ICANN takes emergency action after Alpnames seemingly shutters.
Domain name overseer ICANN has shut down registrar Alpnames after the registrar seemingly went dark.
I received an email from a customer about a week ago complaining about not being able to log in to his account. Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite has done a good job tracking the situation at Alpnames.
The termination will be a good test of the mechanisms ICANN put in place after RegisterFly was shuttered many years ago. Yes, other registrars have been terminated, but Alpnames is fairly large in terms of domains under management. It is the ninth-largest registrar for new top level domain names. At one point it had some common ownership with Famous Four Media, which offered its domains at cut-rate prices.
It was also shut down without warning.
Let’s hope that Alpnames was properly escrowing its domain ownership data.
Just last year in February, the company put out a press release stating that “Iain Roache has increased his ownership of AlpNames a leading domain registrar and web hosting company by acquiring a further 20% of the Company’s share capital for a consideration (including combined costs) of £3.9 million with a view to growing the business into a Tier 1 registrar.”
That didn’t work out.
The demise of Alpnames is another reminder to choose a domain name registrar you trust to be in it for the long haul.
Let me guess…EnCirca ends up with the inventory.
All those cheap domainers took advantage of those $1 specials, and these guys went under with these deep discounts, and with no cashflow, they couldn’t keep the lights on. I don’t get why these guys chase these $1 promos, it always ends like this, or with them having to pay 3X registration to get their domains out.
What a mess, nobody even had a clue, it was a few domainers who really pushed this to get some attention before more domains were lost.
That’s not correct, 1$ deals are coming from GoDaddy and IONOS(formerly 1and1) because small registrar can’t handle that much. Also even name alpnames is totally stupid and it never was company that you should use in my opinion so, there are many legit companies and if someone used alpnames, they deserve to have problem with their domains.
Godaddy limits $1 coupon for 1 time use.
1&1 that is a whole different story.
GoDaddy now does 1.99 domains but you must purchase one year at full price now to get promo
$1.99 only for domains , you have to pay additional $8-$9 after your purchase which they don’t reveal before , GoDaddy is crap . Use Bluehost or Hostinger.
Or NameSilo or Epik. For NS, I use the code dn and get a dollar off, but it only works once per account, so I have to make new accounts. Thats where a wildcard email address comes in handy.
It is mostly domains owned by spammers, I doubt many will be wanting to “reclaim”.
Closed down! What now happens to the names under their custody?
ICANN will find another registrar to take over the domains
I also have domains at alpnames, now how i can transfer my domains, website is not loading? 🙁
Me too,
Can you transfer your domains? Tell me if you can do.
I have doamin in alpnames but I can login so how I can transfer sir .Can you help ?
I think [email protected] is in the process of trying to take it over.
Sh….. I think I have a “.cricket” domain name there.
I prefer HolyCricket.com
There was no $1 promo as far as I know.
The first promo they did was $4.99 then it became $5.99 (for .com)
You can still manage (read it: move your domains out as soon as possible people!) your domain names at AlpNames by going to their LogicBoxes panel which is located at https://apal516804.myorderbox.com/
Select “Customer” from the drop-down menu and login with your AlpNames info.
LogicBoxes is the provider of the platform AlpNames used for their business.
For those commenting out of their a** about domainers using other registrars: Try to own 2,000 domain names and let’s see if a $3 saving on each domain doesn’t make a difference.
Just make sure the registrar is ICANN-accredited and enable safe measures on your accounts (lock domain, use complicate passwords, use common sense, etc.).
Since this is visible to kids, I can’t say what I’d like to about people sitting on thousands of domain names.
I see domain protection is enabled, I try to enabled it failed and domain instantly vanished from the myorderbox portal. any option ?
* correction : Try to disabled and its failed.
I found this problem. And go back to see whois, not showing any results
and What do you do
Only domains registrations business is not profitable, again web hosting, different services, marketing is most important. So totally worldwide or many top countries registered ICANN authenticates takeover by some one leading gang. Host is different, back end services companies are different. Elsewhere those will helps sometime ?! Domain resellers also many. So here go daddy also reseller of domains not straight. Again you could not understand child companies, associated business, etc,.. Finally just registration of domain name waste. Business, economically capable all of should join in “digital” world, development. Who will continuesly lives in free mails, free blogs, free messengers, free office suite apps, pirated apps,etc,.. Methods is most worst thing. So some of fails in this section, getting problems, shutdown ? Any how get contact ICANN. Spread to ask. Let free, privacy, secured, etc,.. Need all of should get/turn paid base. Analytic is natural , compulsory , general subject. So understand.
This is a more clear reason to stay away from cheap domain name providers, stick with a trusted domain provider because they hardly fails. .. All this stress doesn’t worth it
What is the best one to choose then?
ICANN got the solution or not? Because we from jasa website murah have some domain on it.