ICANN has published details of the process that registrars signing the 2013 RAA will need to follow in order to be granted a waiver. Under the 2013 contract registrars will have to collect and retain a lot more data in relation to their customers, which could be in conflict with national laws governing data protection… Continue reading ICANN Publish Data Retention Waiver Details
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ICANN Suspends Registrar ALL New Registrations & Transfers Blocked
Under the 2009 RAA ICANN was given a number of new “powers” to wield against registrars that do not comply with the RAA and ICANN policy. One of the new “tools”, to borrow Compliance’s terminology, is the ability to suspend a registrar. Effectively what this means is that instead of sending warnings (breach notices) and… Continue reading ICANN Suspends Registrar ALL New Registrations & Transfers Blocked
Register.com Sent Breach Notice By ICANN
Register.com, which is part of the web.com group of companies, has been sent a breach notice by ICANN’s compliance department. The notice, which I’m attaching below, covers a number of issues, including records for some domains, links to specific policies and data escrow. What’s a little different with this notice is the angle that ICANN… Continue reading Register.com Sent Breach Notice By ICANN
Article 29 Working Party To ICANN – EU Registrars Exempt From Data Retention Requirements
The 2013 RAA was approved by ICANN’s board of directors less than a week ago. The new contract introduces a number of new obligations on ICANN accredited registrars, among them are several related to data validation, verification and retention. The Article 29 Working Party, however, has written to ICANN and made it very clear that… Continue reading Article 29 Working Party To ICANN – EU Registrars Exempt From Data Retention Requirements
ICANN Launch New WHOIS Inaccuracy System
ICANN’s Compliance team put the new WHOIS inaccuracy reporting system live earlier today. (Oddly enough Google alerts picked up on the new page!). The new system should make reporting issues easier for all parties involved ie. reporters, ICANN and the affected registrars. They’re also including generic information on how registrants may update their own domain… Continue reading ICANN Launch New WHOIS Inaccuracy System
Registrar Negotiating Team Issues Statement On RAA
Last night ICANN published a version of the RAA and related documents for public comment. While the Registrar Stakeholder Group’s negotiating team (RrSG NT) have been in talks on and off with ICANN staff for the last 18 months the publication of the documents at this time is felt to be premature by the RrSG… Continue reading Registrar Negotiating Team Issues Statement On RAA
ICANN Terminates Two More Registrars
In the last couple of days ICANN has terminated two more registrars for breaching their contracts – CI Host (PDF) and Power Brand Center (PDF). CI Host seems to have vanished. Their listed website no longer works and the contact details that ICANN had for them are no longer valid – the offices are now… Continue reading ICANN Terminates Two More Registrars
Mat Bao Fix Some Of Their Compliance Issues
Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao appears to have fixed *some* of their issues with ICANN’s Compliance team: But if you scroll down the Compliance notices page you’ll see that they’re still not out of the woods: The earlier, and arguably more serious, breach still remains open. Assuming they don’t ask for an extension they’ve got until… Continue reading Mat Bao Fix Some Of Their Compliance Issues
Vietnamese Registrar Mat Bao Has Two Breaches At Once
Today’s list of 10 registrars that received breach notices included Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao. What makes this quite interesting is that the company had already got a breach notice back in December. The original breach notice, which I wrote about back then, was in relation to them not complying with a number of obligations under… Continue reading Vietnamese Registrar Mat Bao Has Two Breaches At Once
IEDR Data Dump
As regular readers probably know, I run Blacknight. Blacknight is Ireland’s largest hosting provider and domain name registrar. We’re also the only Irish company to ever have been accredited with ICANN. And we’re the single largest registrar of .ie domain names on the planet. If you peruse the archives here and on my personal blog… Continue reading IEDR Data Dump