New data released this month by ICANN shows a 99.7% drop in domain tasting since it changed the fees back in April 2009.
Domain tasting is the practice of registering a domain name for a few days, seeing if it can make any money through advertising, then deleting it for a full refund.
ICANN changed it’s rules so that the ICANN refund didn’t apply, and most registries changed their terms so that registrars could only return about 10% of their monthly registrations.
To give an idea of the scale of this practice, in June 2008, nearly 17.7 Million gTLD domains were tasted. Now in June 2009 just 58,000 were returned (probably due to errors in registrations)
The net result – should mean more domains are available for the general public to buy.
2020Media announced today a new incoming telephone number.
0370 321 2020
This new number replaces all our 0870 and 0370 321 2020 numbers that we’ve been using since we started 10 years ago and have followed us faithfully from office to office as we’ve expanded. The reason is two-fold.
Calls to 0330/0370 numbers are cheaper – they cost the same to call as standard landline numbers, even from a mobile phone, and are included in many calling plans.
0870 numbers have come under regulatory changes from OfCom which rules out their use for businesses like ours.
So, if you’d like to talk to 2020Media, there’s just one number to note: 0370 321 2020.
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2020Media is a leading UK business internet service provider, founded in 1999. We offer UK web hosting, domain names, internet connectivity and server hosting. Please see our website for more: www.2020media.com. Latest products include Wifi Hotspots for business and non-profits with premises, advanced WordPress hosting, and new top level domain (ntld) registrations.
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