It appears "domain tasting" may be on the way out unless the registrar has massive amounts of monthly registrations vs their monthly AGP:
This snip from ICANN's site sums it up:
"AGP was intended to allow for the no-cost cancellation of domain name registrations resulting from typos and other errors by Registrars and registrants as well as some types of fraudulent registrations."
I got this from verisign yesterday:
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