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“Bulletproof” registrar takes a bullet to the head

Kevin Murphy, September 1, 2026, Domain Registrars

ICANN has terminated a rogue registrar that claimed it offered “bulletproof” domain registrations services.

Fewmoretaps, which went by the ironic d/b/a Trustname.com, will lose its right to sell gTLD domains names on September 11, having repeatedly failed to chase up abuse reports over many months.

In an ICANN Compliance termination notice, the Org alleged that Trustname dragged its feet when responding to reports of its customers impersonating banks and a government tax agency — phishing in other words.

The Estonia-based registrar had bragged about being “bulletproof” and a “registrar built for businesses in competitive niches that often face false or bad-faith abuse reports.”

Its web site said it would disregard DMCA takedown notices and would only remove domains if it received court order from each of the three jurisdictions in which it operated — the US, Estonia, and Saint Kitts & Nevis.

That would be a tall order for any abuse reporter, but unfortunately for Trustname the ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement now requires registrars to take prompt action on valid abuse reports.

It was not doing so, according to ICANN, and the registrar’s promises to come into compliance proved inadequate.

Trustname had received three public breach notices over the last few months, though Compliance had been trying to get it to clean up its act behind the scenes since at least February this year.

“Bulletproof” registrar gets third ICANN bollocking

Kevin Murphy, July 17, 2026, Domain Registrars

Trustname.com, a company that advertises itself as a privacy-devoted “bulletproof” registrar, is still refusing to suspend domain names used for phishing, malware, and payment card theft fast enough, according to ICANN.

The Org has sent its third notice of contract breach in five weeks and given Estonia-based Trustname, also known as Fewmoretaps, until August 6 to come back into compliance or lose its accreditation.

ICANN’s notice is focused on one domain this time, which it said was confirmed as hosting “phishing, payment‑card harvesting, and malicious client‑side code” about a week ago.

Trustname confirmed the domain, which Compliance did not name, as abusive on July 11, but it remained up until July 14 when the registrar correctly applied the clientHold suspension status after repeated nagging from ICANN, according to the notice.

“The actions the Registrar took were not prompt,” ICANN said, calling this a violation of Section 3.18.1 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement.

Compliance first publicly reported Trustname’s alleged sins on June 10, accusing the company of dragging its feet and allowing abusive registrants to transfer their domains out rather than immediately suspending them.