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Domain tasting is a practice that lets you register a .com domain and try it out for 5 days. During this time you can check out if it has good natural traffic and decide if you want to keep the domain or let it go. If you do not keep it, you can have a bonus to register another domain. Now ICANN wants to stop this process, making you pay also for those tries (maybe keeping part of the registration price). An ICANN reccommendation reports:

“Tasting has been a serious challenge for the Internet community and has grown exponentially since 2004. In January 2007 the top 10 domain tasters accounted for 95% of all deleted .com and .net domain names — or 45,450,897 domain names out of 47,824,131 total deletes.”