Re: [ga] ICANN de-accreditation of two gTLD registrars?

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Likely that by tomorrow we'll see a notice of Red Register's de-accreditation 
-- for reference see 
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/burnette-to-sundin-15may08.pdf



--- On Fri, 6/6/08, George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ga] ICANN de-accreditation of two gTLD registrars?
> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, June 6, 2008, 2:55 PM
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that ICANN is looking for registrars to takeover
> the
> registrations of Bestregistrar.com and Dotforce.com:
> 
> http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06jun08-en.htm
> 
> Was this related to:
> 
> http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-23may08-en.htm
> ??
> 
> They don't appear on the list of the top 10 worst
> offenders:
> 
> http://www.knujon.com/registrars/#the_list
> 
> It would have been nice if registrants were given some kind
> of warning
> (I couldn't find an announcement regarding those 2
> particular
> registrars). Fortunately less than 6000 domains are
> affected, but if it
> was a bigger registrar, there should be some policy in
> place to warn
> registrants, lest they be unable to manage their domains
> for
> weeks/months (or even worse, lose their domains due to
> inability to
> renew, etc.).
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/