After I picked up on the other two stories related to domain tasting (Google Adsense and the Name Tasting Study), I discovered a story on DN Journal that suggests that “ICANN is about to effectively end domain tasting” based on minutes from the organization’s most recent meeting.  Link after the jump…

While less popular with dot tv domains, the practice of domain name drop catching is becoming very popular.

You might have seen yesterday’s story about Google’s actions to prevent domainers from exploiting its Google Adsense program (domain tasting).

Well, today, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) announced the release of a study concerning the practice of a few domainers called drop-catching. 

According to the study, “CADNA’s study, which tracked 17,000 randomly selected Dot-ORG, Dot-COM and Dot-NET domain names after their scheduled expiration on September 18th, 2007, found that 100% of the Dot-COM and Dot-NET domains were…