Is there or will there ever be a tasting service where you don't have to pay up front?

[shinysign]

Right now dynadot seems like the best, the only problem is that you are adding money to your dynadot account, not your bank account. So if you want to taste 20 domain names, you still have to pay 200 dollars. You can recycle those forever, but still, you are paying 200 dollars.

Are there any sites that let you taste without the money going back into their account? For example a service would be good where even a small fee you could test many more domain names, for example, 5 cents a domain name, then you could taste 100 domain names for 5 dollars instead of 500 dollars. Dynadot has no fee like this which is nice, but the point is you need money up front. Are there any services that will offer it completely free or cheap?

It seems like for the 'little guy' it is rather unfair, as large companies can simply put 10,000 dollars into a dynadot account and test 1,000 domains every 5 days or something like this.

 

[alanchau]

How many domains do you want to taste? $200 is a very small amount of money...

 

[jacal1]

Honestly I'd rather they just do away with it altogether.

 

[BinderGang]

Right now dynadot seems like the best, the only problem is that you are adding money to your dynadot account, not your bank account. So if you want to taste 20 domain names, you still have to pay 200 dollars. You can recycle those forever, but still, you are paying 200 dollars.

Are there any sites that let you taste without the money going back into their account? For example a service would be good where even a small fee you could test many more domain names, for example, 5 cents a domain name, then you could taste 100 domain names for 5 dollars instead of 500 dollars. Dynadot has no fee like this which is nice, but the point is you need money up front. Are there any services that will offer it completely free or cheap?

It seems like for the 'little guy' it is rather unfair, as large companies can simply put 10,000 dollars into a dynadot account and test 1,000 domains every 5 days or something like this.

This is the worst idea ever and it will never happen.

The point of testing a domain is to BUY the name, so you have to pay upfront, just like you would with any other product.

 

[floatingworld]

somebody wants something for nothing. :td:

 

[Krossat]

hm i guess i can put a counter question to answer that:

Would the Internet ever be Free of Scams and Payment Frauds :\

 

[Dave_Z]

Are there any sites that let you taste without the money going back into their account?

No. And no one's stupid enough to provide such a service, which costs money
and gives little to no guarantees of some benefit to them, to end users at no
cost.

Get used to it.

 

[Alex]

be prepared that maybe in the near future, you will not be even allowed to taste domains for free, so it will not be possible to "recycle" it forever (Btw that is domain kitting).

 

[nu-money]

Dynadot is the closest to tasting for free.

No registrar will allow people to use all their resources (bandwidth, etc..) for nothing in return.

Plus, alot of people would abuse a free tasting service anyway..

 

[Kate]

Pool catch & release program maybe

 

[alanchau]

If domain registrars started offering this, people would start tasting every single domain that came to mind, and then you would probably start complaining about that.

 

[Dave_Z]

If domain registrars started offering this, people would start tasting every single domain that came to mind, and then you would probably start complaining about that.

He he, bingo.