Paul McNamara at Network World writes an interesting piece focusing on what ought to be done about "domain kiting" - the practice of exploiting the five-day grace period offered by domain registrars for registrants of Internet domains. It's an ICANN registration regulation at issue here, which allows for the grace period. Automated systems can gobble domains up and keep them out of circulation without paying for them.
To what extent is this happening right now? Bob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy, says on his blog that 92.3% of domains registered last month were kited. 35 million names were registered in May and only 2.7 million of them were permanent registrations.
Sounds like the domain equivalent of ticket scalping, if you ask me.
Posted by THespos at June 23, 2006 11:43 AM | TrackBackThe domain registars like GoDaddy, Register.com, NetworkSolutions must stand together on this issue. The Domain and Search part of the internet is in danger of changing for ever. This could hurt Google either way, its had to know for sure just how much the AdSense revenue comes from these guys. If Google and Yahoo gets hit with these sites being shut down their profits will suffer. http://DomainKiting.com, http://5DayDomains.com , http://FloatDomains.com are
domain names that will be used to bring this issue to the worlds attention.
http://DomainKiting.com is a website from http://GoDummy.moonfruit.com a UK Hosting online sitebuilders.
Posted by: Sicklre Puxsy at July 7, 2006 11:41 AMGODADDY CANCELS DOMAIN FORWARDING TO CUSTOMERS
A notice shows up in your email box that you have some items "expiring from GoDaddy" well you contact them because you can not understand the email. Customer service says its only your "Forwarding" the process that allows millions of domains to be redirected to other web addresses or as is the case these day many to "Parked Pay Per Click" pages.
DomainKiting.Com is reporting this also
When You don't respond to the email and "RENEW" the "FREE FORWARDING" the names then reverts to GoDaddy's pay per click pages and the Cash goes into the same direction.
5DayDomains.com is a fake site. its a lie. don't goto it. its just another type of park page.
Posted by: Tony at September 13, 2006 12:52 AM
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