Domain tasting

[zerolu]

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

 

[cybermonkey]

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]

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]

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

 

[Expron]

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]

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 :tu:

 

[kellyandbryan]

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]

Thanks for the help!

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

I'll try it at Dynadot.

 

[dax44]

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 ..

 

[DotWeekly]

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]

soon .. domain tasting will die

http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/domain-tasting-will-die-in-2008/

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

 

[DotWeekly]

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....