The ICANN board just passed the following motion to end Domain Tasting, “THEREFORE, the Board resolves to encourage ICANN’s budgetary process to include fees for all domains added, including domains added during the AGP, and encourages community discussion involved in developing the ICANN budget, subject to both Board approval and registrar approval of this fee.”
It did not directly deal a death blow to tasting, but it was a definitive motion that will kill it this year. This policy is expected to go into effect when the new budget is approved, and that process typically happens in the summer.
Read the full article found at: http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/domain-tasting-will-die-in-2008/
Source: http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm
If they indeed end domain tasting, the landscape of domaining will be drastically changing.
It did not directly deal a death blow to tasting, but it was a definitive motion that will kill it this year. This policy is expected to go into effect when the new budget is approved, and that process typically happens in the summer.
Read the full article found at: http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/domain-tasting-will-die-in-2008/
Source: http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm
If they indeed end domain tasting, the landscape of domaining will be drastically changing.
