Thinking of a good Internet domain name for a personal blog or business website is a challenge. Everyone would like to have a domain name which is somehow related to their business brand or site theme. Especially, when a domain name plays an important role in Search Engine Optimization. Added to this problem is the unavailability of the Internet domain names during registration. Usually the good Internet domain names are already taken and not available for registration. I have experienced this in registering the techxplore website. Originally, I would like to have www.techxplore.com for my website, but I ended up with the second best available domain name that is www.techxplore.net.

There are lots of people who have similar experience that I have regarding Internet domain name registration. The problem might be caused by a loop hole in ICANN’s (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) policy which allows domain registrars to return domains after five-day grace period. Domain speculators register mass domains for testing them with advertising click for four days and return the domains on the fifth day at full refund. That’s the reason for the seemingly large numbers of unavailable domains which only have advertisements parked.

This kind of problem that almost everyone is facing would soon have an end hopefully. ICANN has recently changed the policy to allow only a 10 percent refund on the five-day grace period for domains. You can read more on this from ICANN’s website: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-policy-17dec08-en.htm

I look forward to this policy change implementation on March 2009 as for sure a number of good Internet domain names would be up for grabs. This is good news for real domain registrars as more good Internet domain names will be available for use. It would also be good for ICANN to get money on those Internet domain names. There would be lesser unavailable domain names for registration problems in the future.