Domain Tasting

[simon]

Has the price been raised for the Grace Period ( which was like 25 cents per domain)

any update would be helpful

 

[jdk]

It should still be $0.25

 

[gawnd]

i thought moniker was charging $1

 

[tonyk2000]

I recently read a workgroup investigation on ICANN website. They were investigation domainstasting problem. To my surprise, I learned that ICANN fee of $0.25 is NOT charged for tasted-and-deleted domains. Therefore, it is still free (and was always free) to "test-and-delete" domain name... of course it is free for registrars.
Furthermore, I learned that almost all registrars do NOT deposit real funds to the registries before the registrations, but they obtain a line of credit insead... and actual funds are deposited AFTER the registrations occured, only for those regs that were not deleted during the grace period!

 

[jdk]

Very true. Moniker makes $0.25 when in reality it costs them nothing.

I have heard if you email Godaddy to have a domain deleted and have a credit issued, they do not charge a fee.