Do registrars have to give a 5-day grace period for domain purchases?

Are you asking whether or not you have to wait five days after the purchase of a domain to be able to access it? If that is your question, then no.

I think that they can but they are not forced to do it.

JohnJ, I was reading that there is a 5-day grace period after the purchase of a domain, and that's how this so-called 'domain tasting' is started. I was just wondering, because I had purchased the wrong spelling of a domain, and so wanted a refund or exchange from Yahoo! Domains. I called them within minutes of the purchase, but they refused.

Depends on the registrar's terms. We don't do refunds because we have the customer verify the domain multiple times.

Do registrars have to give a 5-day grace period for domain purchases?
No. That 5 day grace period is for registrars and not registrants.

The reason ICANN avoids refunds and grace periods is to stop domain horders.

If there was a 5 day grace period, then I'd get a bunch of investors together, we'd raise a huge amount of money.

We'd buy every name in the dictionary (and variations), and we'd register them all for 4 days and sell them to the highest bidder, totally locking down the domain name market.

On day 5, we'd ask for a refund during our grace period.

Naturally you can't run a business this way. If you want to get into the domain name speculation / hoarding business, then you must buy, pay for, and own the domain name you are selling.

None of this register, try and auction off, and get a refund on a name all in the same 5 day period, for FREE

The reason ICANN avoids refunds and grace periods is to stop domain horders.

If there was a 5 day grace period, then I'd get a bunch of investors together, we'd raise a huge amount of money.

We'd buy every name in the dictionary (and variations), and we'd register them all for 4 days and sell them to the highest bidder, totally locking down the domain name market.

On day 5, we'd ask for a refund during our grace period.

Naturally you can't run a business this way. If you want to get into the domain name speculation / hoarding business, then you must buy, pay for, and own the domain name you are selling.

None of this register, try and auction off, and get a refund on a name all in the same 5 day period, for FREE

There is a 5 day grace period. And all you wrote you can do, the easiest way is just to get your own ICANN accreditation and then you can do exactly that.
Why do you think there are registrars which have a total of 200000 domains and way over a million deletes (in this 5 day grace period) a month.



There are some registrars which offer a refund if in the first five days if you talk to them, but that are only small registrars, non of the big ones does that as far as I'm aware off.

some do some dont
whats interesting it doesnt cost them anything and they still charge for it.
moniker has this but its not free and the refund amount is applied as a credit to your next purchase
alot of people made alot of money doing this in the past they were able to make simple automatic pages throw up adsense on all of them 4 days later delete them and start all over. But then google said **** you now itl be interesting to c their next approach.

There are some registrars which offer a refund if in the first five days if you talk to them, but that are only small registrars, non of the big ones does that as far as I'm aware off.
Tucows offers refund to resellers, but with a $1 processing fee. HOWEVER, I don't think any reseller would be interested in passing this onto their retail customers.