Anick Jesdanun, writing for The Associated Press, has an article today on domain name tasting, titled "Entrepreneurs profit from free Web names." She gets one fact wrong when she writes "Experts believe spammers and scam artists are also starting to use the grace period as a source of free, disposable Web addresses." We held a panel on domain name tasting at the last ICANN meeting in Sao Paulo and the experts -- from registries and registrars to business and IP concerns -- seemed to agree that tasted domains were not a significant source of spam, phishing, or other forms of fraud. As we heard at the ICANN seminar, fraudsters typically forge their email addresses, use IP addresses and complex forwarding for host addressing, or just register a name with false contact information.