Registrar not responding to UDRP verification requests, says ICANN.
ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Grand Cayman domain name registrar Bargin Register, Inc., for failing to respond to UDRP verification requests.
In a letter dated November 19 (pdf), ICANN claims that Bargin Register has frequently failed to respond to UDRP verification requests from multiple UDRP providers.
The latest issue appears to involve the domain name Rexrothdistributors.com, which was subject to a UDRP with Asian Doman Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC).
Although I’ve never heard of Bargin Register before (yes, that’s how it’s spelled), it was the registrar for nearly 80,000 .com domain names as of July.
The landing page at BarginRegister.com is merely a single login page. A screenshot from 2011 shows a more typical registrar home page. The registrar’s domain name itself is oddly registered at GoDaddy.
Bargin Register has until December 12 to respond to ICANN or it will face losing its registrar accreditation.
Acro says
Where did you get that 80k figure from? Around 1k according to http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/reports/total_domains/BARGINREGISTER.COM
Andrew Allemann says
@ Acro – Verisign’s registry report that is sent to ICANN each month.
Acro says
14k, I meant.
Tim Chen says
Funny, we had never heard of them either until they showed up on the whois privacy tables we published on our blog. We show over 100K currently registered domains there FWIW (more than .com though).
http://blog.domaintools.com/2012/11/the-numbers-behind-whois-privacy/