ICANN terminates three registrars
ICANN has pulled the plug on three accredited domain name registrars, saying they all failed to comply with an audit.
Lime Labs, R Lee Chambers Company (DomainsToBeSeen.com) and Central Registrar (Domainmonger.com) have been given 30 days notice that their accreditations are being yanked and that their domains will be transferred to other registrars.
About 12,000 domains will be affected, the vast majority of which are managed by Lime Labs.
The three registrars were among 10 that ICANN pounced on last month when they failed to respond to its Contractual Compliance Audit Program.
This program is a three-year initiative to make sure registrars and registries are complying with their contractual requirements. A third of registrars were randomly selected to take part late last year.
According to ICANN’s termination notices, all three registrars ignored last month’s warnings and did not submit the data required for the audit.
DomainsToBeSeen and Domainmonger both have just a few hundred gTLD domain names under management each. Lime Labs is much larger, with over 11,000.
The terminations will come into affect March 13.
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Ever since domainmonger has been “taken over” my e-mail has been DELUGED with SPAM. Filed complaint, but type just changed. Changed PW, but did not help.