Recent issues of The World of .ORG have described the growing practice of domain name tasting and the potential danger it poses to the online identity of .ORG registrants who allow their domain names to expire. (See previous issues of The World of .ORG for more about this practice and PIR’s campaign to raise public awareness.)

But the consequences of the rise in domain name tasting go beyond the impact on individual registrants. One side effect of this growing practice, fostered in part by the abuse of the registration ‘add grace’ period, is the impact on the strength and credibility of the .ORG brand.

ICANN originally established the add grace period to give registrants up to five days to correct mistaken registrations. A few registrars, using sophisticated computer programs, are using the add grace period to register millions of names and then hold them for several days to assess their potential monetary value. The names that prove profitable are kept, but most are dropped in time to collect a refund on the registration fee.

To address this abuse of the registration add grace period, PIR, with the support of a number of businesses and organizations, has successfully petitioned ICANN to implement an excess deletion fee. Beginning 1 June 2007, PIR will impose the fee when a registrar’s deletions exceed 90 percent of its total registrations in a given month. The excess deletion fee is five cents (US) for every domain name that is deleted during the add grace period by that registrar within one calendar month.

This effort is part of PIR’s continuing commitment to support practices and policies that strengthen the Internet in general and the .ORG community in particular. For more information, see the PIR Web site.

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