Domain kiting

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As domain kiting is the process that you briefly for illegal purposes, (for less than five days) an Internet domain purchases and returns it back to them to order immediately again.

This possibility arises from the specifications of ICANN , which allow a return period of five days. The customer does not have to pay anything within this period, but can already use the domain in full. The domains registered in this way are mostly used as target pages for online advertising, and occasionally for illegal purposes such as sending spam or phishing .

According to a study by GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons , a total of more than 35 million domains were registered in May 2006 , of which only around 2.7 million were continuously existing Internet addresses. The remaining 92.3 percent was due to domain kiting and was returned within the 5-day period.

A similar process in which the return period is used to check the usability of a domain for advertising purposes is called domain tasting .

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