CircleID

Tasting has always been a loophole that became a business model which brought out the worst in the domain market. Between Google's improving filters, changes in contextual PPC pricing and legal pressures, I think we're seeing a slow death for Wan-Fu China and his Caribbean doorman…

What, a slow death?  Its a carribbean shell company and the guy being sued is apparently a front man / gofer. The real principals will probably set their next shell company up in outer mongolia or somewhere.

Suresh, yes you're right. What I'm saying is that this is quite possibly an impetus toward ICANN revising its existing deletion refund policy once and for all.

In which case, my other prediction - about T.R.A.F.F.I.C getting hosted in a Days Inn and catered from the local Wendys would probably come true.

Deletion refund and AGP getting eliminated .. ICANN doesnt want to do that either. Any more than it wants to fix whois (well, not that anybody at all can come to consensus on that - OPOC was a horrible mess, and the sunset clause mere wishful thinking...).  So the domain tasters are quite safe in resort hotels for now I guess.