<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; "><br>On Thursday a <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-status-report-12aug09-en.pdf" title="Link to ICANN report. PDF format" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(37, 113, 194); ">report</a> was released by ICANN supplying data that implies the practice of domain tasting has come to an end.</p><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; ">The traditional definition of domain tasting is the practice of purchasing a domain for the purpose of hosting some advertisements, or other marketing purposes, and returning it within five days to the domain registry to not have to purchase it.</p><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; ">Many typo-squatters were using this to register domains that are very close to popular domains and using it for parked ads to generate revenue at almost no cost.</p><div><a href="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/08/15/guest-blog-aftertaste-domain-tasting-era-quietened-whisper/">http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/08/15/guest-blog-aftertaste-domain-tasting-era-quietened-whisper/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span></body></html>