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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
ICANN has asked all domain registries to exempt from deletion expired names registered via collapsed Indian registrar Net 4 India. The company has been in receipt of an ICANN termination notice since the end of February, but it’s in insolvency pr...
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April 26, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, net 4 india, net4
Pheenix, which used to operate a network of hundreds of accredited registrars, now faces potentially losing its last remaining accreditation, due to an ICANN probe. ICANN told the US-based company in a breach notice last week that it faces additional a...
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April 26, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, drop catching, Pheenix
Domains belonging to hospitals, power grids, public transit services, banks, and other critical services have gone offline due to the collapse of a major local registrar whose troubles ICANN has been aware of for years. Net 4 India, which has been slow...
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April 20, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, net 4 india, net4
Are we about to see our next gTLD registry implosion? ICANN has whacked the company behind .gdn with a breach notice and a threat that it may seize the TLD, after its Whois systems allegedly suffered days of downtime. According to ICANN, .gdn exceeded ...
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April 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, compliance, Domain Registries, ebero, intracom, Navigation-information systems, nis, rdds, Spam
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
Registrars will be asked to account for abusive domain names found on their services, under a new ICANN security audit. ICANN says it will soon send requests for information to 153 registrars, asking them to provide documentation showing how they dealt...
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January 18, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abuse, audit, compliance, Domain Registrars
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
Struggling Indian registrar Net 4 India has been slammed with a massive breach notice by ICANN, following claims of domain transfers failing or happening without the consent of the registrant. ICANN also accuses the company, which is or was India’...
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December 15, 2020 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, expiration, net 4 india, net4, renewals