Google Adsense Not Working For Domain Tasters

Domain tasting is the practice of a domain name registrant using the five-day “grace period” at the beginning of the registration of an ICANN-regulated second level domain to test the marketability of the domain. During this period, when a registration must be fully refunded by the domain registry, a cost-benefit analysis is conducted by the registrant on the viability of deriving income from advertisements being placed on the domain’s web site.

According to John Chow, Now Google tells domain tasters to eat cake. By not allowing AdSense for Domain on domains that are less than five days old, Google hopes to provide a better user experience by cutting down on the millions of parked pages on the Net. Of course, this move will also has an effect on Google’s bottom line. It’s going to cost them millions in lost revenues.

Oversee.net and other companies have been using this practice for years and it will have a direct impact on them. The gravy train of free money might be coming to a halt very fast. For example, one Google domain taster was generating as much as $3 million dollars a month from this practice.

Written by admin on January 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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