Two small registrars get the ax.
ICANN’s contract compliance efforts with domain registrars seem to go in fits and starts. The past couple months have been active, and this month the company fully terminated two accredited domain name registrars.
Just yesterday ICANN sent a notice of termination to Ynot Domains Corp in New York. Ynot was canned for not escrowing registration data and being late on accreditation fees. The registrar was tiny, with just 24 .com domains under management as of April.
On August 7 ICANN sent a termination to Russian registrar Name For Name, Inc. Its registry-registrar agreement with Verisign had already been terminated in July. It also hadn’t provided updated contact information to ICANN, had no contact details on its web site, and wasn’t providing mandatory whois service.
ICANN has sent nine notices of breach since the beginning of July. A notice of breach typically provides a short cure period in which the registrar needs to fix the problems or at least show best efforts. If the breaches aren’t cured then ICANN terminates the registrar.
John UK says
Blimey, ICANN actually doing something about enforcement.They have been lax for so long maybe they are starting to move ?.
Acro says
So they only terminate them for late payment of fees? What about those Canadian bastard rogue registrar that uses its resources to spam domainers ad nauseam regarding ‘similar’ domains that are about to expire?
Graham Schreiber says
Good news: Hopefully ICANN will exercise the rules they created here too!
“3.7.7.9 The Registered Name Holder shall represent that, to the best of the Registered Name Holder’s knowledge and belief, neither the registration of the Registered Name nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly used infringes the legal rights of any third party.”
Plus their allied companions will figure out how the clever weaving of the Whois fabric has kept a domain name registrants, registry, isolated from UDRP complaints which have been ripe-ing off brand owners, since father had an idea come about, in a conversation, once upon a time.
Domain ID:???? -DO~~~~~0
Admin ID:65d~~~~~~~~~~~~~5c0
Cheers, Graham.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Acro – most of the time ICANN sends a breach notice it cites late payment of fees. But my understanding is this is the easiest thing to cite because it’s so clear cut. It’s not up for debate.
Maybe it’s like nabbing a mafia gangster for tax evasion…