Domains are eligible for a refund for 5 days after their purchase. Domain tasting is the practice of placing Google Adsense on the newly registered sites.
Google announced yesterday that it will begin blocking Adsense ads from the domains that are repeatedly refunded and repurchased.
Apparently the practice is endemic. According to Wikipedia, "In April 2006, out of 35 million registrations, only a little more than 2 million were permanent or actually purchased. By February 2007, the CEO of Go Daddy reported that of 55.1 million domain names registered, 51.5 million were canceled and refunded just before the 5 day grace period expired and only 3.6 million domain names were actually kept."
We have to welcome cleaning up some of the spammy practices on the web.
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