Parava To Give Tucows’ Hover Brand a Boost
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Registrar will take over management of domain names from de-accredited domain registrar.
Domain Name Wire has learned that Tucows (AMEX: TCX) will be taking over the management of domain names previously registered at Parava Networks, also known as 10-domains.com. The official announcement is forthcoming from ICANN. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss declined to comment for this story.
Parava was de-accredited in April 2009 for a number of infractions, including failure to pay ICANN fees and not escrowing whois data.
A source tells Domain Name Wire that a Tucows support representative said the domains will be managed through Tucows’ direct-to-consumer brand Hover.com. This should give Hover a shot in the arm as it gets off the ground.
However, Parava customers should not contact Tucows yet as the company does not have control of the domains. The bulk transfer of domains to Tucows may happen as early as Wednesday. To see when domains have been moved, check the whois record for the domains to see that the registrar has been updated. It may take several hours after this happens for Tucows to be able to actively manage the domains.
A number of valuable domain names are registered at Parava. Parava is the registrar for over 30,000 domain names.
(Hat Tip to DNInvestigation.)
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Looking forward to it. My domains have been offline since May 1st – 12 days – as a result of this… The result of not being able to update my DNS records…
Dont worry Bill. I am in somewhat of the same boat as you…I’ve been reassured by ICANN, Parava and Hover that everything is going smoothly. They should contact you tomorrow with login info.
Looks like Tucows will have some more names to skim into it’s own portfolio and resell.
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How sweet, parava or whatever they call now, NEVER bothered informing me of my dozens of domains while transferring them to Hover who???
WTF?!!
Dozens of the domains expiration dates was cut down by several years. HOW THE CRACK ICANN ALLOWED THAT????!!!
There is only one word to describe this: FRAUD
The fraud was initiated by Parava. They collected our money for the domains, but never paid the fees to Icann at all… This is how they lost their accreditation…
Parava lost control of the domain management, when Icann pulled their accreditation.
I lost one domain outright… It did not make it into the real whois outside of parava, and godaddy was able to sell it to someone else.
Icann’s answer was that I should sue parava – as if my suing them would permit me to be repaid my loss, when parava cannot or will not even pay Icann the money that I had paid into them…
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