Recent Posts
- Uniregistry: sales prices down for “first time ever”
- Okay, pedants, only 36% of new gTLDs are shrinking
- L’Oreal is using “closed generic” .makeup in an interesting way
- Four in 10 new gTLDs are shrinking
- Domain growth flat in Q2
- Another ccTLD plays down the “com”
- Will ICANN punt on .amazon again?
- MMX sells 7,000 domains for $3.4 million
- .CLUB HQ trashed by Irma, nobody hurt
- XYZ slashes $10 million a year from premium stash
- CentralNic extends XYZ deal until 2032
- Pilot program for Whois killer launches
- Hammock swings from Rightside to MarkMonitor
- Registry bosses to talk ICANN “tax cuts” at private meeting
- Another auDA director quit in secret
- .CLUB nears profitability, talks renewals and “trial” domains
- Deutsch and Doria to join ICANN board
- Afnic appoints Pierre Bonis new CEO
- After slow launch, .africa looks to add hundreds of resellers
- No $17 million rebate for struggling new gTLDs
- MMX: three gTLDs approved for sale in Beijing
- .museum soon could be open to all (no haters please)
- CentralNic promises $30 million .sk will only ever mean “Slovakia”
- Former MarkMonitor execs join new brand protection registrar
- Five million Indian government workers to get IDN email
- ZACR to delete 12,000 .za domains next week
- GoDaddy’s reason for dumping Uniregistry doesn’t make a lot of sense
- GoDaddy CEO to retire at 58
- Google shifts 400,000 .site domains
- Another auDA director quits after conflict claims
- Endurance losing founder-CEO next week
- Google dumps Nazi domain in hours
- GoDaddy kicks out neo-Nazi site after dead protester post
- Tucows revenue rockets after Enom buy
- GoDaddy domains business grows 15% in Q2
- Gay.com, “worth $7 million”, donated to gay blog
- Grumpy campaign claims victory after auDA U-turns
- Iran rep reported to ICANN Ombudsman, again
- .storage to have pricey second sunrise
- HTC dumps its dot-brand
- Halloran made ICANN’s first chief data protection officer
- Verisign confirms first price increase under new .net contract
- EFF recommends against new gTLDs
- auDA chair quits days before vote to fire him
- Crocker: no date on next new gTLD round
- Donuts to complete Rightside acquisition tonight
- MMX says .vip renewals running at 75%
- auDA now looking to outsource .au registry
- .blog tops 100,000 names, 66,500 blogs
- Attendance dips for ICANN in Johannesburg
AOL loses ICANN accreditation
AOL, one of the first five companies to become an ICANN-accredited registrar, appears to have let its accreditation expire.
The former internet giant is no longer listed on ICANN’s Internic registrar page, and DotAndCo.net’s data shows it lost its .com, .net and .org accreditations on April 27.
It’s hardly surprising. AOL’s profits are falling and it has been reorganizing itself ever since Time Warner returned it to life as an independent company last year.
It’s noteworthy because AOL was one of the first five registrars to challenge Network Solutions’ monopoly, when ICANN introduced competition to the domain name market in 1999.
In April 1999, the company participated in ICANN’s limited registrar “test-bed” experiment, alongside CORE, France Telecom, Melbourne IT and Register.com.
But domain names were never a big deal at the company.
AOL peaked at about 150,000 domains a few years ago and tailed off to a little more than a dozen at the end of 2009. Apparently, the company has decided to let its accreditation simply expire.
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