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If you’re checking on a domain name’s availability, you’re going to want to be sure you’re ready to buy it immediately, especially if you’re on some sites that are registering YOUR domain name ideas within minutes of you typing in the site name idea. The webmaster forums are buzzing with the results of searches being done on Network Solutions, only to have an “available” name suddenly gone mere seconds later.

While coming up with outrageous domain names just to see them “snatched up” by the registrar site is somewhat entertaining, it’s not so funny when a domain you’re really wanting is suddenly tied up for at least four days, or you’re told it’s available, but at a highly inflated price tag. Evidently the uproar is finally being heard since ICANN announced today that it intends to fight a loophole in the domain naming/purchasing procedures.

The internet’s key oversight agency is taking a preliminary step toward combating domain name tasting, the online equivalent of buying expensive clothes on a charge card only to return them for a full refund after wearing them to a party, an Associated Press report said. The Associated Press report said entrepreneurs have been taking advantage of a five-day grace period to sample domain names, keeping the relative few that might generate advertising revenues and dropping the rest before paying. The grace period was originally designed to rectify legitimate mistakes, such as registrants mistyping the domain name they are about to buy. But with automation and a burgeoning online advertising market, entrepreneurs generated big bucks exploiting the policy to test hoards of names, the Associated Press report said. The practice ties up millions of domain names at any given time, making it more difficult for legitimate individuals and businesses to get a desirable name, the report added.

In a draft report issued this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) outlined key issues for a committee to study further and craft recommendations, the report said.

A final report is due after a public comment period closes Jan. 28, the report further said.