In an email over the weekend, Jay Westerdal said that my view of tasting is out-of-date and that, in 2008, the majority of tasting is from those who don't want to pay any registration fee. I take seriously anything he says, expecially on domain markets, so I'll be interested to read follow-ups to his post last week.

Something else to consider: on the At Large mailing list, Bill Silverstein writes: "Even if Google will not accept domain names that have been registered for less than 5 or even 10 days, it does not matter. It is very simple on a new domain name to redirect the surfer to a a domain name that has been approved by Google for Adsense." Good point!

Sparked by Jay's suggestion that I got last week's post wrong, I've been doing some digging. I think I'll have some interesting stuff to post tomorrow. Stay tuned.