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ICANN has issued another breach notice against the registry for .gdn, which seems to be suffering technical problems and isn’t up-to-date on its bills. Navigation-Information Systems seems to have experienced about 36 hours of Whois/RDDS downtime starting from April 22, and is past due with its quarterly ICANN fees, according to the notice. Contractually, if […]
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ICANN has kicked off its annual compliance audit, and this time it’s focused on registries rather than registrars. It’s picked 28 gTLDs based on whether they’ve not been fully audited before, whether they have more than 100 domains, and whether they show up a lot in abuse blocklists (excluding spam blocklists). Only one gTLD per […]
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One of ICANN’s oldest accredited registrars has had its contract terminated for non-payment of fees and other alleged breaches. Alice’s Registry, which has been around since 1999, has been told it’s no longer allowed to sell gTLD domains and that whatever remains of its managed domains will be transferred to another registrar. The termination comes […]
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A Chinese registrar group has been accused by ICANN of shirking its UDRP obligations for the second time this year. ICANN has put Hong Kong-based DomainName Highway on notice that is in breach of its contract for failing to transfer the domain 1ockheedmartin.com to defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The domain is a straightforward case of […]
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Costa Rica no longer has any in-country accredited registrars, after ICANN terminated Toglodo for non-payment of fees. ICANN told the company last week that its accreditation is terminated effective February 23. It seems Toglodo owed ICANN thousands of dollars in past-due fees. The Org says had been chasing it for money since at least March […]
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ICANN has issued a public contract breach notice to a Turkish registrar over claims it’s not adequately responding to abuse reports. Atak Teknoloji showed a “failure to take reasonable and prompt steps to investigate and respond appropriately to reports of abuse” and did not provide ICANN with evidence it responds to abuse reports, ICANN said. […]
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