Posts Tagged ‘domain tasting’

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to change a process that turned “Domain tasting” into a real big issue for many domain customers. The group agreed that it should change how the 5 day grace period on registering a domain name works. The grace period was to give people a chance to remit if they made a mistake on purchasing a domain name. It was also a chance to give a business time to do some market research on the name. But will this be the answer, or will this cause more headaches for legitimate domain purchasers?

Domain tasting is a term cooked up to define the grace period of a domain purchase. Let’s say a customer wants to register “thisismydomain.com”. They purchase the name, in which they have 5 days to turn around and say “I made a mistake and don’t want this one”. The idea was for people who misspell the name (in this case, we’ll say the customer registered “thisismydoman.com”) or decide to take their business in another direction a chance to back out of the transaction.

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