ICANN has announced a replacement for Allen Grogan. Grogan had been the head of Contractual Compliance, but announced several months ago that he was leaving the organisation. With today’s announcement ICANN fills the position quite quickly, though whether or not the appointment of one of their existing senior staff makes sense or not remains to… Continue reading ICANN Appoints Jamie Hedlund to Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguards Role
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Freenom Fail To Comply With ICANN Suspension
The battle between ICANN’s Compliance team and Freenom has got plenty of in depth coverage by Kevin over the last few weeks. It’s been an interesting topic to follow. However ICANN finally prevailed and was able to impose the suspension which is scheduled to run from 26 August 2015 at 00:00 UTC to 24 November 2015… Continue reading Freenom Fail To Comply With ICANN Suspension
Exclusive: Internet.bs Response to ICANN Breach Notice
I posted a couple of days about the breach notice ICANN had sent to Internet.bs. Earlier this evening Internet.bs’ CEO Marco Rinaudo reached out to me and asked me to publish a public response to this. For the record I do not know Mr Rinaudo personally, but I think it is only fair to offer… Continue reading Exclusive: Internet.bs Response to ICANN Breach Notice
Registrar Linked To Scott Richter Gets Slapped
ICANN’s Compliance team have sent a breach notice to registrar Dynamic Dolphin. Why? They’ve got three issues with them: Legal issues with company officers Failure to comply with the domain transfer policy (IRTP) Not providing registration agreements to registrants The first one, however, is probably the “meatiest” of the lot. Scott Richter has a rather… Continue reading Registrar Linked To Scott Richter Gets Slapped
Chinese Registrar Not Escrowing Data Correctly
ICANN’s compliance team have been quite busy so far this year. In one of their most recently published breach notices against Chinese registrar Xin Net is getting “slapped” for “Repeated failure to escrow gTLD registration data pursuant to Section 3.6 of the RAA” Unlike other compliance actions where the registrar in question simply has not… Continue reading Chinese Registrar Not Escrowing Data Correctly
ICANN Terminates Lime Labs, DomainMonger & DomainsToBeSeen
ICANN’s compliance team has been busy of late. Earlier today they followed through on 3 previous breach notices and terminated 3 registrars: Lime Labs LLC Central Registrar Inc DBA DomainMonger.com R. Lee Chambers Company LLC d/b/a DomainsToBeSeen.com All three registrars appear to have failed to comply with their contractual obligations or to satisfy ICANN that… Continue reading ICANN Terminates Lime Labs, DomainMonger & DomainsToBeSeen
ICANN Lose More Staff – Head of Compliance Leaves
Several people have made comments about how ICANN has been losing staff over the last few months. The most recent departure is their head of compliance – David Giza. His interim replacement will be Pam Little. What makes this departure noteworthy is the level of activity in the compliance department over the past 18 months… Continue reading ICANN Lose More Staff – Head of Compliance Leaves
DNGlobe Loses ICANN Accreditation
Image via Wikipedia ICANN has terminated DNGlobe LLC’s ICANN accreditation effective February 22 2010. In a letter to DNGlobe ICANN outlined why the registrar’s accreditation is being pulled. Apart from anything else they do not have a WHOIS server accessible on port 80 ie. via a browser. Their website is currently unreachable as well, which… Continue reading DNGlobe Loses ICANN Accreditation
Lead Networks Lose ICANN Accreditation
Lead Networks, who I mentioned a few weeks ago, have lost their ICANN accreditation. The ICANN announcement includes some of the details and ICANN are currently seeking expressions of interest from other registrars to take over the portfolio of domains (approximately 70 – 80 thousand names according to ICANN) According to ICANN Lead Networks was… Continue reading Lead Networks Lose ICANN Accreditation