A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is a time period when registrars can delete a domain at no cost, but in this time frame a registrant could register millions of these temporary domains and place Google Adsense for Domains on them. The result is the ability to produce millions of temporary websites that literally generate millions of dollars in income per week for Google. It was disclosed in court that one partner that Google had was generating as much as $3 million dollars a month from the practice and that was after Google’s revenue share. The gravy train of free money might be coming to a halt very fast. This policy change at Google should be announced to the channel partners soon and it will have a huge echoing impact on the Industry.

What this means is Google wants to be sure that site owners running adsense ads are in for it, and not registering domains just to run adsense ads.

Could this be a good way of stopping some webmasters from making “Made For Adsense” (MFA) sites? Personally, I don’t think so. 5 days is really too short. A year might be better. But it will certainly be less motivating for domain monetizers to grab a domain and put adsense onto it, wait till the grace period, refund and backoff, and repeat the whole cycle again.