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ICANN is finally moving to shut down Net 4 India’s gTLD domains business, after months of upheaval and thousands of customer complaints. An Indian insolvency court this week lifted its ban on ICANN terminating Net4’s registrar contract, aft...
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April 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, dartp, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4
Indian ccTLD registry NIXI has thrown a life vest to the owners of some 73,000 .in domain names, giving them a way to transfer out of slowly sinking registrar Net 4 India. NIXI also said that it will not cancel expired domains that registrants have bee...
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March 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.in, compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, nixi
iCANN has terminated Net 4 India’s registrar accreditation, after many months of criticism and foot-dragging and a recent sharp uptick in customer complaints. The move comes after an unprecedented four concurrent public breach notices over 20 mon...
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March 2, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, openprovider, raa, renewals
Struggling Indian registrar Net 4 India has been hit by its third notice of contract breach by ICANN, in a letter delivered Christmas Eve. Net4 is on ICANN’s naughty list this time due to its alleged violations of ICANN’s transfer and expir...
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January 4, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, openprovider
ICANN today made an effort to publicly address the hundreds of complaints that have recently been made about Net 4 India, India’s largest registrar, which has been in insolvency proceedings for over three years and recently started losing its cus...
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November 18, 2020 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4
India registrar Net 4 India has been given a bit of breathing space by ICANN, following its suspension last month. ICANN suspended the registrar’s accreditation a month ago, effective June 21, after discovering the company had been in insolvency ...
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July 8, 2019 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, suspension
India’s largest independent registrar has been found insolvent by a local court, after failing to pay back $28 million in bank loans. Net 4 India has now also had its right to sell gTLD domains suspended by ICANN as a result. Judging by legal pap...
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June 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registrars, edelweiss, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, suspension
Famous Four Media’s portfolio of gTLD registries is now under the control of a new company, Global Registry Services Ltd, which has promised to abandon its failed penny-domain strategy and crack down on spam. The company, which goes by the name G...
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August 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy
bankrupcty, Domain Registries, domain venture partners, dvp, Famous Four Media, ffm, global registry services, grs, grs domains, insolvency