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ICANN added a small nonrefundable fee many years ago that made this no longer practical on a large scale.
by eli 3y ago
ICANN added a small nonrefundable fee many years ago that made this no longer practical on a large scale.
- btown 3y agoI'm sure tasting still happens on dropped domains, though; registrars have data on search interest and can find dropped domains that are likely to be profitable even taking transaction fees into account.
- eli 3y agoIt's unfair that registrars can abuse their position to pick up valuable dropped domains. But somebody was going to do it in the moment after they drop if not them. That feels like a different and less serious problem.