The Relationship of Phishing and Domain Tasting : a report and analysis by the APWG DNS Policy Working Group / Anti-Phishing Working Group, September 2007
PDF - http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/DNSPWG_ReportDomainTastingandPhishing.pdf
Greg Aaron, Afilias ; Dmitri Alperovitch, Secure Computing ; Laura Mather, MarkMonitor
"The APWG’s Domain Name System Policy Working Group (DNSPWG) focuses on policy-related issues associated with the Domain Name System (DNS) to examine abuses of the DNS that may require remediation. DNSPWG analysts examined the consequences of ‘domain tasting’ – the practice of opportunistically registering domain names to determine their traffic-generating potential and dropping those with less-than-promising prospects – on the larger Internet community and asked whether or not phishers use "tasted" domain names to perpetrate their crimes."