How can I guarantee I get a domain name that is expiring on Friday?
Mo Nickels is incorrect. Or outdated, depending on how you want to call it. On March 31, 2009 “TASTING” as the domain name industry knows it – stopped. The loophole that allowed tasting, or the mass registration of dropping names and deletion of the same names within the five day Add Grace Period has been closed. If you entered the full list of ~50k .com domain names that dropped today you would be able to register, by hand, the overwhelming majority of those names. Now, that doesn’t mean that names aren’t still being registered for resale, simply that investors who are doing this are being more selective. There are tools that are being introduced by Verisign that some registrars are starting to offer to select clients – some to all paying clients – which allow you to determine if an unregistered domain name has any DNS queries. This may change the current status at some point, but thus far it doesn’t seem to. If there is a domain name that I feel anyone else may want I will do the fol
