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.tk registrar gets ICANN breach notice

Kevin Murphy, March 19, 2015, 13:23:33 (UTC), Domain Registrars

OpenTLD, the registrar owned by .tk registry Freenon, has received an odd contract-breach notice from ICANN.
The company apparently forgot to send ICANN a Compliance Certificate for 2014, despite repeated pestering by ICANN staff.
It’s the first time I’ve seen ICANN issue a breach notice (pdf) for this reason.
A Compliance Certificate, judging by the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement, seems to be a simple form letter that the CEO must fill in, sign and submit once a year.
Coming back into compliance would be, one imagines, five minutes’ work.
As well as being an ICANN-accredited registrar, OpenTLD is part of Freenom. That’s the registry that repurposes under-used ccTLDs with a “freemium” model that allows free registrations.
Its flagship, .tk, is the biggest ccTLD in world, with over 30 million active names.

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Tagged: .tk, compliance, freenom, ICANN, opentld

Comments (1)

DNsale says:

March 20, 2015 at 11:26 am

Strange and at the same time shocking. I’ll have to take care now, while dealing with non generic names.

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