New AGP Limits Big-time crash landing for the tasting rocket

[JoshuaPz]

Big-time crash landing for the tasting rocket

BREAKING NEWS: ICANN will shortly be placing serious limits on AGP deletions that will effectively eliminate large-scale domain tasting.

The below e-mail from Dynadot hit my inbox a few minutes ago:

Dear Joshua,

We have several important announcements to be made before the new year starts:

ICANN Announces a New AGP Limits Policy

ICANN has recently approved an AGP (Add Grace Period) Limits Policy which will limit the number of grace deletions a domain registrar can make without incurring a registration fee. This policy only applies to the global TLDs such as COM, NET, ORG, etc. It will probably have little to no effect on the country TLDs such as WS, CN, US, etc.

We expect this policy will be implemented by the central registries sometime in early 2009. Due to this change, we may have to raise grace deletion fees substantially or remove grace deletions altogether.

More information about this change can be found here:

AGP (Add Grace Period) Limits Policy
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-policy-17dec08-en.htm

(...remainder of e-mail snipped...)

I admit to having tasted many domains myself, but in my view this is great news. Less warehousing by Enom and Kevin Ham => greater prospects for catching dropped domains for the rest of us => freer flow of information => happier Internet.

 

[Mark]

It was really intended for "mistakes/typos" IMO ~ 10% ???? Not enough ... Let them drop it to .00005%

Tasting :td:

 

[-REECE-]

edit: this is what the domain blogs have been talking about for awhile..

Agree with Mark, it's still not enough but it is a good start.

 

[Mark]

It's like shutting the Bank Vault door halfway after it's already empty

 

[JoshuaPz]

edit: this is what the domain blogs have been talking about for awhile..

Agree with Mark, it's still not enough but it is a good start.

Ah...sorry about the deja vu then. It was news to me, and extremely surprising news at that. It looks like the AGP advisory was posted 3 days ago.

 

[recluse99]

ICANN Announces a New AGP Limits Policy

Dynadot sent this to me today:
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ICANN Announces a New AGP Limits Policy

ICANN has recently approved an AGP (Add Grace Period) Limits Policy which will limit the number of grace deletions a domain registrar can make without incurring a registration fee. This policy only applies to the global TLDs such as COM, NET, ORG, etc. It will probably have little to no effect on the country TLDs such as WS, CN, US, etc.

We expect this policy will be implemented by the central registries sometime in early 2009. Due to this change, we may have to raise grace deletion fees substantially or remove grace deletions altogether.

More information about this change can be found here:

AGP (Add Grace Period) Limits Policy
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-policy-17dec08-en.htm

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Hope this doesn't negatively effect any NP'ers
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[FreshAvails.com]

10% is a good number. This still allows most registrars to offer refunds to thier customers for mistakes. Trust me, any registrar that did allow tasting will stop. Goodbye to wholesale tasting!