ICANN Compliance is taking on one of the worldβs largest technology companies over claims that a registrar it owns turns a blind eye to DNS abuse and phishing. The Org has published a breach of contract notice against a Singapore registrar called Aceville Pte Ltd, which does business as DNSPod and is owned by and [β¦]
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A collection of six registrars in the XZ.com stable are back on the ICANN naughty step, facing more Compliance action just a couple of years after a sister company was suspended over UDRP failures. ICANN has published breach notices against DotMedia and five other registrars under common ownership, claiming that they are failing to send [β¦]
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ICANN is set to terminate the registry contracts for five new gTLDs run by an apparent deadbeat registry. Asia Green IT Systemβs agreements for .pars, .shia, .tci, .nowruz and .ΩΩ Ψ±Ψ§Ω (.xn--mgbt3dhd) have all been βEscalated to Termination Processβ following a July breach notice, according to ICANNβs web site. The first stage of the termination is [β¦]
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A community-run URL βblacklistβ project has claimed credit for the complaints that led to .TOP Registry getting hit by an ICANN Compliance action earlier this week. .TOP was told on Tuesday that it has a month to sort of its abuse-handing procedures or risk losing the .top gTLD, which has over three million domains. ICANN [β¦]
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.TOP Registry allegedly ignored reports about phishing attacks and has become the first ICANN contracted party to get put on the naughty step over DNS abuse rules that came into effect a few months ago. ICANN has issued a public breach notice claiming that the registry, which runs .top, has also been ignoring the results [β¦]
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ICANN has thrown four more gTLDs into the Emergency Back-End Registry Operator program, presumably as a prelude to terminating their registryβs contracts in a few weeks. Asia Green IT Systemβs .pars, .shia, .tci and .ΩΩ Ψ±Ψ§Ω (.xn--mgbt3dhd) are all going EBERO, meaning Nominet will take over their operation on ICANNβs behalf. Not that they need much [β¦]
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ICANN has swooped to take over operation of a new gTLD after it missed its strict thresholds for Whois availability. .nowruz, originally operated by Istanbul-based Asia Green IT System, is now in the Emergency Back-End Registry Operator program, meaning its essential functions will be carried out by Nominet. The gTLD is the Latinized version of [β¦]
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The chance of five new gTLDs themed around the Middle East ever going live has substantially decreased after the registry seemed to disappear and got hit by a third ICANN breach notice. The registry is Istanbul-based Asia Green IT System, which goes by AGIT or AgitSys, and the five gTLDs are .nowruz (Iranian New Year), [β¦]
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Chinese registrar Alibaba is no longer at risk of losing one of its ICANN accreditations, according to a notice on the Orgβs web site. Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce, one of Alibabaβs four registrars, failed to respond to abuse reports and missed ICANN payments, according to its March breach notice. But the company has now provided ICANN [β¦]
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One of the companies in the Alibaba Group, Chinaβs biggest registrar and one of the largest technology companies in the world, has been handed a breach notice, containing a long list of complaints including abuse failures and non-payment of fees, by ICANN Compliance.
Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce, one of Alibabaβs four accredited registrars, failed to respond to abuse reports and failed to respond to ICANNβs requests for information about its failure to respond to abuse reports, the notice claims.
The breach notice will likely to be the last to be sent out for claims under the current version of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. In two days, April 5, stricter domain takedown rules approved earlier this year will become effective on all registrars.
The abuse claims seem to cover four domains in .com and .vip that look like typos that could have been used in phishing attacks.
ICANN Compliance says that Alibaba also hasnβt published the names of its officers or its redemption fees, as the RAA also requires. It says the registrar also owes it an unspecified amount of past-due fees.
The chronologies reported in the notice claim Alibaba has been giving Compliance the run-around, failing to respond to calls and emails, since early November.
All four registrars in the Alibaba Group have the same published email and phone details, but itβs not clear whether the same ones are listed in ICANNβs internal directory.
Alibaba.com Singapore is one of four accredited registrars owned by Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. The parent is not short of a bob or two, reporting revenue equivalent to $126 billion last year. It can afford to pay its ICANN fees.
Of the three Alibaba registrars that have domains the βSingaporeβ one is the smallest, with about 660,000 domains under management. The other two have 3.2 million and 2.6 million domains to their accreditations.
The company has been told it has until April 17 to come back into compliance or risk getting terminated.
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