domain tasting

zerolu · 01-27-2008, 10:52 PM

how does it work?? wat services can u use?? thanks

cybermonkey · 01-28-2008, 04:34 PM

Try Dynadot.com They have 5 days grace period. No extra fees. However, they don't refund the money, but put it back into your dynadot account.

Expron · 01-28-2008, 06:09 PM

Moniker.com allows domain testing (tasting). However, they charge up to $0.25 restocking fees per domain. They give you 5 days.

I use Dynadot, and if I return a domain, I'll just apply the balance to buy other domains.

zerolu · 01-28-2008, 09:08 PM

but wat does testin entail?? how does it work?

Expron · 01-28-2008, 09:17 PM

Domain Tasting entails purchasing a domain, or more often - bulk quantaties of domains & watching each domain's traffic during it's grace period.

You taste a domain by keeping the domains that get good traffic and returning the ones that don't get any traffic after 4-5 days.

xrvel · 01-28-2008, 09:33 PM

For example in DynaDot, you just registered "somegreatname.com".
But after one day, you regret it, and want to "unregister" it.
You can delete it before 5 days, and you will get DynaDot credit.

What can you do with that credit?
You can register other domain name with that credit

kellyandbryan · 01-28-2008, 10:13 PM

Dont do domain tasting it is for n00bs. I'm sure a lot of people disagree, but they do not have the foresight to see the neg. effects of it. Besides you can not get an accurate judgement of traffic in 4 days. Domain tasting is ruining domaining. Just hand reg names you find or buy at auctions.

Idees · 02-10-2008, 08:03 AM

Thanks for the help!

I was just about to open a thread on this topic.

I'll try it at Dynadot.

dax44 · 02-26-2008, 04:38 AM

I think tasting when it is abused by a circle of registrars passing names around is a disgrace. Why not just stop domains being 'ringed' if that is the problem?

eg. 7 day delay before AGP can be applied again to a previously AGP'd name - simple.

Equally when domainers abuse it to simply mine for clicks - so just create an upper limit for each account and/or registrar.

I find AGP very useful for hand-regging for clients because I can go ahead and register a portfolio for them when I have a brainwave at 3am and they can then approve them over the next few days. I would also be happy to pay icann fee - but i am worried that the fee alone may not stop the real abuse. Please think carefully ICANN ..

Yofie · 03-03-2008, 09:57 PM

You can always use Redrops.com to grab some lists of known tasted domains.

I have used Moniker.com and Dynadot.com but I do not taste, I keep

wikes82 · 03-04-2008, 01:20 AM

soon .. domain tasting will die

http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/...l-die-in-2008/

can't wait for that day to come... so, we can catch dropped domains again...
no more snaps, pool, or namejet...

Yofie · 03-04-2008, 05:03 AM

Originally Posted by wikes82

no more snaps, pool, or namejet...

That part will not happen.

You will still need fire power in th form of scripts and so on, but I would expect to see many more drops. The best ones will still be back ordered via Snap, Pool and NameJet....

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Expron Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Chicago, IL USA Posts: 677	Domain Tasting entails purchasing a domain, or more often - bulk quantaties of domains & watching each domain's traffic during it's grace period. You taste a domain by keeping the domains that get good traffic and returning the ones that don't get any traffic after 4-5 days. __________________ ****** DropKing.com Drop Catching - Software **** DNMeter Domain drop order with drop times. Domain Afterlife My Drop Catching Blog!**

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kellyandbryan NamePros Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 110	Dont do domain tasting it is for n00bs. I'm sure a lot of people disagree, but they do not have the foresight to see the neg. effects of it. Besides you can not get an accurate judgement of traffic in 4 days. Domain tasting is ruining domaining. Just hand reg names you find or buy at auctions. __________________ Bryan G elfingo.com SampleParkingPages.com JokerNetwork.com LearningPathway.com

01-28-2008, 04:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
cybermonkey NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Dania, FL Posts: 583	Try Dynadot.com They have 5 days grace period. No extra fees. However, they don't refund the money, but put it back into your dynadot account.

01-28-2008, 09:08 PM	THREAD STARTER #4 (permalink)
zerolu NamePros Regular Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: cali Posts: 255	but wat does testin entail?? how does it work?

02-10-2008, 08:03 AM	#8 (permalink)
Idees Account Closed Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,258	Thanks for the help! I was just about to open a thread on this topic. I'll try it at Dynadot.

02-26-2008, 04:38 AM	#9 (permalink)
dax44 NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 353	I think tasting when it is abused by a circle of registrars passing names around is a disgrace. Why not just stop domains being 'ringed' if that is the problem? eg. 7 day delay before AGP can be applied again to a previously AGP'd name - simple. Equally when domainers abuse it to simply mine for clicks - so just create an upper limit for each account and/or registrar. I find AGP very useful for hand-regging for clients because I can go ahead and register a portfolio for them when I have a brainwave at 3am and they can then approve them over the next few days. I would also be happy to pay icann fee - but i am worried that the fee alone may not stop the real abuse. Please think carefully ICANN .. __________________ cheapnames.com domain names .com .net from $8.01 801:VALIDATE

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03-04-2008, 01:20 AM	#11 (permalink)
wikes82 NamePros Regular Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: K-R.NET Posts: 902	soon .. domain tasting will die http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/...l-die-in-2008/ can't wait for that day to come... so, we can catch dropped domains again... no more snaps, pool, or namejet... __________________ LogicBoxes/Directi/Resell.biz Domain Catcher for Windows,Linux,Mac OSX

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