc" names, perhaps to make what they are doing less obvious.
Unless ICANNT does actually does something useful (they won't), this could be the beginning of the end of the drops.
If you don't have to pay reg fees, why drop anything, EVER?
Certain registrars are using the 5 day 'domain tasting window' to completely avoid paying ANY registration fees, yet keep ownership of the domain and keep the PPC income it generates.
Here's how it works: They register the name, and drop it at a very odd time just before the 5 day limit is up, then the same company re-registers it a few seconds later. Just before the next 5 days, they repeat the process, permanently keeping the name without having to pay for it.
I've been watching 1 domain name go through several cycles now with the same company, "DNGLOBE LLC". Another domain bounces between another company with 2 slightly different "Inc" names, perhaps to make what they are doing less obvious.
Unless ICANNT does actually does something useful (they won't), this could be the beginning of the end of the drops.
If you don't have to pay reg fees, why drop anything, EVER?
