ICANN terminates Red Register, Inc.’s accreditation.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has terminated Red Register, Inc.’s accreditation.
According to a letter (pdf) sent by ICANN Director of Contractual Compliance Stacy Burnette, the registrar was violating many terms of its accreditation agreement.
Among those: not paying its accreditation fees to ICANN, failure to maintain accurate contact information for the registrar, and failure to provide access to its whois database.
I’m glad ICANN is stepping up enforcement, dropping a number of domain registrars in recent months. It seems that ICANN has been gun shy in the past, and also handcuffed by the strict measure it has to take to terminate an accreditation.
Perhaps it should have acted a bit faster on Red Register. It sent breach notices to the registrar in December and April over unpaid accreditation fees. Neither of those breaches were cured.
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