Do the big tasters still taste domains after Jul 1?

[PowerUp]

ICANN recently implemented a no-refund policy. Do the big tasters still taste domains after Jul 1? If yes, how much budget do they allocate to taste the names?

 

[domainer50]

ICANN recently implemented a no-refund policy. Do the big tasters still taste domains after Jul 1? If yes, how much budget do they allocate to taste the names?

This is a good question, I was wondering the same. Looking forward to hearing the verdict.

 

[raredn.com]

It seems that they are, but they are being a lot more picky on what they pick up

 

[Premiere]

They dont seem to be picky at all. Yesterday I saw every available .com tasted by moniker, even the junk

 

[raredn.com]

They dont seem to be picky at all. Yesterday I saw every available .com tasted by moniker, even the junk

Fair enough, I am not really keeping track of tasters these days

 

[jmcc]

Some tasters have given up completely. Others have cut back dramatically on the numbers that they tast.

Regards...jmcc

 

[cache]

I think networksolutions.com/whois stopped "tasting".

 

[Charley]

It seems that they are, but they are being a lot more picky on what they pick up

Yea this should be the case. This doesn't benefit the registrar in any way.

 

[DotWeekly]

YES, all .com/.net domains are still being tasted. eNom is the biggest taster of them all. They seem to be grabbing about 20,000-40,000 domains per day. They do seem to keep several, but drop most..

$4,000-$8,000 per day to ICANN if they dropped the 20K-40K per day in the new $0.20 cent fee... :o Not sure how they are doing it, but they sure are grabbing the most domains on the drop!

 

[raredn.com]

YES, all .com/.net domains are still being tasted. eNom is the biggest taster of them all. They seem to be grabbing about 20,000-40,000 domains per day. They do seem to keep several, but drop most..

$4,000-$8,000 per day to ICANN if they dropped the 20K-40K per day in the new $0.20 cent fee... :o Not sure how they are doing it, but they sure are grabbing the most domains on the drop!

That is just madness, why do they not bother filtering it, there is so many rubbish domains to be found in drops, the large percentage of drops is just rubbish domains What ever rocks enoms boat I guess

 

[Kate]

I think networksolutions.com/whois stopped "tasting".

They call it customer convenience :bingo:
Just checked and it looks like they have stopped indeed.

I still see tasting activity from the usual suspects, not sure if volume has decreased though :talk: