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I really doubt this will have much of an impact on domain tasting at all. At worst, they will make slightly less money because they'll have to use an ad service that won't target ads as well as Google.

Domain tasting will be alive and well until ICANN puts a stop to it.

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Exactly even if no ad network works on non permanent domains they'll still try to gauge domain value by number of visitors in the five day period.

The solution isn't even to abolish it, just make sure even a test domain costs something, even a few cents, much like the economy of SPAM you don't need to fight it by identifying SPAM just make every email you send cost a tenth of a cent.

Unlike spam this one is actually easy to stop. The registrars could just say "no more tasting" and that would be the end. There is a final authority who can stop it or make it cost something.

This has been nothing but bad for the web in general. Its time to say "no more tasting". I hope google starts a trend.

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