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: Trademark BlogDomain Tasting Down 84%?
By Marty Schwimmer
The Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN sent around an email this morning suggesing that at first glance, the registry monthly reports for July, the first month in which ICANN instituted a .20 fee on all domain name registrations in order to cut down on the practice of 'domain tasting' (the registration of domain names for 5 days without a fee), there has been an 84% decrease in domain names deleted after the 5 day grace period.
Full post as published by Trademark Blog on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).
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