Google make domain tasting unprofitable

Google is finally cracking down on the domain tasting gravy train, this is the practice where domain registrar takes advantage of the 5 days grace provided by domain name registry to delete registered domain name and get a refund of the domain registry fees.
Several companies are said to use (some will argue that its an abuse) this five day grace period by registering thousands of domain names, slap Adsense on the domain for that five day period generate lots of money and then cancel the domain name at the registry and get a refund plus make a killing on the Adsense clicks, one company was reported to have made over $3 million a month using this practice.

Its was reported that Google will be announcing that Adsense adverts may not be placed on domain name that are five days old or younger to stop the so called domain tasting abuse.

Unexpected Google PR Update – 11 Jan 2008

A Google PageRank update which seem to have started sometime last week stabilises when all Google data centres seem to have synchronised by 11 of January 2008. Website owners and webmaster started seeing changes in their internal pages early last week, this reports were not seen as a precursor to a full PR update initially, but as more and more webmaster reported changes in their website internal pages, the Google PR watching community were on full alert as the reported changes in internal pages was seen as evidence of an imminent PR update; they were not disappointed, full PR update was visible all Google tool bar equipped browser by 11^th of January.

This PR update was a bit of a surprise, website owners were not expecting PR update so early in 2008.