Verisign to Offer "Pre-Domain Tasting"

http://www.domainnamenews.com/editorial/verisign-to-profit-from-rootserver-data/889#more-889

As reported by Frank Michlick on DNN Verisign plans to provide a batched service which allows registrars to upload a list of names, and in return receive a report which lists which names encounter “lookup traffic” over a certain period of time.

It's a natural progression I suppose.. It would create much less load on Verisign registry infrastructure that the large scale acquisition and deletion of domain names via traditional domain tasting and would provide similar data.

That lower server and bandwidth load should allow for diminished overhead costs that the Verisign registry could pass on to registrants in the form of lower name purchase and renewal costs ... Don't count on that last part though.